Super Smooth Gel Blending

I found a faster way to ink blend perfectly smooth panels - only one of these panels was ink blended - the other two were 'gel-blended' - can you tell which is which? 

Merry and Bright

 

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 (red, black, pale aqua, yellow, green) Techniques (die cutting, stamping), Elements (3x4 grid of stitched squares, tone on tone stamping, ribbon, black frame)

INCLUDE: red, black, aqua, yellow, green, die cutting, 

MODIFY: 2x2 grid of stitched squares, spaced out, die cut lights instead of stamped images, shifted colours for visibility, added a sentiment,

EXCLUDE: ribbon

SPIN: square card, white border

I love a grid and was fascinated with the colour combination on my inspiration card.  I cut and inkblended squares and some Lawn Fawn Christmas lights, and created dimension by masking the edge of each light and then blending a darker shade (that white 'highlight) is a cut out and shows the base layer of the die cut and also adds dimension).

I put the squares onto a larger stitched square and noted the similarity to a certain tech-related logo...

My original idea was to have tone-on-tone lights on each square, but when it came time to put them on, they just disappeared, so I shifted them along by one square. 

I finished with a stacked up die cut sentiment from Avery Elle.

Butterfly Thanks

Welcome to this week's LIMES inspiration post!

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

LIST: Colours (brown, black, red, yellow, orange, green, blue), Techniques (digital scrapbook/photos), Elements (grid, puppy, white words, flowers)

INCLUDE: black, yellow, orange, green, grid, white words

MODIFY: black background instead of brown, butterflies not puppy, die cut sentiment, pink not red

EXCLUDE: blue, flowers

SPIN: square card, gems

I love a grid and this puppy is adorable!  I used a Paper Rose die to cut 16 identical squares, and I blended 4 colours of ink onto them. Then I stamped some small outline butterflies onto each square, making sure to create movement by having some of them stamped off the edge. I coloured them all in with a black Copic marker.

The hardest part was trying to get them spaced evenly, and straight (don't look too closely! lol!) and then I added my white die cut sentiment.

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 - Day 8

Welcome to Day 8 of this year's 25 Days of Christmas Tags event. All the details can be found here on Tracey's blog.

Today's sponsor is Avery Elle.

You won't believe what I used to make this tag - that's a rainbow garland with raindrop leaves! See it now? You don't always have to use Christmas products for your holiday projects! After I stamped and coloured this, I spritzed it with Avery Elle Clear Shimmer spray for some sparkle!

The berries and sentiment are from an older retired set called Joy to the World.

Summer of Stamping: Camp Wanna Stamp

It's Week 3 of Ellen Hutson's Summer of Stamping and today's set is from Avery Elle, available exclusively in the Ellen Hutson shop! It's called Camp Wanna Stamp - that's my kind of camp!

I'm not in today's hop, but be sure to start at Ellen's blog and hop and comment for a chance to win!

I stamped and coloured the 4 critters in the set with Copic markers. Then I masked them and blended ink around each one.

My sentiment is from Avery Elle's Banner Bits, snipped apart to allow for the fishing rod.

I added some of the 'extra' images from the set, including their little paws.  I also used a black pen to add some eyes - I think this gives them even more personality, don't you?

Fairy Happy Birthday - Avery Elle/Ellen Hutson Blog Hop (and a Sale!)

Good morning! Today some of the Ellen Hutson Design Ambassadors are hopping to celebrate the new Avery Elle Release (see below for hop and SALE details)!

I don't make fully-coloured scene cards like this very often, but I do enjoy it - especially when I can combine sets to create something so fun!

I combined the new Fairy Happy stamp set with 2 older sets - Rainbows and Banner Bits.

I created a colourful scene by placing the rainbow stamp on a panel of white cardstock in my MISTI. I then placed the 3 fairy stamps on top of the rainbow stamp, where I wanted them (I love how that one little fairy is sitting on the cloud!).

Then I picked up just the fairies with the MISTI door and stamped them with black Gina K Amalgam ink. I cut masks from full-back sticky notes and then stamped the rainbow over top.

I stamped some of the little hearts from Rainbows and the little magic fairy-dust stars from Fairy Happy.

I blended some Fiesta Blue ink around for the sky, using a Life-Changing blender brush.

Then came a lot of Copic colouring. After colouring the rainbow and the hearts, I decided to keep the fairies pretty neutral, including their hair!

I stamped the sentiment onto a white banner, and layered it onto a black banner , just slightly offset, to add some definition to the bottom of my scene.

To add sparkle I did 3 things:

1. I sprayed Avery Elle Clear Shimmer Spray all over the panel (and the sentiment)
2. I added Nuvo Aqua Shimmer pen to the fairies' dresses
3. I put Star Dust stickles on the wings, hearts and around the edge of the white sentiment banner.

BLOG HOP DETAILS:

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 Thursday, February 13th at 11:59pm PST. Winner will be notified by email.

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Sandy Allnock 
Ashlea Cornell 
Michele Ferguson 
Emily Mydlowski
Carolyn Peeler 
Kelly Griglione 
Caly Person
Adelina Starace 

MCV100 - Merry Christmas

Here's my card for the 100th Muse: ChristmasVisions challenge, where we are celebrating Christmas in May with 4 amazing prizes for 4 lucky participants! Be sure to check out all the details and link up before the deadline next Monday, May 28!

My card was inspired by Chriss' card here:

I focused on Chriss':
-red & white poinsettias
-blue background
-gold embossed sentiment

I started by cutting out the poinsettias before smooshing ink onto watercolour cardstock for my background. I embossed my sentiment in gold and then I inlaid all the petals and centres back in (It was easier than I thought it would be!)

Here's a video:

I used:

30 Day Colouring - Merry Christmas

Today, Tracey and I are using Avery Elle Merry Flowers for Kathy Racoosin's The Daily Marker 30 Day colouring challenge.

I stamped and embossed the flower image twice along the edge and then watercoloured with Distress inks in traditional colours

I used: