New Pen Rack

09 Jan 2024 2 Comments

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Hello my crafty friends! Today I received my new Pen rack from Temu. I need something that holds more of my Copic makers and other pens. It was so easy to put together and the instructions were simply to understand. Plus they even sent a little four way screwdriver to use to put it together. I’m so please with it all.

It only took me 20 minutes to put together.
You can see I still have room more pens. Each rack holds 120 pens. I purchased two pen racks.
I love the way my Copic makers and other pens fits in the holds.

Thank you for checking out my blog. Have a wonderful day.

Simplycaftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus

Snowman and Gnome ( and so much more)

19 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

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Hello my crafty friends! So sorry I have been posting my creative work. I have been so busy with attending classes and crating at the same time. And getting sick with a cold this season twice. It’s a crazy end of the year for me. But I hope everyone else is having a wonderful season. I’m going to do this post different. I going to share some of the things I have been doing. If you have any questions please just let me know. Thank you!

I made this batch of Cards for my girlfriend and the next batch too. I going to show you. They’re all shaker cards.
And this batch of cards, Which they came out too cute.
Then I made about 48 of this card to go out to my friends and family.

Then I have attended classes with my daughter Nettie and Cuz Paula with Heart & Soul.

Also making Christmas gifts for a wonderful group of creative Ladies I meet with once a month.
Also attended Classes at our local senior center making gnomes and bracelets for the season.
Also I got to do Christmas decoration cookies this year.
Plus the opportunity to be on the grinches float this year in our small town of Sutter Creek Christmas tree of lights.
More creating at Heart & Soul with family.
Making Gnomes for the season.

And there is so much more. So you can see I have been busy this season. If you would like more information some of the thing I been doing just let me know and I’ll get back to you. I wanted to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year’s. And I will get back on track the beginning of the year. Thank you guys be safe.

Handmade by me Annalicia Spannaus

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Distress Mica Stain Handmade Cards

29 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

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Hello my crafty friends! Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. I started theses set of cards the other day. And finished them this morning. So I’m posting these cards and the technique on how I did the cards.

Thankful Cards
In this batch I was able to make 3 cards. Out of all the distress Mica stain I spray on my watercolor paper. As you can see each background came out different. Which I love it because each one is unique. The shimmer of theses Mica stain are beautiful.
I vision how I wanted these cards to look like and how they would be once I applied the distress mica stains on the watercolor paper that I embossed.
I took the simon says stamp 3D fall leaf Embossing folder and Strathmore mixed media paper vellum surface and run it threw my vagabond 2 machine.
Then pick my colors I wanted to spray with. They are Distress Mica stains by Tim Holtz colors are Flickering candle, Jack-O-Lantern, Cocktail Party, Harvest Moon, Wicked Elixir and Crooked Broomstick. Then I spray some water to move the colors around a little and took my heat gun and dry.
I also used Simon Says stamp die called Thankful, cut it out of Tim Holtz metallic jewels kraft-stock. And used 110 white card for base of the cards. The frames I used are by My Favorite Things die.

I wanted these cards to be different, but yet look elegant. I’m please they all came out different and they all look beautiful. If you like please let me know and give me a comment on what you think. Thank you for checking out my website. Have a wonderful day.

Simplycraftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus

Solar Paste On Black Mixed Media Paper

24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

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Hello my crafty friends! I just received theses six Solar Paste yesterday. Products are by Simon Hurley, made by Ranger. Couldn’t wait to try this product out on black mixed media paper. So I just finished the first one I did and I must say it came out beautiful. Looking forward to playing around with theses solar paste. And trying it out on different surface.

This picture show you all the products I used to make this background.
The three colors I used out of the six are Cross my heart, crocodile tears and golden hour. I just used my finger to apply on my background.
I took a 3D embossing folder Holly Branch by Simon Says Stamp and Strathmore black mixed media paper and ran it threw my vagabond 2 machine.
Then used my fingers and went over everything with these three paste. After I was done with that I took my heat gun and just dry it for a few seconds. And wow it beautiful.
I wanted to share these two picture so you can see close up how pretty they look.

Thank you for checking out my blog. I will be using these on my hand made card and other products too. Have a nice day.

Simplycraftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus

Spellbinder LetterPress (Continued Joy)

22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

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Hello my crafty friends! Today the weather has been raining most of the day. So today is a perfect day to just be creative. I’m working on some backgrounds for Christmas cards. The one I’m showing today was done by another person I was watching on YouTube the other day. I really love the technique she was doing. So this is just the background I’m posting today. Not a finished card.

Backgrounds made for Christmas cards
First thing I did was blended two ink colors which were Simon Says stamp Pawsitively saturated ink Cadette and Marine. Card-stock use is Spellbinder BetterPress double wt. cotton card panels, A2 size and porcelain 220 lb.
Every month I received a Spellbinder BetterPress plate. And this one I just got in the mail is Continued Joy. A really beautiful plate. I stamp it with BetterPress ink Black then ran it threw my Sizzix machine.
This is how it came out after running it threw and BetterPress is beautiful in this card-stock.
Took a couple of Arteza water color pens bright green-153 and currant red-114 color the leaves and berries.
Took white acrylic paint mix with flood, water and splatter with a paint brush. To give it a snowflake look. Now I’m just letting everything air dry.
Again here’s everything I used for these backgrounds.

Hope you like them, if you do please give me a like and comment. Thank you for checking out my blog. And have a wonderful day.

Simplycraftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus

Christmas Card ( Have yourself a merry little christmas shaker card)

21 Oct 2023 2 Comments

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Hello my crafty friends! Hope all is well and you are all getting crafty this weekend. If you are please share on my Facebook (Simply Crafty Designs By Alicia group)

Last weekend I went to Scrapbook Expo in Sacramento with some of my creative friends. I pick up this cute snowman stamp and plus more goodies while I was there.

Last night I wanted to just play with some of the products I purchased that weekend. I already had a design planned for this card. So I decided why wait until Christmas. I’ll list everything down bellow.

This is the first Christmas Card I made for this year. And I love the way it came out. Looking forward to doing more but tweaking it different meaning adding different snowmen’s to it and other products.
You can see this stamp set has other snowman in it. This stamp is by PhotoPlay called Snowmen. The card-stock is Crafter Companion ( A Sparkling Winter 8×8 paper pad and I purchased from HSN. The icicle die is from La-LaLand.
Icicle die was cut out with 110 white core stock.
I cut my background card stock to 6×6 the put it in a clear plastic sleeve and add snowflakes sequins to it. Then stamped my snowmen with Memento tuxedo black ink. Color my snowman , tree with Copic markers BO4 tahini blue, R27 Cadmium red, E97 deep orange, YR68 orange, GO7 Nina green, G14 apple green and used a white pen.
Also used a clear shimmer pen over the snowman and the tree. I had to fussy cut everything out. Didn’t have the die set that come with this stamp set. But I found it on Amazon and just waiting for it to come in the mail.

Thank you for checking out my blog. Please leave me a like or comment and let me know what you think. Hope you also try this no matter what’s in your stash. Have a wonderful day.

Simplycraftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus.

Fall Shaker Card

20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

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Hello my crafty friends! I didn’t plan to make a card today. But last night my mind was designing a fall card. So I decided before I forget I would go head and make this card today. As you can see I made it a Fall Shaker card.

With A Grateful Heart

My background card stock is by Crafter Companion called Hello Fall 8×8 Autumn & Halloween Collection. I purchase HSN and it beautiful paper. I cut my card stock A2 size card. Then put it in a clear sleeve and added my sequins. You can used any fall colors sequins in your stash. I believe the Leaf frame die I order from Amazon. I cut it out in 110 white card stock.
Here’s everything I used to make this Fall card. The Fall Leaves stamp and die set I purchased from Temu. It’s very pretty and cuts perfect.
Hope you like my card and you will try this with any fall leaves dies you have in your stash.

Thank you for checking out my blog. Please let me know what you think or like. And have a wonderful day.

Simplycraftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus

Happy Halloween Cards(You’re Wicked Cute)

09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

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Hello my crafty friends! Today I’m sharing some simple Halloween cards, these are shaker cards for my great grandkids. I’m so happy the way the cards came out.

I’m also doing some Halloween Iron on shirts for them that match theses cards. When I done doing all the shirts I’ll share with you guys. But for now here are some of the cards.

You’re wicked cute
Sending Spooky Hugs
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween 2
I know my great grandkids are going to love theses………
I purchased this cute Witch, Cat, and Pumpkin, Bats dies from Amazon. I thought it was so cute…..
The cats were cut out with 110 black card stock.
The background I used is LDRS Creative ( Haunted Halloween, purchased from Amazon. Sequins came from Amazon too. I feel like I hit the jackpot on purchasing Halloween stuff on Amazon this year. The Spellbinder LetterPress is called Spider web die and I got that from Spellbinder.

Also I used clear envelopes for the shaker cards. Pretty simple just cut the background card-stock to A2 size then slip it into the clear envelopes and put your sequins in and seal with red tape. Hope you guys love theses simple and cute cards. If you do please let me know what you think and give me a like.

Hope you try this with whatever is in your stash. Have a wonderful day.

Simplycraftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus

Spellbinder BetterPress Handmade Cards

28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

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Hello my crafty friends! I decided today to open up my Spellbinder BetterPress and get creative. And I totally love the look it gave me with my cards. I’m so looking forward to doing more with the BetterPress. I’ll list everything down below I used.

Pumpkins Halloween Card
Happy Halloween
Products I use to make these cards are Letterpress plate called Pumpkins & Ghosts background plate. Distress Oxide are twisted citron, vintage photo, carved pumpkin and fossilized amber.
I used the spellbinder better press ink Mulberry, Leaf, Bark and Saffron ink. It was simple and easy to do. Just stamp with ink on plate and run it threw your Sizzix machine.
Sequins are ghost, bats, pumpkins, black and orange sequins. I also used a clear card sleeve to put my background in and seal it after the sequins in with red tape.
I love the way the cards came out.

Thank you for checking out my blog. Hope you guys like them and will try theses techniques with whatever you have in your stash. Please leave a like or comment on what you think. Have a wonderful day!

Simplycraftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus

Trick or Treat Cards

21 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

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Hello my crafty friends! Last week I decided to make some shaker cards. Using a die cut frame called Bats. I really like the way they all came out. It was simple and easy to make. I cut the Bats frame with 110 black card stock.

Trick or Treat
Here you can see I mix white, black and green sequins.
The sequin mix is by Picket fence studios, Frankie Comes to town, then I mix my own sequins together to match each backgrounds in the cards.

The background I used in each card is LDRS Creative card stock called “Haunted Halloween. I believe I purchased this card stock from Amazon.

The size of the cards are an A2 and also the Bats frame. I took a sleeve protector made for cards and then cut the card-stock down to A2 then slipped it in to the sleeve. Added my sequins and sealed the back with red tape.
Here everything I used for theses Halloween cards. Hope you try this out with anything in your stash. Have a wonderful day.

Simplycraftydesigns.com by Annalicia Spannaus

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