Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

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The Ton Stamps Summer Release: Day 3

Good morning again! Happy Wednesday! Today is the third day of The Ton’s Summer 2017 Release. What a release, huh? Such an amazing range of styles represented!

For The Ton’s Summer 2017, Effie has released 24 new stamp designs and 1 new couture mix! There are four new gifts with purchases that you can obtain with this new release. This promotion does not apply to prior purchases. The threshold amount is calculated before taxes and shipping. This promotion will continue until June 22 at 11:59pm EST or until supplies last. Limit one incentive package per order. No coupon code needed. All incentive products will be added to qualified orders.

Spend $75 or more: Receive a free pack of our new Summer Soiree Couture Mix
Spend $100 or more: Receive a 2×3 Floral Mini Banner Stamp (and Summer Soiree Mix)
Spend $150 or more: Receive a 2×3 Anemone Cluster Mini Stamp (and Floral Mini Banner Stamp and Summer Soiree Mix).

Spend $200 or more: Receive a 3×4 Watercolor Bouquet Set (and an Anemone Cluster Mini stamp, Floral Mini Banner Stamp and Summer Soiree Mix).

**Incentive products will not be available for purchase in our shop until July***

Today, we are focusing on some more absolutely stunning floral stamps:

Anemone Garden
Summer Blooms
Large Peony 4
Large Peony 5
Poppy Border
 Sunflower Border

I have to say, I always feel like Effie can’t outdo the florals from the previous releases, and somehow, she does it every time. I am so in love with these new flowers. Let’s get started on my projects today!

For my first project, I used the absolutely stunning new Large Peony 4 and Large Peony 5 stamps with a little masking to create a beautiful peony cluster that covered the front of an A2 card base in its entirety. They are seriously SO. STUNNING. And, in my humble opinion, if you are not terribly sure of your watercoloring, these are some good florals on which to practice, because the petals are nice and large, which gives you plenty of space to practice your shadows and depth. I started by heat embossing the darker pink flower using some platinum embossing powder, then stamping it again on masking paper and masking it off to add in the other bloom and foliage. I then watercolored it with my Zig markers and a damp paintbrush, going back and adding in more shadows after the first layer had dried.

I didn’t really want to cover up the pretty blooms very much with my greeting, so I cut the gorgeous Brushed Thanks die from some heavy weight vellum, then covered it with Versamark ink and heat embossed holographic embossing powder over the entire die cut, creating some wonderfully subtle sparkle. I used clear dimensional adhesive to adhere the vellum die cut to the front of my card, then added some of the lovely Summer Soiree incentive sequins mix to add just a touch more dimension and sparkle.

For my next card, I wanted to do something a little different than just pull out my watercolors. I’m trying to make sure that I use all of my coloring mediums, and not just the ones I like the most, so I dug out my neglected Copic markers. I heat embossed the beautiful new Poppy Border stamp using some more platinum embossing powder onto a panel of vellum, then used my Copics to color the back of the vellum to create an almost stained glass effect. I added in the sentiment, again embossed with platinum embossing powder, from the Anemone Wishes set that was debuted on Monday.

I added the vellum panel to a plain white card base, adding liquid adhesive just around the very edges of the panel. To cover up the adhesive, I die cut a panel of shimmering aqua glitter card stock using the Double Stitched Rectangles dies to create a pretty frame for the edge.

I love this technique! It’s always nice to try something different, just for a change of pace.

Now, for the fabulous giveaway details:

For each Release Day (1 through 4), The Ton is giving away a stamp set of choice from the new release! So there are four stamps up for grabs! To qualify, you must leave a comment on The Ton’s Daily Release posts. Leave a comment on each Design Team member’s blogs to increase your chances of winning.

There will be an additional 11 stamps up for grabs for commenters on The Ton’s Design Team Blogs. Just leave a comment on the DT blogs during the release days for a chance to win a stamp set of choice.The comment period for all giveaways will close on Monday, June 12th at 11:59pm. Winners will be announced on The Ton Blog thereafter.

The Ton’s June Challenge is now live! For this month, we have a fun color palette challenge so head over now for a chance to win a $50 spree to The Ton’s shop! *Gift certificates only apply to The Ton stamps, dies and gilding.

Well, that’s all for me today! Be sure to check out The Ton’s blog for all of the details about each individual set and see the incredible inspiration from my teammates.

Meet me back here tomorrow morning, bright and early, because we will be debuting the remaining stamp sets, AND everything that we’ve been teasing you with this week will be available for purchase tomorrow morning at 7 am EST!!! Have a fantastic day, friends!

 

The Ton Stamps Summer Release: Day 2

Good morning again! I’m back for Day 2 of The Ton’s Summer 2017 release. Release Week is off to a bang, right? How do you like those new anemone stamps? So, so stunning. We have even more fun products to showcase for you today!

For The Ton’s Summer 2017, Effie has released 24 new stamp designs and 1 new couture mix! There are four new gifts with purchases that you can obtain with this new release. This promotion does not apply to prior purchases. The threshold amount is calculated before taxes and shipping. This promotion will continue until June 22 at 11:59pm EST or until supplies last. Limit one incentive package per order. No coupon code needed. All incentive products will be added to qualified orders.

Spend $75 or more: Receive a free pack of our new Summer Soiree Couture Mix
Spend $100 or more: Receive a 2×3 Floral Mini Banner Stamp (and Summer Soiree Mix)
Spend $150 or more: Receive a 2×3 Anemone Cluster Mini Stamp (and Floral Mini Banner Stamp and Summer Soiree Mix).

Spend $200 or more: Receive a 3×4 Watercolor Bouquet Set (and an Anemone Cluster Mini stamp, Floral Mini Banner Stamp and Summer Soiree Mix).

**Incentive products will not be available for purchase in our shop until July***

Today, we are featuring:

Wave
 Mountains
Beer
Eagle
Basic Banners
Banners Holiday Add On

So many unique stamp sets today, none of which are floral (which totally throws me off haha)!!! The Beer set is fantastic. The layering looks kinda crazy in each individual piece, but when you add the last layer, it falls into place perfectly! I thought it would be so cute for a wedding card when coupled with the Tea Party stamps and dies. To start, I stamped the main beer mug image from Beer with the Citrine Trio and the Crystal Pewter and Smoky Quartz inks to create the foam and the mug itself. I used the dainty, super feminine teacup image from Tea Party, die cut and stamped with the Peony Collection to contrast with the large, hyper-masculine beer mug. I used Noir ink to stamp the “his” and “hers” using the Scripty Alphas stamps. I had originally intended to put these images on a regular A2 card base, but found that the beer mug is so large that it fit better proportionally on a 5×7 card base. After I had mounted my die cut Beer mug and teacup with foam tape on my 4.75″x6.75″ panel, I mounted a 5×7″ panel of adhesive gold foil to my card base, then added my finished panel over the top to create a pretty, shiny gold border.

My other card for today features one of the incentive stamp sets that you can receive with a qualifying order: Anemone Cluster. It’s a mini stamp set, but the flowers in it are so pretty and are arranged so nicely that you can use them in a variety of ways. For this project, I started by stamping the main image onto some watercolor paper four times and heat embossing them with our Rose Gold embossing powder. I then used my Daniel Smith watercolors to paint them in shades of pink-y peach and coral. After painting, I die cut them with their coordinating dies and set them aside.

I die cut one of the double stitched circle dies from some white card stock, then stamped a pretty greeting from a set being released later this week using Ocean Teal ink. I arranged my blooms in a wreath, then laid the die cut circle over the top and mounted everything on a 5.5″ square card base.

Well that’s all for me today! Now for even more fun…. giveaways!!!

For each Release Day (1 through 4), The Ton is giving away a stamp set of choice from the new release! So there are four stamps up for grabs! To qualify, you must leave a comment on The Ton’s Daily Release posts. Leave a comment on each Design Team member’s blogs to increase your chances of winning.

DESIGN TEAM RELEASE GIVEAWAYS
There will be an additional 11 stamps up for grabs for commenters on The Ton’s Design Team Blogs. Just leave a comment on the DT blogs during the release days (days 1-4) for a chance to win a stamp set of choice.The comment period for all giveaways will close on Monday, June 12th at 11:59pm. Winners will be announced on The Ton Blog thereafter.

Be sure to stop by The Ton’s blog for today’s post featuring projects with all of the stamp sets from the talented ladies on the Design Team, plus the full stamp and die images. Thanks for dropping by today, and be sure to come back tomorrow for more release inspiration from The Ton’s Summer 2017 release! Have a marvelous day, friends!