Celebrate

 

Welcome to this week's LIMES inspiration post!

I chose this card as my inspiration from the gallery of this week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper!

LIST: Colours (blue, green, white, peach, silver) Techniques (die cutting, stamping) Elements (Patterned paper,  layered doily with stamped sentiment in the centre, silver ribbon)

INCLUDE: blue, green, white, silver, die cutting, 

MODIFY: bold pink instead of peach, stenciled rings instead of layered die cut doily, flowers instead of pine branches, silver die cut sentiment instead of ribbon

EXCLUDE: ribbon, sequins

SPIN: square card

I think my all-time favourite layout is a square card with a circle on it. Instead of die cutting a doily, I stenciled two rings - one in blues/aquas and one with pinks. The pink ring was cut with circles a little bigger and smaller than the blue ring, giving a subtle mat. 

I changed the season and added some tiny flowers instead of the more wintery pine branches, and I die cut a script sentiment from matte silver cardstock

Getting More from Dies - Beautiful Butterfly

I'm on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today showing how easy it is to get another look from the new Beautiful Butterfly die!

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Catherine Pooler Designs - Celebrate Bursts & Backgrounds

The new Catherine Pooler Designs Bursts & Backgrounds release is now live!

I made this card with the new Climbing Flowers background stamp and my Zig Art & Graphic Twin Tip markers. And my MISTI.

This gorgeous backgound stamp is a real staple -  you can use it in so many ways to get so many different looks!

I put the stamp on my MISTI door and then coloured a few areas with a pink marker, spritzed it with water and then closed the door.

Then I did a few areas with yellow, spritzed and closed. Green, spritzed and closed, aqua, spritzed and closed.

The water on the stamp mixed the colours to give this faux-watercolour lookc.

To finish it off, I cut 3 celebrates from white cardstock and stacked them up. The top one had been embossed with Wanderlust embossing glitter. I put a thin strip of midnight cardstock behind it to help it stand out a bit, and I love the contrast it adds!

Faux Watercolour (Ellen Hutson / Hero Arts Blog Hop)

Good morning! Today I'm excited to be part of a blog hop featuring Hero Arts and Essentials by Ellen products! Details are below.

I created a fun faux-watercolour background with the Color Me Flower cling stamp from Hero Arts and some Zig Art & Graphic Twin Tip markers. These water-based markers are great for colouring stamps and faux-watercolour techniques. The colours stay vibrant, as you can see.

My sentiment is an EBE die cut embossed with Wow embossing powder and stacked up.

Here's a video showing how I created this card:

BLOG HOP DETAILS:

You can win one of three $25 gift certificates to the Ellen Hutson shop! Winners will be drawn from commenters along the blog hop so make sure to comment at each stop before Friday, June 28th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.

Adelina Starace
Caly Person
Ardyth Percy-Robb <<You are here
Janette Kausen
Carly Tee Minner
Ilina Crouse
Emily Midgett
Libby Hickson
Kelly Griglione
Julee Tilman
Lisa Spangler
Debi Adams
Michele Ferguson
Laurie Willison
Sandy Allnock
Amy Kolling
Therese Calvird
Lydia Fiedler
Julie Ebersole

WOW! Catherine Pooler Blog Hop

Good morning! I'm excited to be part of a Blog Hop with some of the designers from the Catherine Pooler Creative Team and also some designers from WOW! Embossing Powders. We're hopping to show you how well these two product lines work together.

As you can see, I created two cards with stripes. What you maybe can't see is that they both used the exact same 6 WOW! Embossing Powders!

I thought it would be fun to show how different the powders look when you use a different ink as a base. I used the same stripe stamp from Eat, Sleep, Create for both cards. I used the same embossing powders in the same order. But for the Celebrate Everything card, I used Versamark ink. For the Star card, I used black Versafine ink. 

Working top to centre (and then I reversed the order and worked back out to the bottom), I used 

• Wanderlust (exclusive to Catherine Pooler Designs)
• Vintage Romance
• Silver Pearl
• Metalline First Frost
• Mermaid Tails
• Sand Dunes

The Versamark card resulted in colours that were soft, pretty and romantic, so I went with that feeling as I finished the card.

I used the scalloped rectangle from Tags, Etc. to trim the panel, and then I used the stitched rectangle from Postage Stamp dies to create an inner panel, which I popped up. I cut some flowers  from the dies that match Love Grows, and coated them in Versamark before embossing them with Vintage Romance and Mermaid Tails. My sentiment comes from Good Things and was embossed in a seventh variety of embossing powder - Metallic Gold Rich Pale Superfine.

The black ink gave more industrial, metallic results so I kept my card very simple and masculine. Again, I used the stitched rectangle from Postage Stamp dies, but I turned it on my panel a bit so that the stripes would be on an angle.

I simply inlaid the new Star Word die into the panel and called it done.

No blog hop is complete without some prizes. Are you ready for some awesome giveaways?

WOW! Embossing Powder

Any 6 powders of your choice along with a WOW carry case to store your powders safely.

Catherine Pooler Designs

One Set of Life of the Party Inks

(Party Dress, Tutti Fruitti, Tiara, Tiki Torch, Lime Rickey, Aquatini, Something Borrowed, Flirty Fuschia)

The CP winner will be given a code to order the inks for free from the CP online shop.

Winners will be chosen randomly from the commenters who comment on ALL THE POSTS on the hop and will be announced on the WOW! blog during the week of July 2.

Catherine Pooler 

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Ashlea Cornell

Chrissie Tobas

Ilina Crouse

Ingrid Blackburn

Jaine Drake

Jen Carter

Jennifer Colacicco

Jo Herbert 

Josefine Fouarge

Julie Hickey

Justine Hovey

Karen Baker 

Kelly Martin 

Laurel Beard 

Marion Embersom

Melissa Miller

Rosali Bartz 

Susan Powell 

Tracie Pond

Zsoka Marko

Olga Lukaseviciene

WOW!

AJVD - Celebrate

I'm on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with this pretty, easy celebration card.

CC91, CTS269 - Celebrate

Good morning! I'm playing along with two challenges with this card that I made with an extra background I made for this card, ages ago. It worked so well for a frosty background, but I think it works for a pretty spring background, too!

I was inspired by the current The Card Concept Challenge:

And also the current CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge:

I started with my pretty, frosty background and stamped and embossed Mondo Hydrangea into some pink areas. Then, I watercoloured the flowers in a brighter pink for more contrast.

I die cut and stacked my sentiment so that it would be legible on the background. And for my card base, I used the new Oyster Gray cardstock from Ellen Hutson. It is a lovely soft colour, very smooth and perfect weight for a card base.

I used:

Muse 234 - Celebrate

Here's my card for this week's Muse Card Club, where Kim has given us this beautiful sympathy card as inspiration:

I focused on Kim's:
-floral theme
-blue and purple
-popped up die cut white sentiment

I used: