I have been doing flat lay photography for my cards for quite some time now, but I never invested any research into it until now… I found this class on Skillshare and man is this going to up my photography game. And its all free! And you use what you have in the house. Be sure to check out this video and check the description for FREE TWO MONTH subscription to Skillshare!
Happy Essentials by Ellen Release Day!!! We’ve got Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas covered with this release! I made so many cards (I have shared them all on Instagram if you want to check it out for a jump start)….. but for today’s hop, I want to share the two cards inspired by the photo color collage where I drew all the inspiration from…. I love the inks and yellows and reds together! There is just something about that color combination that speaks to me…..
Let’s first talk pumpkins! Inspired by the paint circles, I stamped a bunch of pumpkins from the Happy Haunting stamp set with a permanent ink, loosely watercolored them and then slapped on a sentiment for good measure! Halloween doesn’t have to be about ghosts and spookiness!
I used the Altenew Pan Watercolors. They are highly pigmented and creamy so they were the perfect choice for coloring in these pumpkins! 🙂
Next up, let’s move to Thanksgiving. I like food! Sweets unfortunately….. But not turkey really. But pie??? Oh yea… So I took some of the elements from the Bear Ware 4 stamp set and created this layout, again inspired by the paint circles in the photo collage. Same watercolors. Just more watered down….
These little stamps were made to coordinate with the Bear Ware bears but hey, they can make a cute card just on their own!
I’ll move on to Christmas cards with this release in my next post, but for now… Check out the hoppers… GIVEAWAYS PEOPLE!
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PRIZES: We’ve got super fun prizes!!! One random & lucky commenter will win $25 to the EH shop and one will win the ENTIRE July Essentials by Ellen release!!! To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along the hop! Comment before Thursday, August 15th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.
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My 17 year old niece if a thrifter. She goes to thrift stores and finds some amazing things. I think she is addicted to thrifting. She showed me these pair of heels she bought and I laughed. For a few reasons. One, they are wild! Like for real. Second, she is a complete klutz so her walking around in heels? HAHAHAH! Cue the ambulance….🤪
BUT!!!! What I also did see in these crazy heels are Gelatos! Yup! So I made a canvas inspired by her shoes! Check out the video below to see it come to life.
I tried something new. It’s called Cyanotype! I went into my backyard, picked some flowers and weeds from my yard and printed them! It was soooo super fun and I love the results. I am going to get frames and put these up in my house! Check out the video below to see just how easy this is to do!
Christmas in July? Absolutely! Get a jump start on your Christmas cards and mentally cool down at the same time! In upstate New York, there is a heat wave going on so I took pleasure in thinking of Christmas and cold weather! I pulled out one of my favorites, Mondo Holly and quickly colored it using 3 colors of Nuvo Shimmer Powders! The Shimmer Powders are very easy to use. I wet the cardstock first and then lightly sprinkled on the powder and let the water do the work! Prior to watercoloring, I did ink the image with Wow Embossing ink and then heat set it using Wow Black Magic embossing powder! This embossing powder has flakes of gold in it so it is quite cool!
To create the card base, I used some Gold Foil Cardstock and then thought, hmmmm. I wonder! I grabbed some Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Moonstone and smeared some of it onto the foil cardstock just to see what would happen when it dried, and OH LA LA LA LA LA! This girl is in love. I’ll be doing this technique a lot! The results are soooo pretty!
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Giveaway:
We’ve got a super fun prize!!! One random & lucky commenter will win $25 to the EH shop! To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along the hop! Comment before Wednesday, July 31st at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.
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