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Swantastic lake with Peter

Hi everyone! I'm Peter, you may have seen me before on social media as Peter's Treasury. I'm so excited to be in the design team for the next few months! I love to share my projects to inspire others, so that's a perfect match, right? I'm living in The Netherlands together with my husband and our pets, one of them being our dog Churro (he is adopted from Spain!). I've been making cards for more than three years now, I started with a few small Lawn Fawn sets. After that I was hooked! Not long after, I started my projects on Instagram and card making tutorials on my YouTube channel . Today I'm sharing a card made with all Lawn Fawn products. I was inspired by the ducks, geese and swans around my appartement building. I was thinking about using Rub-A-Dub-Dub , because we've been seeing a lot of baby ducks already. But the swans have been busy making a nest, so I went with Swan Soirée ! To give some diversity to the surroundings in the scene, I also use

Happy Purrthday!

Hello everyone! It's Veronica here and I'm very excited to be sharing with you my very first post as a DT member of this amazing team! As I'm a real cat lover, I'd like to introduce myself with this birthday card that features My Pet Kitties Stamp Set by Mama Elephant. I stamped these cuties in Tuxedo black by Memento on a piece of Transotype paper and I colored the whole scene with my Copic markers . I really had fun hand drawing the brick wall! To finish off my card I added the sentiment by die cutting the Happy word from the Die-namics Happy Birthday Script and stamping the Purrthday word from the Housecats Stamp Set , both by My Favorite Things and temporarily out of stock, sigh. Finally, I glued my card panel on a piece of vanilla color paper. I really hope you liked my first project here and I can't wait to see you on my next post! From Italy with love, Veronica

Introducing Our Newest DT Members!

Hi, everyone! Today was a good day. (Well, yesterday by the time you're reading this.) I've been walking for the 40 Miles in May Challenge for the American Cancer Society so my husband and I got a 2.5 mile walk in putting me over the halfway point. We came home and made breakfast then headed to my parents' for the afternoon. My parents have been fully vaccinated as have my husband and I which has given me some relief in being able to see them without so much worry. My oldest son stopped by and we enjoyed the afternoon on the deck. I hope you enjoyed your Mother's Day, whether seeing your moms or your kids or if that wasn't possible, I hope you were able to find happiness in some way. Huge thanks to the amazing cardmakers we added to our team last term. They were so talented and a pleasure to have join us. Today I'm here to introduce you to our new Design Team for the late Spring and Summer term. This term we have all international peeps joining us! Let's get

Happy Mother's Day - Mood Board Inspiration with Jane

Happy Mother's Day! I'm sharing this colorful Mother's Day card using a bunch of Lawn Fawn sets which can be purchased at Butterfly Reflections Ink ! Inspiration comes from the May mood board (below). The phrase "Mama" is really is dear to me, as my three year old daughter calls me Mama. I hope this card inspires you to use the mood board colors this month! To create this card, I first ink blended a piece of Bristol smooth cardstock using the following distress oxide inks (top to bottom): picked raspberry , kitsch flamingo , abandoned coral , scattered straw , twisted citron and peacock feathers . Next, I used the large stitched rectangle die to cut the panel. The bottom of the panel was then cut using the stitched simple wavy borders . Next, the top portion was again die cut using the stitched cloudy backdrop die and splatted with some water. Then, I adhered the bottom "water" portion to an A2 piece of white cardstock using liquid glue . Th

May BRI Moodboard inspiration with Davina

Hello crafty friends! Davina here with some BRIMoodboard color inspiration. The jewel tone colors of the May Moodboard are so easy to implement into your projects, and don’t have to necessarily be super bold. This month the colors are Linen, Teal, Fuchsia, and Coral. I wanted to create a softer slimline card using some Mama Elephants products, and I love the results. I started by cutting my layers using Mama Elephant Slim Cut Basics . I cut the scalloped layer from a soft creamy cardstock, then gently inked some Antique linen on the edges to darken it up a bit. I had some pattern paper in my stash that I feel really captures the Moodboard colors, and uses many different values of the same few colors. I cut the stitched layer from the paper as well as two windows from the upper portion. I also but some Bristol smooth cardstock with the same die, for my sky inking. I ink blended several colors of Distress Oxides onto my white Bristol smooth paper, making sure to create a darker teal co

Happy Birthday w/ little agenda

Hello crafty friends! Gladys here and I'm thrilled to be back on the BRI blog today. I have a fun colorful birthday card to share using products from Mama Elephant. I'm a huge fan of the Mama Elephant Little Agenda sets and I'm sure I'm not the only one. For my card I used the Little Signage Agenda and I want to apologize that it is currently out of stock on the BRI shop but you can add your name on the wait list and you will be notified once it is back in stock. There are a bunch of critters holding signs and alphabet stamps in this set so you can customize it to whatever you want it to say. I stamp the images in hybrid ink, colored with alcohol markers and cut them out using their coordinating dies . For my background I ink blended the panel with distress oxide inks in blueprint sketch , picked raspberry and scattered straw . I splattered some water and diluted blueprint sketch using a small paint brush for added interest. I die cut a few elements to complete my s