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Emily Midgett

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Hero Arts August 2021 My Monthly Hero Blog Hop + Giveaway!

Hi there! Hero Arts is celebrating their August 2021 My Monthly Hero release today with a blog hop, and we’re all about loving all of the colors this month! You should have arrived here from Debi Adams, and your next stop is Ilina Crouse. This month’s kit is so much fun, great for use with so many different coloring mediums, color schemes, and techniques!

This month’s kit features 4″ x 6″ Clear Stamp Set, Coordinating Fancy Dies, 5.4″ Square Cling Stamp, 5.25″ x 6.5″ Stencil, three Liquid Watercolors (Pink, Indigo, Dandelion), and six 5.5″ x 8.5″ Sheets Watercolor Paper. The contents are valued individually at $70, but the kit is for sale for $34.99! If you love the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kits, you can always  subscribe to ensure that you get your own kit every month. I have two projects to share with you today, so let’s get started with the details!

My first card today features several elements from the main kit, focusing on the cling background stamp and die cut letters included with the stamp set. I began by stamping the cling background on some white cardstock using Embossing Ink, then added some clear embossing powder and heated it. I then blended the rainbow using different shades of ink and blending brushes, using one shade of ink for each circle in the patterned background. Ink colors (in ROY G BIV order, of course): Pale Tomato, Fresh Peach, Soft Vanilla, Mint Julep, Soft Pool, Passion Flower, Soft Purple, and Bubble Gum. Once the blending was complete, I spritzed some White Iridescent Shimmer Spray over the top to add some extra shimmer and shine to the card base.

Next, I die cut a vellum heart using the Heart Infinity Dies to place in the center of the blended background on top of which I placed my sentiment. The vellum provides a grounded area for the sentiment die cuts to rest, so that they’re not just floating out on the front of the card. For the greeting, I die cut the “love” included in the main kit from some Pitch Black cardstock, as well as white embossing the “sending” on a strip of Pitch Black cardstock. I used my gridded craft mat to line up the die cut letters, then adhered them to the vellum heart. I love the crisp black die cuts on that bold, colorful background!

I adhered the sentiment die cuts on the vellum heart using foam adhesive for lots of dimension. Adhering the die cuts to the vellum first also gives you a spot to hide the foam tape so that it’s not visible through the vellum! Sneaky sneaky. 😉 I added a few black adhesive gems to help finish off my rule of threes for the black accents!

My second project features the new Rainbow Heroscape. I don’t love primary colors as a general rule, so I was very specific in choosing non-primary colors for my rainbow, and I just love the result! I began by stamping all of the stripes of the rainbow using Bubble Gum, Orchid, Dusty Blue, Mint Julep, and Soft Vanilla. I then stamped the clouds using Soft Sky, and using my Misti, added a layer of Embossing Ink over the top, then sprinkled Sparkle Embossing Powder over the top and heated it up to create sparkly, iridescent clouds! Such a fun effect with this technique. I also stamped a couple of single clouds using the same technique and fussy cut them all out using some sharp scissors.

Next, I die cut some white and vellum clouds using the Cloudy Sky Scene dies. After determining their placement on my Periwinkle card base, I blended some Passion Flower ink so that it would just peek out of the corner where the clouds would be adhered. I added the vellum cloud with some liquid adhesive, then added the white cloud over the top with some foam adhesive.

I added one of the several curved greetings to the rainbow, then stamped a “happy birthday” (I just love that typewriter font included on the sentiments in the Rainbow Heroscape!) on a thin strip of white cardstock. I adhered the rainbow, clouds, and sentiment using lots of foam adhesive for tons of dimension on the card front. It’s so cheerful and sparkly!

To celebrate this release, Hero Arts is hosting a giveaway!

We will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, August 8th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

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

Honey Bee Stamps Let’s Celebrate Release!

Hi friends! Earlier this week, Honey Bee Stamps released their latest collection: Let’s Celebrate. It’s chock full of fantastic new stamps, dies, and stencils all with a fabulous birthday theme! I have three cards to share with you today using several of these new products, so let’s get started with all of the details!

Making card sets is basically my new favorite thing. I have always loved being “matchy-matchy” as my BFF used to say, to make everything in my outfits coordinate as perfectly as possible, and that is now extending to my cards, ha! This pair of celebratory cards uses images from the new Fancy Frosting stamps and coordinating Honey Cuts in a pretty, super feminine lilac and mint color scheme with a pretty Farmhouse Check background using Thistle ink from Simon Says Stamp.

I stamped the cake, stand, and florals from Fancy Frosting stamps using the new Intense Black ink released by Honey Bee Stamps, perfect for Copic coloring! I colored the images in shades of lilac, deep magenta, and mint using my Copic markers.

I trimmed down a Farmhouse Check background panel to slightly smaller than a mini-slimline and adhered it to a minty card base using foam adhesive. I added the cake die cuts using more foam adhesive, then stamped a greeting using the banner from Fancy Frosting and sentiments from Cake Banner Sentiments. I added some toothpicks with liquid adhesive, then added the banner greeting with a double layer of foam adhesive to make it really pop! Lots and lots of dimension on this one.

The second card uses the same lilac-magenta-mint color scheme, but this time focuses on the cake accessories in Fancy Frosting. I stamped some balloons, peonies, and foliage again using the Intense Black ink and colored them with Copic markers.

I stamped a greeting from the new Inside: Birthday Sentiments on a strip of white cardstock, as well as a Cheers greeting from Fancy Frosting. I adhered them to a slightly smaller than A2 Farmhouse Check background panel using foam adhesive, adding a few Moonlight gems for some sparkle.

My last project features Fancy Frosting paired with the new Bitty Buzzwords stamps and coordinating Honey Cuts. I stamped the cake, happy, and candles using Intense Black, then added some light shadows to the cake using pale gray Copic markers and ensuring a smooth blend with the use of the colorless blender marker. I added some rainbow Copic coloring to the Happy, then adhered it to the top of the cake along with the candles.

I die cut and heat embossed a sparkling birthday sentiment using the new Bitty Buzzwords stamps and coordinating Honey Cuts.

One of the fun new arrivals from this release was a new paper pad that was designed in part by several of the members of the Honey Bee Design Team: Team Tie Dye. I trimmed one of the lovely rainbow patterned papers to A2 size, then layered a strip of sparkling glittery cardstock and added the die cuts with foam adhesive. I added a few rainbow gems to coordinate with the paper and rainbow happy die cut.

I hope you’ll check out the Let’s Celebrate release from Honey Bee Stamps… there are some really wonderful new products! That’s all for my projects today. Thank so much for stopping by, and have a marvelous day!

Ellen Hutson 14th Anniversary+Rainbows and Sunshine!

Hi there! Ellen Hutson is celebrating their 14th birthday, and I’ve created a couple of cards using the newly-released and totally fabulous Big Scripty Happy Birthday die! Rainbows scream “happiness” to me, and these cheerful rainbow cards have a little hint of sass to them to help balance out the sweetness of the rainbows. Let’s get started with the details!

For both of my cards, I die cut the new Big Scripty Happy Birthday from silver glitter cardstock, backing one of the glitter die cuts with heavyweight vellum, and creating a dimensional die cut by adhering two more Happy Birthday die cuts behind the glitter die cut. Both cards also feature Honeysuckle, Grapefruit, Buttercup, Sprout, and Aqua Sky inks from Concord and 9th.

For this first project, I began by stamping the rainbow from the freebie You Are Awesome (a gift with purchase during last weekend’s anniversary sale, but you could also recreate this using the Better Days Ahead stamp set) using Honeysuckle, Grapefruit, Buttercup, Sprout, and Aqua Sky inks from Concord and 9th to create a fun panel of custom patterned paper. I filled in the areas around the rainbows with some little hearts and stars included in the freebie set, then added some black dots to help fill in the white space further.

For the greeting, I heat embossed the sassy sentiment from That Thing You Did on some black cardstock using white embossing powder, then trimmed it down into thin strips. I adhered the dimensional glitter “happy birthday” die cut to the rainbow patterned panel, then added the sentiment strips with foam adhesive, finally adding some iridescent gems to add some sparkle!

For my second project, I wanted to allow the gorgeous Big Scripty Happy Birthday to stand on it’s own. It’s such a generous size that you don’t really need to add too much to your card front to create a quick, fairly gender-neutral birthday card! I created a colorful background by blending Honeysuckle, Grapefruit, Buttercup, Sprout, and Aqua Sky inks from Concord and 9th with blending brushes.

I die cut a rectangular frame from the Essentials Rectangles die set from some more silver glitter cardstock. I adhered it to the blended rainbow panel, then added the “happy birthday” die cuts and another sassy sentiment from That Thing You Did heat embossed on strips of black cardstock. The final touch was some more iridescent gems!

Well that’s all for my projects today. I hope you’ll check out the latest release from Ellen Hutson. So many fun new products, including some great new foiling dies. I encourage you to take a look! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Waffleflower Crafts April Release Blog Hop!

Good morning! I am absolutely thrilled to be taking part in Waffleflower’s 5th Anniversary Blog Hop today! Waffleflower is a wonderful company with beautiful, unique products, and I am so proud to call the owner, Nina, one of my dear friends! I am so happy for their 5 years of success, and I hope for many more for them! You should have arrived here from the fabulous Jessica Frost-Ballas’s blog, and your next stop is Alix Davis’s blog. I have a couple of projects for you today, so let’s get started with the details! Be sure to read to the end to find out all of the fun giveaways that Waffleflower has to celebrate their 5th anniversary!

Waffleflower has released so many beautiful new stamp sets this year alone, and the Rainbow Bridge stamp set is one of my absolute favorites. The stamp set contains a plethora of poignant sentiments, and the coordinating dies are so simple, but so effective in conveying the sympathy you might feel for a friend who’s lost a beloved furry friend. I chose to create a vibrant rainbow using blending brushes and some super bright inks. I taped my A2 card front to the new Waffleflower Mixed Media Mat, then used my blending brushes to blend a bright rainbow of dye ink at a diagonal across the front of the card. Using the Mixed Media Mat allowed for quick and easy clean up after my ink spilled over onto the sides! (Tip: if your coloring medium seems to have stained your mat, a small spritz of stamp cleaner cleans that so-called stain up lickety split!)

I also spritzed the rainbow panel with some shimmer spray, again cleaning up the over spray easily on the Mixed Media Mat. (Please note that these mats will ship mid-April, so if you would like to place an order for currently-in-stock products as well as the mat, you must place two orders to receive the current stock before the mat arrives.) I added a simple white Rainbow Bridge Cat die cut over the top of my blended, shimmery rainbow, then added a simple sentiment strip from the Rainbow Bridge stamp set. So simple, but effective, and the bright colors would hopefully add a spot of cheer for a friend grieving their furry companion.

My second project features the super versatile and useful new Picture Frame dies. I had a Magnolia Copic-colored panel from the latest Daily Marker 30 Day challenge, and I thought it would look lovely with a “frame.” I die cut the largest of the new Picture Frames die from some white woodgrain card stock. I centered the colored magnolia so that it was dripping down from the top corner of the frame, then trimmed it so that it fit perfectly. I added a touch of a purple-y gray ink blended in the bottom corner, then added a stamped and embossed label.

The final touch was to add some jewels for a bit of sparkle.

To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave a comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 4/7/19 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts on this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower blog on 4/9/19.

Receive a FREE Mini Egg Die with orders at $50 or above. Limited 1 per customer; While supplies last; Valid through midnight 4/7/19.

Your next stop on the hop is Alix Davis’s blog. Good luck and happy hopping!