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BPM: The Happiest Season of All Tag

November 28, 2020

Hi everyone! Today I am over on Blank Page Muse’s blog with a fun how to of how I created this tag. You can find the blog post HERE with more photos and details.

Supplies

Blank Page Muse: Baby Sitting Smile Vintage Portrait Stamp

Number 10 Tag

MISTI Stamping Tool

Black Ink

Various Inks and Watercolors

Watercolor Brush

Watercolor Paper

Paper Cutter

Scissors

Beacon Adhesives: Fabri-Fix and Zip Dry Adhesive

Snowflake Ornament

Cording, Thread, Mini Pom Pom and Trim

Various Cardstock and Scrapbook Papers

Tim Holtz: Funky Festive Diecuts

Tim Holtz: Holiday Greens Diecuts

Tim Holtz: Ornate Frame #2 Diecut

Vintage Snow Bells Embossing Folder

Diecut Machine

Foam Pop Dots

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This blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements. I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with each manufacturer, provider, or party in question.This blog contains affiliate links, clicking and shopping through these links helps to support and run Tonya Trantham Designs – Creative Paper Addiction at no additional cost to you. Today’s features are Blank Page Muse and Scrapbook.com Products.

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Saturday is wonderful and enjoy creating!

Celebrate Today Card with Blank Page Muse

September 23, 2020

Hi everyone! Over on the Blank Page Muse Blog I share how I created this quick and easy birthday card. For the how to’s and more photos you can find that post HERE.

Supplies

BPM: Aster Creepy Cute Kid and Life is Short Rubber Stamps

Watercolor Paper

Black Ink

Watercolors

Paint Brushes

Colored Pencils

MISTI Stamping Tool

Kraft Cardstock

Paper Cutter

Scissors

Beacon Adhesive: Zip Dry Adhesive

Googlie Eyes, Trim, Sequin, Thread

Various Patterned Cardstocks

Foam Pop Dots

Printed Sentiment from Computer

(Products listed above are Affiliated Links for your convenience)

DISCLAIMERS

Thanks for stopping by, hope your day is wonderful and enjoy creating!

A Cup of Tea Warms the Soul Tag

June 25, 2020

Hi everyone! I wanted to hop on the blog today and share a quick tag I created using Pam Bray’s Chat Time Rubber Stamps by Emerald Creek. I received this stamp set while I was at Creativation and I was super pumped because Pam is a dear friend of mine and because I finally had my hands on one of her sets of stamps.

I started by placing the larger of the two mugs onto the MISTI Stamp Tool and stamping on a piece of patterned cardstock from the Prima Dulce Collection. I fussy cut the stamped image out and with a Craft Knife cut around the outer edge of the stamped mug to create a slit.

I already had a tag that I had added excess inks from pervious projects to so all I did was emboss it with the Brush Dot Embossing Folder and start adding bits of patterned cardstock I had laying around. Before I adhered the mug to the tag I placed one of the Paper Dolls in the slit.

I decorated the mug with flatback pearls and sequins. I also added flowers and leaves that I had cut from the Floral Garden Diecuts, I shaped the flowers and leaves and adhered loops of thread to the back before gluing to the mug. I also placed the “A Cup of Tea Warms the Soul like a Good Friend” sentiment (I cut it from a scrap piece of G45 cardstock) underneath/next to the mug.

Next I added a bit of pom pom trim to the bottom of the tag and instead of cut off the excess I left it hanging and I tied a lace bow at the top of the tag. There you have it! I’m so happy with how it turned out and if you would like to see more of Pam’s creativity you can stop by her blog HERE. If you would like to purchase Pam’s stamps, digital images and embossing powders you can find the shop HERE.

As always if you have any questions about this project please let me know.

Supplies

Emerald Creek/Pam Bray Designs: Chat Time Rubber Stamps

MISTI Stamp Tool

Prima Dulce Collection

Craft Knife

Brush Dot Embossing Folder

Tim Holtz: Paper Dolls

i-crafter: Floral Garden Diecuts

Various Patterned Cardstocks

Pom Pom Trim and Lace

Thread

Diecut Machine

Scissors

Paper Cutter

Beacon Adhesives: Zip Dry Adhesive

Tag

Gems and Sequins

(Products listed above are Affiliated Links for your convenience)

DISCLAIMERS

This blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements. I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with each manufacturer, provider, or party in question.This blog contains affiliate links, clicking and shopping through these links helps to support and run Tonya Trantham Designs – Creative Addiction to Paper Blog at no additional cost to you. Today’s features are Pam Bray Designs, Emerald Creek and Scrapbook.com Products.

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Thursday is great and enjoy creating!

Cheers! Box

November 2, 2019

Hi everyone! I’m back today with my project for Momenta! Since I have several upcoming birthdays I decided I would created a gift box.

I started by taking a part a small box that I had on hand. I folded in one section and place in the embossing folder from the Happy Birthday Stamp and Emboss Set and run through the Freestyle Die Cutting and Embossing Machine. I completed the same steps for the other side of the box.

I glued the box back together and inked over the embossed areas with an assortment of chalk inks.

I cut and adhered a piece of patterned cardstock from the Watercolor Metallic Paper Pad to fit the lid of the box.

I stamped the sentiment “Cheers!” from the Happy Birthday Stamp and Emboss Set and placed one of the Nested Oval Borders Metal Diecuts over the sentiment and cut out with the diecut machine.

I cut another oval diecut out from another piece of patterned cardstock from the same paper pad and glued to the back of the sentiment. I also stamped a party hat onto a piece of White Cardstock and fussy cut out.

I added Foam Pop Dots to the back of the diecut and placed on top of the lid.

I added to the party hat and a flower and leaf punch (from my stash) sequins and a gems before gluing to the sentiment. If you have any questions about this project please let me know. Also if you aren’t following Momenta you can find them on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.

Supplies

Momenta: Freestyle Die Cutting and Embossing Machine

Momenta: Happy Birthday Stamp and Emboss Set

Momenta: Nested Oval Borders Metal Diecuts

Momenta: Watercolor Metallic Paper Pad

Small Box

Wicked Black Ink

Raspberry Premium Dye Ink

Assortment of Chalk Inks

MISTI Stamping Tool

Paper Cutter

Scissors

Foam Pop Dots

Sequins

Gems

White Cardstock

Beacon Adhesive: Zip Dry Adhesive

(Products listed above are Affiliated Links for your convenience)

DISCLAIMERS

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Saturday is awesome and enjoy creating!

Wreath Full of Posies Tag

September 30, 2019

Hi everyone! I want to share a tag that I hadn’t got around to sharing that I created for ColorBox. I had actual started this tag several months ago. If I ink up my glass tray and I have leftover inks I just grab a blank tag and place it in the mixture. If it isn’t covered I continue to place the tag into any leftover ink until I have it completely covered.

The tag has a mix of the following inks on it: Wildberry, Sunshine and Frog Blends Inks. I inked the Simple Dots Rollgraph with Tahiti Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink and rolled onto the tag.

I inked the Wreath Wood Stamp with Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink and stamped onto a piece of Watercolor Paper. I started by inking a glass tray with the following Dyestress Blendable Dye Inks, adding water and painting the following parts of the stamped wreath: Inchworm leaves and shade with Moss. Flowers-Aster, Mulberry, Bumble Bee, Salmon and Princess and let dry. I placed the doily stamp from the Cookies Clear Stamps onto the MISTI Stamping Tool inked the stamp with Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink and stamped onto a piece of watercolor paper. Next I inked the glass tray with Mint Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink added water and painted the stamped doily. Once dry I fussy cut the doily out and adhered to tag.

I fussy cut the wreath out adhered to the tag, added sequins and gems to the flowers on the wreath. I finished by adhering a scrap of lace and ric rac to the bottom of the tag. I also added three glossy dots above ric rac and a seam binding bow to top of tag. As always if you have any questions about this project please let me know.

Supplies

ColorBox/Eileen Hull: Wildberry Blends Ink

ColorBox:/Eileen Hull: Sunshine Blends Ink

ColorBox/Eileen Hull: Frog Blends Ink

ColorBox: Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink

ColorBox: Wreath Wood Stamp

ColorBox: Princess Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink
ColorBox: Aster Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink

ColorBox: Moss Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink

ColorBox: Mint Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink

ColorBox: Bumble Bee Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink

ColorBox: Salmon Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink

ColorBox: Inchworm Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink

ColorBox: Tahiti Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink

ColorBox: Mulberry Dyestress Blendable Dye Ink

ColorBox: Simple Dots Rollagraph

ColorBox: Rollagraph Handle

ColorBox: Cookies Clear Stamps

MISTI Stamping Tool

Beacon Adhesive: Zip Dry Adhesive

Scissors

Sequins

Gems

Glossy Dots

Ric Rac

Lace

Tag

Seam Binding

Glass Tray

Paint Brush

Watercolor Paper

(Products listed above are Affiliated Links for your convenience)

DISCLAIMERS

This blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements. I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with each manufacturer, provider, or party in question.This blog contains affiliate links, clicking and shopping through these links helps to support and run Tonya Trantham Designs – Creative Addiction to Paper Blog at no additional cost to you. Today’s features are ColorBox and Scrapbook.com Products.

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Monday is awesome and enjoy creating!

Count Every Beautiful Thing Tag

August 8, 2019

Hi everyone! I’m back today and wanted to share this colorful and slightly quirky tag I created using Eileen Hull’s Blends Inks.

I started by inking my glass tray with Sunshine and Melon Blends Inks, adding water and placing the tag into the ink mixture. Once the tag was completely covered I removed and let dry. I inked the Ornate Border Molding Mat with Berry Pigment Ink from the Mermaid Paintbox Collection and randomly inked over the tag.

I inked the Doll Faces Rollagraph with Wicked Black Premium Dye Ink, rolled onto a piece of Watercolor Paper and cut out the face of girl looking straight ahead. I inked the Butterfly Wooden Stamp with Wicked Black Premium Dye Ink and stamp onto a piece of watercolor paper. Again I inked the glass tray with following Taos Petal Point: Amber and the Mermaid Paintbox Papaya Cream and Berry Inks. I added water and painted the butterfly image with ink mixtures and let dry. I fussy cut the butterfly image out, cut down the middle, added Clear Glitter Glue around outer edge of butterfly and once dry I adhered the butterfly wings, one on either side of the face image.

I placed Watercolor Paper on the Long Classic Scalloped Rectangle Large Diecut, placed between the cutting plates and run through the Diecut Machine. Before cleaning the glass tray I randomly placed the scalloped rectangle diecut into the leftover ink mixture from butterfly. Then removed and let dry. Next I inked the glass tray with Sunshine Blends Ink, added water, placed the scalloped rectangle diecut into the ink mixture and once completely covered with the ink mixture I removed and let dry. I inked the Ornate Border Molding Mat with Amber Pigment Ink from the Taos Petal Point Collection and stamped onto the scalloped rectangles diecut.

I placed the “Play in the Sun” stamp onto the MISTI Stamping Tool and inked with Wicked Black Premium Dye Ink and stamped onto the lower half of the scalloped rectangle diecut. Next I inked two leaves from a leaf sprig punch with Turtle Pigment Ink and once dry adhered next to the word ‘thing” along with sequins and a gem.

I placed vellum on top of the Delightful Circles Diecuts placed between cutting plates and run through the diecut machine. I adhered to the backside of the scalloped rectangle diecut and then adhered to the tag.

I added Foam Pop Dots to the back of the butterfly face image before placing above the stamped sentiment.

I finished by adhering lace to the bottom of tag and adding a button, sequin, gem at bottom corner of tag and tying a bow at the top of the tag. I hope you like this tag as much as I enjoyed creating it. Also if you have any questions about this project please let me know.

Supplies

ColorBox/Eileen Hull: Sunshine Blends Ink
ColorBox/Eileen Hull: Melon Blends Ink
ColorBox: Jumbo Design Wheel and Handle
ColorBox: Doll Faces Rollagraph
ColorBox: Ornate Border Molding Mat
ColorBox: Butterfly Wood Stamp
ColorBox: Taos Petal Point Collection: Turtle and Amber Pigment Inks
ColorBox: Mermaid Paintbox Collection: Papaya Cream and Berry Pigment Inks
ColorBox: Wicked Black Premium Dye Ink
Paint Brush
Glass Tray
Clear Glitter Glue
Spellbinders: Long Classic Scalloped Rectangles Large Diecuts
Spellbinders Nestabilities: Delightful Circles Diecuts
Tag
Pink Ribbon
Sequins
Gems
Unity Stamps/Authentique: Play in the Sun Stamp
MISTI Stamping Tool
White Cardstock
Scissors
Buttons
Watercolor Paper
Lace
Vellum
Leaf Sprig Punch
Foam Pop Dots
Diecut Machine
Beacon Adhesive: Zip Dry Adhesive

(Products listed above are Affiliated Links for your convenience)

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Thursday is wonderful and enjoy creating!

Bless the USA Card

July 3, 2019

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a 4th of July card I created for ClearSnap with you all today!

I started by inking an Art Dauber with Peacock Pigment Ink from the Taos Petal Point Collection and ink over front of the Burlap Creative Card.

I inked the Pledge Allegiance Stamp with Wicked Black Pigment Dye Ink and stamped onto a piece of white cardstock. I cut the stamped image to 4″x5″ and roughed up edges of stamped image. Next I inked an art dauber with Chianti Pigment Ink from the Taos Petal Point Collection and inked the edges of stamped image. I rolled the bottom edge of the stamped image under and adhered, added Foam Pop Dots to back and placed to the corner of card base.

I inked the letter “U” of the USA Wood Stamp with Abyss Pigment Ink and the “SA” with Chianti Pigment Ink from the Taos Petal Point Collection and stamped onto a piece of white cardstock. I cut a “v” in the end to create a banner and added foam pop dots to back and place on lower half of card base.

From the Thankful Clear Stamps Set I placed on the MISTI Stamping Tool and inked the “BLESS” stamp with Chianti Pigment Ink and the “HEART” stamp with Abyss Pigment Ink and stamp both onto a piece of white cardstock. I cut the “BLESS” image out and inked an art dauber with Chianti Pigment Ink and inked the edges of the “BLESS” image. I cut with a pair of scissors the “T”, “H” and “E” from the “HEART” image out and adhered above the USA banner. I added foam pop dots to back of “BLESS” image and place above the word THE.

I adhered red tulle, thread, star and a sequin with red pearl to USA banner. I adhered a star and red pearl to top of the pledge allegiance image and added three clear glossy dots to bottom corner of card.

And there you have it! What do you do for the 4th of July? Cookout? Spend the day at the beach or just enjoy the day with family and friends? Also always if you have any questions about this project please let me know.

SUPPLIES

ColorBox: Taos Point Petals Collection: Peacock, Abyss and Chianti Pigment Ink

ColorBox: USA Wood Stamp

ColorBox: Art Daubers

ColorBox: Thankful Clear Stamps

ColorBox: Burlap Creative Card

ColorBox: Wicked Black Pigment Dye Ink

Stampabilities: Pledge of Allegiance Rubber Stamp

MISTI Stamping Tool

Blue Sequin

Clear Stars

Thread

Red Tulle

Red Pearls

Pink and Main: Clear Glossy Dots

Paper Cutter

Foam Pop Dots

Scissors

Beacon Adhesive: Zip Dry Adhesive

White Cardstock

(Products listed above are Affiliated Links for your convenience)

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Wednesday is awesome and enjoy creating!

Wonder Tag

June 19, 2019

Hi everyone! I am back with another project I created for ColorBox for their Creativation booth this past January. I know it took me forever to share these projects with everyone but I was trying to space my posts out so I didn’t overwhelm everyone with butterfly projects. 😬

For this project I placed a 3 1/4″x5 1/2″ white tag in the Open Book Embossing Folder, placed between two cutting plates, placed onto the platform and run though a Diecut Machine. I inked an Art Dauber with Jade Premium Dye Ink and lightly rubbed over the embossed tag.

I placed a piece of White Cardstock on top of the Ornate Frame Diecut and placed between cutting plates and run through the diecut machine. I inked an art dauber with Dandelion Premium Dye Ink and lightly ink over the Ornate Frame Diecut. I added Gold Gems to the diecut and adhered the diecut to the center of tag.

Next I placed the outline of the butterfly stamp, from the Butterfly Clear Stamps onto the MISTI Stamping Tool and inked with Leather Premium Dye Ink and stamped onto a piece of White Cardstock. I placed the “filled in” image of the Butterfly stamp onto the MISTI Stamping Tool (be sure to line up the stamp with the stamped butterfly cardstock image) and inked the stamp with Sandstone Premium Dye Ink and stamp on top of the stamped butterfly image.

I loaded three art daubers with the following Premium Dye Inks: Bahama , Atmosphere and Dandelion. I inked the majority of the butterfly image with Atmosphere Premium Dye Ink. I inked over a small portion the wings, near the body, with Bahama Premium Dye Ink. Lastly I inked the inner and outer edges of the wings with Dandelion Premium Dye Ink. I fussy cut the butterfly image out with Scissors. I adhered a metal tab to the body of the butterfly and added a Pink Gem to the metal tab for the head. I also added two Pearl Pins and Foam Pop Dots to the back of the butterfly and placed in the center of the tag.

I placed the “For Small Wonders” stamp onto an the MISTI Stamping Tool and inked with Leather Premium Dye Ink and stamped onto a piece of green cardstock . I cut out the “Wonder” sentiment with a Paper Cutter and cut another piece of yellow cardstock slightly larger than the sentiment and adhered both together. I added foam pop dots and placed sentiment under the butterfly.

I cut and adhered lace and Pom Pom trim to fit bottom of tag. I cut two 8″ pieces of lace and two gold Ric Rac and trim and strung through the top of tag, tied off with twine and adhered a button on top of twine. As always if you have any questions about this project please let me know.

SUPPLIES

ColorBox: Butterfly Clear Stamps

ColorBox: Art Daubers

ColorBox: Leather Premium Dye Ink

ColorBox: Dandelion Premium Dye Ink

ColorBox: Bahama Premium Dye Ink

ColorBox: Atmosphere Premium Dye Ink

ColorBox: Jade Premium Dye Ink
ColorBox: Sandstone Premium Dye Ink
ColorBox: Jade Premium Dye Ink

Lace

Pom Pom Trim

Gold Ric Rac

Gold Trim

Gold Gems

Pink Gem

Pearl Pins (2)

Diecut Machine

Sizzix: Ornate Frame Diecut

Maggie Holmes: Open Book Embossing Folder
MISTI Stamping Tool

White Tag

Button

Paper Cutter

Scissors

Metal Tab

White Cardstock

Scraps of Green and Yellow Cardstock

Beacon Adhesive: Zip Dry Adhesive

Foam Pop Dots

Twine

(Products listed above are Affiliated Links for your convenience)

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Wednesday is wonderful and enjoy creating!

Father’s Day Mustache Container

June 14, 2019

Hi everyone! I am back again today with a quick and easy Father’s Day project that I created using Blends 2 Inks, rubber stamp and a art screen! All you need is an empty container of your choice.

I started by cleaning a container inside and out. I used an empty M and M container that I have received around Christmas. I also remove the labels on the outside and I used a little Goo Be Gone to get the sticky residue off. I placed Watercolor Paper on top of the Rectangle Border Diecut and placed in between cutting plates and run through the Diecut Machine. I cut out two diecuts to cover the front and back. I placed the lid from the container on top of watercolor paper and traced with a pencil onto the watercolor paper. Next I placed the Disco Art Screen 1 on top of rectangle diecut and loaded an Art Dauber with Beach Blends 2 Ink and applied over the art screen. I loaded another art dauber with Uniform Blends 2 Ink and apply lightly over screen. I completed the same steps for other rectangle diecut and lid and I inked around the edges of both diecuts and circle with Hydrangea Blends 2 Ink.

I adhered both diecuts to container and circle to the top of lid.

I inked the Mustaches Wood Stamp with Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink and stamped onto White Cardstock

I cut around the stamped image with a Paper Cutter and inked an art dauber with Uniform Blends 2 Ink and ink edges of mustache tag.

I adhered the stamped image to the corner edge of the diecut that is on the container. I made a bow from red seam binding and adhered to the diecut and mustache tag. And last but not least I filled it with yummy snack bars and candy. As always if you have questions about this project please let me know.

SUPPLIES

ColorBox/Eileen Hull: Hydrangea Blends 2 Ink

ColorBox/Eileen Hull: Beach Blends 2 Ink

ColorBox/Eileen Hull: Uniform Blends 2 Ink

ColorBox: Disco Art Screens Trio

ColorBox: Art Daubers

ColorBox: Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink

ColorBox: Mustaches Wood Stamp

Watercolor Paper

White Cardstock

Paper Cutter

Beacon Adhesive: Zip Dry Adhesive

Red Seam Binding

Empty Container

Momenta: Nested Rectangle Border Diecuts

Diecut Machine

Pencil

Scissors

(Products listed above are Affiliated Links for your convenience)

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Friday is awesome and enjoy creating!

Mandala Flower Gift Box

April 19, 2019

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a semi quick project with you all today! I have several of these kraft boxes laying around and I thought I would create a gift box for Mother’s Day.

I started by inking the Mandala Clover Wood Stamp with Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink and stamped onto a piece of Watercolor Paper. I inked and stamped four times total. I fussy cut each stamped image out and cut the “stem” off each stamped image.

I inked a glass tray with following inks: Cabernet, Mulberry and Aster Dyestress Blendable Inks and added water to each ink. I placed the four stamped images into the ink mixture and once each image was completely covered in ink I removed and let dry.

I inked the Leafy Border Jumbo Rollagraph (I couldn’t find the rollagragh but found the Leafy Border Mat which is the same thing but not the roller) with Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink and roll onto a piece of watercolor paper. I fussy cut two stamped leaves out. I inked a glass tray with the following inks: Inchworm and Moss Dyestress Blendable Dye Inks. I added water to each ink and placed both stamped leaves into ink mixture and once each image is completely covered in ink remove. While the leaf images are still damp I shaped each leave.

I shaped each Mandala Clover “flower” image with a stylus and adhered each flower on top of each other and added a button and a gem to the center of flower. I adhered the leaves to the back of flower.