Simply Cardmaking with Laurel Beard

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*Video – A new kind of Color Burst that you must see

Ohhhhhh yes! A new Kind of Color Burst is out there and it’s the color of my favorite Catherine Pooler inks! I’ve got a video showcasing these brand new babies and a few different ways to use them! I show how one color produces a blast of many colors and I show how easy it is to color mix to create your own custom colors! You’ve got to check it out and let me know what you think!!

 

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Pumpkins and Pie: Ellen Hutson August Release Blog Hop with giveaways

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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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!

 

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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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*Video: Amazing Distress Oxide Techniques: 8 Cards

I love distress oxides. So much so, I got rid of my regular distress inks because I seem to always be reaching for these instead!!! Layering, stamping, watercoloring… So many techniques you can do with this special ink blend!!! Check out the video below to see these 8 cards I made all using Distress Oxides!

A few close ups of all the cards I created in the video! Do you like distress oxides? What is your favorite technique using the  oxides? Stamping with them is really fun too! And I love the layering properties of the oxides. As long as you dry the ink in between layering, the colors will not mix with each other. That means no muddy colors!!!!!! I did a lot of layering in these cards! And I did some watercoloring with make up brushes! 🙂

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New to me products that have amazing results

You may be familiar with the Jane Davenport line found at Spellbinders!  At first I thought it was all about mixed media and scrapbooking. But its not!  I created this fun and sparkly mermaid card using some goodies from the Jane Davenport and Fun Stampers Journey line, all from Spellbinders! New mediums were introduced to me and can I just say, woah! In a good way!

To create the water, I used the Modeling Paste tinted with three colors of the FSJ (Fun Stampers Journey) Liquid Color. Once dry, I sprayed the top of the card case with two colors of the FSJ Color Splash. All of these products are brand new to me and when I tried them out, I immediately ordered more of the Liquid Color and Color Splash! Oh, let’s talk about those drops of sparkle! That’s from another new to me product, silks! They look like little jars of nail polish! The one I’m using today is Sparkle Silk! So the sparkle is so concentrated and lovely. Video on these soon!

The texture and shine from the mediums used, oh my!  The mermaid die cut/stamp set can also be used as a swatch, but I cut off the top part of the mermaid and poof, a tale in the water was born!!!! The water scene… I don’t like the beach because of the critters that are beneath, but man oh man I might just jump into this water! The sentiment is a sneak from an upcoming set. More on that soon!!!! Get ready………

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