Get out your Gilding Flakes and let's color some Autumn!

Find my Assembly video for this project on my Youtube Channel here

On Thursday's at 8pm EST I roll out the inks, papers, stamps and dies and sit in the studio to prepare my weekly hour of sharing.  A few weeks ago, I decided to get out some oldies but goodies which included the Gilding flakes and stencils.

The Apple A Day Die set has a very nice sized ornate frame die that creates a beautifully sized background for any smaller frame or shaped die to layer with. 

The design paper is centered with a red card stock and an additional frame is cut in black to be placed just to the left off center.   This process enables all of the contrasting colors to appear but also gives an elegant style to the project as well.

The focus image will be the embossed "THANKS" from the EZ Salutations stamp set centered onto the second largest frame in the Tiny Vine Die set after using a stencil and some Stazon inks on the white card stock.  

After the focus point of the project is done, I cut two of the larger dies in the Tiny Vine Oval Die set once in red and once in black and again put the red centered behind the white oval then offset the black in the opposite direction than before.   The project is now symmetrical in color and in style.

 

The final process in this project is to put a piece of double sided sheet onto some white card stock and die cut the Star Spangeled Confetti die.  Once the die is cut, take off the protective cover revealing the adhesive.  Time to get out your gilding flakes!  I placed gold on one of these stars and some mixed flakes on the other star.  Rub and burnish them into the adhesive and the star is placed between the two layers of contrasting frames.  A bit of Autumn peaking out from the Thanks project and it is completed with a bit of ribbon on both layers!  

I hope you enjoyed the project, wanna give it a try, feel free to check it all out on the You tube channel above and I hope you visit next Thursday! 

Stay Crafty,

Filling my slimline with real swimming Sea Life!

 You Can watch the entire FB Live video here on my Youtube Channel

Fully interactive and swimming sea life on my first Slimline Card!  I used both the Double Dial Die 1 and the See You In The Center Die this time and it worked out beautifully!  My niece loves to make the seahorse swim!  lol

It's created with digital design paper called Sea Scape Digital Paper

I printed out two of the images from the pre-colored Seahorse Samm Digital Stamp set with sentiments included, adhered them to some scrap stock and fussy cut them to use with the See You In The Center die used at the bottom of the slimline project. 

The other image printed was not pre-colored but I colored it very quickly with some pencils, adhered it to some scrap stock and fussy cut it too!   The Fancy Fin images are so sweet! 

I cut the slots of the Double Dial Die 1 in the top of the slimline project, assembled it and popped up a cloud on the horizontal brad and the curved slot was the home for the sperm whale here.  I cut 4 of the waves die from the Land and Sea die set and glued them to the edges of the card for some added texture, added some glossy accents on the bubbles in the background paper and some stickles to areas on the critters and the clouds from the Aztec Sunshine Circle die.

All of the mechanisms were in the same location behind the topper so I popped up the topper with pop dots avoiding the areas where the mechanism must move and attached the topper to the card base itself.

I did use some white gel pen in some of the areas on the images and on the background paper just for design and the project was complete.  

Thank you everyone that joined me last Thursday night at 8pm EST for this project hour!  The giggling, joking around, sharing design thoughts and tips always makes this such a fun hour for me!  You truly bring me JOY! 

Stay Crafty,

Win the contest with the FREE Digital Stamp Set

It's time to play along and WIN!

Grab your freebie digital illustration set called Jack O' Gnome from the TLCDesigns.shop and get to creating!  Post a pic on FB or IG with the hashtag #TLCpumpkingnome and we will draw the winner of a $10.00 store gift certificate!

The file has papers, sentiments and some super cute silhouette images too along with Jack of course!

This project was designed on last Thursday night's FB Live on TLC Designs FB page.

I used the design paper in the kit along with the image.  Combined with the following die sets also available in the store:  Celebrate Ribbon Die, flowers from the Oval Lily Frame (distressed a bit) and the stunning Aztec Sunshine circle die! 

I added a few little sparkly stars and a flower die cut in his hand.  The project was fun, quick and inspiring to design with all my wonderful friends on FB Live!

Stay Crafty,

New Release Digital stamp set "Greetings"

 

Look who's brand NEW!

I mean the latest digital stamp set with this cute little newborn dragon!  The name of the digital stamp set is Dragon Baby "Greetings".  I named the image Greetings because of the 9 sentiments that come along with this adorable illustration!  

With the Paci or without!  Cover his egg with flowers or not!  Do you need a little boy baby card or invite or are you looking for an image that will guarantee a smile on the face of the recipient?  Spreading some Kindness or sending "Only Happy Thoughts"  this digital set says it all for any occasion!

On Thursday nights  FB Live broadcast, I make an adorable little project with some design paper from the "Sweet A Cake" digital papers collection with the brand new custom die called "Happy Dragonfly Circle".

I printed the paper with the digital sentiment included and adhered it to stock paper.  Then I repeated the process with the previously colored little dragon image from Procreate and fussy cut the image.  The designer paper was cut with the largest doily like die in the Happy Dragonfly circle set and I popped each layer up with some dots.

I wound a bit of twine around the die cut until I was happy with the way it looked and grabbed a flower die from the set and cut from stock.  Distress Ink color Blueprint Sketch was added to the edges of the flower petals.  With black Copic ink, I colored some white pearls and placed them in the center of the flower.  Then I repeated that process with a few tiny crystals and created a crystal banner across the top of the card in black to balance off the card.  

This was such a fun evening and the input from the viewers were so enjoyable!  I hope you love this little guy as much as I do?  Keep your eyes out for his three little Dragon friends in Poly too!  They're coming very soon! 

Stay Crafty,

custom illustration design by MMedelillustrations and TLCDesigns

Square up the cut Digi with Tammy Louise

Good Day Crafty Friends!

It's time to share one of my favorite Floral projects created live on FB just a while back!  The Happy Bouquet is the name of the Digital Stamp and it is simply and beautifully swag!  

Today's project is modeled after a designer technique I learned over 10 years ago or more but it's what I call an oldie but goody!  One that never gets old or goes out of style!

You can see the Youtube video of the FB LIVE here:  

 

I'm so happy to share my illustration with you today!

Stay Crafty,

TLC Designs has it's first bundled product!

 

Hello crafty friends!  It's Tammy Louise and there are so many changes going on this summer behind the scene's of the shop that I'm going to spend a little time catching you all up on projects, New Releases, Sales, Promotions and more!

They may be sweet and short posts, but you're not going to want to miss out on them!  

Here at TLCDesigns the products are ALWAYS high quality but, as many of my friends during Thursday's FB Lives have noticed, the prices in the store are "OUT OF THIS WORLD"!  I'm very proud to be able to offer affordable designs of high quality and will continue to do this!  Everyone deserves to be able to afford fun and new products to craft with! 

The Clearly Coordinated Celebrate Bundle!  That's almost $10.00 off the separate product pricing!

There are 4 NEW products in the store that I've bundled for the greater bargain but you can buy them separately as well if you'd like!  Here's the list with links that will take you right to them!

Celebrate Frame Die $14.00 Regular Price

Celebrate Border Die $10.00 Regular Price

Celebrate Ribbon Dies $10.00 Regular Price

The Celebration Sentiments Stamp Set $11.00 Regular Price

Enjoy these and several new dies and stamps in the store when you get a chance to visit!

Don't forget to grab freebies while you're there!  If you'd like to be sure and not miss any of the sales or promotions and get all the updated info on the brand, be sure to subscribe to the Newsletter! 

Thanks for your patronage!  It's a small store but with a big punch!!

Stay Crafty,

FREEBIES! Digital files to print and create from TLCDesigns.shop!

 FREEBIES GALORE!

It's Tammy Louise here to share all the promotional Freebies and Giveaways from TLCDesigns.shop!  First let me begin by thanking all of my lovely shop subscribers for making the last 8 months a complete success!  The shops success is just blowing me away and I have all of you lovely crafty folks to thank!  

As some of you may already know, I love to give back to my customers with loads of giveaways and freebies!  If you haven't already seen some of the terrific digital stamps and illustrations that are in the shop FREE for the taking, I'm going to share them with all of you today!  

It's easy, stop into the TLCDesigns.shop, load up your cart with the lovely little ditties to enjoy creating with and finish the purchasing process!  That's it!  

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY!!!!

AS A BONUS, while you're there loading up with freebies and subscribe to the newsletter, you will AUTOMATICALLY be entered in the next drawing for the Double Dial Die giveaway!  We are almost at 300 subscribers NOW so be sure to get there quick!  Your next opportunity will be at 400 subscribers!   See below for details and Thanks again! 

So, what do the FREEBIES look like?????  What can they do?????  Let me show you some samples!

BRAVE AND FREE DIGITAL STAMPS

GNORMAN FOR ALL FREE DIGITAL STAMPS

JUST 4 DAD FREE DIGITAL STAMPS

 

STAY STRONG FREE DIGITAL STAMPS

Pretty great Sentiment Sets HUH??  I hope you enjoy creating projects with them as much as I enjoyed creating them for all of you!  Hope to see you at the next FB LIVE event on Thursday Night 8pm EST, until then . . . . 

Stay Crafty,