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Emily Midgett

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Where Creativity Meets C9 September Edition!

Good morning! I’m here today with the start of a new challenge for Where Creativity Meets C9: Ink Only! (Also… have you SEEN the new release from Concord and 9th?!!?! Talk about knocking a girl’s socks off…. I’m just going to send them my wallet…. my jewelry… maybe a kid…. I want ALL of it.) The challenge this month is to use a minimum of embellishments, but more specifically…. NO coloring of any kind. This one hurt a little, not gonna lie haha.

I decided to pull out one of the prettiest stamps from Concord and 9th: Flourish. It’s ALL stamping, some with multiple layers, so I really got to play with color combos. I used some beautiful Altenew inks… I love how crisp they are, and the subtle differences in the layers of shading are absolutely perfect.

I began with a plain white card base and stamped the main leaf image in a pretty aqua green, then added the flowers in shades of pink from the Cherry Blossom ink collection. The purple flowers were stamped using the Shades of Purple collection.

Finally, I stamped the gorgeous, bold greeting from Enjoy It All using Jet Black ink. I double stamped with my MISTI to ensure that it really popped out from the more subtly-colored background. Definitely one of the simpler cards I’ve done recently, but I love the impact that just a few stamps and some pretty shades of ink can make!

 

Now, it’s your turn! Simply use your Concord and 9th stamps with some beautiful ink to create a project, then add it to our linkup. You have until 9/29 to link up your project! Have fun, and good luck!

Miss you.

Good morning! Happy Monday! I hope the weather was as beautiful for you as it was here… low humidity, bearable temperatures… gorgeous. I think things are going to go back to more normal July temps this week though. 🙁

I told you last week that I’m fairly obsessed with the new Southern Summer Florals 1 and 2 from the new Wplus 9 release, so much so that I sat down and cranked out two cards in about 1.5 hours (totally doable since hubs had taken the kiddos over to his grandpa’s to ride the tractor! Score!) I loved the first card, which you can see here, created with my limited colors of Oxide inks on colored card stock. Can’t wait to experiment more when the new Oxides come. But this card uses regular dye inks and I love it just as much.

I started by die cutting the Southern Summer Florals 1 (with coordinating dies) and Southern Summer Florals 2 (also with coordinating dies) from plain white card stock. I stamped several of the blooms using different ink combinations of Altenew’s Red Cosmos ink quartet, as well as the Summer Afternoon quartet.

After stamping all of my blooms, I die cut a circle from some A2 sized masking paper using my Double Stitched Circle dies from The Ton. I placed my masking paper on my white card front, then blended Frosty Pink, Coral Berry, and Ruby Red ink from Altenew in an ombre over the masking paper. (A nice little surprise when I pulled up the masking paper: the stitched outer circle was cut so cleanly that the ink blending came through on it, creating a blended stitched border! Not what I was intended, but still a fun development!) I arranged my blooms in a pretty swag, then adhered them using both liquid adhesive and dimensional adhesive.

For the greeting, I die cut Simon Says Stamp’s “miss you” from some plain black card stock, (isn’t that font just stunning?) adhered it, and covered it with (a new to me product) Nuvo Crystal Glaze. I also added some to the black center of the large focal flower to add extra dimension. The final step was to add a few dots of Oyster Grey Nuvo Drops here and there around my floral swag.

Well, that’s all for me today! I am loving these new stamps from Wplus9, and I hope you aren’t sick of seeing them, because I might have another card up my sleeve! 😉 Have a fantastic Monday, friends!