DIY Card Candy & 2-Step Stampin’ Tip!

Remember how I said I couldn’t bear to part with any of the scraps from my Kiyoshi Basic Grey papers? Well, I have nothing left but a few megar scraps and I had to put them to use on a card/bookmark set. I was down to my ugliest scraps but I still love it!

I even punched circles and flowers out of the wee scraps and embossed them with a ball end stylus to make 3-D embellishments:

 

Here is a quick video to show you how:

Here is a photo for those of you who don’t like to watch videos:

 

Now, I have a gripe with this stamp set, it was the $5 special from Stampin’ up this month, I went to a SU party and decided to get it, I figured “$5, what the heck?” But these buggers are hard to line up, not to mention the solid stamp is larger than the outline…I’m not a perfectionist but that irked me! So, Here is what I did to make the best of the situation. I picked a point on each of the stamps and made a mark on the edge with permanent marker, I made sure the mark was in the same place for its corresponding outline/shadow. Now when I stamp I can be pretty sure the images will line up.

 

Another tip is after inking the shadow stamp I rock the edges on a scrap of paper to erase the outside edge of ink making the colored area fit in the outline better. See the nasty inky outline on the card vs the softer more lined up images from the bookmark.

I also bought the cheveron embossing folder at the SU! party, I really like it too! I’ll be sharing the other couple of things I bought later, til then happy crafting!

Homemade Card Candy!

I needed some “play time” in my craft room and decided to use up some leftover die cuts and some stamps to make some card candy:

Card Candy: Pretty decorations for your cards and crafts!

I love all of the new layered stickers on the market now by companies like K&Co and Making memories so I decided to make some of my own using labels and shapes I cut with my Cricut and SCAL software.

The results from my crafty playtime 😉

All you need to do is layer punched, stamped and die cut shapes. Add bits of ribbon (this is a great way to use up leftovers) and embellishments and you are done. It is a lovely way to spend a couple of hours too!

I put a few dabs of Aleens tack it over and over on the back of the “candy” and let it dry to make it into a sticker. I covered a piece of cardboard with waxed paper (as shown on photo) to display and store my new handmade embellishments until I am ready to use them on a scrapbook page, card or tag.  Have fun making some custom card candy to use on your next creation and til next time happy crafting!