Clean and Simple Card Ideas with the Shiny New Day Collection

Hello, crafty friends! Marie here from Marie Nicole Designs. I am sharing a trio of fun, colorful, clean and simple cards with you today featuring the Shiny New Day collection!

This collection is so fun! It includes an embossing folder for you to add some textured designs to your cards, some florals that are pretty and easy to assemble, and many cleaning supplies you can cut from dies, color, and add to your cards. I chose to create one cleaning-themed card, a floral card, and a card that mixes the two. Let’s take a look!

CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Like I already mentioned, all these cards are a clean and simple style, but this one really emphasizes the clean. Using the Squeaky Clean die set, I cut out all the pieces to assemble the cleaning supplies. I then used a fresh color palette of alcohol markers to color these die pieces. Markers can give a very smooth look to your coloring if that is what you are going for. But if you don’t want to use markers, you could always add color with ink or just cut pieces from colored cardstock.

After my cleaning supplies were colored and assembled, I set them aside to work on my card base. I cut a circle from the card base, slightly off the side, and then layered that panel over another piece of cardstock that I embossed with the Suds and Buds embossing folder. This folder is great because it gives you two designs on one folder! I will show you the second design later in this post on my next card.

I used the sentiment, “A tidy hello” and stamped it at a slight curve to have it follow the circle frame. Then, I just added my die cuts in a fun arrangement using liquid and foam adhesive.

FRESH FLORALS

This card features the florals of this collection. I love it when a collection includes florals. They are so versatile with most themes, and you can use them on their own, if you wish.

The background is the second design on the Suds and Buds embossing folder. And it fits perfectly with the floral theme of the card. I used that circle cut-out from my first card to add over the embossed design as a frame for my sentiment and wreath of flowers.

I wanted to show how you could use this collection to make a general thank-you card without the theme of cleaning supplies if you choose. I love that in the punny Shiny New Day sentiment stamps, there are some sentiments that can be used apart from the cleaning theme. This gives you more flexibility in creating. So I chose the simple thank you sentiment and stamped it in black.

Then, I arranged the flowers from the Petal Fresh die set all around the circle to create a wreath. The flowers are cut from white cardstock and colored with markers just like the die cuts from my first card. Once all those flowers were in place, I finished the card with some clear sequins for extra sparkle.

A BUCKET OF FLOWERS

My third card features the images from both the cleaning supplies and the flowers, just to show how cute they all are together! I again colored everything with markers to continue the look of the cards as a set. I did add some polka dots to the gloves with a white gel pen, and I think that extra pattern just adds extra cuteness, don’t you?

The background is kept clean and simple by simple masking off a strip with some low-tack tape, and then ink-blending a yellow on in a half-circle shape. I stamped the sentiment off to the left side with black ink, and then arranged all the images with foam and liquid adhesive.

I hope you enjoyed this trio of cards featuring the Shiny New Day collection! The flowers are gorgeous, and the cleaning supplies are so cute!

Until next time, Marie Nicole

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Other supplies

Black ink, yellow ink, alcohol markers, white cardstock, stamp block, scissors, foam adhesive, liquid adhesive, low tack tape, clear sequins