Simply Cardmaking with Laurel Beard

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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!

 

Blog Hop Order:

Laurel Beard – YOU ARE HERE

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 Tutorial – Nuvo Stone Drops: They are so much more than just drops!

Nuvo Stone drops are my jam! It took me a while to actually sit down and play with them, but when I did I was stunned with the results! Forget making just little drops with them. You can do so much more!  Check out the video below to see 6 new ways you can use these babies!

 

Here is a snippet of some of the cards you will see in the video tutorial:

What do you think? Do you have Stone Drops? Give some of these techniques a try and let me know if you do in the comments below!!!!!

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Spellbinders Vintage Treasures Blog Hop with Giveaway

Welcome to the Spellbinders Vintage Treasures Blog hop! The Vintage Treasures release contains 14 different die sets that are amazing! I’m working with 2 of them today.  The Tiffany Lavaliere Etched dies and Adorned Notepad Etched dies.   First up, Stained Glass! The photo above shows it under a bright light so you can see all the details of this piece… I filled the opening of the dies with Jewel Drops to create the look.

The next two photos show it up in the window and I am absolutely in love. I used a few dies from the set to create this “butterfly” – it wasn’t intended to be used in that way but I saw the shape and couldn’t shake it! LOVE LOVE!

 

Next up, a fun memo pad Adorned Notepad Etched dies set. I added some details to the exterior and interior with the Starburst Lines Stencil and then used the remaining dies to add details and embellishments.

Here is what the inside looks like:

And complete with some memo paper!

 

Blog Hop Order:

Spellbinders
Hussena Calcuttawala
Jean Manis
Mallika Kejriwal
Jennifer Snyder
Laurel Beard – YOU ARE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!
Anita Kejriwal
Melody Rupple
Marie Heiderscheit
Brenda Noelke
Mindy Eggen
Varada Sharma

Giveaway:
To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers – selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. Giveaway closes on Sunday, July 14th 11:59 pm EDT.

 

I hope you enjoyed my projects and all the others in the hop! Be sure to comment. The more you comment, the better chances you have of winning!!!

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Hello Summer: Sparkly Uncontrolled Watercolor Background

For my card, I chose to go a sort of mixed media route! I create a watercolored background using a combination of the Liquid Color and Color Splash! I even stamped the stars with Color Splash by squirting the Color Splash onto my glass mat, pressing the star cluster into the color and then stamping! It resulted in a very cool, artsy uncontrolled watercolored background. But, let’s add some sparkle shall we? (All the supplies I used are linked at the end of this post).

I took a whole bunch of clear glitter and mixed it in with the modeling paste and then spread it over the entire background! It is so hard to capture the real sparkle of this card on camera so you will just have to trust me that this card sparkles like no tomorrow! So naturally, the sentiment choice was perfect. 🙂

 

Blog Hop Order:

Spellbinders
Bibi Cameron
Keeway Tsao
Mariana Grigsby
Nichol Spohr
Laura Williams
Desiree Kuemmerle
Marie Heiderscheit
Tina Smith
Michelle Short
Mindy Eggen
Justine Hovey
Francine Vuilleme
Laura Volpes
Laurel Beard – YOU ARE HERE!

Giveaway:
To celebrate this release, we are giving away a $50 gift certificate to one lucky blog reader – selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. Giveaway closes on Monday, July 1st, 11:59 pm EDT. Winners will be announced on the Spellbinders blog.

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