Succulent Hanging Arrangement Card | Crafty Meraki

Hello friends, 

I am back again today to share this Succulent card I made that is part of the Crafty Merakiversary Instagram Hop. Make sure to join us on Instagram for a chance at winning a $100 Gift card from Crafty Meraki. Click 👉 Here to join (look for the Succulent Card).

CARD RECIPE

Background - Crafty Meraki Fern Lattice Background A2

Florals - Crafty Meraki Artisan Flora Succulents Para-Dies

Terrarium - Crafty Meraki Artisan Flora Add On Terrarium Para-Dies

Trailing greens - Olive Leaf Meraki Para-Dies

Gems - Meraki Sparkle African violet & Meraki Sparkle Emerald

Stamp - Crafty Meraki Love Potion Stamp set

• Die cut, ink blend, and paste Crafty Meraki Artisan Flora Succulents Para-Dies together. Add foam in between layers for dimension.
• Embellish centers with gems and glitter.
• Arrange and glue succulents onto the Crafty Meraki Artisan Flora Add On Terrarium Para-Dies base. 

• Glue Terrarium frame over the arrangement.
• Where there is space between the base of the arrangement add glue and sprinkle with micro beads.
• Add trailing leaves Olive Leaf Meraki Para-Dies to the arrangement. 
• Stamp and create a banner using a sentiment from Crafty Meraki Love Potion Stamp set.
• Attach to Crafty Meraki Fern Lattice Background A2
• Glue to the card base.

Hope you enjoyed this Succulent Hanging Arrangement Card, now head on over  Instagram for your chance at winning the amazing prize. Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda💚

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Hello Lily Arrangement Card | Crafty Meraki 4rth Merakiverasery

🎉✨ As Crafty Meraki celebrates its 4th anniversary this month, we're throwing a huge party with our Brand new #Merakiversary Release! 🥳🎂 It's been an incredible journey, and we're beyond grateful for your unwavering support every step of the way.  Thank you for FOUR AMAZING years of crafting adventures, and your unwavering support. Here's to many more to come! 🌟💖 

Discover intricate background dies that create stunning backdrops for your designs, with matching hot foil plates to add extra oomph to your projects. Join us in commemorating this special occasion with our irresistible cupcake layering die – a delightful treat for every crafting enthusiast. Don't miss out on the excitement of our #Merakiversary release – it's a crafting party you won't want to miss! 🎉🧁✨

As our way of saying thank you for being part of the Crafty Meraki family, we are giving away $100 gift certificate with each hop. Watch all month long for hops on Instagram, YouTube and our blog with multiple chances to win amazing PRIZES! 🤩  Enter by June 5th for each giveaway! Winners will be announced on the Crafty Meraki Facebook Group!

CARD RECIPE

BACKGROUND

• Die cut a cardstock panel using the Crafty Meraki Speckled Canopy Background A2
• Remove the negative pieces
• Add foam behind the panel and adhere it to an A2 size card base

CARD FRONT

• Die cut the pieces for the Crafty Meraki Artisan Flora Lily Para-Dies
• For the Lily petals ink blend the centers with yellow ink, and mid petals use pink ink and blue ink for the tips. This will create a little rainbow gradient. To the leaves add some green ink for shading. For the stamen, I used a yellow copic and colored the ends and then glued on a layer of prisma sparkle.
• Glue and piece the layers together. Use thin foam for added dimension
• To the center of the lily, I used a black and white gel pen to add the dotted details
• Die cut the basket and the terrarium of the Crafty Meraki Artisan Flora Add On Terrarium Para-Dies, to create a planter for the arrangement cut off the top pieces of the terrarium and glue them together
• Arrange the flowers in the planter and glue them to the card front. Use foam to elevate as needed.

FINISHING TOUCHES

• To add a sentiment I cut a thin strip using the same card stock for the planter. To the top of the strip, I glued a sentiment banner stamped using a sentiment from the Crafty Meraki Love Potion Stamp set
• Glue the sentiment strip in place
• Finish by adding some bling using Meraki Sparkle Golden Illusion to the top of the banner and the planter. To pick up and glue the embellishments use the Bling Buddy Embellishment Wand tool.

GIVEAWAY

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Irene Mejia
Bonnie 
Deepa
Andrea 
Michelle 
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Hope you got some inspiration from my Lily Arrangement Card today. Thank you for joining us today and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 🤍

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Jingle Jewel Cards | Crafty Meraki #Merakicraftober

Hello friends!

Today I am celebrating Crafty Meraki's #merakicraftober Christmas Extravaganza over on Instagram where I feature the process of making these cards. Make sure to click this link 👉HERE to watch and enter the HOP and Giveaway!

CARD RECIPE

• To start, first I die cut the Jingle Jewels EAP (Effortless Artistry Paper) using the coordinating Jingle Jewels Para-Dies.
• Next, I hot-foiled a ton of sentiments using the Gilded Holiday Greetings Foil Plate in a few foil colors and then used the Gilded Holiday Greetings Dies to cut them out. 
• I then used the Under the Mistletoe Meraki Shimmer to do some dry embossing on the background papers, and then ink blended the edges of the panels with a coordinating ink color.
• Once all the pieces are done all you need to do is assemble each card. First I arranged the Jingle Jewels on the the front of the panel and then used Press and Seal to pick them up and flip them over. For each ornament, I used gilded thread and added it to the top using a little piece of tape. 
• Add glue or foam to the back of the ornaments and stick them onto the front panel. 
• Straighten and secure the gilded thread behind the panel with tape, sandwiching them between the card front panel and the card base.
• Add your Gilded Holiday Greetings to the front of the card and finish by adding Meraki Sparkle Gold for some sparkle.

As you can see this card was done the same way, only using different colors.

If you love mass-producing and sending out Christmas cards but don't have time to spend coloring them all, these Effortless Artistry Papers (EAPs) are the way to go! Crafty Meraki has so many variations of them now you can skip the card-making steps you like doing the least.

For this last card, I just turned it into a shaker card using some plastic packaging and glued the Jingle Jewels on the front of the plastic panel.

I think this one may be my favorite!

I hope these fun and super easy Jingle Jewel Cards inspired you to get started on your Holiday Cards. 

Thank you for stopping by, don't forget to Hop on over to my Instagram for the IG Reels Hop and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 🎄

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Rainbow Inspired Birthday Cards | Crafty Meraki

Hello friends and Happy Thursday!

Today I have a couple of colorful rainbow inspired cards to share with you as I recently took part in Crafty Meraki's 2nd Birthday Hop, and what better way to celebrate than with a couple of birthday cards🎉🥳 If you want to join in on the fun and participate in the IG Hop for a chance at winning $100 GC to their shop, click 👉 HERE. Winners will be announced on June 10th.

CARD RECIPE

For this frameless/infinity/edge to edge card, lol... whatever you want to call it 😂 I began with ink blending the CRAFTY MERAKI BIRTHDAY BALLOONS STENCIL using Atelier Inks. Once I had blended the first layer I repositioned the stencil and then blended the balloons out again to create the overlapping effect.

I then used a shaker pocket to create the frameless shaker. I used Assorted Moonshine Sequins to fill the shaker. Then once sealed I glued it onto an A2 card base.

I then stamped out the cute images from the CRAFTY MERAKI MAGICAL DAY STAMP SET out and colored them in with Copics and then added white gel pen details and sparkle glitter to some areas. 

For the sentiments, I just stamped them out in white ink and heat embossed them using white emb. pwd.

For my second card, I used the CRAFTY MERAKI LOVE POTION STAMP SET. I stamped it out onto watercolor paper using Fadeout Ink and then colored the beautiful image using Zig Real Color Brush Markers.

Once the coloring had dried, I added white gel pen highlights and prepped the paper for heat embossing using an anti-static tool.

I then stamped the sentiment using watermark ink and heat set it using gold emb. pwd. I used the same products to add a gold edging around the panel.

To finish this beauty, I added a few Gold Pearls.

Here is another close-up of this beauty!

I hope both of these birthday cards inspired you. Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 💗💛💚💙💜

Mini Slimline Balloon Birthday Shaker and Floral Cards | Crafty Meraki

Hello again! I am back once again today to share with you a few cards I made to help celebrate Crafty Meraki's Second Anniversary! 

Join me over on Instagram as I am super excited to participate in the Crafty Meraki IG Anniversary Hop. ONE lucky winner will win the FULL RELEASE BUNDLE 💃🏻🎉 and ONE additional winner will win 💵 $100 gift card to redeem towards Crafty Meraki Products!! 

Since it is their birthday I thought a birthday shaker would be fun to make. This mini slimline frameless shaker features the new Party Balloons Mini Slimline Meraki Para-dies that I paired with the sentiments from the Birthday Slimline Tag.

If you are curious about how this shaker was assembled, click HERE for a video I made a while ago. To create the background there was a lot of paper piecing happening here. I die cut the Party Balloons Mini Slimline Meraki Para-dies 3 times, one white layer and two black layers. For the white layer, I ink blended all the balloon colors using distress oxide inks. I then sandwiched the white layer between the two black ones. For the top black layer, I snipped the inside out just using the black frame. 

For the next two cards, I kept them super simple and just focused on the flowers. I sometimes like to keep the sentiments off the card until I am ready to send it to someone. This way they are more versatile. Both finished cards are 5X7s.  

To create this first one I used masking tape to block off a frame, and then added the ink blended grass and sky. Next, I die cut and pieced together the June Meraki Fora Para-Dies.

I then added the Meraki Sparkle Prismatic Green Crystals. To the centers, I also added some tiny beads.

This next card features the Madison Meraki Flora Para-Dies. The fun part about these dies is the cut lines in the flowers. They allow you to easily do some masking for ink blending, which is awesome if you want to use more than one color. I just slipped post-it paper in the cut lines and then blended.

You can see on the left flower my masking wasn't perfect, but I learned from my mistakes when I blended the one on the right. 

To finish up this card I added some Meraki Sparkle Prismatic Blue Crystals, even though they are blue they reflect a lot of purples.

I hope these Merakiversary Cards inspire you today. Happy 2nd Birthday Crafty Meraki, and thank you for inviting me to join you on your special day. To join the Hop click HERE.

Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 🥳🎉

Watch how this last card came together. Lots of little tips and tricks 😉

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