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Emily Midgett

Ellen Hutson 12 Tags of Christmas: Day 11

Hi there! I’m back with another tag for the Ellen Hutson 12 Tags of Christmas. Today, we’re using the song White Christmas as our inspiration. I thought about using white-on-white (I love the subtlety of white background with white die cuts) but I thought I’d add a touch of icy blue to help make the sparkly snowflakes pop! Let’s get started with the details!

I started by die cutting a white tag using the Happy Christmas label die from Honey Bee Stamps. I heat embossed a sentiment from Season to Sparkle, also from Honey Bee Stamps, using silver embossing powder. I blended a bit of Misty Morning ink using a blending brush around the bottom of the panel. I stamped a few snowflakes from the Season to Sparkle stamp set around the edge of the tag.

Next, I die cut several snowflakes from the Honey Bee Stamps Layering Snowflakes die set using sparkly white cardstock. I layered this over the top of the ink blended and stamped tag.

My die cutter plates are looking a little worse for wear, so the backs of my die cuts have quite a few dents and dings. In order to have a nice smooth writing surface, I die cut another Happy Christmas label and adhered it to the back. The final step was to punch a small hole and add a loop of white ribbon!

Well, that’s all for my tag today. Be sure to check out the 12 Tags of Christmas over on the Ellen Hutston Blog. There are several ways to win some amazing prizes! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

MFT December 2019 Release!

Good morning! Today, I am super excited to be a guest on the MFT & Friends blog hop celebrating the new My Favorite Things release for December! Each month, My Favorite Things has a blog hop with both the design team and a few guests to help introduce their newest products, and I’m super excited to be taking part today! I have two projects showing some of the goodies in today’s release, so let’s get started with the details!

I wanted to keep things in a pretty pink and gold color scheme, so I pulled out some sparkling gold embossing powder to pair with some pink coloring and ink blending.

For my first card, I die cut the Mesmerizing Mandala standalone die from some white cardstock, then pressed my embossing ink pad directly to the die cut and covering it with the sparkly gold embossing powder. I melted the first layer of powder, then covered it with embossing ink and powder again to create a nice thick layer of gold sparkle. I also die cut the new Big Smile Die-namics from some white cardstock.

For the card base, I blended two different shades of pink ink using blender brushes around the edge of a white A2 card base. I adhered the sparkling mandala die cut to the card front using liquid adhesive, then added the smile die cuts using foam adhesive. The final touch was to add some sparkling gems around the edges of the mandala!

For my second card, I used the absolutely beautiful new Rose Garden stamps and dies. I began by stamping the main floral bouquet on some white cardstock using Copic-friendly black ink, then coloring it in a variety of pinks and some pretty lime green leaves.

For the background, I used the new Cross-Hatch Polka Dot Background stamp with some more sparkly gold embossing powder. The gold embossing powder isn’t a super deep, bright gold, but a bit more subtly iridescent, making it an almost tone-on-tone background. I also stamped a greeting from the new sentiment set on some vellum and heat embossed it with some deeper gold embossing powder, then fussy cut the greeting. I adhered the colored floral bouquet to the polka dotted background using foam tape, then added the greeting using clear foam tape. The final touch was to add some sparkling gems!

Well, that’s all for my projects today! I will be back on the MFT blog later this month with some more inspiration using the newest release. Be sure to check out the MFT blog for all of the stops on the blog hop. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Pinkfresh Studio Essentials 3 Release+Blog Hop!

Good morning! Today, Pinkfresh Studio is having the third release in their Essentials line, and I’m excited to help introduce some of the new products released today! We have a huge release full of super useful “essential” dies that are a necessity for your craft room! I have a project featuring the new Stitched Squares dies, so let’s get started with the details!

I’ve been doing a lot of traditional holiday colors lately, so for today’s post, I wanted to do something a bit brighter and spring-like. I began by stamping the main image from the Floral Cluster stamp set on an A2 panel of white cardstock. I then used my Copic markers to color the flowers and foliage in a pretty combination of hot pinks, lime green, and orange. I used a blender brush and Raspberry Bliss ink to add a hot pink halo around the edge of the colored panel.

After I’d finished coloring the base panel, I die cut a black frame using the new Stitched Squares dies and adhered it to the floral panel to create kind of a spotlight. I love how slim these new frames are! So delicate and pretty. I also added a greeting from the Essentials Classic Word Dies cut once from white cardstock and once from white glitter cardstock. I adhered it to the bottom corner of the black frame using liquid adhesive.

The final step was to add some sparkle with a few gems from the Essentials Jewels Mix!

Well, that’s all for me today! Now, as with all of their new releases, Pinkfresh Studio is offering some fun promotions and giveaways:

For all orders $100+, shoppers will receive free shipping within the United States without a code. The shipping will be discounted automatically; simply select the correct shipping method upon checkout.

Each stop on the hop is also giving away a $25 shopping spree to the Pinkfresh Studio store! Simply leave a comment on each stop on the hop; the more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win! Winners will be posted on Monday, Dec 16th on our GIVEAWAY PAGE. Winners must check that page & claim their prize within 2 weeks.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Altenew December Ink Release+Giveaway!

Hi there! Today, I’m so excited to be a stop on Altenew’s December Ink Release Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from Jaycee Gaspar, and your next stop is Zinia Redo. Altenew is releasing three beautiful ink groupings:

I have one project to share with you today using the Tranquility ink set. Be sure to stick around all the way to the end to get information on the giveaways from Altenew!

I love a classy blue and white floral pattern; it reminds me of toile in a French drawing room from the early 19th century. The Tranquility Ink set is a beautiful group of blue layering inks.

I started by stamping the Dainty Bouquet stamp set using the Tranquility Ink stamp set on some crisp white cardstock. I then die cut the images using the coordinating dies.

I created a frame using my trimmer from some more crisp white cardstock, then layered it on a white A2 cardstock base using foam adhesive. I stamped a greeting on a strip of white cardstock, then added the floral die cuts and greeting using foam adhesive. I added a few gems for some sparkle!

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 12/11/2019 for a chance to win.

We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 12/14/2019.

Here’s the full hop list in case you get lost:

Altenew Card Blog
Vicky Papaioannou
Norine Borys
Kelly Griglione
Nathalie DeSousa
Caly Person
Jaycee Gaspar
Emily Midgett
Zinia Redo
Maryam Perez
Jenny Colacicco
Virginia Lu
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Altenew Scrapbook Blog 
Keeway Tsao
Jen Schow
Amber Rain Davis
Laurie Willison
Lilith Eeckels
LauraJane 
Therese Calvird
Mindy Eggen
Svitlana Shayevich
The Hedgehog Hollow
Reiko Tsuchida
Teri Wilson
Agnieszka Malyszek
Kelly Janes
Nicole Watt
Erum Tasneem
Ashley Tucker
Kymona Tracey
Ashlea Cornell

Christmas Layers with Pinkfresh Studio!

Hi there! I thought I’d share my post from the Pinkfresh Studio blog from today. I usually try to keep my holiday cards as clean and simple as possible for easy mailing, but sometimes more is better, right? I kept the color scheme fairly traditional, but with two completely different aesthetics. Let’s get started with all of the details! 

For my first project, I used the darling new Skiing By stamps and dies. I began by stamping several of the images using some very pale ink on white Copic-friendly cardstock. I then used my Copic markers to color the images in.

Next, I die cut the mountains and snow drifts, cutting the snowy portions from white glitter cardstock to add a bit of glitz to the card front. (You can never have too many sparkles on a Christmas card, right?) 

After I’d adhered all of the die cuts using liquid and foam adhesive, I used a blending brush to add some Sky Blue ink to add some sky to the card base. I also stamped a greeting from Skiing By on a strip of paper and added it to the card front using some more foam adhesive. Super cute, but still with a trendy graphic style that I think is darling! 

For my second card, I did lots and lots of layering using several different standalone dies, all from non-holiday releases! I began by die cutting the Geo Floral background die from some beautiful red foil cardstock, which I layered on a white A2 card base. I also die cut an Essentials: Braided Tag from some heavyweight vellum. 

Next, I die cut a Leafy Wreaths die from some bright green cardstock and layered it on top of the vellum tag. I then die cut a sparkling JOY from white glitter cardstock using the Adore Alpha die set. I layered the letters over the center of the wreath using liquid adhesive, then hid some foam adhesive on the back of the tag, adding it to the foiled card base. The final step was to add a red and white twine bow and some sparkling “berries.” 

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