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Emily Midgett

Red Anemones for Christmas Tags!

Hi there! I’m over on the Honey Bee Stamps blog with a pair of pretty holiday tags to share with you today using the stunning new Lovely Layers: Anemone and some of the new tag goodies from the Vintage Holiday release! I don’t use red much outside of holiday projects, but the deep jewel toned red pairs beautifully with slate blue, which is my color palette for today. Let’s get started with the details!

I began by die cutting the layers of the Lovely Layers: Anemone dies from some deep red cardstock, the centers from black cardstock, and the foliage from some deep green cardstock, then blended some slightly deeper red around the edges of the flower petals to add extra dimension. I adhered the layers together using lots of foam tape for tons of dimension.

For the tag layer, I used the new Tag Builder Honey Cuts to cut two layers for each tag, one from plain white cardstock for the back (to help cover up the cut marks from my cutting plate in my die cut machine-sneaky sneaky!) and one from some lovely slate blue plaid gingham from the new Gingham Galore Paper pad. I stamped a greeting from Tag You’re It: Holidays using coordinating slate blue ink and die cut the sentiment using Tag You’re It: Honey Cuts. I layered all of the die cuts on the plaid tag die cut, adhering them with foam and liquid adhesive.

I adhered the two layers together, clean sides facing out. I stamped the “to/from” and some snowflakes on the plain white back using stamps from Tag You’re It: Holidays. To make the red snowflakes a little more subtle, I stamped off once on a piece of scratch paper and stamped the leftovers on the edge of each white tag base. I finished the tag off with some red twine for a topper!

Well, that’s all for my project today. Thanks so much for reading, and have a marvelous day!

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Rosa Floribunda Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in Total Prizes)

Hi there! Altenew released their new Paint-A-Flower: Rosa Floribunda stamp set, and we are celebrating with a blog hop full of beautiful inspiration! You should have arrived here from Preeti Chandran, and your next stop is Verity Biddlecombe. You can also always start back at the beginning at the Altenew Card Blog in case you get lost! The Rosa Floribunda stamp set is a stunning arrangement of beautiful, classic roses that look gorgeous in a variety of mediums, colors, and arrangements! Here’s a peek at this month’s Paint-A-Flower:

These beautifully detailed floral stamps are such a joy to work with, and the Rosa Floribunda (how fun is that name? I want to say it with a Spanish accent and make it so fancy, ha!) set is one of the loveliest yet! You can always subscribe to receive them automatically each month-and at a discount! I have a monochromatic project that allows the beautiful details in the stamp set to really shine, so let’s get started with the details.

I love the look of a bunch of flowers cascading up or down the front of a card. It puts me in mind of the Secret Garden, with overgrown, romantic elegance. I wanted to let the graceful shapes of the rose illustration be the star of today’s project, so I wanted to create stark contrast with the background. To achieve this, I heat embossed the florals from Rosa Floribunda using some crisp white embossing powder in a cascade going up the front of a deep teal card front. Next, I used a white pencil to add some highlights to the tips of the petals, allowing the centers of the flowers to keep that intense teal glow.

Next, I used a blender brush to blend some Galactic Stream ink on the opposite corner of the card front, which I think helps to further enhance the added pencil shading and make the bright white embossing stand out even better. I also splattered some diluted white gouache on that blended corner; these little pops of white add an extra layer of texture of the card front.

For the greeting, I die cut the Mega Hope from some crisp white cardstock twice, adhering them together to create a dimensional die cut. I also heat embossed a coordinating greeting from Mega Greetings 4 on some more deep teal cardstock, then popped it up using Instant Dimension Foam Tape. Simple, but effective, I think!

As always, Altenew has some wonderful prizes to help them celebrate this newest addition to the Paint-A-Flower family!

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 10/28/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 10/30/2021.

Your next stop on the hop is Verity Biddlecombe. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!

Ellen Hutson October 2021 Release-Pt 2!

Hi there! I’m back today with some more inspiration using a few of the new goodies from the Ellen Hutson Essentials By Ellen release. I seem to be gravitating towards simple color schemes lately, and these cards today are an homage to my love of chalkboard! Any time I see a beautiful, chunky sentiment, I immediately think “this needs to be a chalkboard.” I have two “ode to chalkboard” projects for you today, so let’s get started with the details! (Affiliate links used where possible. Thank you for your support!)

Both of my projects feature the new Sending Holiday Cheer sentiment stamp set. The typography in this set is marvelous; those chunky sentiments just make me so happy, and they make creating your card front so quick and easy!

For my first project, I began by white embossing the “may your days be merry and bright” sentiment (cannot get enough of that phrase for holiday cards!) from Sending Holiday Cheer onto some Pitch Black cardstock from Hero Arts. I wanted to make the sentiment cover a bit more of the card front, so I used my sharp scissors and fussy cut each line to create four separate sentiment lines.

I wanted some subtle texture for the backdrop of this pretty sentiment, so I die cut the Twirling Flurries die from some more Pitch Black cardstock. I used some Hero Arts Unicorn White Pigment Ink and a blending brush to blend some frosty, chalky ink around the edges. I love the way the white pigment ink highlights the subtle stitching in the beautiful background! I backed the die cut card front with some white cardstock to allow the tiny little die cut snowflakes to peek through, then used foam tape to adhere the sentiment for lots of dimension and texture on this card front. The final touch was to add some iridescent white gems for a bit of sparkle! The bright, crisp white embossing stands out so beautifully from the subtly textured black background.

My next project features the new Holiday Sprigs stamp set, as well as the Sending Holiday Cheer stamps. I again began by doing some white embossing on black cardstock using the “sending holiday cheer” stamp from Sending Holiday Cheer. I also embossed a big bunch of the botanical images from Holiday Sprigs stamp set, then die cut them with their coordinating dies.

I die cut one of my most favorite dies from the Essentials By Ellen line: Stitches Cover Plate from another panel of Pitch Black cardstock. I adhered the die cut flowers and sentiment using lots of foam adhesive and liquid adhesive to add plenty of dimension. The final touch was to add a few bright red gems. I adore a pop of red on a monochromatic card front! I think they look almost like holly berries.

Well, that’s all for my projects today! If you haven’t looked already, I hope you’ll check out the new Essentials By Ellen holiday release… there are so many fun new goodies available right now! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Ellen Hutson October 2021 Release!

Hi there! The folks over at Ellen Hutson have a beautiful new Essentials By Ellen release, and I’m excited to be helping them show off some of their new goodies! I used some wrapping paper that I found in my (embarrassingly massive) stash of holiday wrapping paper for the inspiration for today’s project, so let’s get started with the details!

My project today features the beautiful, graphic new Holiday Sprigs stamp set. This holiday floral set is a great size, especially for creating your own patterned paper as I’ve done here, and features both the outline stamps and the solid interior stamps! For my project today, I did a little old-fashioned stamping (I even used a plain old acrylic block instead of my Misti… haven’t done that in a while!!) to create some custom patterned paper. I began by stamping my largest outline image, in this case the poinsettia, randomly over my white card front using Hero Arts Intens-ified Black ink. I then filled in the bare spots, starting with my second largest image, and working my way down to the smallest image.

Once I had my stamped outline pattern complete, it was time to fill in the images with the solid stamps using some of my favorite colored inks. I used some of my favorite Christmas-y colors from Concord and 9th: Poppy, Cranberry, Honeysuckle, Parsley, Clover. Once I had finished stamping my images, I used a black fine tip pen to add some black polka dots to the background to create some super modern looking holiday patterned paper!

For my greeting, I used one of the older Ellen Hutson holiday stamp sets: Retro Holiday Greetings. I love the juxtaposition of the modern background with the retro font of the greeting! I stamped it on a rectangle of white cardstock using Altenew Obsidian ink, then matted the white rectangle with a slightly larger rectangle of Pitch Black cardstock. I die cut a black glitter Essential Rectangles frame, then mounted it on the patterned card front using liquid adhesive. I popped up the matted sentiment with foam tape, then added a few Pretty Pink Posh Graphite gems for some sparkle!

Well, that’s all for today’s project! I have a few more to share with you, but my babies are not going to let me do anymore blogging today. But! Ellen Hutson is running a fantastic Free Gift With Purchase promo to celebrate their new release:

Simply spend $75 on Essentials By Ellen products this weekend (10/15-10/17), and you will receive the Oh What Fun stamp set for free!! Not only are they running a Gift With Purchase promotion, but they also have a Fall Savings category, where you can save 30% on the items in the category! Click here to see all of the goodies in the sale category.

Well, that’s all for my projects today. Thanks so much for reading, and have a marvelous day!

Honey Bee Stamps Vintage Holiday Release!

Hi there! I’m so excited to be sharing some of my projects created with the new Honey Bee Stamps Vintage Holiday release! It’s a giant release filled with an abundance of new products in such a wide variety of styles that you are sure to find several things that you love! I wish I’d had time to make more projects, but three will have to do for today. Let’s get started with the details! (Affiliate links used where possible. Thank you for your support!)

This first card features the absolutely stunning new Fancy Flakes cover plate die set. The detail in each individual die is amazing in it’s own right, but together… serious wow-factor. I began by die cutting the base layer die from some pale aqua cardstock, then ran it through my die cut machine again using the pierced layer. The detail, the grace…. it’s just incredible. I backed the detailed die cut layer with some white glitter cardstock.

For the die cut greeting, I used the new Noel Honey Cuts from some heavyweight vellum and the same icy blue cardstock, adhering them together with liquid adhesive.

I added the remainder of the greeting using the new Inside Holiday Sentiments stamp set. I stamped the greeting on the same icy blue cardstock using some gray pigment ink, then covered it with pearlescent white embossing powder and heated it to create a pearlescent charcoal. I prefer this pearly charcoal to black embossing on a light, bright card like this one. It is a bit lighter and less stark contrast than the black might be. I popped up the sentiment pieces on the card front using foam adhesive. So much dimension, so many textures on this card… simple, but elegant!

My next two cards are an homage to cheery, bright red juxtaposed with crisp white and black. I don’t use red very much throughout the year, but at Christmas, I can’t seem to help myself from using vibrant red and bright white. The vintage feel throughout the release is modernized a bit with the crisp, bright colors . It’s amazing what a difference color choices make on your cards! These same cards would have a completely different feel on Kraft paper.

My first card features the beautiful new Merry Mail stamps and coordinating Honey Cuts. I began by stamping several of the images on some white cardstock using the Honey Bee Stamps Intense Black, which is Copic-friendly. I used my Copic markers to color the images in a red, white, green, and cool gray color scheme.

Once I had finished coloring all of the images, I die cut a frame from the Hexagon Solid Stack dies from some coordinating cherry red cardstock. I also stamped a greeting from the Tag You’re It: Holidays stamp set on a small rectangle of white cardstock, again using black ink.

For the card base, I used the beautiful new Falling Snow Background stamp. I used Honey Bee’s Embossing Ink and some holographic glitter to create a beautifully sparkling, subtle background, on which I adhered the die cuts and sentiment using foam adhesive. The final touch was to add a few sparkling gems from the Unicorn Rhinestone pack.

My final project features the fabulous new Sleigh Bells Ring stamp set. This set features an amazing vintage sleigh, stamped in several layers of solid and detail, as well as various accoutrements to decorate it! I began by stamping the main part of the sleigh using some colorful shades of cherry red and darker maroon red ink for the woodgrain. I also stamped several of the accompanying images using the Intense Black ink from Honey Bee. I colored the outline images using some coordinating shades of Copic markers, adding in a touch of bright green for the foliage. I die cut the finished images using the coordinating Honey Cuts.

I die cut the “Christmas” die cut layers using the new Bitty Buzzwords Holidays from some white cardstock, with the top layer cut from some silver glitter paper. I stamped the other part of the greeting from the Bitty Buzzwords: Holiday Stamps on a strip of white cardstock.

I used the Fancy Flakes Pierced Layer to add some subtle texture to the white background, then adhered all of the die cut pieces and sentiment pieces using a mixture of foam and liquid adhesive. The final touch was a few more gemstones from the Unicorn Rhinestone pack.

Well, that’s all for today’s projects! I highly encourage you to check out the entire Vintage Holiday release. It’s absolutely smashing. I could easily buy my weight in holiday stamps and dies each year… and this is one of my most favorite releases that Honey Bee has ever done. I hope you will take a peek and find something that you like!