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Hi, I’m Emily, and I have a slight obsession with colored cardstock and ink. In my opinion, few things have such an impact as your color choices. I love crisp, clean, bright white projects almost as much as I love intense, bold, vibrant color. I have a trio of projects today using products from The Greetery, cardstock from Hero Arts and Concord and 9th, and inks from Pinkfresh Studio… deep pinks, emerald green, turquoise, and lilac. Let’s get started with the details!

Today’s projects feature the Fresh Floral Background Stamp, Budding Beauties Summer, Pitcher-esque (which is on sale!), Fresh Florals, and word dies: Sentiment Starters, Slim Alphabet, Let’s Have A Word: Beautiful. I paired them with pretty inks from Pinkfresh Studio: Emerald City, Meadow, and Mint, Candy Violet, Soft Lilac, and Lavender, Raspberry Bliss, Bubble Gum, and Sparkling Rose, and Aquamarine, Mermaid Cove, and Tidal Pond.

My first card uses the Pitcher-esque stamps and dies, stamped with Aquamarine, Mermaid Cove, and Tidal Pond ink. I stamped the flowers from Budding Beauties Summer using a variety of pinks and purples, then die cut them using the coordinating dies.

I stamped the Fresh Floral Background Stamp on a panel of deep teal cardstock using Emerald City. (Side note-I absolutely love the combination of the deep teal cardstock with the green ink over the top. Such a unique combo that I’m definitely going to have to remember for the future!) I arranged the flowers and put them with the pitcher, adhering them to the patterned card front using foam adhesive. I added a bright white greeting cut from Sentiment Starters and Slim Alphabet and threw a few iridescent gems on for a touch of sparkle.

My second card features the same stamps and dies, but with a bright pink tone-on-tone color scheme. I stamped the Fresh Floral Background Stamp on some deep pink cardstock using Raspberry Bliss ink. I trimmed the edges down and mounted the patterned panel on a full size A2 panel of mint cardstock, so that the mint was just peeking out on the sides.

I arranged some more of the flowers from Budding Beauties Summer on the floral patterned card front and adhered them using foam tape. I stamped a greeting from Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You and die cut it with a flagged strip from the Sentiment Suite Basics dies. A few pink gems finished it off!

My final project features a deep green background. I stamped the Fresh Floral Background Stamp on a panel of green cardstock using Emerald City ink, then used a blending brush to blend some more Emerald City ink in the center. I love this technique, because it helps to create a spotlight area for the sentiment! I trimmed the green patterned panel down slightly and mounted it on another A2 panel of hot pink cardstock.

I stamped a few individual blooms from Fresh Florals and fussy cut them. I die cut a sentiment from Let’s Have A Word: Beautiful using white cardstock and adhered it in the center of the blended patterned panel using liquid adhesive, then arranged the fussy cut florals around it. I adhered the flowers to the card front with foam adhesive, then added some more gems for sparkle.

A trio of springy, preppy cards!! I don’t often get the time to just sit and play, so it was great fun to pull out these beautiful stamps and dies from The Greetery and gorgeous inks from Pinkfresh Studio. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

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Good morning again! Today is the release date for the April My Monthly Hero kit… and it’s a fiesta in a box! There are so many sweet southwestern images included in this kit, and it’s a bargain at $34.99 (valued at over $70!). These kits frequently sell out, so it’s always a good idea to subscribe if you want to ensure that you’ll get your hands on one! The kit & add-ons go live in the Hero Arts store on Monday April 2nd at 1pm eastern/10am pacific. The main kit is available for a limited time only – once it’s gone, it’s gone. Kits begin shipping from Hero Arts on Friday April 6th.

You get so many fun, super festive goodies in this kit… including some absolutely amazing reactive ink cubes that I am dying to get my hands on! (They didn’t have them in time for us to get them for project creation, and boy oh boy do they look funnnnn!)I used the main kit for this festive little scene on the Hero Arts blog on Saturday, so I thought I’d make use of some of the fabulous add-ons, including Shake Your Bones and that amazing Blanket Pattern Bold Prints for my blog hop post today.

I made a little trio of cards using the images in Shake Your Bones. I just watched the tail end of the movie Coco, and these images totally remind me of that movie, even if I only watched just the last 15 minutes of it! (And, let me tell ya, even if I only watched 15 minutes of it, it was still enough to make me absolutely bawl. I shudder to think of the weeping that would occur should I ever watch the whole thing!) I have always loved the combination of bright, sunrise yellow, super hot pink, and bright purple… I even have called it my “fiesta” combination. I kept that color combo in mind when creating my cards today. For each card, I kept the layout nice and clean, with lots of white space and pops of color and pattern.

I stamped each skeleton image and coordinating greeting using Hero Arts’s Intense Black ink onto some Radiant White card stock, then colored them using Copic markers, which I’ll list individually below. I kept the coloring simple on the bones, using just C1 and C3 along with my Colorless Blender to help add some subtle shading to the bones.

Once the coloring was completed, I stamped the Blanket Pattern Bold Prints onto some black card stock and heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I love the subtle texture that adding the clear embossing gives to the background. I trimmed each white stamped panel down to leave plenty of space around the border to keep that pattern plenty visible, then adhered the white panels to the black patterned panels with dimensional foam adhesive.

Aren’t those so cute!? Clean, simple, but those images are so darn cute that you don’t need a whole lot of “extras,” amirite? Just some coloring, a bit of texture, and lots of clean white space. Perfect!

Now, for a giveaway!!! We are giving away one kit as a prize to one blog reader – selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. The giveaway closes Sunday, April 8th at 11:59pm, and the winner will be announced the following week. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win! (If you purchase a kit and then win the contest, Hero Arts will reimburse you for your purchased kit!) Here’s the full hop lineup, so you can leave your comments:

The Hero Arts Blog
Laurie Willison
Yana Smakula
Janette Kausen
Nichol Spohr
Ilina Crouse
Kathy Racoosin
Clare Prezzia
Lydia Fiedler
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Kelly Latevola
Jana Millen
Amy Tsuruta
Emily Midgett<— you are here
May Park
Libby Hickson