DT Seguras Crafts: Birthday Card for a Teenager Boy

 

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

Just as a reminder, this month Seguras Crafts is dedicating this “Twinkle Toes and Tails” set to the Lupus Awareness Month:

My son is turning 18, so I decided to make a birthday card for him. It is kind of hard to make a card for a grumpy teen boy, but Seguras Crafts soon-to-be-released stamp, Emotions and Opposite is perfect to express my feelings toward my son and reassure him that his feelings are valid.

I also used this sketch as inspiration to make my card:

To follow the sketch, I die cut two different tags for the main part: I used the Cloud of Hope from Seguras Crafts printed papers (finally out) for the bigger tag and the punched scallop circle accent and white (CTMH) cardstock for the smaller tag (Tattered Lace dies). I used tranquil tide for the background and mystic grace purple cardstock for the strip. I chose the two images from the stamp set I saw to reflect my son’s emotions (sometimes quick to anger/ grumpy and most times my chill boy) and the sentiments to reflect his states:

I really like the unified hands, with the hart inside, are perfect for our small family of 4, all united to help each other through the good and the bad times. I stamped on either Cloud of Hope (for the scalloped punched circle) or white cardstock (CTMH) using StanzOn and the stamping platform.

I also cut the Happy Birthday sentiment out of Anthracyte cardstock and glued it to the inside of the card along with die cut and stamped rectangle. 

I made a little video of my process:

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

I’m also joining the following challenges:

aaa birthday: game-73-anything-birthday-goes-our-6th anniversary

paper craft crew: pcc622-vertical-sketch-challenge

kimsconjurerofdreams: conjurer-of-dreams-challenge-8-anything

crafting a cut above: may-anything-goes-with-die-cut

neglected stuff: neglected-stuff-may-2025-challenge

Tattered Lace bigger tag die and happy birthday die

crafty calendar challenge: may-challenge 'For A Child’

love those pretty papers: atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper-may

https://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/05/lm-752-tic-tac-toe-board-4.html

2+ papers, circle and blue

heroarts: stay-crafty-with-a-blog-named-hero-may-2025-challenge

DT Seguras Crafts: Banner for Lupus Awareness

   

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

This month Seguras Crafts is dedicating this “Twinkle Toes and Tails” set to the Lupus Awareness Month:

When I saw this stamp set, I decided that I wanted to make a nice banner for my school office board. I love the little mice ballerinas and the amazingly assertive sentiments. Perfect for the little ones that come to my office sometimes just wanting to hang out and relax.

 It goes so well with the shaker tag I made previously that I decided to include in the banner:

For this banner, I used the Cloud of Hope from Seguras Crafts printed papers (finally out) for the background and I remembered an old banner die I had in my stash and used it. This banner die needs and insert, so I cut some tags out of different papers: white (CTMH), tranquil tide, Petal Whisper Pink and Crystal vision purple pearlescent cardstocks using an old die from my stash (Tattered Lace). I stamped the little dancing mice using Stanzon and colored the mice with distress markers (TH Rangers). The pearlescent cardstock were particularly good for blending the markers:

Now, I know to use those cardstocks instead of the regular ones that are too adsorbent. 

I added the purple rhinestones (gems) that came with the stamps and added more rhinestones to the Prima rhinestone stickers. I colored the prima stickers using a purple alcohol marker to tie everything together.

I really enjoyed this project and how it hangs in my board:

I made a little video of my process:

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

I’m also joining the following challenges:

kimsconjurerofdreams: conjurer-of-dreams-challenge-8-anything

crafting a cut above: may-anything-goes-with-die-cut

neglected stuff: neglected-stuff-may-2025-challenge

Prima flower packages from before the pandemic and sizzix banner die

girlz creative fun art of scrap: challenge-9

girlz rebel challenge: challenge-40-alles-mag-met-een-plaatje

crafty calendar challenge: may-challenge 'For A Child’

love those pretty papers: atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper-may

the outlawz challenges-saturday: the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free

DT Seguras Crafts: Believe in Yourself Shaker Tag for my Board

  

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

As I commented before, I started revamping my school board. I started with my first post for Seguras Crafts, here. Now the next steps are a series of reaffirmation tags to hang from the tree.

The  “Believe In Yourself” stamp is perfect for these tags. So I started with the “Believe in yourself” sentiment, which I had to kind of cramp in the tag space (CTMH) I choose for this purpose:

I started by choosing the background paper and decided that the Cloud of Hope from Seguras Crafts (coming soon, stay posted) was perfect. 

It gives such a dreaming in the clouds vibe. See the many choices (spoilers alert) included in the package:

Though choice. I went for the one that looks like rising clouds. The colors spoke to me. The blue signifying calm. And the little purple meaning wisdom and creativity. Very motivating for my little tag. I used the CTMH circle shaker. I cut 5 pieces of the white window to give it depth. And cut the starts with the Seguras high quality cardstocks (I’m still working on the affiliated links, until then, I will just add direct links to the products that I use). I used Crystal vision purple  and Petal Whisper Pink.

Then I used some StazOn inks in cloudy grey and blue hawii, also the HeroArts red ink (I don’t know the name of this color) to stamp the sentiment. The red shows nicely in the almost overlapping words:

To make the “in” shine more I added a Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones in And Opal Glow. Then I glue 4 pieces of the window diecuts to the shaker base (I glued a tag diecut from Sizzix) to be able to hang my shaker tag. I glued a piece of a Page-protector to the 5th window diecut piece to finish the window. I added the starts diecuts (they shine beautifully) and Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones In Aurora Gleam (Coming Soon) to add more shine. Finally I glued the window to the shaker part and added some string.

And the final result so far:

Kids are loving it. They like the colors and the shaker parts… For the next tags, stay connected and follow me.

I hope you enjoyed this fun ongoing project and join me in checking Seguras Crafts (and facebook page) and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

Keep checking my posts in the following weeks for more inspiring work,

Love

Vicky Tovar

I’m also joining these fun challenges:

avenue613: april-2025-anything-goes-w-optional

SPLASH OF COLOR

lilpatchofcraftyfriends: 251-dr-digis-house-of-stamps

stampingsensations: april-challenge

Birds, Animals, Flowers and Nature

along with Anything Goes

welove2create: challenge-4-craft-card-making

As always, the theme this month is

Anything Mixed Media/paper crafting Goes

lovethoseprettypapers: love-those-pretty-papers-april-2025

SPRINGTIME

polkadoodle: challenge-5-wk-2-anything-goes-card

theoutlawzchallenges-saturday: the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free

DT Seguras Crafts: Doctor’s Orders Sign

 

Dear scrappers,
I have great news: I started designing again for an amazing company: Seguras Crafts
The best way to describe this company is by their welcome message:
 “ Segura’s Crafts is built on inclusivity and choice. Our materials are inspired to support mindfulness and emotional growth. We also offer fun, creative supplies for those who simply love to craft. My goal is to provide tools that allow people to decide how they want to use them—whether for self-expression, mental wellness, or simply enjoying the art of crafting.”
I really love this message and hits close to home. I will be posting in the next few days several projects inspired in some of this company’s amazing products.

For my first project, I decided to make a new sign for my health office board.

I will be adding more to this board as I update it with Seguras’ incredible products. 
For my new sign, I used Seguras high quality cardstocks (I’m still working on the affiliated links, until then, I will just add direct links to the products that I use). I love the nice pearlescent shimmer the Crystal vision purple (I used it for the background) and the Anthracyte (to cut the letters). Too bad this pictures do not make this cardstocks justice. I also used the Radiant Heart Red cardstock for the red cross in my shaker tag. The cardstocks cut so nicely using my little Die-cutting machine.

For this tag, I also used the Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones in Aurora Gleam (coming soon) and Opal Glow. I love how they shine so nicely on both sides.

Here are some other products that I used.

And 

Please keep an eye out on my next post coming this week ;-) for new projects and amazing inspiration.

We are also supposed to talk how the products inspired us, like for me the purple is a calming color, also significant during this lenten season, which means reflection and sacrifice, but with a purpose. I want my students to see this board to reflect, enjoy and be inspired.

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

I’m also joining the following challenges:

craftingacutabove: march-anything-goes

neglectedstuff: neglected-stuff-march-2025-challenge

I bought these Queen & Co shaker dies during COVID and haven’t used them until today.

simplyellibelle: ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-march

Anything goes

simonsaysstampblog: wednesday challenge Anything goes

wordartwednesday: anything-goes-weeks-692-693

Craftwell DT: Fall Festival Goodies

 

Hi, 

This is my next post for Craftwell. 

Every year my daughter's troop host a fall festival at the pumpkin patch, so I searched Pinterest and came up with several ideas for dressing up fall goodies:

Reese candy holders: 

These pumpkin (orange flavored) gummies were my favorite: 

I die-cut several tags and stamped them with fall sentiments, the same with the acorns, sunflowers, and pumpkins. I used all the different shaped pumpkin dies I had as well as the sunflowers and acorns.

The instructions for the Ferrero Rocher containers, I found them in Pinterest and followed them.

Craftwell Tools: 

SNAP die cut machine

Other Companies:

SCT sampler stamps

Sizzix stamps and dies

Spellbinder dies

Queen & CO pumpkins and sunflower dies

Tattered Lace flower stamp & die

CTMH Stamps and dies

HeroArts stamps

CTMH color cardstocks

Recollections Fall Orchard printed papers

Other brands cardstocks as well

Tacky Glue

 I hope you enjoy it this fun project and please follow Craftwell as well.

Happy Thanksgiving/ Black Friday

Vicky Tovar

https://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/11/november-2022-tags.html

Some chellenges:

 https://secretstamper.com/2022/11/anything-goes-with-a-fun-fold-for-creative-creases-46/

https://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/11/november-2022-tags.html

https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/291-use-dies-and-or-punches-15th.html

https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-247-anything-goes-with.html

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2022/11/birch-press-for-anything-goes-november.html

https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/fqcb-theme-16-is-pumpkins-or-turkeys-or.html

https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-88-polka-dots.html

http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/11/158-dies-and-or-punches.html

https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/world-wide-open-design-team-challenge-11.html