The Trudio Studio: February 2025

Monday, February 24, 2025

Picnic Pals!!!

Welcome friends to the fun February 2025 release Picnic Pals for Kindred Stamps! While creating this first card, my inner child came out to play, as I weaved together a picnic basket using craft colored card stock. I kind of remember in grade school, doing something similar with gum wrappers, or decorations around Thanksgiving and Christmas time. Once I cut my thin little strips, it went pretty fast, so my memory of it definitely was pulled from something in my past! It even ended up reminding me of a basket that we had growing up in our house. We may have used it for a sewing basket of some sort. I can think of so many reasons to send a card like this! I also used the Tree Scene Craft Die for this card, I think this could be one of my most used dies I own. It's great for so many wilderness type scenes!

My second card is perfect for that Beary Special person in your life! Whether it be for a Birthday, Valentines Day, or Just Because Day...it was a warm fuzzies kind of card to create, sure to give someone a big bear paper hug!

My 3rd card / project is a little log book ... I designed this with the idea, how perfect it would be to jot down important little notes that we (me) at some point in our lives need to document, health wise. I have personally struggled with high blood pressure since I was 18 years old...way before I had packed on the baby weight, even when I was jogging 3 miles a day...I am just one big ball of stress I guess. I never really have been dedicated to jotting down my daily BP, but when I started this card... I thought, this would be something simple to put a little notebook in, and maybe something that would/could motivate me to do so. The "Don't Feed the Bear"... well...that's because of all that baby weight still there (even though my babies are in their twenties now...yikes) ... I sort of liked the donut sentiment as a reminder to make better eating choices. I could use this little log book as a weight tracker too! Once I decide, I'll use my Stitched Alpha Die Set, the one I used for "LOG", and my tag verse, either BP for blood pressure or LBS for weight. We will see, I started my road map to better health today. :)

Every new release, I think I've found my favorite...well, this one very well may be my favorite! :) I'm excited each month playing with a new Kindred Stamps set, it keeps me coming back for more and more and more! Make sure you mark your calendar for this Friday, as the February New Release is launched at 8 AM, Pacific Time...this and MORE treasures will be in the mix...you will NOT want to miss out!

Boop Boop Be Do!

Two cards to share today...one a Boop Boop Be Do... using Smooches a fun fandom stamp set from Kindred Stamps . I chose this fun sets for episode Episode #255 of Craft Roulette.

The parameters for this week lead me to this design, I've been wanting to use this set for awhile, and the timing was perfect! It would have made a great Valentine's Day card, it can be saved for next year. :)

My other card, another Craft Roulette card: Episode #254

I used a stamp from the Unity Stamp Company, one of the cuteness overload pooches from the new "rescue line". Unity has launched this line in honor of rescue animals, and with each sale a % is donated to a rescue shelter. The company has donated to several shelters already, it's such a great cause. I bought this stamp because it reminded me of our Cubby, our teacup Pomeranian, that we adored many many many years ago! She was all of 4 pounds, and had such a sassy personality...she literally was our baby who we adored to the moon and back. She's been on the other side of the rainbow bridge for about 20 years now, but I still remember her little pitter patter feet on our dining room floor...tap tap tappity tap...which are now in our hearts, next to other cherished and loved family pets!

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

When You Wish Upon a Star!

My recent Craft Roulette entry couldn't have fallen into place any better than it did... It was almost as if Mr. Wheel was in my craft studio room peeking into my supplies. I literally had probably 50 options for ideas, it could have gone in so many other directions...but...I took the first parameter: Card for a Teenager and knew that for my element: Fairy(ies) there was only ONE Fairy that was perfect... TINKERBELL!

I couldn't decide if I needed a "ground" or not...then I went a little wild on the bling bling...

I used 2 of my most favorite companies to for the stamps:

I stamped my castle from the Midnight Couple stamp set from Kindred Stamps . It's not the first time I've ever used this castle...and most likely won't be the last. It's magical and so fun to color, even fussy cutting to the line felt effortless, I could have and probably will do a few more of these!

Tinkerbell came from my other Craft Roulette "go to" company... Scrappy Boy. I have been waiting to ink up my Neverland stamps for awhile now, such fun sets...I have both!

The parameters were EASY EASY EASY... I'm one to take things VERY LITERALLY.... The challenge is part of the fun, I know some of the color categories can cover every color under the sun...and one could probably find a way to use any color scheme for "morning colors"... I chose to go with the sky at sunrise, ink blended on my White Diamond Print Inkjet Glitter Paper from Cardstock Warehouse . I then applied a film of Holographic Sticker Paper over that for extra sparkly! So magical! I did stamp my "Believing" sentiment before applying the film on my first card, I would suggest using a Misti or other stamp positioner to stamp the sentiment. I did not, and wished I had.

Back to morning colors... my card was already in the making and halfway finished... I had already chosen my colors, my design... I was coloring my castle, enjoying my MORNING coffee, almost half a cup gone already .. it DAWNED (morning dawn) on me ... my cup!!!! It was all insticts!!!