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Guest Designer Spotlight: Karen Downs + Giveaway Announcement
by Jennifer Kray on Feb 18 2024
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Welcome to our monthly Guest Designer Spotlight! We are thrilled to introduce you to the talented Karen Downs, who has joined us this month to share their creative journey and inspire you with her amazing projects
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Make Backgrounds Pop with Paper Glaze Luxe
by Justin Adkins on Feb 16 2024
Justin is on the blog today sharing how to use our Paper Glaze Luxe to really make your backgrounds have an extra pop of detail and texture! Come check out the details!
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You Are Simply Marvelous - Layering Fauna Butterfly
by Brenda Noelke on Feb 15 2024
New on the Picket Fence Studios Blog today features the Layering Fauna Butterfly Die and Flutter Fly Fabulous Foiling Toner Card Front Set from Brenda!
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February 2024 Release | Picket Fence Studios
by Jennifer Kray on Feb 14 2024
Unveil nature's beauty with our February 2024 Release! 🌿🐝 Explore stamps, dies, and mixed media products. Join our Instagram Hop for a chance to win! 🎨✨
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by Andrea Shell on Feb 08 2024
Andrea has a colorful, yummy treat to share featuring the Sugar and Calorie-Free Cake stamp.
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by Silvana Chambon on Feb 07 2024
Hello, crafters! Welcome to a new blog post. It´s Silvana again and in this opportunity I´m sharing with you a card for St. Patrick´s Day. I loooove this day so much, so cheerful and happy and full of the Irish traditions! And in the last release you can find the perfect stamp set to celebrate this holiday.
This is my inspiration card for the Wreath Building: St. Patrick´s Day stamp set.
This card has a lot of stamping, because the set has a lot of small stamps and I wanted to use them all! I started by making a 5x7" mask with some masking tape. You can use masking paper if you prefer. Then I made two cuts to make the "pathway" for the stamps. I put the two tape pieces over the corners of a 5x7" piece of cardstock leaving the central tape piece aside. I stamped all the images with Black Hybrid ink and copic colored them.
After all the stamping and coloring was done, I removed the masks from the corners and put the central piece to cover all the stamping, trying to match the edges.
After that, I put some green ink, in this case is the Lucky Clover Distress Oxide. Over the inked parts, I used some Lime Tart Paper Glitz through the A whole polka dot 6x8 stencil. This mixed media paste has the right amount of shine that St. Patrick´s deserve!
To finish it up, I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder over a black cardstock and cut it with the 2.0" Connected Circles Shaker Creator die.
I hope you enjoyed this card as much as I did.
Thank you so much for stopping by the PFS blog and taking time to read the post. I leave you the supplys list at the end of the post, but you can hover over the product name and then click on the link.
Happy creations and Sláinte!
Silvana
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A Birthday Cupcake Just for You!
by Colleen Balija on Feb 06 2024
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It's Colleen again and I'm sharing another birthday card using the new Wreath Building: Cupcakes for You stamp and Wreath Building: Centers and Foliage stamp. I'm also using the existing Layering Flora Happy Fern die and Tangerine and Sunlight Yellow flatback pearls!
These sets are made to create beautiful wreathes, but I wanted to combine the Wreath Building cupcake stamp and Centers & Foliage stamp into one card. So, I decided to stamp the wreaths and place the cupcakes inside of each, building a lovely background!
First, I stamped the solid circles from the Wreath Building: Centers and Foliage stamp in a dark shade of brown ink. Next, I stamped the tiny dots stamp from the set in a shade of yellow, deliberately offsetting the stamp for a playful effect! It's subtle, but those little details take your card to the next level! When I finished creating a background with the circles, I stamped a few of the mini cupcakes in the center of each circle. Then I stamped a few of the teeny tiny pieces of fruit (so adorable) from the cupcake stamp set to fill in the extra space between. I also stamped one of the leaves from the Centers and Foliage set (this set can be made into a lovely wreath as well!).
Once the stamping was complete, I colored the cupcakes and fruit. Then I trimmed the panel, setting the outer part of the panel aside, and placed the center panel over a slightly larger dark brown panel. Then I adhered both over the outer part of the panel to create a fun effect that adds interest to a one-layer card!
The remaining step was to add the sentiment, which was stamped in dark brown ink from the Cupcakes for You stamp, surrounded by the wreath stamped in yellow. I die cut the sentiment in a circle and placed it over the white Layering Flora leaf. The leaf helped the sentiment not get lost in that busy background. I finished with shimmer and glossy accents on the cupcakes as well as pearl sequins!
I love how organic the card looks! Thanks so much for joining me today! To find the products used in my blog post, hover over the product name and then click on the link. Or visit the Picket Fence Studios shop!
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Decorating Crafty Cookies with Paper Glaze Products
by Justin Adkins on Feb 05 2024
Justin is up on the blog today and he is sharing a card that he baked up with our new Scene Building: Cookie Making Die Set! He shows some fun tips for how you can use this set with our new Paper Glaze Luxe and Paper Glitz colors as well!
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by Brenda Noelke on Feb 02 2024
Use Toner Foiling, Stamp and Dies with Brenda on the blog today!
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Transform Your Stamps: Creative Ways to Incorporate Large Word Dies
by Jennifer Kray on Feb 01 2024
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Today it's all about blending the old and the new in a way that'll make your heart sing!
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by Andrea Shell on Jan 31 2024
Join Andrea as she shares a colorful card that is perfect for any celebration!
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by Silvana Chambon on Jan 30 2024
Hello and welcome to the Picket Fence Studios blog! It´s Silvana here with another inspiration card. This time I´m showing you some of the new products from the latest release, specially the new Birthday Dance Confetti Stamp. It´s a 6" x 6" seamless stamp from the Building backgrounds collection.
I started by stamping 6x6" stamp with Versamark ink and applying white embossing powder. After I heat embossed it I started to apply the different inks with the help of the Pint sized Paper Pouncers and the Paper Inking palette to hold the paper. I trimmed the background in a A2 size and cut the new Hooray Die from it. It´s a big die that fits perfectly in an A2 card.
To make the shadow effect I cut the Hooray die from 80 lb cardstock four times. Then I glued the background on a card base, glued every Hooray in the place, stacking them, and on top I glued the first Hooray from the background.
For the stamped sentiment I used one of the phrases in the The Bakery stamp set, stamped with Versamark ink and embossing powder too.
I hope you enjoyed this colorful card and I wish that the process were useful.
Thank you for stopping by.
Have a wonderful week.
Silvana.
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by Colleen Balija on Jan 29 2024
Join Colleen as she shares a bold and festive mixed media card on the blog today!
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by Justin Adkins on Jan 26 2024
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Join Creative Team Member Justin Adkins for a card inspired by spring and and a pastel color palette using our new Sugar & Calorie Free Stamp Set! He has all the delicious details waiting for you over on this post!
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Tina Henkens ATC Magic and More
by Jennifer Kray on Jan 25 2024
Miniature Artistry: Tina Henkens ATC Magic and More
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by Brenda Noelke on Jan 24 2024
Join Brenda for a papercraafting tutorial using some new baking themed stamps, dies, and stencils!
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Sweet Birthday card featuring Wreath Building Cupcakes for You stamp
by Andrea Shell on Jan 22 2024
Hi there! It's Andrea here sharing my first project for Picket Fence Studios featuring products from their January release. This release has so many wonderful products for creating birthday cards, which I'm sure we as cardmakers need alot of!
Those adorable cupcakes are from the Wreath Building Cupcakes for You stamp set. I stamped them with Black Hybrid Ink, starting with the middle cupcake first and then masking it to add the cupcakes on each side. Next, I colored the images with Copics and added highlights with a white gel pen.
I stamped a sentiment from the set under my cupcakes and diecut the panel with the 2.0" Connected Squares Shaker Creator Dies. I cut the red, scalloped mat with the Slimline Stiched and Scalloped Rectangles and Alpha Die Cutting System and attached my stamped square on top with foam tape.
For that colorful background, I used the new 6"x8" Sprinkles Layering Stencils. Looking at my card, I obviously had some of the stencils turned incorrectly as the set is designed to have perfectly spaced sprinkles with no overlap. However, you really can't go wrong with these stencils! To create my background, I placed an A2 panel of white cardstock onto the 5"x6" Paper Inking Palette and applied dye inks with the Bright Rainbow Pint-sized Paper Pouncers. For the fifth and final stencil, I used a palette knife to apply Chocolate Frosting Paper Glaze Luxe. I love the texture and bit of sparkle the glaze gives! Once the panel was dry, I adhered it to a white card and affixed my layered squares with foam tape.
Thanks for stopping by! If you haven't already, be sure to check out the January release. There are bundles available at a great price!
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January 2024 Release InstaHop Giveaway Winners Announcement
by Jen Kray on Jan 20 2024
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We're thrilled to announce the winners from our January 2024 Release + Instagram Hop!
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by Colleen Balija on Jan 19 2024
Unlock the Full Potential of Your Stamps with Colleen! Join us as she demonstrates the versatility of our latest stamp set by creating two unique card designs.
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by Silvana Chambon on Jan 19 2024
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Create easy, shaped cards with Silvana on the Picket Fence Studios Blog today!