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Emily Midgett

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Tonic Studios February Card Kit Blog Hop!

Hi there! Tonic Studios is releasing a beautiful new card kit today, called Compassion and Poppies, and we are hopping to share lots of inspiration with you all! You should have arrived here from Dilay Nacar, and your next stop is Erica Andersson-Burke. These fun card kits from Tonic are exclusive to the Tonic store, and are full of beautiful stamps and dies that come in easy-to-store packaging! (Love that there’s very little waste with these!)

The Compassion and Poppies kit contains a 6×8″ stamp and die set containing 18 stamps and 17 dies. The kit is exclusive to Tonic, and is a limited edition-once it’s gone, it’s gone! Tonic dies cut well and come precut/separated with no burs!Stamps & dies come in high quality plastic envelopes with a tab for labeling and binder holes on the side, which are compatible with Tonic’s A5 ring binders.

I frequently associate poppies with sympathy cards, probably because of the association with World War I remembrances, so I thought I’d create a somber sympathy card for today’s hop using some colored pencils and deep navy cardstock.

I wanted to keep the color scheme as simple as possible, so to avoid white die cut edges that would drive me nuts and detract from my navy-gold-red color scheme, I used only that dark navy cardstock for all of my images. I began by heat embossing several of the poppy images from the main kit and foliage onto some deep navy cardstock using gold embossing powder, then die cutting them with the coordinating dies included in the kit.

I used my Luminance colored pencils to add some bright red coloring to the poppy flowers. It’s kind of amazing how bright these pencils are even on dark cardstock! I die cut a very thin, rectangular frame from the nesting rectangle dies included in the kit (so many useful extras included with these Tonic kits!).

For the card base, I splattered some vivid gold watercolor on an A2 panel of the same navy cardstock, then adhered the die cuts using foam adhesive. I also die cut the standalone branch dies (included in Compassion and Poppies) from some matte gold foil cardstock to add a little extra texture. The final step was to add some golden gems to help round out the bouquet and add a touch of sparkle.

Well, that’s all for my project today!

One lucky winner will win a £50/$50 Giftcard to Tonic Studios and the Compassion & Poppies Bundle! To enter comment on every blog in the hop by 11:59pm PST on March 3, 2021/ 7:59am GST on Feb. 4, 2021. Winner will be announced on March 5th, 2021 on IG and FB, so make sure you’re following all Tonic accounts!

Your next stop is Erica Andersson-Burke. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!

February 2021 My Monthly Hero Release Blog Hop+Giveaway!

Hi there! February is upon us… finally! Welcome to the perfectly rectangular month that is February, 2021! (Look on your calendar if you don’t know what I mean, haha!) The Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit is launching today, and we are visualizing a tropical vacation with some super fun vintage Hawaiian/tiki images and all things beachy and tropical! You should have arrived here from Debi Adams and your next stop is Ilina Crouse.

This month’s kit is full of fantastic goodies, including:

• 6” x 8” Clear Stamp Set
• 21 Coordinating Frame Cuts
• Tropical Flower Washi Tape
• Sand Embossing Powder, 0.5 oz.
• 6 5.5″ x 8.5″ Cardstock Sheets (2 each in Turquoise, Marrs Green, Coral)

This month’s kit is valued at $70, but is available for only $34.99! These kits frequently sell out very quickly, so don’t hesitate to purchase, because once it’s gone, it’s gone! You can also subscribe to ensure that you get your own kit every month.

When searching for inspiration for my project, I turned to Pinterest and typed in “vintage tiki” and found a plethora of fun imagery to help jumpstart my creativity. One of the images that I found was a tiki mask and flowers with a bright red, khaki, and turquoise color scheme, which was super fun to translate into a card using the main kit and the Water Ripples Bold Prints background stamp!

I began by heat embossing lots of the different images from the main kit onto some Sand cardstock using white embossing powder. I then used Caran D’Ache Luminance colored pencils to add lots of vibrant color in a red, white, and turquoise color scheme. I absolutely adore the look of vibrant colored pencils on kraft paper. So striking! After I’d colored everything, I die cut the images with the coordinating dies, included in the main kit.

For the card base, I used the new Water Ripples Bold Prints background stamp to create a tone-on-tone card base. I stamped the image on some Paradise cardstock using Blue Raspberry ink. It looks just like the bottom of a swimming pool to me! Such a fun background!

I die cut a Oval Woodgrain Frames Infinity Die from some white cardstock and popped it up on the patterned card front using foam adhesive. I then arranged the Hawaiian die cuts in a cluster and adhered them using both liquid and foam adhesive. For the greeting, I heat embossed the coordinating sentiment from the main kit on some strips of Sand cardstock using white embossing powder, then added those with some more foam adhesive. The final touch was a few white Neutrals Enamel Dots for a few more pops of white.

Well that’s all for my project today! Now, we have some fun giveaway information for you!
We will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, February 7th at 11:59pm pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win!

Your next stop is Ilina Crouse. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!

Concord and 9th Feature Friday!

Good morning! I’m super excited to announce that I’m one of Concord and 9th’s guest designers the month of September! This month’s release featured all things holiday, and there were SO many amazing stamp sets and dies, as well as some gorgeous new foil papers! Each Friday this month, I and the other guest designers will have inspiration using the latest products from Concord and 9th. I have two projects today, featuring the Silent Night stamps and dies, as well as the Christmas Florals stamps and dies. Let’s get started with the details!

For my projects today, I kept things a bit non-traditional with a teal, gray, and silver color scheme, hoping to highlight some of that lovely new foil in the Neutrals Foil Paper Pack. While red and green are perfectly lovely Christmas colors, I do love using non-traditional colors.

For my first project today, I focused on the stamps in the Silent Night bundle. I began by stamping the large “O come let us adore him” greeting on an A2 panel of gray cardstock using deep teal ink, then used a variety of teals, grays, and white inks to stamp the foliage around the greeting. I wanted to create a shaker panel in which the foliage was peeking around the edges of the shaker window!

I die cut the large top note from the Silent Night die set from a panel of teal cardstock, then backed it with some acetate to create my shaker window. I filled the shaker with some pretty, shiny sequins!

For my second project, I wanted to do some no-line coloring with the gorgeous florals from the Christmas Florals stamp and die set. I stamped the main image using white pigment ink on some deep teal cardstock, then used my C’aran D’Ache Luminance pencils to do some no-line coloring.

After I’d finished coloring the images, I used the new Neutrals Foil Paper Pack to die cut the Christmas from silver foil. I adhered it to the card front using liquid adhesive.

I white embossed the rest of the greeting on some strips of teal cardstock, then used some foam adhesive to adhere them to the card front!

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’ll check out the Concord and 9th blog to see the rest of the inspiration from the other guest designers! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!