Welcome and Thank you for visiting Creating Blessings. Here I will be posting many of “The Stamps of Life’s” Newest products and many of there older things also. The cards I make are made with TSOL products (unless noted differently) TSOL products can be found on their website here: www.thestampsoflife.com
Hi Everyone,
The Stamps of Life has released the New June 2022 Stamps & Dies- Camper2stamp & many add-on sets and Right Now they are on Flash sale. You can see the New Releases here on the TSOL website: www.thestampsoflife.com
https://thestampsoflife.com/Camper2stamp.html
https://thestampsoflife.com/truck2stamp.html
https://thestampsoflife.com/moon-stars-background-die.html
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Happy Stamping
Cheryl
Hi Everyone
The Stamps of Life NEW “By the Sea” kit is now available. This kit is packed with the best New product to make the best card and crafts. Here is the link to see the kit:
http://thestampsoflife.com/by-the-sea-kit.html
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Here are some of my cards I made using the kit.
I LOVE this kit. I think this makes my Favorites list AGAIN. 💕 This kit will not last long
Happy Stamping.
Cheryl
Hi Everyone,
I have had some questions about how to make the heart sides on my explosion box. Here is how I made them:
Cut 2 of the TSOL Explosion side dies. (The largest die with the 3 sides)
Cut 4 of the largest hearts from the TSOL dotted hearts die set ( if I was you I would make the first one out of notebook paper to create a mold… it makes it easy after you make the mold)
Fold 1 of the largest hearts in half. Make sure all the dots line up perfectly. Use a bone folder for a hard crease.*see picture
Placing the bottom point line the heart to the center of the 2 squares . (See picture).
Now is when u decide how much you want to show when the box opens up. Pull the bottom point down equally on both sides. The heart should begging to hang over onto the pink c/s. I wanted mine to be shorter than the top of my box so I went down about 1/2” on each side. Measure it. Now when everything is lined up softly using a pencil draw lines to make a small BOX on the bottom I put some washi tape to hold it in place *see photo
This is how the front should look. The back should be clean…look below
Once everything is centered -now is when you can glue the edges down onto the c/s sides and even the little box at the bottom. Let dry. After glueing the edges use ur embossing tool to make a hard line down to the center point and across. Now hard crease those lines. Open it gently pressing the fold lines inward. You will have to connect the box to finish. Then do each of the 3 sides just like the first one. Then you cover the edges with the square die that comes in the kit.
Once you put the hearts on all four sides gently press them toward the inside of the box. Then finish the box however you want. Hope this helped you make my explosion heart side box. Please send tag me in a photo I can’t wait to see them. Any questions just send me a note 💕
Enjoy
Cheryl
FYI: I made a pattern out of one of the hearts for me to keep so it will be easier and faster next time next time.💕
Hi Everyone, Here is the box of candy I made using the NEW Expoding Box and the Heartchocolates2stamp Double set. I thought you would like the instructions as it was to long for me to post on the gallery. I will also post these on my Creating_Blessings TSOL blog. www.thestampsoflife.com
https://thestampsoflife.com/explosion-box-dies.html
How I made it:
Lid : cut, hard press and glue together. I decorated this box now but you can do it whenever you want to. Set aside (I decorated the box lid with the dies in the 4x4 Square card bundle)
Side die thingy:
I cut 3 total 1 you use to connect the top and bottom box together and the other 2 I cut the the ends off to be straight and cut them to be the 1” the sides of my box. I cut the tabs off so the ends are straight across. Do a hard press on the score line and set aside. (If you make ur box taller than mine you may need to cut more side thingys and adjust them to that height of your box).
Cut 2 exploding boxes. Decide how tall you want your box to be. As you can see I wanted mine to be a box for candy so mine is short. For mine I wanted my sides to be double sided to be more sturdy and clean looking inside. So here is how I made mine.
I cut my sides to 2 inches and scored them on all 4 side at 1” (hard press the score lines). Now put together the box…using the side thingys on the inside of the box I glued one on the bottom half of the flap in all 4 corners. Now the bottom is ur box. Now fold the top pieces of paper down inside the box and glue the sides inside if you want. This should be a tight fit ( if too tight cut a little off so the fit is snug but corners are just a good fit.). Add a little glue now if u want. The corner thingy to put ur box together with you won’t even see.
Now using ur 1 long side die that you cut the regular size I glued my 2 boxes together. On side of the die on the bottom and one side on the top. And now your box has a lid and bottom.
So now is when the lid and bottom go together. You need to add the next step so the top lid has a place to rest on. AND this I think was the hardest thing for me. I added a piece of paper to the inside for the lid to have a resting place for when the lid closes. It sits is 1/4” taller than the box itself. The reason I made this resting place for the lid longer is if you need to cut some off it is easier to have it made already. And it is the corner that have to be inset in perfectly. Maybe making it a single piece of paper might be easier. I doubled mine next one I will try a single paper. 
I cut a 2 1/2” x 9 1/2” scored at 1 1/4” (To make it 9 1/2” I cut a 2 1/2” x 1” piece of c/s and taped it to the underneath side flush up against the other piece of c/s). Now hard press the score line.
Now for me this next step was the hardest thing to do.
The resting place fits inside the box. (My seam is along the back side). You put yours where it is best for you. I put the long strip inside the box and with my bone folder I pressed it into the corners on all 4 corners. Hard pressed on all 4 seams. You may have to play with it a little to get a tight fit into all the corners. After you get in in cut off some of the excess paper. I then opened the paper and glued the 2 sided together and the using glue I glued it to the inside of the box. Let it dry.
If you want to add the candy like I did inside my box I made a little stand for the inside of the box for my candy to sit on. I measured the inside edge to edge (I wanted it snug so it should not move) then I added 1/2” on all 4 sides for height. Scored 1/2” on all 4 sides and cut up 1 of the score lines on each square in the corners. Glue ends to make it litle a tray. And put it in your box. Decorate it with whatever you decide. I used the heartschocolates2stamp club set. Any questions just ask.
Enjoy
I loved this project I hope you do also.
Cheryl 💕
This was a card I made using the The Stamps of Life December 2021 Chocolate2stamp stamps and dies and Morechocolate2stamp stamps and dies. This card took more prep work than anything bc everything had dry time So when I made these cards I made ALL the candies first. I stamped the candies-let them dry and added 3’d inks to each candy(let them dry over nite then cut them all out. The ink colors I used was chocolate, twig, gingersnap,candy & powdered sugar. The 3’d inks I used were white & pink. I colored the white after they dried with alcohol makers to make the different colors of browns, tans and dark chocolate. (Set aside)
To make the word strip I used chocolate ink and my misti to make the line straight. I stamped it on a 3/8” x 5 1/2” powdered sugar strip. The candy strip is 1” x 5 1/2” and the Chocolate c/s is 1 1 1/8” x 5 1/2”. Layer the PS using dimensional tape in the middle of the candy and then put them tougher leaving the 1/8” to show on the right side. (Set aside)
Cut 1 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” candy c/s. Use powdered sugar ink with the TSOL majestic stencil on the candy c/s. (Set aside to dry)
I used the TSOL Scalloped circle dies for the scallop. The dotted circles for the Candy and chocolate c/s. To figure out the size for the chocolate circle just put ur candy pieces inside the circle and the use the next size circle (candy) and then the scalloped circle That is how I got the size of the circles. After putting that together start putting ur card together
Everything goes on the candy c/s with the stencil. First glue or tape down the left size strip word piece, Then add the candy piece. Trim off the sides to make them straight. I made the saying at the top and added a chocolate bow. (Use which saying you want)
After I finished I attached the Candy paper to a Powdered sugar card base. The small piece I cut off the front candy piece I used on the inside of the card and added some of the words on the left side.
This card is really not hard it’s the drying time that took the time.
Super fun card to make
Enjoy
For this card everything I used for this card except for the 3’d ink pen.
First I picked my paper
I used:
Cloud for the card base
Blue jay for the layering front piece (Glue it down)
Powdered sugar for the layering square (Glue it down)
Now the top candy piece-this piece I used dimensional tape to the back after I assembled it to pop it up.
Candy for the top square and I used the dotted square at the bottom of this piece and only cut it about 1/3 up from the bottom. Then I took a small piece of pixie and added it behind the dotted square and cut a tiny piece of pixie to add separate it from the candy.
Now cut your 2 side pieces and glue them in place
Make some flowers with the flower dies ( I made 6 total for this card). I used pool, razzleberry, and blue jay…the stems are green apple. Cut out 12 individual flowers using the large and small flower with stem die (don’t worry if the don’t line up they still look cute. Then add a center from the small flower center die of ur color choice). Glue 2 flowers together I used both sizes of flowers on either size stem but change it up if you want. Glue 5 flowers on the front.
I now cut another piece of paper for the bottom out of pool. I just took that die with the edge and cut only the bottom piece out of pool and then added it on top with dimensional tape. I did shorten the sides a little to see the blue jay c/s.
Added some ribbon, some stars, colored the pink rhinestones with my black so trim noir alcohol marker and used the sparkly 3’d ink pen.
Super easy Super fun card…I love cute and easy don’t you.💕
Enjoy💕
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Card #2
For this card it is made the same way as the above card except the decorating is different. On this card I changed the paper to a Pool card base. I used the green apple and striped from the See You Soon Collection paper pad. (This is such fun paper- I LOVE it). I used the typewriter sticker and added dimension tape to the back side of each typewriter I did the same to the saying at the bottom of the card. I then added a bow on each of the sides and added some of TSOL’s Shinny Yummies hearts from set 1.
Decorate the back if you want adde some 3’d ink pen. Remember to let the 3’d inks dry for at least 12 hrs.
Super cute and another easy card 💕
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