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Archives for September 2015

Shine Brightly!!

Hello Everyone, Bhavana here today with two christmas cards using Hero Arts and Pretty Pink Posh products.

For my first card I stamped the star border from the Hero Arts Sparkle border stamp set. Colored with memento markers. Also die cut the tag using the Pretty ink posh stitched tags. To added a little shine and sparkle I gold embossed the sentiment, added a few Pretty pink posh classic christmas sequins and golden thread. 
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For my second card I gold embossed christmas ornament from the same stamp set as above. Coloured with gansai tambi watercolours. Also again I die cut the oval tag and gold embossed the sentiment. Added a few gold star sequins and golden thread.
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Sometimes the smallest things…

Hi, Jessica here!  We’re finishing up this month’s collaboration with Pretty Pink Posh but I have one more card to share!

Here’s my bright and colorful card using sequins a little differently! I was inspired by the earlier Happy challenge! 🙂
I’ve recently seen a few cards online with a rainbow wash of color using zig markers and I wanted to give it a try!  I started off by taping a 5×6 piece of watercolor paper to a tilted work surface.  Next I scribbled a few lines of color at the top of the paper with my zig markers.  Then I heavily spritzed the top of the paper with water until the color started to run down the paper.  I kept spritzing until I was happy with the coverage.  Then I let it air dry, keeping it tilted so the colors wouldn’t pool and would keep running down the page.  (I also put a folder paper towel at the bottom of the paper to catch the drips…just a little advice) 😉
Once it was totally dry I stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.  Then I masked the sentiment with a little post-it tape and then taped the Hero Arts heart stencil over the watercolor paper and applied a thin layer of pearlescent embossing paste.  While the paste was still wet I sprinkled glitter over the paste, tapped off the excess, and then let it dry.
While it was drying, I took a few strands of metallic silver thread and threaded varying sizes of Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins onto the thread in random groupings.  Then I wrapped the thread around the top of the watercolor panel and knotted it, letting the ends of the thread drape down loosely.
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Colouring on Grey cardstock!

Hello everyone!

Gayatri here today with a Christmas card using Hero Arts stamp set.
Here is my card first.

I love the Holiday Petals and Leaves stamp set from Hero Arts. It has a lot of images to use not just for Christmas cards but also to make fall card. Just beautiful images in both solid and outline so you can stamp the solid images using coloured inks and stamp the outline in black and colour them with different medium.

Of course I wanted to colour but I also wanted to combine with solid images. Thinking outside the box, I decided to use a grey cardstock as my base. The grey cardstock is Fog cardstock from Simon Says Stamp. I started with black heat embossing the sentiment on the centre of the panel. then white embossing some images and black embossing others around the sentiment. Love the combination of black and white embossed image as well as solid and outline images. To colour the images, I have used distress markers, Festive Berries, Peeled Paint, Pine Needles and Peacock Feather. Then I applied some clear shimmer on the flowers. The subtle contrast of these images against the grey cardstock is beautiful. Something different than the white or kraft base. Hope you like it.

I simply adhered this panel on the red card base. I like the colour red peeking out on the sides and complements the red flowers and berries. Finally I have added sequins from Classic Christmas mix from this month’s collaboration partner Pretty Pink Posh.

Hope I have inspired you to start your Christmas card collection for this year. I have listed all my supplies below for you.
Thanks for stopping by today!

Just relax

Hi. Isabel here. One of the product that I loved from the last Simon Says Stamp releases was the ‘Relax’ word die because I have a lot of friends stressed due to the job. So I want to make them relaxing cards to make them smile a bit. Of course this month I will add some bright sequins thanks to our collaboration with the great Pretty Pink Posh.

http://prettypinkposh.com/

And sometimes I try to make cards not obvious. I mean that the message and the composition are deep, they make you think. The card for today is like that.

The central point seems a bottle which you can see half empty or half full, or even sinking under three dark clouds. And the message of the card with this situation is relax. Ok, I know, this card is weird but for sure stressed people can understand it (well, I hope so!).

I used some products from La Pareja Creativa, an European company, such as the border die, the clouds or the bottle.

 
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I hope you liked the card. See you soon!
 

Die Cutting!

Welcome to our new challenge! I’m sure you’re going to like it, because there are SO MANY possibilities!

Our collaboration partner this month is Pretty Pink Posh – thanks so much, Paulina!

http://prettypinkposh.com/

So let’s get right to some inspiration!

Michelle Lupton
Lisa Stein
Chitra

Niki G.

Our fabulous and very generous sponsor, Simon Says stamp, is offering one lucky entrant a $25 voucher!

So, get out your dies and your cutting machine – we can’t wait to see what you create to share with us!  

Michelle’s supplies: