Category: Amanda Wilcox
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Fall is in the Air | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello crafty friends! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook popping in with a festively, fun fall-themed card for you today. We got a little taste of fall at home this week and I’m so ready for pumpkins and leaves changing and all the things! I knew that I was using the awesome Autumn Breeze layering set…
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Sending Rainbow Wishes | By Amanda Wilcox
Happy Saturday everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook popping in today. I hope your day is starting off splendidly! I have been itching to watercolor this gorgeous rainbow image since it released and I finally made it happen. To create my card today, I started by pulling my stamps out and playing around with images…
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The Best Things In Life | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook stopping by today with this beautiful Arista Layering card featuring some simple ink blending to get a custom look. To start my card, I die cut all three layers from the Arista layering set from white cardstock. Then I chose 3 dye inks and the coordinating blending brushes…
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You Are Something Special | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today with a fun little technique to try with your heat embossed images. I paired it with some layering die cuts and the beautiful Pinpoint Radial background die too! Let’s jump in and get started. First, I chose the roundabout layering dies and a color palette from…
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Friend, I Miss You | By Amanda Wilcox
Happy weekend everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook with a simple missing you card that I made for a friend that I haven’t seen since before the pandemic. I hope you like it! I started today’s card by choosing cardstock and cutting the layers for the Mini Grandiose Bevel layers. Then I took the mid-tone…
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Sending Thanks | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today with another variation on the fabulous butterflies that recently released. Today I’m pairing them with a beautiful 3D embossing folder and some ink blending for depth. I chose some of the basic things I wanted to create with straight away and started die cutting and embossing. I…
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Striped Frame Card Duo | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today with a pair of cards. I’m using different products with the same technique in hopes you can try it with something you have at home. It’s really fun and easy to change to fit lots of occasions and themes. To start these fun cards, I dug through…
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Fluttery Thanks | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you today with card featuring a few of the newest products in the shop! This new butterfly basics die set is absolutely amazing! There are so many possibilities, I feel like I could be making butterflies for ages without duplicating anything! Let’s get started on today’s card.…
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Birthday Shaker Bundle | By Amanda Wilcox
Hi there! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook back with you today sharing a set of 4 birthday shaker cards. All of a sudden I needed multiple birthday cards and I thought this was a fun way to get them all finished and ready to go. I started things off by cutting all of my pieces…
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Hello Tulips | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome back everyone. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today with a fun springy feeling tulip card featuring the field of bloom layering dies. I started things off today by getting inky, which is one of my favorites. I pulled out a white cardstock panel and did ink smooshing with my tombow brush pens. Once that…
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Mosaic Watercolor | By Amanda Wilcox
Hey everyone! I’m so glad you’re here with me. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook with a pair of beautiful watercolor slimline cards to share. These cards were complete created using just the Crystal Lingo stamps and dies. It was so therapeutic and relaxing to watercolor this beautiful image! Let’s get started on how I created…
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Easter Egg Hugs | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today and I have a trio of cards to share featuring the petal egg layering set and a few different backgrounds to pair it with. To start off today’s cards, I just pulled out a variety of cardstock colors – glitter and not – and started cutting the…
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Enchantment meets Crystal Lingo | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today with another pair of cards to share. I seem to have a hard time either making choices or letting die cuts go to waste so I rarely make just one card anymore. This all started with my wanting to play with the Enchantment layering dies and create…
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Linear Triangle Duo | By Amanda Wilcox
Hi again! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today featuring a couple of new products available in the shop. I was very interested in this new linear triangle die so I cut a couple out and started playing around, which is how I figured out today’s fun design. I hope you like it. I started by…
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Sending Love Die Embossing | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you for a new-to-me technique I wanted to share – embossing with dies. Such a simple idea but so cool and adds so much extra life to products you already have. I started today’s card by mixing some Ranger Alcohol Pearl Inks around on a piece of…
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Hugs and Hearts | By Amanda Wilcox
Hi everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you for the first time this year! Happy New Year and I hope 2021 is starting off well for you all. I pretty much dove in head first to love and heart themed cards since the new year and I’m loving it all! I have a pair…
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Sending Winter Thanks | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone. This is Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today getting a jump on winter thank you cards that I’ll be sending out after Christmas. For these cards, I die cut the layers for the Floral Star from two different blue cardstocks and then the bottom layer from white and silver glitter cardstock. I was playing…
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Merry Christmas Poinsettia | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone, it’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you today for another idea to stretch the dies you may already have. I’m taking the Dahlia Mini Frame and choosing colors to make it look more like a poinsettia for Christmas. Isn’t the red and gold glitter a perfect combo to make this dahlia look enough…
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Give Thanks | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello friends. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today and I wanted to pop in to share one more Thanksgiving themed card while there’s still time. To create this card, I started by stamping and coloring the images from Pumpkin Lacework with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out.…
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Fall Themed Thanks | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook and I appreciate you stopping by today. I’ve got a really pretty fall themed thanks card to share with you today. Let’s get crafting! I blending distress oxide inks on an A2 panel using Aged Mahogany, Rusty Hinge and Carved Pumpkin. I spritzed it with water and flicked…
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Sending Warm Wishes | By Amanda Wilcox
Happy Friday everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you for a fun Christmas card and ornament combo today! Be aware though, this project is contagious and I can’t stop creating them in all the colors now! Let’s get started with how I processed this fun project! I started by die cutting my snowflakes –…
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Christmas Shaker Trio | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today sharing a trio of Christmas shaker cards. These were really quick to put together and would be super fun to make in larger batches to mail to friends and family this Christmas. Let’s get started with how I did it. I chose 3…
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Thank You Hexagon Box | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone, it’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook bringing you a beautiful gift box tutorial today. I paired the newer hexagon box lid and base with the mini grandoise bevel plates for a bold autumn feeling gift box. I chose the colors of paper I wanted to use and die cut each layer 6 times. I…
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Fall is in the Air | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook sharing a little fall watercolor with you using one of the layers from the new Autumn Breeze cover plates. To start things off I pulled out a piece of watercolor paper and chose some Tombow waterbrush markers to watercolor with. I scribbled them on my glass mat, grabbed…
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Quick and Easy Stenciled Cards | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you again. Today I’ve got a set of 4 cards that I made fairly quickly and would be a great design to mass produce or pull together if you needed something in a flash. Here’s a peek at all of them. But let’s back things up and…
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Ornament Tag Trio | By Amanda Wilcox
Welcome everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook today to share a trio of Christmas tags I made with the new ornament sets. Let’s start with making the tag bases. I took a regular sheet of cardstock and folded it down the middle length-wise. Then I place my base ornament die hanging off the folded…
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Jumbo Lingo Trio | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you today for a trio of cards. I started with one in mind and just couldn’t stop creating! These were so fun to create! We’re going to start with the process I used to create the Thanks card first and then I’ll touch on some differences with…
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Rainbow Happy | By Amanda Wilcox
Hello everyone. It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook sharing a card using some new goodies that are available in the shop! As soon as I saw this new Torus Ring, I just had to try it in rainbow before anything else. So I pulled out some cardstock and started cutting! I cut the frame 3 times…
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Stretch Your Holiday Dies | By Amanda Wilcox
Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook joining you for a bright and summery card using some holiday dies, but you’d never know because of the paper colors and sentiment I chose. I started by die cutting all 3 layers to the Nobilia Ornament set from different cardstocks – black, yellow glitter and melon.…
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Friend, You Are Awesome | By Amanda Wilcox
Thanks for stopping by today. This is Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook visiting with this fun card and a new way to look at some of your full cover plate dies. I started with all 3 Grace cover plates and a stack of 2 1/4 inch square pieces of cardstock in teal, gold and black. I…