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Picket Fence Studios’ Horoscope Collection featuring Leo Girl

by Bonnie Crane on May 20 2022

Hello everyone! Bonnie here from Bonniecarollee Makes Cards! Well here she is … Leo Girl! The final stamp set in Picket Fence Studio’s Horoscope Collection!

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Iconic Beauty Scarlett card

by Laura Nistal on May 19 2022

Hello everyone!! I'm Laura and I'm very excited to make my first post on the Picket Fence Studios blog showing this Mix Media card that I hope will inspire you! First I started stamping the "Iconic Beauty Scarlett" stamp with the "Black hybrid ink pad" which has a great definition!! Next I painted the girl with alcohol markers, and then I used a fine black marker and a white marker to highlight the details. Now we will prepare the background: for this I used a beige cardboard to which I added the "Grunge wall 6x6 stencil" with distress oxide Fired Brick ink. I also added the "Iconic Beauty Scarlett" stamp sentiment and "Slimline hexagon Randomness" to the background using the "Black hybrid ink pad" again.Finally, I cut the "Thank You Word Topper Die" out of gold cardboard and prepared the composition by gluing all the pieces together. To finish I added some decorations with the "Gems mix fire" and the "Sequin mix Heart Breaker" to give it a more Chik touch. I hope you like it and that it inspires you, I remember that you can find all these products and many others in the Picket Fence Studios store.A huge kiss and until next time!Laura

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Hello There-Current of Fish

by Heejung Hunsberger on May 13 2022

Hello Friends, Today I have a card to share with you using the Current of Fish Stencil and Gold Rose Glaze. I colored three different blue colors of water coloring on the watercolor paper first, and dry it completely. This current of fish stencil is 6 x 6 size, taped the stencil from behind of water-colored paper. Using a mixed media spatula, I applied a paper Glaze Gold Rose. I removed the stencil, cleaned it and the spatula and set the panel aside to dry. I guess it might be not easy to color with water color for the beginner. but it is very easy to do stencil. I want to have some dimension to the word die-cut,I would have die cut the hello there die a third on white card stock and added it on top. I think having a bit of dimension really helps to make it stand out. I hope enjoyed this project, Thank you for stopping by! I will be a card with new release next month! Happy Crafting! Supplies

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Beautiful Heart

by Michelle Bala on May 03 2022

Hello there! Michelle here, so happy to share this card with you today! I used the Swirly heart A2 Stencil as my focal point. I inked it up with distress oxide inks in shades tattered rose, worn lipstick and aged mahogany. I masked up the perimeter of the stenciled heart and stamped the twine bow from the stamp set, Handmade Twine Bows. I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set, Fancy Daily Sentiments. I stamped the bow and sentiment several times with black ink using the one and only MISTI! I created the frame using Double Stitched Rectangle Dies and propped it up with the most amazing Foam Tape. For a finishing touch, I added a pair of Kaleidoscope Butterflies. I a hope you check out the products highlighted today!!! Can't wait to see what you create! Michelle

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A Rainbow of Blessings

by Nancy Thomas on Apr 27 2022

Hello there fellow card makers! I am sharing another card created using products from the fabulous April release. I used the new Rainbow Slim Line Insert die which is an addition to the Slim Line Cutting System to create this clean and simple shaker card. After cutting the opening from a sno cone stitched cardstock panel, I stamped the sentiment from the Word Topper Dies Subtitles. I created the shaker sandwich using the Extra Wide Foam Roll which is so easy to use since it has double sided adhesive. I filled the shaker space with the also new Day of Rainbows Sequin Mix. The three clouds stacked below the rainbow were cut using two dies from the Cloud Dies set. I hope your day is full of rainbows!

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Momma and Baby Giraffes Mother's Day Card

by Charlene Madrid on Apr 26 2022

Mother’s Day is almost here, and the new Momma and Baby Giraffes A2 Stencil is just perfect to use for a Mother’s Day card. Charlene here from Dream Craft Create, and I am so excited to be posting for the first time on the Picket Fence Studios blog! For today’s card I paired the Momma and Baby Giraffes A2 Stencil with the Marvelously You Word Topper Die and the A2 Cherry Blossoms Cover Plate Die. First, I dry embossed a white A2 sized piece of cardstock with the Momma and Baby Giraffes A2 Stencil. Keeping the stencil in place, I ink blended in pink, yellow, and blue ink on the diagonal using my Life Changing Blender Brushes. I overlapped each color to achieve a rainbow effect. I love blending inks to make a rainbow! Next, I ink blended again in pink, yellow, and blue ink on a separate A2 sized piece of cardstock. I made sure to keep my piece of cardstock in the landscape orientation while I was ink blending. Once I had another rainbow of color, I die cut the cardstock using the Marvelously You Word Topper Die. Once I was done with my rainbow pieces, I die cut an A2 sized piece of cardstock using the A2 Cherry Blossoms Cover Plate Die. This cover plate is gorgeous. I want to use it to make a shaker card, but that is a card for another day! Once cut, I used my scissors to trim out the middle portion. I set the middle portion aside to use for another card. All that was left to do was to put everything together. I used liquid adhesive to adhere my pieces to an A2 sized card base in the order of giraffes, blossoms, then word topper. I added a little bling using sequins from the Day of Rainbows Sequin Plus Mix. I hope you find some time to craft today, and that my card inspires you. You can find more cards using products from the recent April release on my blog. All the supplies I used are listed below. Happy crafting!

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Gemini Girl Shaker Card

by Michelle Bala on Apr 11 2022

Hello there! Michelle here, sharing a shaker card focusing on Gemini Girl Stamp and Coordinating Die. I colored her up with Copic Markers in shades C0 C1 C4/ Y11 Y13 Y15 Y19/ YG03 YG13 YG09. Check out all the Horoscope Girls HERE. I inked up the background using Slim Line Cloud Coverage Stencil and some distress oxide inks in shades mustard seed and twisted citron. Of course I used the Life Changing Blender Brushes...they blend so effortlessly!I used the Slim Line Full Front Shaker Die to create the card. Before sealing the card I added some sequin mixes, Pot of Gold and Petals- minus the colored petals. Check out all the sequin mixes HERE and sequin mixes plus HERE. Thanks so much for taking a peek!! Michelle

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The Best Hugs Ever

by Nancy Thomas on Apr 06 2022

Good morning all. Nancy Thomas from Creative Palette here to share a card I created for the March release. Using the Black Hybrid Ink Pad, I stamped the raccoons, bears, foxes and the various botanicals and hearts from the new The Best Hugs Ever then cut out with the matching dies and did the same with the owls from the More of the Best Hugs Ever stamp and die set. All the images were colored with Copic markers, adding a bit of detail with a white gel pen on the animals and heart. I used the smaller frame from the 5x7 Double Stitched Rectangles Dies to cut from textured white and scarlet jewel cardstock using the inside white piece for my background. I then cut four circles out of it and backed with the woodgrain piece. With a bit of masking I stamped the partial sentiment then added the word die from the More of the Best Hugs Ever die set to finish it out. After securing the frames and inside piece to a 5x7 card base, I attached the images using either glue or foam dimensionals. Aren't these critters just the cutest?

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Gemini Girl with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Mar 30 2022

Michelle Lupton here today - I'm sharing a card I made using the Gemini Girl stamp and coordinating die. I used the A2 rose lines stencil with Distress Oxide ink in the background, and then coloured the gemini girl image with copic markers, adding some gold gel pen highlights to her hair clips and earring. I finished with the gemini sentiment and I was done. Thanks for visiting :)

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Happy Birthday Carnations

by Michelle Bala on Mar 20 2022

Hello there! Michelle here, sharing a quick CAS design using the stamp set Carnation Flower Garden, and it's Coordinating Die. I colored the flowers with Copic Markers in shades R22, R24, R59 (petals); G09, G29 (stems, leaves). Next, I die cut the sentiment word, Happy Birthday Word Topper Die, using black cardstock. I embossed the lower portion of the die with a sentiment from the stamp set, Word Die Topper Subtitles. I adhered the the flowers and word topper die cuts with some Extra Wide Foam. That's all for today, pretty short and sweet! I hope you enjoy! Michelle

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Wishing for Butterfly Season

by Nancy Thomas on Mar 16 2022

Nancy here to share a card using some of the new products from the fabulous new April release. Winter is not letting go yet but I am trying to think of the flowers and butterflies in our future. I used the new Flying Butterfly die which is an addition to the Slim Line Cutting System to create this clean and simple shaker card. I also used the Extra Wide Foam Roll which is so easy to use since it has double sided adhesive. I filled the shaker space with the also new Heart Breaker Sequin Plus Mix. There were a lot of fun new sequin sets in this release but I think this one might be my favorite. I added a small flower atop the butterfly which came from the new Carnation Flower Garden set as did the sentiment white embossed onto a black card strip. A tiny sequin atop the flower finished it up. Don't forget the 7 in 7 Event tonight at 6pm CDT on the Picket Fence Studios Community Facebook page. Hope to see you there!

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Hippity Hoppity Slimline

by Michelle Bala on Feb 28 2022

Hello there! Michelle here, sharing a slimline Easter card using some beautiful stamps and dies from Picket Fence Studios newest release. I stamped Vintage Easter Hodgepodge -part of the Seamless Stamps collection- 3 times using the Misti, which takes the guess work out of aligning stamps for repetition. I chose to do a no line coloring technique and used a beige ink on kraft cardstock. I colored the eggs with Prisma Colored Pencils in pastel shades than added some paint splatter with white paint. Allow to dry. Next, I used Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail and coordinating Die and followed the same no line coloring technique. I also used Hippity Hoppity to All Coordinating Die for the sentiment. I die cut the word with glitter cardstock and the shodow with white cardstock. I used the large slimline rectangle from Slim Line Die Cutting System and die cut the kraft cardstock panel. I die cut the scalloped panel using Slim Line Die Cutting System- Scallop Frames. I layered the panels, sentiment, and bunny ears onto the card base with Extra Wide Foam Adhesive Tape in white.I added some silver thread behind the sentiment and scattered some Sequin Mix- City of Lights. That's all for me! Hope you enjoyed this post! Have a great week! Michelle

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Eastertime

by Nancy Thomas on Feb 23 2022

Nancy here to share some Easter/Spring cards using the latest Picket Fence Studios release. I stamped one of the cute images from the Eastertime set, one onto a die cut circle and the two small chicks using the Picket Fence Black Hybrid Ink Pad which were then cut out with the matching dies. All the images were colored with Copic Markers and the main image was then framed with a scalloped circle cut with the larger scallop frame from the Slim Line Scallop Frame Dies set. The chick diecuts were placed onto a small circle die cut which was framed with harvest gold cardstock cut with one of the Misshapen Stitched Circle Dies. The shaker was created with a backing of pattered paper and several layers of cardstock cut with the smaller scallop frame from the Slim Line Scallop Frame Dies and filled with pieces from the Penny and Henny Sequins Plus Mix. I cut the card front border using the Ornate Negative Strip Die and backed with the green parakeet cardstock. I added a small strip at the top of the cut out to complete the border, then attached all the circle pieces. For the second card, I stamped the bunny from the Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail directly onto the card front using the the Black Hybrid Ink Pad and colored with Copic markers. I then masked the image in order to blend tumbled glass and broken china ink around it using the Life Changing Blender Brush Set. I also stamped the main image from the Hippity Hoppity to All stamp set and cut out with the matching die. After coloring with Copic markers, I cut it down to fit the A2 portrait card front. It was attached using a layer of craft foam. For the sentiment, I used the inlaid die cut technique using matted wortd die from the Hippity Hoppity to All Die set and then attached over the bunny ears with craft foam. I hope you enjoy the rest of your week. Happy Crafting!

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Rainbow leaves with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Feb 07 2022

Hello! Today I'm sharing a colourful rainbow card using the Leaves in a Stream seamless stamp from the January release. I stamped the image twice, top to bottom, and the coloured the leaves in a rainbow of copic markers. I adhered my panel to a card front, adding some black border strips, and also added a white embossed sentiment banner. Thanks for visiting :)

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"Into The Woods" Slim Line Shaker Card with Rachelle

by Rachelle Oltean on Jan 24 2022

Hello! It's Rachelle here and I'm so excited to share this slim line shaker card I created by combining lots of different Picket Fence Studios' products! This design came together pretty quickly with the help of a couple key products. First - the "Slim Line Full Front Shaker Die" Set and secondly, the NEW "Slim Line Woods Cover Plate Die" Set! I started by die cutting the woods die scene from heavy-weight white card stock and selectively trimming a few trees/branches from the image. I chose to edit this because I wanted a bit more space for the shaker garnish to be seen and to highlight the deer die cut. Once trimmed, I watercolored just the leaves in a bright green and the die cut was glued onto a piece of charcoal gray card stock. This is almost a reverse silhouette design and all of the components really pop off of that charcoal background! I created a white frame by using the slim line rectangular insert from the "Slim Line Full Front Shaker Die" and a smaller rectangle from the "Slim Line Nested Rectangles Dies". This frame was cut twice and glued/stacked together and adhered on top of the woods panel. I die cut a piece of thin packaging acetate with the "Slim Line Full Front Shaker Die", adhered double-sided tape along three sides of the back of the woods panel and wrapped the acetate around to adhere it into place. I chose to use the NEW "Spring Green Shaker Garnish" as my fill (to match my green leaves) and carefully poured about a tablespoon into my shaker panel. Then all I had to do was to close up the remaining shaker flap on the backside with the double-sided tape and the panel was adhered to the front of a slim line card base. I die cut the sentiment from brushed silver card stock using the "Mini Slim Line Double Stitched Rectangles Die Cutting System" and the running buck ("More Deer Family Dies") from gray card stock. Both of these die cuts were carefully adhered to the shaker acetate with liquid adhesive to finish up the design! I just love how that Spring Green Shaker Garnish easily moves inside the card front and works both as leaves and grass in this scene! I highly encourage you to try some of the NEW Shaker Garnish colors - they are so light weight and really add a unique shaker element especially when combined with Picket Fence Studios' Sequins/Sequins Mix Plus options! Thanks so much for joining me today! Happy Crafting - Rachelle : )

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Aries girl with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Jan 19 2022

This month's release from Picket Fence Studios includes a new addition to the Zodiac Girls series, Aries Girl. I decided to use red and black as my colour palette because the colour associated with the zodiac sign Aries is red. Aries is also ruled by the planet Mars, and Mars is the god of war, and is also associated with red. However, I did not use any red alcohol ink in the background. I used black alcohol ink, smoulder alcohol pearl (which is a bronze/brown colour) and Stirling alcohol alloy ink (the silver). The red colour at the top and bottom edge came from the black ink separatinng into its component colours. I coloured Aries Girl with Copic markers. Thanks for visiting :)

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I love your smile with Julia

by Julia Piksaykina on Jan 03 2022

Hello everyone! Julia here and I am so excited to be starting the New year with these two cards I made using one off my favorite products of 2021 year: Paper Glaze Ombre.

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Hello shaker card with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Dec 31 2021

While it is the last day of the year (and it's a year than many of us might want to forget), I prefer to look forward and say a bright, rainbow hello to the new year. I used the Hello die insert along with the slimline double stitched rectangle die to create a shaker card. I decorated the shaker with the Lots of Blossoms stencil, Distress oxide inks and lots of the new Crystalline Diamonds. Thanks for visiting :)

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Stenciled Joyeux Noelle with Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Dec 19 2021

Welcome to another day of our Christmas series at Picket Fence Studios! I've paired up the Joyeux Noel set with the Slim Line Lots of Blossoms stencil and some of the new Gradient Flatback Pearls Thanks for visiting :)

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No-Line Watercolor Wreath with Rachelle

by Rachelle Oltean on Dec 12 2021

Hello and thank you for stopping by as we continue our 25 Days of Christmas Inspiration! It's Rachelle, from Red Cre8s, and I'm so glad you've joined me today! I've got some great tips for a special no-line watercolor painting of the gorgeous image, "A Wreath For All Seasons"! I began with a piece of 110# Cougar Opaque White card stock - this is a bright white stock (cleaner than Neenah Solar White) and can absorb a lot of paint without pilling! I placed this large stamp into my MISTI and lightly brushed the surface with my kneaded eraser. This 'preps' the surface of the stamp and allows the ink to be applied evenly and completely. I don't always do this but this image has a lot of coverage and I wanted to be sure that it stamped correctly! I stamped it with "Antique Linen" Distress Oxide Ink a couple of times to get a good impression. When painting an image like this one, it's best to start with the areas in the background and work your way to the front. This allows you to cover up all of the areas from the previous layer with your most recent application. So I began with the peach buds, then the green leaves, and the magenta/ruby petals, etc. In areas where you want to play light against dark, start with the light (as in the ruby petals) and then paint the darker color value on top. I painted each tiny section of the magenta first, overlapping the shape and then carefully painted the dark ruby around it. I continued with the blues, olive green and gold until I ended up in the center. Using the Distress Oxide Ink allows you to cover all of the image lines - the ink reacts to the paint and in effect, blends right into the background. After all the watercolor painting was complete (about 4 hours) I outlined the entire image with gold metallic paint using a very tiny 000-sized brush! You can see that detailing in the photo below! I trimmed the panel down to 4" x 5.25" and mounted it to a magenta card front. Since the image was the star of the show, I simply added the one-word die cut from the "Slim Line Oversized Joy To The World Die" to finish up the card. I hope this has inspired you to try this watercolor technique! Be sure to visit the blog for more Christmas crafting inspiration tomorrow! Happy Crafting - Rachelle