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Emily Midgett

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November My Monthly Hero Blog Hop+Giveaway!

Hi there! Today is the day…. the November My Monthly Hero Kit is finally available for purchase right now! You should have arrived here from Debi Adams, and your next stop is Ilina Crouse. This month’s kit is absolutely fantastic… so many individual elements that work beautifully separate AND together.

This month’s kit comes with a full 6×8 stamp set, coordinating frame cuts, fancy Doorway Die, 5 Fancy dies, 2 plastic ornaments, 6 envelopes, 6 glassine bags, and 1 Glitter Lacquer pen. Definitely a DIY feel to this month’s kit, with so many fun options for creating your own treat bags, ornaments, and tags! The elements of this kit are valued at over $80, but they are yours for only $34.99! These kits frequently sell out ASAP, so don’t hesitate, because it might not be available when you finally make up your mind… once they’re gone, they’re gone! You can also subscribe and have a kit guaranteed for you each month.

We also have some utterly fabulous add-on products this month. I didn’t get a chance to play with them before today’s hop (my kiddos had their 6th birthday party this weekend, which was massively time consuming!), but I will definitely be coloring up some of the adorable gingerbread men and piles of presents during this month’s Daily Marker 30 Day challenge! Here’s a peek at the fantastic products available today, as well:

You can check out all of the add-ons here. Now, on to my project for today!

I absolutely love white-on-white with bright pops of color for holiday cards. To me, nothing says elegance and Christmas quite like bright white with a pop of cherry red! I’ve used the beautiful Fancy Door die from the main kit for my card today, with a few of the additional fancy dies and stamps from the main kit. Let’s get started with the details!

The Fancy Dies that have been included in the last several My Monthly Hero kits are absolutely divine…. they easily pack so much punch just on their own because of the sheer amount of detail included. The other ladies on the team have shown you several examples of how beautiful the Fancy Door die looks with some fabulous coloring added, but I thought I’d show you how pretty the details are without the addition of any extra coloring! (except a few bright red bows, of course!)

I began by die cutting the Fancy Door from the Main Kit from some plain white cardstock, along with the wreath fancy die. I also die cut two bright red envelopes using some Cherry cardstock from Hero Arts. I used my Copic markers to add some bright red to the bows on the wreath and the decorations above the door. This door swings open, potentially to reveal an image or sentiment behind it, but I thought it was beautiful in its simplicity, so I added a bit of tape behind the door to keep things secure.

I used the stamps from the main kit to stamp the welcome mat beneath the door and arranged the mail in the mail slot, adhering them with some Precision Glue. I adhered the wreath to the door using foam adhesive to ensure that the details of the wreath didn’t get lost in the white on white. I adhered the entire card front to a white card base using foam adhesive, again to ensure that the details remained prominent despite the lack of extra color. Super simple, eeeeeasy to mass produce, and, I think, quite elegant!

Well, that’s all for my card today! Now, to celebrate this latest My Monthly Hero release, Hero Arts is giving away a $50 shopping spree to one lucky commenter! All you have to do to be eligible to win is leave a comment on each stop on the hop. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win! Your next stop is Ilina Crouse. Here’s the whole hop list in case you get lost:

The Hero Arts Blog
Amy Kolling
Caly Person
Channin Pelletier
Daniel West
Debi Adams
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Julee Tilman
Laurie Willison
Libby Hickson
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Willis Mariana Gri
gsby
Nichol Spohr
Seeka
Yana Smakula

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!

April 2018 My Monthly Hero Blog Hop+Giveaway!

If you’re looking for the Autism Awareness Hop, please click here.

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

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


Where Creativity Meets C9 November Edition!

Good morning! Today is November 9, (ahem, just where did this year go?!), so that means the start of a new challenge for Where Creativity Meets C9! This month’s challenge is designed to help you pull out your holiday goodies from Concord and 9th and get a head start on some of those Christmas cards!

As soon as I saw the new Blooms Fill In stamps and dies, I knew that I wanted to use it to make floral Christmas cards. You don’t normally see much in the way of floral holiday cards, other than poinsettias. These fabulous stamps and dies lend themselves beautifully to SO many different color combinations. For today’s project, I created a trio of holiday cards lickety split. This set is perfect for mass producing Christmas cards!

To start, I used my MISTI to stamp the large background panel from Floral Fill In three times on an A2 panel of card stock using Altenew’s Emerald ink (SSS|EH). It’s the perfect Christmas green, don’t you think? I used a regular stamp block to stamp the rest of the details on the panels, adding Ruby Red (SSS|EH) to the large flowers, Velvet (SSS|EH) to the berries, Volcano Lake (SSS|EH) to the leaves, and Morning Frost (SSS|EH) to the smaller flowers to add a shadow to a “white” flower. I repeated this process with all three panels. These flowers are super easy to line up, and even if they’re not perfect, it still fits with the hand-drawn aesthetic! Love it.

To finish off the cards, I die cut the unique hexagon shape included in the coordinating Blooms Fill in die set from red foil and red glitter card stock. I added the sentiment from one of my all time favorite Concord and 9th stamp and die sets: Happy Words. This is seriously one of the most versatile (and cleverest) sets in my arsenal. I die cut the “happy ” from plain white card stock and stamped the “holidays” from the coordinating stamp set onto a strip of white card stock, then mounted them on the red hexagons. The final touch was to scatter some Foil Gems on the card fronts! These cards came together SO quickly, and they’re just pretty. I also was able to make another card using bits and pieces from these floral panels, but that’s a different blog post. 😉

Now, it’s your turn! Use your Concord and 9th stamps and dies to create a Christmas project, then link it up to our blog to be eligible for a $25 from our fabulous sponsors, Concord and 9th!  You have until 11/29/2017 to enter your project(s). Have fun, and good luck!

PS- Have you checked out the new Concord and 9th release? It’s TOTALLY fabulous. Such great new sets this month. You can check it out here.

 

More Honey Bee Stamps November 2017 Release Projects

Good morning! Today is the final day of sneak peeks for the Honey Bee Stamps Holiday Release! We’ve got cutie little birds, some fabulous new dies, and today I’m focusing my attention on a cheeky (and utterly adorable) new set called Blah Humbunny. Now, I’m normally not a huge fan of punny sentiments, but these are just snarky enough to make them hilarious and awesome. Let’s get started with the details!

To start, I stamped and die cut one of the two bunny images from Blah Humbunny and some accessories using Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto some Copic-friendly white card stock. Next, I colored the die cuts with Copics, using C00, C1, and a touch of C3 here and there, as well as keeping my Colorless Blender handy to really keep that bunny looking  pure, winter white.

This super clean and simple project didn’t need too much extra… just that cute bunny with the little hat, exasperated expression, and cheeky greeting… so I popped him up with dimensional adhesive, then stamped my sentiment from Blah Humbunny on to the card base with Memento Black Tuxedo ink. I did add some Wink of Stella to bunny’s hat and some Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the ribbon on the gift. I also used a C1 Copic to add a bit of “ground” to the card base beneath where bunny was seated so that he wasn’t floating in midair.

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’ve enjoyed the release projects this week… Remember, everything will be available for purchase tonight on the Honey Bee website at 11 pm PST (1 AM CST!)! We are going to have a fabulous blog hop for you tomorrow, so stay tuned!

Have a marvelous day, and I’ll see you back here tomorrow!