Peace & Joy (Alex Syberia Video Hop)

Today's video is a real mishmash of techniques including a surprise 2 for 1 technique that I wasn't expecting but gave me a couple of really fun cards.

This video is part of a video hop to celebrate the July release from Alex Syberia, so head over to YouTube,  hop and comment for a chance to win!

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LIMES: Disco-Ball Happy New Year

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, yellow, gray, blue, silver), Elements (red card base, partial panel of dotty circles, with silver strip, lots of bling, rectangle matted sentiment, New Year's theme)

INCLUDE: red, yellow, blue, bling, New Year theme

MODIFY: full panel of dots, black instead of gray, black card base, 

EXCLUDE: silver strip, matted sentiment

SPIN:

I love the use of simple shapes to convey a feeling, and these concentric dots have so much energy with their colours and bling - perfect for a New Year's Celebration!

I used one of my 'new in 22 but not used' stencils from Catherine Pooler - this is one of those classic designs that you can get so much out of by changing colours, positioning, techniques! 

I used red (well dark pink), yellow and blue, but mixed my colours to get a full rainbow of colour in my radiating dots.

My numbers are 3 layers of black cardstock, coated with Crystal Glaze and some chunky iridescent glitter - this adds shine, sparkle and a real feeling of celebration!

Black and White cards for Any Occasion

Today's video is all about using black and white to make high-impact cards for any occasion! I explored different techniques and supplies to add lots of visual interest! 

And after watching, if you're craving colour, you can head to Inkhill Revival, where Kerri is showing unexpected and exciting ways to add colour to your cards!

Start with my video here:

Customizing Stamped Images - Lunar New Year Card

Remember last week's video about customizing stamped images? It included this card with 2 mice holding a present.

I made two easy changes to the image to create a Lunar New Year's card to celebrate Saturday's arrival of the Year of the Rat.

I made the sign into a lucky money envelope. And I thickened the tails to look more like rats.

I embossed a gold heart on the envelope and I popped the image up on a panel of white cardstock that had been blended with 2 colours of red ink and one shade of brown for depth. I also spritzed the background with Avery Elle Clear Shimmer spray.

If you missed the video, here's a link:

Happy New Year!

Tonight's the big night! Time to get ready for 2020!

I thought it would be fun to use these Happy New Year stamps from Pretty Pink Posh, differently from how they look in the package.

This did involve some stamp surgery (where I cut stamps apart), but you could also use masking if you're not into surgery!

I started with the double-glass image and snipped between the two classes. Then I used my MISTI to stamp a row of evenly-spaced glasses with bubbles over top.

I coloured the 'champagne' with a rainbow of Copic markers  and then cut 6 masks for the glasses. I created a 'table-top'  by adding a horizontal mask across the panel, and then blending gray ink below the glasses. Then I moved the horizontal mask and added a glow with yellow ink above that table-top line.

The sentiment was cut apart for a horizontal orientation and stamped with my MISTI.

Finally, I added some additional bubbles to the very top of the panel by turning the same glass stamp upside down and just stamping the bubbles along the top using my MISTI again for even spacing.

I coloured the bubbles with the same Copic markers and then hunted through my collection of PPP jewels to add some sparkle by gluing a few of them over top of some of the stamped bubbles. I've listed the mixes below.

Happy 2020

I'm on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with this fun New Year's card!

AJVD - Fun with Foiling

I'm on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with this fun, foiled card using one of the INKBoss Inkpressions plates.

Muse 197 - Happy New Year!

For this week's Muse Challenge, Jenni gave us a scenic New Year's card:

I focused on Jenni's:
-New Year's theme
-partially embellished die cut
-blue background
-yellow 'spots'
-black sentiment

I die cut the happy and partially covered it with Versamark ink before embossing with Enchanted Gold embossing powder.

I watercoloured the background including some gold spatter before stamping the rest of the sentiment in Versafine Onyx.

I used:
-Winnie & Walter Happy die
-Concord & 9th Happy Words
-Kuretake Gansai Tambi

CASology 229 - Toast

This week's CASology Cue Card is Toast!

It's almost New Year's, a perfect time for toasting, so I made a Happy New Year card. I used Papertrey's Keep It Simple: New Year and Neat & Tangled's Starburst die. These 'fireworks' add interest but no clutter to my clean white background.

Now it's your turn - I think this one's going to be especially fun! We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Be sure to check out the DT blogs for more inspiration:

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester
Hazel Hodgkins
Jacquie Southas
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Sherrie Mannion
Tracey McNeely

and this week's Guest Designer: Susan

PSS - Happy New Year!

As you can imagine, I've got all my Paper Smooches stamps and dies close at hand this month as I make cards for my stint as October Guest Designer. So it was easy (don't look in my recycling bin!) for me to come up with a card to play along with the current Sparks challenge photo:

I combined a partial sentiment from Holiday Cheer with the fireworks from Metropolis. I added some Stardust Stickles, and layered up a couple of pierced squares from MFT to finish it off.

CASology 128 - Date

This week's CASology Cue Card is Date!

Inlaid die cuts are a popular trend right now, and I thought that they would be a simple, subtle way to add a date to my very simple New Year card.

I started by stamping the Papertrey sentiment in Versafine Onyx. I then lined up the Memory Box number dies on my graph paper before laying a strip of repositionable tape across their backs (this makes proper positioning so much easier!). I cut them out of the stamped panel and then laid them back in.

Now it's your turn!

Before you go, don't forget to check out all the other DT Members for more inspiration - and be sure to stop by our two newest members - Kymona and Hazel - to say welcome! We've got a sponsor this week, too - Cindy B Designs; be sure to check out CASology for all the details!

Gillian Ross

Hazel Hodgkins
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kimberly Wiener
Kymona Tracey
May Park
Melissa Chipperfield
Tracey McNeely
and this week's Guest Designer: Nonni

Happy New Year!

Tomorrow is Lunar (Chinese) New Year and the beginning of the year of the Horse. I'm well prepared for this occasion, with a whole drawerful of horse stamps!

Red and gold are lucky colours in Chinese design. I embossed my Deadbeat Designs abstract horse and (awesome!) sentiment in gold on red mirror cardstock. I used an embossing buddy to ensure minimal stray embossing powder. I had to 'buff' the panel to get the extra embossing buddy-stuff off after, but I'm pretty happy with my first try at embossing on mirror card! I made the cardbase out of red mirror card.