Eggcellent Card for Erin Lee Creative

A few months ago, Erin Lee Creative came out with a breakfast food collection and I still can't get enough of it! I've had this idea in my head and finally sat down to put it on paper. I'm featuring the Egg & Bacon die set and the Breakfast Sentiments stamp set. Scroll down for creative details and my supply list, plus a bonus!

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First, I die cut 7 eggs, using my Catherine Pooler ink Icing On The Cake to blend around the edges, and then swiping some of my edges directly onto the ink pad.

I also pressed that same ink onto an acrylic block, spritzed with water and used a wet paintbrush to make some ink splatters on my eggs.

One of my favorite paper pads is from Scrapbookcom and it's called Daybreak. It has the perfect colors for making my bacon die cuts.

I'm always looking for shortcuts to speed up the creative process, so I used my reverse tweezers to apply glue on my bacon strips, to adhere two at the same time to my solid bacon die cuts.

I don't have a photo, but I also did some ink blending on both sides of my bacon with more of the Catherine Pooler Icing on the Cake ink, using a detailer blender brush. But, you wouldn't necessarily need to do this. I couldn't tell a whole lot of difference after ink blending the bacon. I should have probably used a darker ink.

Next, I splattered some black paint because some folks like their bacon crispy, haha. It kind of looks like pepper bacon so that's a bonus feature!

For my card panel, I started with an A2 size piece of black cardstock but ended up trimming it down to  3.75 x 4.75 inches. I felt like there was too much space for the number of die cuts I made, and I chose to just scale down my card panel, rather than make more die cuts. 

My full dimensions for my finished card ended up being 4.25 x 5.25 inches.

Most of my die cuts were offset from the edges and once I applied adhesive, I trimmed off the edges.

The Breakfast Sentiment stamp set has sooo many great sentiments, 11 in total. I used the mask technique which really requires that you use a stamp positioner. 

Here's how the mask technique works:

- First I covered the word egg on my stamp with tape.

- I inked all the other words with black ink and removed the tape, 

then stamped on white cardstock.

- Next, I covered the all the words on my stamp with tape, except the word egg.

- I stamp the word egg with yellow ink, removed all the tape and stamped.

-Lastly, I opted to add a little more definition to my word egg (with no tape).

I lightly tapped my black ink pad over the word egg on my stamp and made 

my final stamping. This step is optional but I really like how it looks.

If you've never tried this technique, it's a lot of fun and once you get the hang of it, you'll want to do it again and again. Just always remember to remove your tape before stamping on cardstock or you'll have a mess on your hands and have to start over.

Using a stamp positioner allows you to achieve all of this by keeping your stamp in the same position at all times, as well as your cardstock. You can even stamp more layers of ink, if you didn't get a good inking the first time.

By the way, the yellow ink that I used was Catherine Pooler Catching Rays. and the yellow cardstock was from another Scrapbookcom paper pad called Joyful. It's a really good deep yellow, like an egg yolk!

 

If you don't have these stamps and dies from ELC, you are missing out on some super fun cardmaking! It's one of my all time favorite sets and I've reached for it many times. I've provided affiliate product links in my supply list below, if you'd like additional product information or wish to shop. There is no added cost to you to use these links and I'm so appreciative when you do use them!

Now, for the bonus.... if you purchase any of the Erin Lee Creative products that I have linked in my supply list, you will receive an automatic 10% discount on your purchase. The discount only applies if you purchase the ELC products by clicking my affiliate product link below, or the ELC links at the top of my post. Go, enjoy your discount!

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have an egg-cellent day!

Terri

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Breakfast Cards for Erin Lee Creative

I finally had some time to play with the new stamp and die sets that were released last month from Erin Lee Creative. I absolutely fell in love with them and had to have them for my stash! I'm featuring the Eggs & Bacon Die Set, the Waffle Die Set and the Breakfast Sentiments Stamp Set. Scroll down for details, and my supply list at the end.

(FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)

Call me crazy, but I thought these would make really fun Anniversary or Valentine cards. My husband would totally get a kick out of receiving one of these!

When working with dies, you need to have some really great cardstock or papers on hand. Luckily, I have sooo many paper pads. I can't believe I stumbled on the perfect paper combo to make the bacon. It's a Scrapbookcom paper pad called "Daybreak". I also used the light yellow paper from that pad for my waffle dies.

For that gorgeous dark yellow "yolk", I used another paper pad called Joyful, and my plaid papers are from a sheet of Echo Park Paper scrapbook paper from the Little Ladybug collection.

Of course, inking up some plain white cardstock is also an option, if you don't have the right papers on hand.

I also used some Ranger Ink and my blending brushes. I used Vintage Photo distress oxide to ink blend around the edges of my die cut egg.

You'll also need some glue, to adhere the striped tops of the bacon to the bottom die cut piece. Most of my elements are popped up on adhesive foam strips to give dimension.

For my waffle card, I did more ink blending with Ranger Vintage Photo around the edges of my waffle and the syrup. I also added a layer of Ranger Glossy Accents to my syrup, so it would shine.

My butter was die cut on white cardstock, then ink blended with Ranger Distress Oxide Ink in Fossilized Amber.

I wanted to create a breakfast plate for my waffle, so I grabbed my circle nesting dies and cut a white circle that was larger than my waffle, and also created a red circular frame that serves as the lining along the edge of my dinner plate. The red cardstock is from one of my Christmas paper pads. 

I also adhered adhesive sheets to my red cardstock prior to die cutting, to make it easier to adhere to my plate. You can also use glue, I just find it easier to use adhesive sheets, plus I have a ton! You just peel off the liner after die cutting and place it right where you need it!

Or, you can just skip the whole process and just die cut a larger red circle and place the smaller white circle on top, which is actually easier. I think I was in my head and took the hard route, haha!

For my sentiment, I used the mask technique to ink the word "waffle". I simply placed tape over the other words, then directly applied the ink pad to the waffle wording with the same Ranger Vintage Photo ink on the top and bottom edges of the word, then Fossilized Amber along the middle. 

You might need to do this several times to get the desired depth of ink color, which is why a stamp positioner is key to pulling this off. Just remember to remove the tape in between each stamping, or you'll have a mess that can't be fixed!

I decided I wanted to offset my waffle die, so once it was assembled to my plate, I simply trimmed the edges of the dinner plate along the bottom right and side of my card.

 

These are A2 sized cards. If you'd like to shop for any of the products that I used today, please click my affiliate links below. These are created at no additional cost to you. It helps me so much when you shop through these links. I earn a small commision ( a few cents per dollar), plus the companies can see how their affiliates drive traffic to their site. It's a win-win. Thank you so much!

Have a fantastic day!  Terri

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