A Blog Named Hero - Mid-month Inspiration

Hello everyone,

I'm back with our mid-month inspiration with A Blog Named Hero and Simon Says Stamp.

It's a bitter sweet post for me as this is the last for the 2017 term.  Be sure to head over to our blog for the design team post for all the details.

Now, for my card I used the Felicity Snowflake die again because it's awesome.  I used the Simon Says Stamp glitter paper and adhered it to an A2 size card base.

I then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder on to black card stock. I then cut it out with my trimmer and adhered it with foam tape to the card. And that is my card.

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Ellen Hutson

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Believe in the Magic

Hello everyone,

I have a Christmas card today that I never got a chance to share. 

I am getting into this galaxy background thing and it's pretty amazing.  When you start it looks like a serious hot mess but once you get the water spots and ink splatter on it, it transforms to something spectacular.  

After creating the background I went on to die cutting the sentiment with some gold card stock dividers I kept from an old planner and a piece of vellum from Michaels.  I cut out the banner out of a piece of black card stock from my stash and added it to the card base as well as the sentiment. 

Head over to my YouTube channel to see how a created this card.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

AAA Cards Game #80 - Silver

Hi everyone,

You are all enjoying the holiday spirit and getting some time with family and hopefully a bit of crafty time in there too.

For my card, I used one of the Scattered Circles dies from SSS and die cut it out of a white card stock panel.  I added a piece of printer paper to the back so that I could add the Nuvo drops in Silver to each of the little circles.  

I used the die again to cut out the middle circle from a piece of metallic card stock and adhered it with liquid glue. I cut down the front panel down a bit and popped it up on fun foam to give it some interest.  I stamped the sentiment with Stayzon black ink because the metallic paper is slippery.

Our Game #80 is up and we thought that Silver would be great to go along with all the Christmas cards we are all making.  This one will be a bit longer as we will be extending it over our Christmas break so it's 3 weeks instead of two.  So head over to the blog to link up your CAS card!

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Stampendous.  

                                    

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Holiday Card Series - Merry Christmas

Hello everyone,

I'm back with more cards for my Holiday Card Series.

I have a set of cards that a coworker ordered and these were fun and easy to make.  

I started out with Canson XL watercolour paper and cut out A2 sized panels.  I used my Koi watercolours and unfortunately they don't have names. 

I added the colour the each panel with water and then heat set them between layers.  I added a little at a time to get the depth of the hard and soft lines.  Once they dried I added some splatter with some black paint from the same palette.  

I took the Merry Christmas sentiment die from Simon Says Stamp and I die cut it four times out of metallic paper that I found at my local dollar store.  I adhered them to the watercolour panels and then added those to regular card stock card bases. 

For these cards I pulled out my distress stains in Barn Door and Tattered Rose and Faded Jeans and Tumbled Glass and just stamped them all over the paper and the sprits them with my Distress sprayer.
After they dried I added some gold and silver splatter with the same colour distress inks.

I then cut out more of the Merry Christmas sentiments from the same paper as the ones above and adhered them to the card with Tombow Mono.  Once that was all done I added the panels to regular card stock card bases and called them done.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Holiday Card Series - Merry Christmas

Hello everyone,

I have another card for my Holiday Card series.  I used some of the images I coloured during Kathy Racoosin's colouring challenge.  

As soon as I coloured these up, I knew exactly the card I was going to make with them.  And so I did!

I stamped and coloured in the images with my copics and then I ran them through my die cutting machine and then added them to the panel with foam tape. I then cut out a square panel using white card stock from Recollections using the SSS stitched square dies. 

As I put the stencil down onto the paper with from Winnie & Walter, I added it diagonally and then ink blended some Fog ink from Simon Says Stamp.  I then popped it up onto a square card base with fun foam. I am liking that stuff more and more for creating dimension on my cards. Especially since I'm one of those who gets so involved with the card I end up forgetting to stamp the sentiment until the card is put together.  This way even if I forget, there is enough support under the panel that I can still add it to the card without destroying the whole card.  

After that was all done, I die cut the word merry three times out of black card stock from Lawn Fawn with a SSS word. It actually comes all together as Merry Christmas and I just cut off the Christmas part and stamped it instead. Unfortunately it has been so long since I did this card I can't remember which set the Christmas came from.  But there are many stamps set that would work.  

To finish off the card I used a white Signo gel pen and added the little dots and dashes to the flower.  

Thanks for stopping  by, see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)

Supplies:

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