Emily Midgett
Hi there! I’m over on the Honey Bee Blog today with some super sparkly, shiny cards combining some old and some new products with crazy sparkly and shiny cardstock from Tonic. Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to add all kinds of glitz to your projects, and the new Smooch and Adore Buzzwords look fantastic with the glittery Berry Fizz cardstock.
I hope you’ll stop by the Honey Bee Blog and take a peek at how I made these two-fer cards!
Have a marvelous day, friends!
Hi there! Today, Altenew is releasing a new Paint A Flower stamp set: Camellia, and we are showing them off with a blog hop! You should have arrived here from Dana Joy and your next stop is Tina Smith, or you can start back at the beginning at the Altenew Card Blog. These beautiful, fluffy blooms are so, so pretty, and come in such a lovely arrangement:
Each month, Altenew releases a new floral stamp set perfect for coloring (you can subscribe here for a discounted rate each month!). The petals on this month’s Paint A Flower: Camellia set are a very nice size, great for coloring in any medium. I chose to do a little wet-on-wet painting today using the Altenew Watercolor Brush Refills. Let’s get started with the details!
To begin, I heat embossed the beautiful floral bouquet from Paint A Flower: Camellia cascading around the edge of a panel of Altenew’s Watercolor Paper using white pearl embossing powder. I like to switch things up occasionally and using white embossing, which I think has such a cheery, lighthearted look to it, especially when paired with bright colors. To achieve the “wet-on-wet” watercoloring, I taped my slightly-larger-than-A2 embossed panel down to my watercolor board, then wet the panel thoroughly with clean water. I then dropped very diluted Sunkissed and Rubellite Brush Marker Refills onto the wet watercolor paper, both inside and outside of the embossed areas, to create a mottled watercolor background. I kept the color light enough to add green over the top without creating a muddy mess by diluting the color quite a lot. Watercolor also dries lighter than when it’s applied, so this background was nice and subtle in the end.
Once my mottled watercolor background had dried completely (completely; you don’t want to make things bleed when you add the next layer!), I added details using stronger concentrations of the Sunkissed, Rubellite, Limeade, and Moss Brush Marker Refills, creating some pretty pink and corals by combining the Sunkissed and Rubellite colors. I also added some artsy flecks of color by dipping my brush into undiluted color and flicking it at the finished watercolored panel.
For the greeting, I heat embossed the encouraging sentiment on some bright coral cardstock from my stash, then trimmed them down to strips and adhered them to the card front using foam adhesive. I added some of my favorite iridescent gems to add some sparkle!
Now, as always, Altenew has some fabulous prizes to give away to celebrate the Paint A Flower: Camellia release!
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $15 gift certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/28/2021 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 11 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/30/2021.
Your next stop is Tina Smith. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!
Hi there! Last weekend, I shared my first post on the Honey Bee blog since my twin baby boys were born last April. I’ve been busy with baby boys, but I’ve also been doing some illustrative collaborations with Melissa at Honey Bee Stamps, which includes my latest collaboration: Love You Bunches! I’ve used it with Barn Wood Planks dies on today’s project to create a bit of a country feel. Let’s get started on the details!
I began by heat embossing the bouquet from Love You Bunches on the corners of a panel of watercolor paper, then used Prima watercolors to watercolor the flowers in a pretty, springy combination of coral-y pink, lavender, and mint. I used the coordinating Honey Cuts to cut the watercolored bouquets.
Next, I die cut the Barn Wood Planks from some pale blush cardstock. I adhered them to an A2 panel using liquid adhesive. I added a bit of extra definition to the wood grain texture on the die cuts by blending some pink ink around the edges. I adhered a frame die cut on the woodgrain panel.
Because I had heat embossed the flower bouquets in the corners of the watercolor panel, I lined the corners of the die cuts up with the corners of the woodgrain panel and adhered them with foam adhesive. I heat embossed a greeting from Love You Bunches, die cut it with the coordinating Honey Cuts, and adhered it with some more foam adhesive. I added a few Moonlight gems for some sparkle.
Well, that’s all for me today! I have missed playing with my Honey Bee Stamps, and I’m so glad to have the opportunity to play with them again! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!
Hi there! Today, Altenew is releasing another installment in their monthly Craft A Flower series: Morning Glory! We are showing it off with a blog hop! You should have arrived here from the Altenew Card Blog and your next stop is LauraJane. Each month, Altenew releases a set of these fantastic dies that you can use to create super detailed and intricate, yet bold and substantial die cut flowers and foliage. You can purchase each set individually at your own discretion, or you can subscribe (click here) to receive the Craft A Flower Release each month at a discount!
This Morning Glory set is particularly lovely, because you receive several different angles of the opened flower, as well as buds, foliage, and little curly sprigs to create a morning glory vine. I love the way that Altenew has been grouping their layered floral die cut sets by layer; it helps so much with the layering, not to mention saving time! Grouping the layers into one die means fewer passes in your die cut machine! Isn’t that so clever? The Watercolor Garden set is set up this way, as well!
I kept my cards to a fairly traditional color scheme, focusing on the beautiful blues that you can find with morning glory flowers. I tried to keep things monochromatic, as well. As seems to be my custom with these Craft A Flower releases, I die cut and assembled a large amount of the flowers and foliage, then just had fun arranging them!
For this first project, I wanted to create a vine of morning glories creeping up a pretty frame. I die cut the Create A Wreath oval die from some very pale aqua cardstock, then arranged my Morning Glory die cuts over the top. Once I had arranged the flowers to my satisfaction, I used my favorite Press’n’Seal hack to add the adhesive on the back: lay the Press’n’Seal over the top of your floral arrangement, then press down firmly on your die cuts, and pick up your arrangement. Then, add your adhesive of choice to the back with the Press’n’Seal still attached, and adhere back on your card front! Saves so much time pushing paper around, ha!
After I’d adhered my die cuts to the card front using foam adhesive for lots of dimension, I added a greeting from Sentiment Strips stamped on a thin strip of the same pale aqua cardstock to maintain the monochromatic look. The final touch was some gems for sparkle!
Since I had so many leftover flower die cuts, I made a second card with another vine of morning glories creeping around the greeting. I die cut a greeting using the Tall Alpha dies and some navy blue cardstock, which I adhered using my T-square to ensure that the die cuts were nice and straight.
Once I’d adhered my die cut greeting, I arranged the Morning Glory die cuts on the pale aqua card front, creeping up and around the greeting again. The greenery in this die set has such a graceful feel to it; you can create a beautiful arrangement almost effortlessly with such lovely foliage to work with. Again, I used the Press’n’Seal trick to pick up my arrangement and adhere it to the card front, finally adding some more pretty blue gems to help fill in any holes in the design.
Well, that’s all for my projects today! As always, Altenew has some wonderful giveaways to celebrate this beautiful new Craft A Flower release:
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $15 gift certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/12/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 11 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/15/2021.
Your next stop is LauraJane. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!
Hi there! I’m excited to be helping introduce the Spellbinders Stamp of the Month Club for January 2021. Each month, Spellbinders releases fantastic new kits full of fun stamps, dies, and/or foiling that you can buy individually or, if you know that you’d love to play with them all, you can subscribe and be automatically sent each month’s release. There is even the option to combine multiple kits (the “value” option) at a discounted rate! You can read all about the kits available here.
This month’s Stamp of the Month (a $20 value for only $10!) is perfect for some sweet valentines! It features several different heart designs that you can use in a myriad of ways to create simple or elaborate valentines. My project features lots of white space and some fun glittery embossing powder. Let’s get started with the details!
To start, I heat embossed three of the designs from the Stamp of the Month on white cardstock using Hot Gossip glitter embossing powder from WOW! Embossing Powders (linked below). This powder is a fun combination of hot pink powder and orange glitter, which I thought would be something traditional-but-slightly-different for a Valentine’s Day card!
After heat embossing each heart and the greeting, I fussy cut the hearts and trimmed the sentiment using my trimmer. I also trimmed three different, very thin strips of colored cardstock: one hot pink, one coral, and one deep orange to coordinate with the different colors in the glittery embossing powder! I mounted these strips on a white A2 card base on the left side of the card front using liquid adhesive.
I also adhered the thin sentiment strip on a slightly larger strip of hot pink cardstock. Before adding the hearts and sentiment, I trimmed the card front down slightly to make it 4″x5.5,” because I knew that I wanted to have the hearts hang off of the edge slightly, and keeping the card front the same width would make it too big to fit in an A2 envelope. I finally adhered all of the different pieces using foam adhesive for lots of dimension!
Well, that’s all for my project today. I highly encourage you to check out all of the fun monthly kits available from Spellbinders. So many amazing different ways to be creatively inspired every month! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!
