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Emily Midgett

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Tag, You’re It Guest Designer!

Good morning! Today I have the pleasure of being a Guest Designer for the fabulous Tag, You’re It Challenge Blog! I will freely admit that tags are something with which I struggle a bit… I think it’s the smaller canvas. It just throws me a little haha! After pushing lots of paper around on my desk, I managed to come up with this bright little tag:

Cute, right? I used all Papertrey Ink products for this one. The tag itself is from the Tag Sale Quilted die collection, which I cut from white card stock. The stamps and dies are all from the Holiday Folk Make It Market Mini kit. I used Tropical Teal and gold sparkle embossing powder to stamp all of the die cuts.

I popped everything up with dimensional foam tape, then added the tie to the top using white velvet ribbon and some twine.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with! Use my tag as a starting point for your own project, and be sure to link your finished project up to the Tag You’re It blog!

 

Getting my peony fix. 

Good morning! My crafty destash sales have allowed me to purchase a few new sets that have been calling to me, case in point: Altenew’s Just Because. I haven’t played with peonies much lately, so I needed to get my peony fix…. and this absolutely stunning new set was just what the doctor ordered.

I started by heat embossing the larger of the two bouquets from Just Because using Altenew’s Golden Peach embossing powder onto some Canson Montval watercolor paper. I added a few sprigs of foliage from the smaller bouquet in the stamp set to fill out the corner.

After I had embossed the bouquet, I colored the blooms with my Zig markers and damp Silverwhite paintbrush. I added a pale gray halo around the edge of the bouquet. (If you’d like to watch my Zig technique in action, click here or here to watch my videos!) I die cut Altenew’s Script Words once from rose gold glitz paper and three times from white card stock, then glued them all together to create a dimensional die cut. I heat embossed the greeting from the Just Because stamp set onto a thin strip of raspberry colored card stock using the Golden Peach embossing powder.


I added a few sequins from my stash just to add some sparkle.

That’s all for me today! I volunteered to be a helper for my kiddos’ pumpkin patch field trip… 20 three year olds and a muddy pumpkin patch. What could be more fun? (haha) Have a marvelous weekend, friends!

Honey Bee Stamps September Release Blog Hop!

Hi Crafty Friends!!
The Honey Bee Stamps Fall Release has been happening all week, the fantastic fall products are now available in the shop. To celebrate the new release, we are having the Happy Fall Y’all Blog Hop. So grab your cup of Pumpkin Spice Latte, or whatever cozy drink you love and hop along with us to get you in the fall frame of mind!
Be sure to visit each blog & leave a comment, you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun prizes!!! We will be giving away TWO $50 gift cards to the Honey Bee Stamps store.
Winners will be posted on our blog Monday, September 25th.

Have you all checked out the absolutely FABULOUS new release products?! I mean, really. Sunflowers, pumpkins, coffee cups, critters… There’s seriously something for every style and preference. My weekly blogging day for Honey Bee happens to fall on Fridays, so I haven’t posted any release creations yet… which means that I have three projects to share with you today! Let’s get started with the details!

For this first project, I decided to use Seasonal Sweeties and the coordinating dies to create a gloomy, but hopeful card… this one definitely reminds me of Eeyore, so it’s an homage to gray and darker gray. Ha! I started by die cutting and heat embossing the girl with the umbrella and her darling little pup from Seasonal Sweeties onto some watercolor paper, then watercoloring her with my Daniel Smith watercolors.

For the background, I stamped and heat embossed several of the little raindrop stamps included in the Seasonal Sweeties stamp set onto another A2 panel, then did a light blue gray watercolor wash for a gloomy sky background. I die cut some clouds from gray and pale blue shimmer paper to create some rain clouds, popping them up with dimensional adhesive. I added a strip of charcoal card stock at the bottom of the card front, to ground my little duo and create a sort of road for her to be standing on. I heat embossed the sentiment from Seasonal Sweeties onto the same charcoal card stock and used the coordinating dies for the calligraphic words. I popped both my girl and the greeting up with dimensional foam adhesive and scattered some Galaxy sequins about to add some more texture.

For my second project for today, I used the lovely sunflower stamps from Happy Fall Y’all to create this summery project. (It’s been so HOT around here… Fall teased us for a couple of weeks, but then summer came back in full force last week. I am not a fan.) I die cut and stamped several of the pretty sunflowers onto (more) watercolor paper and again watercolored them with my Daniel Smith watercolor paints.

For the background, I wanted a subtle pattern, and sunflowers remind me of a tidy little farm with rolling hills and a chicken coop, and a chicken coop reminds me of chicken wire… and the Hexagon stencil set reminds me of chicken wire. Perfect! (Sometimes it’s tiring being in my head haha!) I blended some Iced Spruce Distress Oxide ink over the top of the stencil, concentrating the color in the bottom right corner, because I wanted it to gradually fade away from my climbing sunflowers. I also die cut one of the coordinating word dies included in the Happy Fall Y’all, both in white card stock,  but I put my Iced Spruce Oxide ink pad directly to the larger “fall” accent die cut to create a custom colored die cut that perfectly matched my chicken wire blending. After arranging my flowers and greeting just so, I added some NEW Fall Equinox sequins here and there to finish the card.

For my final project today, I have used Hey Pumpkin to create a little Halloween card. I’ll be honest. I’ve never made a Halloween card in my life up to this point. My nieces and nephews were too small to understand, and most kids (including my own) don’t really “get” the point of a card at such a tender age. But, my niece and nephew are finally old enough that I think it would be absolutely darling to have my kids send their cousins a Halloween card! And the new Hey Pumpkin set is simply precious. The little hat is optional, so you can make it a non-Halloween project… Plus, that pumpkin was a blast to color. I don’t naturally gravitate towards orange, but I am almost always pleased with the results when I do use it!

To start, I die cut and stamped the main image and the witch hat from Hey Pumpkin using Versafine ink and clear embossing powder, then colored it with my Zig markers. I knew I wanted to put the die cut onto a blended sky background, so I made sure to add some orange behind the trees and around the top edge of the die cut, because you know me and that little white edge…. it makes me twitchy haha.

For the background, I blended Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry, and Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide inks (I’m in love with the new release colors!) down the front of a white A2 panel, then added the greeting from Hey Pumpkin using Versafine and clear embossing powder. I popped up the witchy die cut using dimensional foam adhesive and sprinkled on some of the new Enchanted Plum sequins.

Well, that’s all from me today! I hope you’ve enjoyed all of the fabulous inspiration from the Honey Bee Design team this week…. this release is just so amazing! All of the new products that we’ve been teasing you with are now available in the shop, so go get your shop on! But…..

Be sure to visit each blog & leave a comment, you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun prizes!!! We will be giving away TWO $50 gift cards to the Honey Bee Stamps store.
Winners will be posted on our blog Monday, September 25th.
Here’s the hop lineup, in case you get lost:
Winners will be posted on our blog Monday, September 25th.

Close To My Heart From The Heart!

Good morning! I have recently had the pleasure of playing with the new Close To My Heart From The Heart card kit made exclusively for National Stamping Month. The card kit is chock full of some absolutely gorgeous floral images (right up my alley, right?) and a super cute card set that folds into a uniquely folded piece of stationery sure to wow the recipient. I have several panels ready to be made into cards using some of the stunning ink from Close To My Heart, but for this card, I decided to do what I love and stamp some flowers to color.

I started by trimming off the floral cluster from the “so very much” stamp (altering stamps by trimming certain parts off gets you more bang for your buck! 😉 ) from the From The Heart kit. I lightly traced a circle using a random circle die that I had lying on my desk onto a sheet of watercolor paper, then used that as a guide to stamp my floral cluster into a wreath formation using sticky black ink, then clear embossed it. I used my Zig markers to watercolor the flowers in pretty shades of pink and blush, adding my favorite pale blue halo around the edge of the wreath. (Summer has returned in full swing, with no sign of retreating in at least the next week, and so my brain was creating in summery colors. Summer has my official permission to skedaddle ASAP.)

After I had finished watercoloring, I trimmed down the edges of the watercolored panel. I added two strips of hot pink foil along the edges of a top-folding A2 card base using CTMH’s adhesive dot runner, then added my watercolored panel with dimensional foam adhesive. I wanted to keep the card fairly simple overall, so the final step was to add a simple black die cut thanks over the top of my pretty pink wreath.

Well, that’s all for this project today! This gorgeous From The Heart kit from Close To My Heart is exclusively for National Stamping Month, which runs through the month of September. If you like the look of these gorgeous stamps (and who wouldn’t??), I wouldn’t wait to get your hands on your own set!! I have a few more projects up my sleeve to tempt you, so I’ll share those hopefully within the next week. 😉 Have a marvelous Sunday!!!

Simon Says Stamp and Concord & 9th Stamptember Collaboration!

Good evening! I have something super exciting to share with you at this late hour…. I’m sure everyone knows about the fabulousness that is Stamptember. Basically, Simon Says Stamp has collaborated with several different companies to create several gorgeous stamp sets. They’re limited edition, and they’re fantastic. Today, I have the pleasure of helping to debut the Stamptember collaboration between Simon Says Stamp and one of my absolute favorite companies: Concord & 9th: Oh Hello!

Isn’t this set just so versatile!?? I can’t wait to play with it more. There are so many awesome possibilities. My first thought when I saw it was bokeh. That round stamp was just screaming for a bokeh technique. I started by cutting a white A2 panel, then using Tim Holtz blending sponges and Frosty Pink, Coral Berry, and Ruby Red inks from Altenew blended a pretty background.

After blending my background panel, I used the circular stamp in Oh Hello to stamp random circles using the same inks that I had used to blend the background, stamping off once with the darker of the two colors. I then stamped a few more circles using white pigment ink to further create the bokeh look.

The collaboration set has some beautiful sentiments included in with the brushstroke images. I stamped the “happy everything” onto some pale pink card stock using gold glitter embossing powder, then fussy cut it out. I also stamped and embossed the “wishing you” and “friend” using the same embossing powder onto some thin strips of the same pink card stock. I trimmed the bokeh panel down and matted it on both a pink foil panel and a gold glitter panel. I popped up the sentiment cuts with dimensional adhesive, and finally added a few Blossom sequins from Lucy Abrams.

Well, that’s it! I’m so grateful to Heidi from Simon Says Stamp for allowing me to be part of this awesome collaboration. Concord and 9th is definitely one of my most favorite companies, so that makes this even more exciting and special to me. 🙂  Don’t forget, if you love Oh Hello, I’d advise getting it ASAP, because these Stamptember sets are limited edition. If you’re on the fence, better to just jump off and treat yourself! As a wise friend recently told me, you only regret the things in life that you didn’t do.

Have a marvelous evening, friends!