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Emily Midgett

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Reverse Confetti- final ‘Fetti Friend post!

Good morning! I’m here this morning with my last guest post as one of the ‘Fetti Friends for the month of April. (sniff sniff!) I have so enjoyed playing with the beautiful stamps and dies from last month’s Reverse Confetti release, but (as you’ve probably noticed) Tall Blooms has won my heart. Flowers make my heart go pitter-patter anyway, and these particular illustrations are so lovely… classy…. unique with their long stems and collection of foliage. Sigh. I wanted to create a pretty chalkboard for my final project as one of this month’s ‘Fetti Friends using the beautiful God is Good set and some of the pretty blooms from Tall Blooms.

I began my project by masking and stamping one of the flowers and some foliage using white pigment ink onto black card stock. I used some creative masking with the flower to remove the stem so that I could create a swag above my greeting. The nice thing about using colored pencils over white pigment ink is that you can kinda fudge your masking lines… if its not perfectly masked, you just color over it and nobody is the wiser! I colored my images using my Prismacolor pencils. I added the sentiment from God is Good beneath it using white pigment ink, as well.

After I had created the main components of the design, I added a few details using my T-square, white gel pen, and white colored pencil.

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’ve enjoyed another way to use that beautiful Tall Blooms stamp set… it’s definitely become a staple in my craft room! Thank you so much to Jen and the fabulous folks at Reverse Confetti for having me as a guest these last couple of months. It’s been such a joy to work with these fabulous products! Thanks so much for visiting, and have a marvelous day!


Reverse Confetti April Sketch For You To Try: April

Good morning! Happy Monday! I have a new project for you today using Reverse Confetti’s April Sketch For You To Try (and this is the final SFYTT! Jen has some new fun challenges up her sleeve, so stay tuned for that!). Here’s this month’s sketch:

And here’s my take on it:

One of the things I love about sketch challenges is that it can challenge you to step outside of your normal comfort zone. I will be the first to admit that I like straight lines and things centered and symmetrical. But this sketch has given me a new love for diagonal lines! I started with the Fun Times patterned paper pack, choosing two very different patterns. Because they were going to be sandwiched next to each other, I wanted to make sure that they complemented each other nicely, so I chose a small, almost neutral mint pattern, along with a bold pink and white stripe. I trimmed them down to 4×5.5″, then trimmed them at a diagonal using my trimmer and mounted them on my A2 card base.

Next, I stamped and die cut several of the flowers from Tall Blooms, then colored them with Copic markers in shades of pink and mint and lavender! (I totally used the colors in the Fun Times paper pack as my color inspiration!) I trimmed a small rectangle of white card stock, then added a greeting from Tall Blooms using black ink. I arranged the flowers as though the white rectangle were the vase or flower box, then adhered them using dimensional foam adhesive. Because my Tall Blooms were, in fact, tall, I moved the focal point from the sketch from the center to the bottom right of the card front. I liked the balance better that way. 🙂

The final step was to add a few sparkly gems to help fill out my bouquet!

Well, that’s all for this project. Now, it’s your turn! Create your own project using the SFYTT and Reverse Confetti goodies, then link it up to the final SFYTT challenge for your chance to win a $20 Reverse Confetti shopping spree! Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a marvelous week!


Reverse Confetti April Blog Hop!

Good morning! Today is the Reverse Confetti Blog Hop for the month of April, which I am delighted to again be a part of as a ‘Fetti Friend! We were prompted to make the theme of our cards for Mom or Dad, and I hadn’t quite given enough love to the beautiful Something Wonderful stamp set, so I thought I would pair it with Kindness Cards again for an encouragement card for my momma.

I started by stamping the main bouquet and some extra foliage from Something Wonderful in some bright, kelly green ink, (yes, even the flowers) onto my A2 card base. I then stamped the bouquet in hot pink on a different piece of card stock and fussy cut the flowers. I popped the flowers up with foam tape to add extra dimension.

This greeting, from Kindness Cards, is exactly how I feel about my mom. She has had a rough life… raising two kids by herself, health and mental health issues, and others I won’t go into detail about… but I think she’s pretty freaking amazing. I stamped and die cut the sentiment from Kindness Cards onto some more white card stock using Versafine and clear embossing powder. I popped them up using foam tape, as well.

The final touch was to add some Carnation Pink Nuvo Drops and some sequins. Such a bright, springy card, perfect for Mother’s Day… or even just to say “You Rock!”

Well, that’s all for this project! I hope you will stop by the rest of the blog hop stops. Here’s the full list:

Melissa Phillips

Tricia Barber

Kelly Lunceford

Lisa Henke

Amy Rohl

Christiana Reuling

Laurie Schmidlin

Heather Hoffman

Amy Tsuruta

Kathy Schweinfurth

Audrey Tokach

Deanne Kuntz

Emily Midgett

Jeanne Jachna

Susan Liles

Amy Sheffer

Thanks so much for stopping by!


Reverse Confetti Sketch For You To Try!

Good morning! Reverse Confetti has a fun monthly challenge, called Sketch For You To Try. Each month, they provide a card sketch for you to use as a basis for your own project to link up to the blog post.

Here is this month’s sketch:

For my project, I used the Something Wonderful stamp set to create a pretty bouquet. It’s starting to feel like spring in my neck of the woods (at least the longer days and sunny weather outside my window look like spring… temps have been lying, though.) I love black and pink during the winter… in my cards, in my clothes… but for some reason, about mid-February, my mind switches gears to navy and coral, sometimes together, sometimes apart. You’ll see lots of coral in my projects over the next few weeks. 😉

I stamped the pretty, lacy bouquet from Something Wonderful three times using the three lightest shades in the Tea Party ink bundle from Altenew, then fussy cut them (but you could also use the coordinating dies). I also die cut and heat embossed a greeting from the Kindness Cards stamp and die set using Platinum Embossing Powder.

I arranged the flowers in a pretty bouquet on my navy A2 card front, then adhered it with dimensional foam adhesive, adding the sentiment die cuts and strip to the bottom corner. I also added a few little floral dots (I can’t remember the name of the stamp set I used… sorry!) using white pigment ink on the blue background, just to give a bit of interest to the card base. The final step was to add some sequins to represent the three small circles at the bottom left of the card sketch.

Now it’s your turn! Use the sketch and your Reverse Confetti supplies to create as many cards as you like and enter them in the linkup! You have until March 29, 2018 to enter your projects to be eligible to win a $20 shopping spree in the Reverse Confetti store!

That’s all for me today! Have a marvelous day, friends!


Reverse Confetti March 2018 Release Blog Hop!

Good morning! Today is the day… you can finally get your shop on with all of the goodies the Reverse Confetti crew and guests have been tantalizing you with all week!

If you’ve been to my blog before, you know that I have a thing for flowers. My creative brain sees everything with a side of flowers. #putafloweronit

So it’s not any surprise that the Tall Blooms set really spoke to me. These next two cards are not the end of my obsession with this stamp set, believe me. The Tall Blooms set is really quite stunning in its simplicity… You can make it super clean and simple, or you can dress it up a bit. These next cards showcase both.

This first card is an exercise in clean-and-simple. This style is not my natural habitat, but it’s definitely growing on me. A well-placed sentiment, a pretty image, a little something extra… when the images are as pretty as the ones in Tall Blooms, you don’t need much. I started by stamping the large floral stem onto white card stock using Intense Black ink. Next, I colored it in a pretty shade of peach using my Copic markers (which I’ll list individually at the bottom). I also selected a lovely get well sentiment in an almost handwritten font. That pretty font reminds me of something my grammy would have written… neat, precise, elegant.

After determining approximately where I wanted my bloom and greeting on the card front, I adhered the bloom with dimensional foam adhesive, then used my Misti to stamp my greeting. (I always get nervous stamping things after other elements are adhered down… what if I screw it up?! Misti takes that issue out of the equation haha.) I added some Nuvo Shimmer pen to the flower and added a twine bow to the stem. Simple, but oh so pretty.

For the second card, I wanted a bit more “zhuzh.” Just a little extra something. I have no idea what these blooms are based on in real life, but they remind me of something blowing on the rolling hills of Texas…. I guess that’s what led me to yellow. Yellow’s not my favorite color to craft with, but I love it on these pretty stems! I die cut and stamped three of these blooms using the Intense Black ink again, then colored them with Copic markers. I stamped another of the pretty greetings included in Tall Blooms using Versafine ink onto a strip of white card stock, clear embossed it, and trimmed it down. (I like the intensity of the embossed black for sentiments… really makes them pop!)

I arranged the flowers the way I wanted them in a pretty little bouquet, then adhered them to the card base with some Scor Tape and added another twine bow. I adhered the greeting using dimensional foam adhesive. The final touch was to add some Hero Arts Crystal Lacquer pen to the yellow blooms to add some dimension and texture.

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’ve enjoyed the new release from Reverse Confetti this week! I’m so happy to have been able to join in as a guest. Thanks so much to Jen and the Reverse Confetti team for having me! Happy Hopping!

Reverse Confetti Blog
Amy Kolling  
Melissa Phillips
Amy Sheffer
Tricia Barber
Kelly Lunceford
Lisa Henke
Amy Rohl
Christiana Reuling
Laurie Schmidlin
Heather Hoffman
Amy Tsuruta
Kathy Schweinfurth
Audrey Tokach
Deanne Kuntz
Emily Midgett <— that’s me!
Jeanne Jachna
Susan Liles