Joy Clair

Shaped Card Fronts with Joy Clair Stamps

Hi everyone! It's Lindsay, from Crafting While Caffeinated Blog & YouTube Channel, here with you today. I am so excited to share my cards with you today! There are times when I want to make my card fronts just a little bit more interesting and fun. And to do that, today I am making my card front different shapes!! Keep reading below to see how I did it!

The Video Tutorial

 

The First Card

You don't need any dies or special tools in order to create shaped card fronts. All you need is some scissors! I did use a stencil, an OLD one that I bought when I was in high school!! Using a pencil, I drew the heart with a very light hand. Then, I just used my scissors to cut on the lines!

To help the heart stand out from the inside panel I added some stenciling. I did mask a heart on the inside panel just to be sure I would have a space to write a greeting!

To finish the outside of this card I added a few stamps. I used Joy Clair Stamp Sets. The dinosaur is from the "Dino Love" stamp set and the sentiment is from "Love Languages".

The Second Card

If you're not comfortable with your cutting skills, you can use dies for this technique as well. That's what I did on my second card. I used a large circle die to die cut the bottom third of the card off. This gave the card front a nice rounded look! If you don't have dies, you could easily trace a plate and cut with your scissors.

I used a circle die because I wanted to make my card front into a moon for a space themed card. In order to make the front look like the moon, I ink blended with a light gray ink and then with a darker gray ink, I blended in some darker gray circles.

I also needed my moon to look as if it was in space. To do that I added a black strip of cardstock to the bottom portion of the inside panel. I also stamped a few stars with Staz On Pigment Ink in Snowflake. The stamps are from the "Out of This World" stamp set from Joy Clair Stamps

The final touches to this card are super simple! I first stamped and colored the rocket ship image from the "Out of This World" stamp set. Because I colored the image with alcohol markers, I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I did fussy cut the image so I could pop it up with a bit of foam tape.

And finally, I added a sentiment banner. I went with the "I Hope Your Birthday is a Blast!" sentiment from the same stamp set. Versafine Clair in Nocturne is the ink I used because it is my FAVORITE to use for sentiment because it is so crisp!

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I hope you all enjoyed a look at how to create shaped card fronts and you found a few ways to incorporate this technique into your own cardmaking! 

If you are interested in any of the stamp sets I used today,they are listed and linked down below! Until next time, happy crafting!!

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• Dino Love Joy Clair Stamp Set
• Love Languages Joy Clair Stamp Set
• Out of This World Joy Clair Stamp Set

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New Year Resolutions and more

Hello friends Martha Lucia here with you!

I am up with my Resolutions card for Joy Clair. Today I choose  two different stamp sets, New Year New Me and Born to Sparkle, two of my forever favorites. Let me start with the first, My Resolution card.

The base and second layer of this card are basic black card stock. I used a Hero Arts stencil with IzinK Diamon Turquoise from Aladine to decorate the second layer of the card. After the Izink dried, I resized the layer and pasted it directly over the basic black card base. I love the glitter touch that this added to my card and turquoise is a great color to start a new life.

In a separate piece of Very Vanilla card stock I stamped some sentiments or resolutions for the next year included on the stamp set New Year New Me, using VesaFine Onix. I resized this layer with a Embossed Edged Rectangle Die.

My next card  also have my favorite colors, Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight. I stamped the stones included on the stamp set Born to Sparkle using different colors of Delicata Ink from Imagine over a Very Vanilla card stock. To obtain the sync with all images, I used the Wreath builder from Gina K. I pasted this layer directly over the Melon Mambo card base.

In a separate piece of Daffodil Delight card stock I stamped one of the sentiments included on the stamp set Born to Sparkle with VersaMark and MBoss Embossing Powder New Years Eve from Imagine. This color of embossing powder add the perfect sparkle touch to my card along with the two metallic strips that I added to this piece. To finalize the card, I added the Daffodil Delight piece with double sided foam tape.

This is my last post for this year with Joy Clair. I have wonderful news for 2020 and many changes are around the corner for this fabulous brand. Thanks for been always with us and for your continue support. Keep in touch and be part of my new adventure!

Game Day Birthday

Hello everyone, it's Ceal and I am back to share with you again. This time I am sharing this super fun Fall Family Football set.  If the men in your family are anything like mine they love football. I enjoy watching college ball but I am not really into Pro although I do love my Denver Broncos. 

I created a birthday card for my nephew with this set but it is so versatile you could also create party invitations with it as well.

We are teaming up with Leisure Arts all month so I used the 60 ct Double Ended markers to color the images. 

 

For all the details on my card, head over to my blog Simply Beautiful. 

Special Gift Tags by Martha Lucia

Hi crafty friends, Martha Lucia with you today! 

I have some special gift tags ideas featuring the stamp set Fall Family & Football from Joy Clair Stamps in combination with Rinea Foiled Paper.

I used the Fold Over Tag Confetti Cuts from Reverse Confetti. I cut it from different colors of Glossy Rinea Foiled Paper:  Ebony/Gold, Marigold/Gold and Ruby/Gold.

After decide which out side of color I wanted to use on my gift tags, I start the decoration of each piece using other colors of starstruck Rinea Foiled Paper. On this opportunity I used Silver/Silver, Sapphire/Sapphire and Jade/Jade Starstruck Rinea Foiled Paper. I stamped some images included on the stamp set Fall Family & Football using Piano Black StazOn Pigment Ink.

I combined the colors and pasted all the pieces with liquid glue.

The best part is that you can use these gift card for a secret message or special gift.

I embellished my gift tags pasting some designs of sprinkles from Kat Scrappiness that were according with the different messages.

Thank you for stopping by!

Joy Clair and Rinea | Football Birthday Card

Hello hello hello everyone... Helen is here today. Our school has started a month ago, also Fall sports have started their games and Football is one of them. Today, I have a Football Birthday card to share with you with the newly released stamp set, Fall, Family and Football together with some Foiled Papers and Ghost Ink from Rinea.

All Rinea Glossy Solid Foiled Papers have gold on one side and other gorgeous color the other side. On my background, I used the gold side, trimmed it to 4"x5.25", and embossed it with stripe embossing folder. I added it on a white card with double-side tape.

I cut out another white cardstock using 2 sizes of Pierced Rectangle Dies to create a frame. And then, I added it on top of the foiled paper with some double-sided tape.

I cut out one of the emerald starstruck foiled papers (from the Jolly Foiled Paper Variety Pack) using one of the Double Stitched Rectangles Dies. I added on top of the gold foiled paper with double-sided tape.

I embellished the card with some of the football images from the Fall, Family and Football stamp set. 

I stamped the football goal post image with Ghost Ink on Ebony/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper. I let it dried about a minute and the wiped it off with Purell Handwipe. After that I fussy cut it with micro-tips scissors.

I did the same stamping steps for the helmet and ball. I used the Violet/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper for the helmet and used the Mocha/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper from the Autumn Foiled Paper Variety Pack.

And I stamped the banner on a white cardstock with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink Pad and then the sentimenti in the middle of the banner with Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink Pad. After that, I dried them with craft heater and fussy cut them with micro-tips scissors.

I added the goal posts, helmet, and ball on the card with permanent adhesive, and I added the sentiment with 3D foam tape.

I think...this is one of my favorite masculine cards and I hope you will like this card, too! 

Before you go... take a look at other projects from my team showcasing Joy Clair stamps and Rinea products.

CAS Cards For Guys

Hello everyone... Helen is here again. And today, I would like to share these CAS cards for Guys with you all.

On my cards today, I use the Rustic Christmas Sentiments stamp set and Rustic Occasions Sentiments stamp set. Making these CAS cards for Guys is pretty simple and quick. Designs that you can create over and over again, especially if you want to mass-produce the cards for any occasions.

First for the background, I embossed the brown kraft cardstocks with woodgrain embossing folder. Trimmed them into 4" x 5.25" and then added them on top of the white cards with permanent adhesive glue.

After that, I added some white paint splatters on the background panels with white acrylic paint and water using fan brush. I simply flicked the paints on each card. Then, set them aside to dry while I was working the sentiments.

For the sentiments, I stamped the rustic wood frame from the Rustic Christmas Sentiments stamp set on white cardstocks using Pinecone VersaFine Clair ink pad with Mini MISTI. I stamped them 4 times.

And then, I stamped the sentiments from both Rustic Christmas Sentiments stamp set and Rustic Occasions Sentiments stamp set using Mini MISTI and same ink pad. It is very easy to center the sentiments inside the frame using the MISTI stamping tool.

After done stamping all the sentiments, I fussy cut them with scissors and then added each of them on the card with 3D foam tape.

Quick and simple as that. I hope you all like and enjoy these masculine CAS card idea today.

This month is a special month for Joy Clair. It is Joy Clair's 5th Birthday month and we are celebrating with a whole month sale!!! So... Click HERE to see all the Joy Clair stamps and get the 25% OFF your entire order. The discount will automatically be taken off at checkout!

Happy 5th Birthday JC!

I am super excited to celebrate the 5th Birthday of Joy Clair with you today! In honor of this happy time I am celebrating with these three cards:

The Hoppy Birthday Stamp is one of my favorite Birthday sets. My daughter kinda reminds me of a frog when she makes faces. She does it on purpose, so when I saw this set I knew I needed it! I create all of them with a paper I made on my gel press. Here is a video on how to do this technique:

 

I also added sparkly foam sheets as a mat. I chose green and orange as the primary colors. I thought they were perfect for a festive Birthday card!

I used one sketch for two of the cards. To make the image pop I used my Scan-N-Cut to cut them out and pop dotted them.

Even though I used the same sketch for each card, I changed it up a bit with the embellishments. Twine and a button is a great option for almost all cards. The green big dots are actually green vynil covered brads.

By incorporating pop dots and inking the edges it takes the card to the next level. 

Until next time ~ Happy Crafting!

Betz Golden 

Birthday Celebration by Martha Lucia

Happy Birthday Joy Clair!

For anyone is a secret my love and passion for Joy Clair Stamps and this month we are celebrating the 5th Anniversary of this stamp company. I have been part of this team for a little more of four years and if you ask me, I don't want to move on because Amanda and Christy are simply amazing!

In my today post, I wanted to make something fun and I used one stamp set from the Color by Faith Collection released during 2018, Little Monsters. I created a shaker card with it and used a happy birthday sentiment from the No Probllama stamp set.

To make this, I used different colors of CP Inks and I just cut first the black frame and marked the free spaces or windows over my top layer the windows. Then using masking paper I separate each window and stamped the different images from the stamp set Little Monsters. To make it shaker, I just added some Hard Candy Sprinkles  and 3mm Mirrored Clear Hollow Hearts from the big collection of srpinkles and confetii mixes of Kat Scrappiness. To embellish more my card, I splatter the white area with Aladine Izink Spray in different colors and attached a blue glimmer bow that I cut from a Spellbinders die to the sentiment. Thank you for stopping by and thank you for support all my passions!

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Little Monsters Stamp Set Shop at: JCS	No Probllama Stamp Set Shop at: JCS	Hard Candy Sprinkles Shop at: KS	3mm Mirrored Clear Hollow Hearts Shop at: KS
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Shop at: CB& S | KS | SB	Party Collection Minis Inks CP Shop at: CB& S	Foundations Set of 4 CP Inks Shop at: CB& S	Whisper White Cardstock by Stampin Up Shop at: OTS
Basic Black Card stock Shop at: OTS	Large Die Cut Monthly Club Spellbinders Shop at: OTS	Foam Sheet Shop at: HS	Make Art Stay-tion All in One Shop at: KS
Stamparatus by SU Shop at: OTS	Maxi Guillotine Trimmer - Tonic Shop at: SB	Big Shot Die Cut Machine Shop at: SB	Double sided foam Tape or Dimensionals Shop at: KS | OTS
Foam Adhesive Strips Shop at: KS | OTS	Fine Tipe Glue Pen Shop at: OTS

Happy Birthday Joy Clair! Whale, Hello There!

Hello there Joy Clair friends!  It's Kerry here and I'm back to wish Joy Clair a Happy 5th Birthday!  Woo hoo!!  All this month we're celebrating and sharing some of our most favorite stamp sets and sets that make us SMILE!  For my first share of the month, I thought I'd pull out one of the cutest multi-purpose sets in the collection.  While I'm not much of a beach lover (I just can't stand the salty skin  or burning eyes), I do seem to gravitate to some good beachy images.  This set in particular is full of adorable creatures and added items for embellishing fun layered cards.  I especially love the smiley jellyfish!  

To create my card, I pulled out the Whale, Hello There set and started inking up the images.  I chose the narwal and the jellyfish as well as some seagrasses and the cute little shells.  I colored them with a light touch of color and fussy cut them to set them aside while I worked on the background panel.  

I wanted my background panel to be magical so I incorporated a rainbow of colored scraps of cardstock.  I then attached these rainbow strips to a piece of white cardstock making sure to stagger the border a bit.  I then attached the whole panel to a kraft card base.  Next, I attached a circle diecut and started assembling my "scene".  When I was satisfied with the layout, I popped each image up on foam squares and secured them onto the panel.  To finish my card off, I stamped the sentiment onto a little banner piece of cardstock and tucked it into the card in a perfectly perfect spot.  

 

Thanks so much for hopping over and checking out my card.  I hope this project inspires you and I hope you join me in wishing Joy Clair many more happy birthdays to come!  Your support and purchases ensure that this little gem of a stamp company continues on for a LONG TIME!  See you again later this month with another fun creation!  

No Probllama by Martha Lucia

Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here with you!

Today I am featuring the No Probllama stamp set, one of my favorites stamp sets from the most recently release. 

I decided to make a funny card and selected basic black card stock to create the card base. I inked a complete whisper white piece of card stock using different colors of distress ink. I applied the ink with a blender brush. Then I die cut the On The Curve Cover Panel from Reverse Confetti from the inked whisper white piece. I pasted this layer over the basic black card base using double sided foam tape.

In a separate piece of whisper white card stock, I stamped three images included on the stamp set No Probllama with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them with Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers.

I resized the stamped images using the Stitched Hex Tag Die Cut from Confetti Reverse. It is a great hexagon shape to create focal points.  Also, I added a tiny bow on the upper side of the tag and stamped the Spanish sentiment included on the No Probllama stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Martha Lucia

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No Probllama Stamp Set Shop at: JC	Whisper White Cardstock by Stampin Up Shop at: OT	Basic Black Card stock Shop at: OT	Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers Shop at: OT | SB
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Shop at: KS | SB	Clarity Stencil Brushes Shop at: C & S | KS | OT | HS	On the Curve Cover Panel Shop at: OT	Stitched Hex Tag Shop at: OT