Emily Midgett
Hi there! I’m over on the Honey Bee Blog today with some super sparkly, shiny cards combining some old and some new products with crazy sparkly and shiny cardstock from Tonic. Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to add all kinds of glitz to your projects, and the new Smooch and Adore Buzzwords look fantastic with the glittery Berry Fizz cardstock.
I hope you’ll stop by the Honey Bee Blog and take a peek at how I made these two-fer cards!
Have a marvelous day, friends!
Hi there! I’m excited to be helping introduce the Spellbinders Stamp of the Month Club for January 2021. Each month, Spellbinders releases fantastic new kits full of fun stamps, dies, and/or foiling that you can buy individually or, if you know that you’d love to play with them all, you can subscribe and be automatically sent each month’s release. There is even the option to combine multiple kits (the “value” option) at a discounted rate! You can read all about the kits available here.
This month’s Stamp of the Month (a $20 value for only $10!) is perfect for some sweet valentines! It features several different heart designs that you can use in a myriad of ways to create simple or elaborate valentines. My project features lots of white space and some fun glittery embossing powder. Let’s get started with the details!
To start, I heat embossed three of the designs from the Stamp of the Month on white cardstock using Hot Gossip glitter embossing powder from WOW! Embossing Powders (linked below). This powder is a fun combination of hot pink powder and orange glitter, which I thought would be something traditional-but-slightly-different for a Valentine’s Day card!
After heat embossing each heart and the greeting, I fussy cut the hearts and trimmed the sentiment using my trimmer. I also trimmed three different, very thin strips of colored cardstock: one hot pink, one coral, and one deep orange to coordinate with the different colors in the glittery embossing powder! I mounted these strips on a white A2 card base on the left side of the card front using liquid adhesive.
I also adhered the thin sentiment strip on a slightly larger strip of hot pink cardstock. Before adding the hearts and sentiment, I trimmed the card front down slightly to make it 4″x5.5,” because I knew that I wanted to have the hearts hang off of the edge slightly, and keeping the card front the same width would make it too big to fit in an A2 envelope. I finally adhered all of the different pieces using foam adhesive for lots of dimension!
Well, that’s all for my project today. I highly encourage you to check out all of the fun monthly kits available from Spellbinders. So many amazing different ways to be creatively inspired every month! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!
Good morning! Today is the start of a new challenge over at the Where Creativity Meets C9 blog… and this one is right up my alley:
Watercolor. And Concord and 9th. Eek! I’m all twitterpated.
I have ruminated this idea for awhile, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I started by stamping the Blooms Fill In Background with Smokey Gray Versafine ink onto some Arches Hot Press watercolor paper, then heat embossed it with Hero Arts Silver Pearl embossing powder. (I worked with the Hot Press paper because of it’s smooth texture. The Cold Press is my preferred paper, but has lots of gorgeous texture that would, unfortunately, mottle the heat embossing.) The combination created a lovely pearlescent charcoal finish. I then used my Daniel Smith watercolors in a soft palette of mauves and purples (I’ve always loved silvery gray with mauve…. so soft and romantic.) The heat embossing helps to “contain” the watercolor and makes it pretty easy to add shading, even with no lined guide like we would normally have for our coloring!
After I had finished watercoloring the panel, I used some of the newer stamps and dies from the Valentine’s Day release to create my greeting. To start, I die cut the stitched square from some heavyweight vellum, then added a purple die cut “LOVE” from the same die collection. I stamped the “I love that I know you” from the coordinating Love You So stamp set using the same Smokey Gray Versafine and pearl embossing powder combination, then flagged the ends.
Now, adhering vellum can be tricky. I try to hide my adhesive behind die cuts, so I first adhered my die cut letters and sentiment flag to the vellum square with liquid adhesive, then hid my dimensional foam adhesive behind the adhered die cuts. I wrapped some twine around the bottom third of the watercolored panel and tied a bow, then added my greeting over the top of it.
Now, it’s your turn! Use your Concord and 9th stamps and watercolors to create your own watercolored project and link it up to our blog post! One randomly selected winner will be awarded a $25 shopping spree to the Concord and 9th store, and another participant will be chosen to be a guest designer for a future challenge! Have fun with this one, and please be sure to read the rules for the challenge. If you don’t follow the rules, you won’t be eligible to win! Have fun and good luck!
Well hi!! I am super excited today to be a guest on the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero blog hop for January, 2018! You should have arrived from the amazing Clare Prezzia’s blog, and I’m the last stop on the hop! These kits are just fantastic, and I am SO happy to be a guest on the blog hop this month! If you aren’t familiar with the My Monthly Hero kits, here’s a little summary: every month, Hero Arts carefully curates a kit containing stamps, dies, and complementary inks, papers, and/or embellishments. The kits are always a fantastic value for the price of $34.99, but the value of the individual elements always exceeds the price tag. Talk about bang for your buck! The kit this month is so pretty…. lovely, ornate sentiments and some pretty filigree dies, as well as some really beautiful papers and inks. Gorgeous for Valentine’s Day!
For the greeting, I used Hero Arts Silver embossing powder on vellum to emboss the bottom layer of the pretty “Love” and the ampersand from the main stamp set of the January My Monthly Hero kit. I fussy cut both of them out, then embossed the “sending” and “friendship” onto some plain white card stock, trimmed them down, and blended more Raspberry Jam ink so that they would pop from the background.
I trimmed the blended panel down and adhered it to an A2 sized panel of silver glitter paper to help pull the silver of the embossing together. I then adhered the greeting with some dimensional adhesive, finally adding some Ombre Blush sequins to complete the visual cascade.
The kit is available for a limited time only – once it’s gone, it’s gone. Kits begin shipping from Hero Arts on Friday January 12th. Also, you can now subscribe to receive the kit monthly and never miss one! You get such bang for your buck every single month that it’s totally worth it!
Now, for some giveaway fun! Hero Arts is generously giving away a full kit (valued at over $60!) to one lucky reader! All you have to do is comment on the blogs… One winner will be selected from comments across the blog hop, so the more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win! (If you’ve already purchased a kit and are selected as the winner, Hero Arts will reimburse you for the price of the kit!) Giveaway closes Sunday, January 14th at 11:59pm, and the winner will be announced the following week on the Hero Arts blog.
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