Laurel Beard

because art shouldn't be so serious

Do you succ? Video, Giveaways and more!

Do you succ? I’ve got a great video to share with you today using the brand new Mondo Succulents stamp set and some other new goodies from the latest Ellen Hutson Release! I am part of a super fun blog hop complete with prizes! You should have arrived from Kelly’s blog!

I have a video that walks you thru the entire shebang from beginning to end creating two very different cards using the same stamp set. Welcome to the world Mondo Succulent Stamp Set……

 

Now let’s take a close up look at the cards. The first one stamp the succulent as it is intended. I love it because it looks like I masked areas of the stamp to create this succulent in a pot, but nope! It’s one stamp.

To jazz up the card further, I took the brand new Essential Squares die (NO CUTTING A PART THE DIES REQUIRED – YES YES YES), laid the right onto my watercolored piece and cut… The center square I popped up with some foam dimension. Cool, eeh????

The second card features the exact same stamp, just carefully colored with watercolor markers in small areas to create a totally different look. I didn’t want to take the time to paper mask (because I’m lazy) so doing it this way was perfect. Check out the video to find out how you can do this too!

And the sentiment? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! The Succulent Sentiments stamp set has so many funny sentiments it was hard to choose!

 

GIVEAWAY
We’ve got super fun prizes!!! One random & lucky commenter will win $25 to the EH shop and one will win the whole March 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, March 12th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.

 

Next on the hop is Emily Midgett!

 

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Funny Happy Birthday Cards

Sometimes, all you need a good ‘ole sentiment to make some really fun birthday cards! For these cards, I used the sentiments from the That Thing You Did sentiment set from Ellen Hutson and hand painted some birthday cakes and make some really great, and funny, birthday cards! This first card is my favorite because I love the white cake against the gold washed background.

This next card features a few painted stripes to form the cake and then the addition of flowers and leaves here and there. Yes, I need to work on painting leaves.. They sorta look like blobs right now, but hey… the sentiment is funny.

 

 

If you aren’t a painter, you can draw the cakes with a pen or even some Crayola markers. Get creative! The recipient will love it…..

 

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Metallic Watercolored Amaryllis

Who doesn’t love metallic watercolored Amaryllises?  And best thing is, you need very few supplies to recreate this beauty! You don’t even need watercolored cardstock.  I stamped the flowers from Mondo Amaryllis several times with Embossing ink onto regular black cardstock and heat embossed using Wow’s Ultra Fine white embossing powder. Then I watercolored them with Altenew’s Metallic watercolors…. It’s so shiny and so pretty! Once that was all dry, I die cut them with the coordinating die and layered them onto a card base.  The sentiment is from the Totally Random Sayings 1 stamp set. I love the bold, thick font. I heat embossed with the same ink and embossing powder as the flowers. The sentiment is popped up with some X-Press foam tape (on sale I might add).

What do you think about the metallic watercolors on black cardstock? I like that some of the black still shows thru….

Goodies used:

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In The Weeds + Giveway

In the Weeds

Do you ever feel in the weeds? If you do, you need this stamp set and die from the latest Ellen Hutson Release. The beautiful floral cluster is a gem! The coordinating die cut is also amazing because it delicately cuts out the die and leaves gaps between some of the leaves so some color can peek thru from your base layer!

 

It’s equally as gorgeous without using the die…. Super fun to watercolor.

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Giveaway:
We’ve got super fun prizes!!! One random & lucky commenter will win $25 to the EH shop and one will win the whole November 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, November 14th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.
Clickable Links to the new release:
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Save Money: 9 Christmas cards with just 1 stamp set

Want to make handmade Christmas cards but don’t want to break the bank by buying up a lot of product? Don’t worry! I’ve got you covered! Today’s video tutorial features 9 different cards with just 1 stamp set!

I even used the same ink colors throughout all the cards and minimized the other product (just 3 embossing powders, embossing ink and a glitter pen)….. So hopefully, this video will give you some inspiration for your holiday cards! Or just ideas on how to stretch out a stamp set you might already have in your stash!!!! Here is a close up look of all the cards I made in the video:

 

One of these cards took about 20 seconds to make. Any guesses which one????

Goodies used: (clickable links available)

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