July 26, 2019

Christmas in July? Why not!!!!

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!

Blog Hop Order:

Therese Calvird

Emily Midgett

Laurel Beard – YOU ARE HERE

Kelly Griglione
Michele Ferguson

Sandy Allnock

Carly Tee Minner

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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June 19, 2019

Ice Cream Anyone?

The Hello Sunshine Collection from Catherine Pooler is here!!!! There are FOUR BUNDLES in this collection. You can purchase as a bundle, individually – whatever fancies your sundae. Today I am using some products from the I Scream You Scream Bundle. I love me some ice cream! My stomach and butt prove that point nicely!!!! Using Catherine Pooler Inks and the new stamps was a match made in heaven for this watercolored inspired ice cream cone!

Couldn’t get enough of the ice cream so I used it again. This time I paired it with some super duper fun patterned paper from the bundle!

I added some texture to the ice cream by tinting some glimmer paste with some Mint to Be ink….

I have more projects to share using some other stamp sets from the bundle so be sure to check back soon… I am part of a blog hop so be sure to hop along as there are prizes to be won!

Blog Hop:

Catherine

Kristie
Laurel – YOU ARE HERE

Daniel
Susan
Tracie
Kelly G

Jen Carter
Karen
Lisa
Ashlee M
Ilina
Nanette

Giveaway:

One lucky commenter will win a $25 Gift Certificate Prize to the Catherine Pooler shop! Just leave me a comment below!

June 9, 2019

Voices in my head

I always have things running thru my head…. So this new stamp set from Ellen Hutson was perfecto!!! I stamped lots of the sentiments onto a watercolored card panel with embossing ink, heat embossed in black and then did some simple watercoloring.

I definitely wanted to incorporate the girl with the bun so I stamped and heat embossed it onto some vellum, used one of the dies from the Speech Bubble stamp set and then adhered it to the top of the card panel.

Cards don’t have to difficult to make. Sometimes the simplest of techniques makes the greatest cards!

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June 4, 2019

*Video: 5 easy peasy ways to make Rainbow Cards

Oh giddy giddy gumdrops! I, along with a few other amazing crafters, had the honor of collaborating with It’s Me JD for a fun colorful video hop! The theme is rainbows! I created 5 cards all incorporating some sort of rainbow color! And you know what? You already have what you need in your craft room more than likely!

I love color! Bright colors! Don’t you? Be sure to head to the video and leave a comment there! LOADS of giveaways I say!

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May 29, 2019

Floral 3 Ways

The May Hedgehog Hollow Box was my favorite box out of all time! It was so popular, more were ordered as it sold out so quickly! So many lovely floral sets, plus more! The thing I like about this one as there is a space in the middle for a sentiment. Sure you can make a strip for a sentiment, but this set does it for you! Boom! I did the same layout in three ways…. The first, I colored with glitter markers.