Good morning! Today I'm excited to be part of Crafty Meraki's First Anniversary Video Hop!
I made a unique layered tag/gift card holder/graduation card, and I used just one tag die to create these 3 different sizes - watch my video to find out how. And then hop along and comment for a chance to win $100 worth of Crafty Meraki products (all details are in the video description box on YouTube)!
AND don't forget - if you shop on the site, use code ARDYTH10 for 10% off your order!
Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Diane!
I chose this card as my inspiration:
INCLUDE: stamped background, colours, horizontal sentiment
MODIFY: flowers to butterflies, butterflies stamped among the leaves, sentiment is individual letters popped up
EXCLUDE: die cut flowers, generational stamping in the background
This is the result of last nights Craft Roulette challenge, where I was one of the Guest Crafters.
Here are the 4 parameters we came up with:
Project: 6 inch sketch (Mary had 2 we could choose from)
Colours: cool
Element: car or truck
Random: envelope
I often find larger cards to be a challenge - many stamps and dies are scaled for smaller spaces. But the sketch had 4 windows, so that helped.
I cut 4 squares from some of my cool-coloured gel plate backgrounds and added some tone on tone stamping with Ellen Hutson's Wonky Background set.
I cut and coloured the card and people from Penguin Palace's Sweet Ride set, and cut out my sentiment using some Ellen Hutson word dies.
If you are new to Craft Roulette, it's a live cardmaking challenge show, where we spin the wheel to determine 4 parameters of the cards we make. You can find more info here.
Here's a link to the YouTube stream, which will be live on Friday, May 28 at 7:20pm ET. I hope to see you there!
Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Aimeslee, (123scrap).
I chose this card as my inspiration:
MODIFY: add black, stamped sentiment, circle inkblended daisy background
EXCLUDE: aqua,
SPIN: square card
I started by creating the inkblended background. I die cut 4 each of the 3 sizes of Open Daisies from A Jillian Vance Design, from post-it notes, to create masks. I placed them on a panel of white cardstock and blended Tranquil, Serenade and Drive-In ink over top.
I removed the masks, cut a circle from the panel and spritzed it with shimmer spray.
I cut the AJVD Beautiful Butterfly once from white cardstock and blended Pucker Up and Flirty Fuchsia on it before spritzing it with shimmer spray too.
I also cut the butterfly from black and trimmed the wings off before gluing the body on top of the pink/purple butterfly.
Good morning! I'm part of another Altenew blog hop, this time showing the new Paint-A-Flower Lotus stamp. (details below).
I chose to show off small portions of this pond-scene stamp and create a set of very clean and simple cards.
Each of my cards has a different amount of the Lotus above and below water. I added to the texture and shimmer of the water by embossing that portion with sparkly embossing powder.
GIVEAWAY
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/28/2021 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/30/2021.
My new Catherine Pooler inks are here! You knew I couldn't wait to get them in my hands, and I have a quick reel on my Instagram, showing how I swatched them.
If you haven't seen my video about my magnetic swatching system, here's a link:
Giveaway Prizes
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/24/2021 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/26/2021.
Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Robyn!
I chose this card as my inspiration:
INCLUDE: green and pink, flowerd, die cuts,
MODIFY: added yellow, stamped on base with popped out die cuts
EXCLUDE:
SPIN: 'faux' gel-press background
I started by creating a background by simply using my CP Mini inkpads as 'stamps'. I criss-crossed and layered up to give lots of interest and choppy texture. (Pro tip: make sure your inkpads are juicy!)
I spritzed the background with shimmer spray and then set it aside to dry.
I stamped the new Ellen Hutson Mondo Tulip and That Thing You Did birthday sentiment with black ink. Then I chose 3 circle dies that fit around the tulips and cut them from the panel. I popped up the circles with foam tape.
And bonus! Justine and Laurel have joined me for a little mini-video hop to share their thoughts on using white in cardmaking as well!
Start with my video here:
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!
Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Pat (casep).
I chose this card as my inspiration:
INCLUDE: tulips, window, stained glass feel, bottom border
MODIFY: inlaid tulips and border rather than stamped
EXCLUDE: sentiment, corner element
SPIN: square card, inlaid die cuts
I created this card with the new Pretty Pink Posh Tulips coverplate, but I modified it by trimming off the bottom half and then fitting the bottom portion of the frame onto it. If you look closely, you can see the seams on the bottom corners, but I think most people wouldn't notice (or you could cover with embellishements)!
For my tone on tone background, I cut a diamond border out from my inkblended panel, spritzed shimmer spray on it and then laid it back in.
Good morning! I'm excited to be part of a Pretty Pink Posh blog hop today (details below).
Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/12/2021.
