Prehistoric Party

I had fun creating a personalized invitation with the prehistoric alphabet stamp set by kindred stamps this week.

For the outside of my invitation I used an older technique call punch art, before cute critter dies became a thing many crafters used punches or simple shaped dies to create critters. I wanted a Dino shaped card but I don’t own a Dino die plus I wanted to use things I already had in my craft hoard, so I deiced to made my own Dino.

My card bases is made out of olive green card stock cut to 5 ½ x 11 inches scored at 4 ¼ and 8 ½ inches

I used a Swiss dots embossing folder to add texture and two circle dies to make eyes (1 inch and 1 ½ inches ) and my regular hole punch for the nose.

I traced my water color pallet on the top and bottom of my green card stock base to make the curve of the mouth. I then traced the smaller circle die 5 times starting in the center of a 5 ½ x 2 inch card stock to make the teeth.

The inside center panel with the party info was typed up in a word document on my computer leaving space to stamp “RYAN” with the prehistoric alphabet set by kindred stamps. I also created masks out of post it notes for the letters so I could stamp the foot print across my invitation. I colored everything in with Copic markers.

To put the card together you will need:

1 card base

1 center panel

2 small black circles

2 lager white circles

1 large green circle (cut in half)

2 Tiny black circles

2 sets of teeth

I layered the white, black and half green circles together to make the eyes. To give them a bit of dimension I add a small pop dot under the green half circle. I add the teeth to the inside of the card which I did cover with scraps of embossed green card stock. The tiny black circles I placed on the front of the invitation to make the nose.

for a bonus project I made two simple cards to go along with my invitation.

I used the same fonts from my invitations to type up two different sentiments to make simple but cute cards. The “Thank You”card would be great to send to guess after the party and while the ” I love you” card would be the prefect Birthday card from any family member.

Some quick tips about making computer text files for cards:

• change to margin size to .25 (1/4 inch) it makes the math for a A2 card easy
• use the grid feature to break up the text document into 4 equal sections
• Set the grid to No line, that way it won’t print the lines but will show them in grey while designing
• Create the text layout in 1 section and then copy and paste into the other 3 to get same spacing on all 4 panels
• For adding typed sentiments inside card type in the bottom 2 quadrants
• print on high quality card stock

I hope you enjoyed these project! I will be back soon to share more craft room creations with you all.
If you are interested in this stamp set or any by Kindred Stamps consider using my affiliate link, It cost you nothing but help support my blog. Kindred Stamps.

Brandi M.
The Craft Bean

Long Hair Don’t Care

I am in love with this new stamp set by Kindred. I had a blast creating a variety of projects with this adorable stamp set!

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The first project I wanted to share with you is some shrinky dinks key chains.

The materials used:

– Long hair don’t care Kindred Stamp set

-Shrinky dinks sheets

-Alcohol ink (stays on) pad and makers (Copics)

-Jewlery findings

-Key chain rings

-Beads

A few things I learned while creating these, you want to stamp on one side and color in on the other because Alcohol markers smear alcohol based inks. When coloring on the shrinky dinks sheets use even long strokes to get smoother coloring.

The next project I created was a mini album.

The materials used:

– Long hair don’t care Kindred Stamp set

-Copic friendly ard stock

-Copic friendly Ink

-Copic markers

-Black card stock

– Double sided tape

– chipboard

-Scrapbook paper

This is a 6 page mini album there are 3 different page styles. Each base page measures 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. The wrapped cover is 6 x 8 inches with a 2 inch spine. I bond this mini Album with a hinge binding system.

The last project I have to share today is a bullet journal spread

I used the Long Hair Don’t Care stickers, their stickers are perfect for planner spreads.

Materials used:

– Dot grid notebook

– Micron pen

– Tombow markers

– Long hair don’t care Kindred Stamps stickers

I hope you enjoyed all of projects. I will be back soon to share more projects with you
If you are interested in this stamp set or any by Kindred Stamps consider using my affiliate link, It cost you nothing but help support my blog. Kindred Stamps.

Brandi M

The Craft Bean

Boss Babe

I have an exciting new design team project to share this week for you all! It’s a traveler’s notebook featuring the fashion boss stamp set from kindred stamps.

For this project I used:

– 4 sheets of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper.

– Guts of a dollar store calendar and notebook

– Plain white card stock

– Elastic cord

– Embroidery floss with a needle

– Laminator with 1 laminating sheet

– Stamp set

– Zig markers

My notebook and calendar were 5x 7 inches, all of my measurements are based around that.

All my notebook covers were cut to 10 1/2 X 7 1/4 and scored at 5 1/4 inches. The decorative spine papers were 1 ½ x 7 ¼ inches scored down the center.

My pages for my blank notebook were 10 x 7 inches scored at 5

The notebooks need 3 binding holes along the center fold. 1 center and 1 inch in from each end.

My measurements for my binding holes on the inside pages of the notebook are 1 inch, 3 ½ inches and 6 inches and the binding holes for the notebook covers are 1 inch 3 5/8 inch and 6 ¼ inches .

To bind the notebooks start your embroidery floss in the center hole on the inside of the notebook go though all of the page and cover and into the top hole from the outside of the notebook. Then from top hole back into the center hole. Now on the outside go into the bottom thorough the cover and all the pages. The end is now inside the notebook at the bottom. Bring up to the center and tie the two ends together and trim off any extra.

Once all my notebook were bound I stamped and mounted my sentiment labels on to the covers. For the Main cover I stamped and colored the Boss Babe onto a 2 ¾ x 3 ¾ piece of white card stock.

Outside Main cover is 11 1/8 x 8 inches scored at 5, 5 ¼, 5 ½, 5 ¾ and 6 inches

Outside decorative spine is 3x 8 inches ( added to center of outside main cover before scoring)

Once you have scored and decorated the cover it needs to be laminated.

Binding holes are going to be place a ½ in from on the top and bottom on the 1, 3, 5 score lines

you need 1 binding hole on the center score line in the center at 4 inches for the elastic closure.

Staring your elastic on the bottom right hole go in from the outside and up to the top right, then to the top center and down to the bottom center, then to the bottom left and up to the top left and into the top center. Tie off and trim. Then bring the other end that is on the outside bottom right in to the bottom center and tie off and trim.

The center hole is for the elastic closure, measure out enough elastic to go around the cover and tie the two end together then thread the loop through the center hold from the inside.

Place the notebooks into the elastic binding at their centers and you are all done.

For a video walk through of this project check out my YouTube Chanel: TheCraftBean https://www.youtube.com/user/blbean151

I hope you enjoyed this project if you recreate it tag me on social media @TheCraftBean so I can see!
If you are interested in this stamp set or any by Kindred Stamps consider using my affiliate link, It cost you nothing but help support my blog. Kindred Stamps.

Brandi M,

TheCraftBean

Winter Friends Valentines and planner spreads

This week I am sharing the Valentines I made for my daughter’s classmates and my February planner spreads using the frozen friends stamp set from Kindred stamps

I found some heart shaped mini notepads at the dollar store, I decided to alter them with my stamps and makers to make candy free valentines. The First step was to take apart the notebook and measure the notebook. The notebooks I found were about 3 inches x 3 inches, I cut my card stock to 3 ¼ inches x 6 ½ inches and scored at 3 ¼.

Fold and crease the score line. Using the notebook cover I removed as a temple I traced the heart and cut it out.

Whenever I am making multiples of a project I use my Misti because I can stamp everything all at once and its always perfectly aligned. For quick easy coloring I like to used my Zig clean color real Brush Makers.

Light blue 030

Gray 090

Mid Brown 065

Orange 070

Bright Yellow 052

Cobalt Blue 031

Light Blue 036

Shadow Mauve 303

Light Pink 026

Wine Red 024

Ochre 063

Flesh Color 071

Oatmeal 064

Lemon Yellow 051

Warm Gray 2 900

Pale Green 045

May Green 047

Persian Green 033

Dark Gray 095

Gray 090

Brown 060

Wine Red 024

Dark Oatmeal 066

Oatmeal 064

Ochre 063

Flesh Color 071

Flesh color 071

Oatmeal 064

Mid Brown 065

Warm Gray 2 900

Brown 060

Wine Red 024

Gray 090

For the background I used the ink smooshing technique I scribbled Cobalt blue, light blue and Persian blue onto my craft mat and sprayed it with a bit of water. Using the clear packaging form the stamp set and mushed it into the ink and then onto my covers. The last thing to do was to staple the notebook back together and add a crayon.

Bonus Projects!

I adore this set so much I Had to used it for my February monthly spread and my first weekly spread. I used my Zigs right in my bullet journal but its not the best paper for Zigs, I think Tombow markers would of been a better choice. My snow queen and Snowman (on calendar spread) were stamped onto card stock and fussy cut because I needed to cover some oops. I used the snowman to cover up where my little Peanut scribbled and the snow Queen to cover up the bad stamping job I did.

I hope you enjoyed all of my projects! if you recreate any of these tag me on social media @TheCraftBean I would love to see your creations.
If you are interested in this stamp set or any by Kindred Stamps consider using my affiliate link, It cost you nothing but help support my blog. Kindred Stamps.

Brandi M

The Craft Bean