A Blog Called Wanda

The Greetery Confetti Collection! Day 2 - Celebrating the one year anniversary of The Greetery!

Helloooooo! Welcome to Day 2 of the product reveals for The Greetery's Confetti Collection! We are celebrating the one year anniversary of The Greetery, with beautiful products perfect for parties!! I'm so excited that I get to share all of this with you! It is my pleasure indeed! What was your favorite thing from yesterday's reveal?? Aren't those balloons gorgeous? EEP. Today is more and more goodness to spark your creativity! All the new products will be available tomorrow, Friday 5/29 at 10am EST! 

Today the design team and special guests are featuring the following new products: Pinwheel Party stencils, stamps + die, Cake Pops Collection: Cake Pops die, Cake Pops stand, Cake Pops Number Candles, Cake Pops Banner, Cake Pops Sentiments stamp. Whew - that's a lot of awesomeness! I am sharing some party favor treats and a card with you today. 

I remember a few weeks ago, opening my box from The Greetery, and seeing this suite of Cake Pop stamps and dies. I just sat there with my mouth open! Like who thinks of this???? I was blown away. My creative juices were flowing fast and I thought of so many ideas! I decided on a pretty color palette based on these party fans I have in my craft room - beautiful modern girl colors.... They are called cake pops because you can add candies or other surprises inside the bubbles. I created some cake party favors to share with you, and a sweet little cake stand too. OMG you guys!!! I can't take it!!! 

Aren't these the cutest thing you've ever seen??? Those tiny banners?? Stop!! I made two cakes, based on the color palette in my party fans - there's another photo later in my post. The dies come with frosting, and flowers, and banners, and bows and a cake plate....it just goes on and on with the details. Fully customizable for any occasion. I am thinking birthday parties, and bridal showers, and weddings, and Halloween even! Anything! Just change the colors and they work for anything. I filled mine with jelly beans, which you can find in all colors...again, make the project your own! I had fun die cutting and putting everything together. The pieces are very easy to assemble too. 

 

And that pretty aqua cake stand?? That's a die set too! It's SO easy. Cut out one top, and four bases, and glue them together! Adorable. I die cut a second top out of vellum and tucked it under the aqua part. You can just see the vellum poking out from underneath. I also used white ink spray to add white splashes on it. I wanted it to look like blue milk glass... 

 

 

 

Here is the cake in my hand so you can see the size and scale of it. 

 

Here is the party fan that inspired my color palette! My paper choices are from my stash.... I used the party fans to stage my photos and I love how it all turned out. So happy and fresh! I always love a pop of gold or silver....

 

My background set up with some roses from our garden...

 

I used some of the flowers, and the bows to add a bit of flair to the sentiment banner. I used Copic Markers on all the flowers to add a bit of depth to the cardstock. Enamel Dots and white splatter too (cuz you know me...)

 

Here is the top of the cake with all the flowers assembled. Can you imagine making this in the bride's PERFECT favorite colors??? So special. 

 

 

I also added a few flowers onto the front of the cake. It's very easy to assemble the favor. The Greetery will sell the clear bubbles... You fill them with candy or treats and then glue the bottom on! The rest really is customization to how little or much you want to add. The numbers dies are so fabulous too - you can make numbers pop out the top of the cake!

 

 

 

And my final project for this Release Week is a card made with the Pinwheel Party stamps, dies and stencils! This stencil set is remarkable!!! Betsy again thought of everything!! And, as always, a use/directions guide will come with your stencils making it super easy to get amazing results. The first thing I thought of when I saw these products was - Fourth of July patriotic bunting!!! That idea just took off and sparked my color palette and everything else. This finished card is a 5.25 inch square card. I wanted more area for those stenciled images.

 

Red, white, blue and gold! Totally patriotic and festive!! Look at the detail of those pinwheel dies!!! I used the stencil to add white ink over the dark blue and the red medallions.... LOVE. I splattered everything with gold ink also. 

 

Look at that fun Let's Party stamp! Guess what? It has a matching die!!! 

 

 

 

In this photo you can see all the stenciling.... It looks so complex, but really it is SO EASY. I used four colors of ink and some small sponge daubers. That's it! It's four stencils and you can line them up to create this gorgeous look. You can even use more than two color families - the possibilities are endless. (I cannot wait to see Betsy's samples!)

 

I added the gold crepe twist die cuts and some gold centers for the pinwheels. Also a few matching enamel dots!! I hope you can feel my excitement about this. :-)

Thank you for coming by today! Remember the release will be for sale on Friday 5/29 at 10am EST.  I'm predicting a sell out! Isn't everything so amazing?? I'm so proud to be part of this team! It's a pleasure and honor to make projects to show you. XOXO

PRIZE ALERT! The Greetery will be giving away two $50 gift cards for the Day 2 Hop!!! Comments left on all the blogs will be entered into the giveaway. Winners announced Friday, 7 AM on The Greetery Blog! Good Luck!

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see all the supplies used in today's cards! (Affiliate links used).

 

 

DAY TWO BLOG HOP LIST

DESIGN TEAM AND SPECIAL GUESTS!

Kay Miller

Laurie Willison

  Dawn McVey

Heather Nichols

Keeway Tsao

Angelica Conrad

Kelly Lunceford

Norine Borys

Wanda Guess

 

Special Guests:

Melissa Phillips

Dana Kirby

Laura Bassen

Ashlea Cornell

The Greetery Confetti Collection! Day 1 - Celebrating the one year anniversary of The Greetery!

Hello friends! OH BOY! Are you in for a treat this week! It's a brand new, beautiful, amazing, sweet, creative, unique and awesome release from The Greetery! The Greetery is celebrating their one year anniversary this week! And, the products are all about celebrating! The collection is called The Confetti Collection. Think parties, birthdays, celebrations, festivities!! For the next two days the Design Team will be doing project and product reveals. And then everything will be for sale on Friday 5/29 at 10am EST! I am hard pressed to think of another stamp/die release that is as perfect as this one. Everything is golden. I had the best time creating with all the supplies. I made six projects!! Today I'm sharing four cards. Tomorrow, another card, and some pretty party favors. Can't wait to show you! Lots of pictures today! Hope you are doing well this week. Thanks for coming by. XO

First up is a birthday card made with the creative Balloon Bouquet stamps and dies, along with the Big Balloons Die Set. Only Betsy would think to make a giant balloon stamp with FLOWERS inside of it! OMG. I made a "celebrate" card using the word stamps (in the prettiest font). I also used the Ticker Tape Background stamp. This could be a birthday card, a shower card, a retirement card, anything that calls for a celebration. 

For size and scale, this finished card is an A2 card size. The balloon is big!! I lined up the florals and leaves using my MISTI - two shades of pink and two shades of green. I heat embossed the word on the top with white embossing powder. The blue background is also stamped. I stamped it three times with the MISTI to get even ink coverage. 

 

I colored the background with blenders and Distress Inks. Then I stamped the Background stamp over the blended background with the same color! Makes such a pretty background for the balloons. I used the balloon die set and cut out two more balloons from vellum to use as accents on the card. The strings were die cut from silver cardstock. I love a bit of sparkle!! 

 

Next up is a very graphic birthday card using the Big Balloons Dies and another sentiment from the Balloon Bouquet stamp set!! I love how this came out. You could use any colors to match the celebration or the person's favorite colors! I could even see this being used as an invitation to a birthday party. The finished card is A2 and I covered the card front with some gingham from my stash.

 

The big balloon die set comes with the string and the little pieces to use as highlights. (Again Betsy thinks of everything!) I die cut a bunch of balloons out and attached them to the card. Then I used my paper trimmer to get a clean edge. The main balloon is mounted on the card with foam tape. It is also heat embossed with white embossing powder. Looks so nice against that vivid red. (This is one of my favorite Summer color combinations)

 

 

 

This third card was made using the brand new Think Happy stamps and dies!! I also used the previously released Silver Linings Dies.... They are perfect together! This stamp/die set is a beautiful half rainbow with a cloud filled with flowers! Oh so sweet and cheerful. The sentiments have a cool, modern retro feeling. It's alllll nice! The finished card is an A2 card base in gray, layered with silver and then white.

 

I die cut the rainbow and the flowers from the same colors of cardstock. Pretty bright Summer colors. I splattered some white ink all over everything too. It is very easy to assemble everything. The color combos are endless!!! 

 

I die cut the clouds dies from white cardstock to fit along the bottom of the card. I used the new Moon Dust Stickles gel to make the clouds sparkly. I easily applied it with my finger!! It dries pretty fast - so fun. I added a few raindrops embellishments too. (Supplies are at the bottom of my post)

 

And, lastly, an elegant and classy birthday card made with the Birthday Blooms stamps and dies!! This stamp set has pretty floral sprays that you stamp and mount around beautiful words. Another super versatile set!! This finished card is an A2 purple card base. I layered white and then kraft. The kraft layer was stamped in Versamark Ink with the beautiful Windowpane background stamp. Then I splattered it with gold paint. 

 

I stamped and die cut the floral sprays. Then I die cut an oval and mounted the sprays around the oval. I heat embossed the words in gold embossing powder. The birthday was embossed onto vellum (love) and the happy was embossed onto purple cardstock. I added a few pearls as accents on this card. 

 

 

Thank you for coming by today! Are you as excited as I am!? It was really hard to keep this secret! And....wait until tomorrow!!!! EEK! More projects tomorrow from the team (and guests) and then the release will be for sale on Friday 5/29 at 10am EST. 

PRIZE ALERT! The Greetery will be giving away two $50 gift cards for the Day 1 Hop!!! Comments left on all the blogs will be entered into the giveaway. Winners announced Friday, 7 AM EST on The Greetery Blog! Good Luck!

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see all the supplies used in today's cards! (Affiliate links used).

 

DAY ONE BLOG HOP LIST

DESIGN TEAM AND SPECIAL GUESTS!

Kay Miller

Laurie Willison

  Dawn McVey

Heather Nichols

Keeway Tsao

Angelica Conrad

Kelly Lunceford

Norine Borys

Wanda Guess

 

Special Guests:

Melissa Phillips

Caly Person

Dana Kirby

Kelly Martin

Jill Hawkins

Summer Happy Mail!

Hi everyone! Hope you're enjoying a peaceful Memorial Day Weekend. I can't believe it's the end of May and the start of Summer already. What a strange year it's been already. We totally missed out on Spring. We are of course, spending the long weekend here at home. How are you? How are things where you live? Here in Sacramento things are starting to slowly open up and it feels a tiny bit more normal to be out doing errands and things. I'm so grateful for that. I hope you and your families are doing well. It's been a while since I've blogged a card. I've been busy making things and doing things - but nothing I can share just yet. 

For today's post I created a cute and cheerful happy mail card! Summer time happy mail. I colored this awesome image a month or so ago for the 30 Day Coloring Challenge. But I had never quite finished it into a card. I got up this morning and decided to complete it! Came in the craft room with my kitty assistant...Some quick ink blending...and we have a card! The finished card is an A2 card base of kraft cardstock.

 

This stamp set comes with little letters to tuck into the mailboxes! And it comes with the dies! I love it when everything comes together like that. I colored the mailboxes with my Karin Brush Markers! This was my second time using them, and yep, I'm sold on them. They are easy to color with and I love the color palette!!! (They are on sale this weekend too! 25% off) I stamped the image with my MISTI and colored with a paint brush and water with the markers. 

 

I needed a scene for my mailboxes! I die cut the clouds background and some hills too. I got out my ink blenders and some favorite Distress Ink colors and colored blues and greens. I also splattered water and ink onto the backgrounds. I dried everything with my heat tool. I stamped happy mail onto the bottom green hill panel. The mailboxes were colored and stamped onto watercolor paper. The hill and clouds are stamped onto Bristol cardstock (makes for easy blending). 

 

Here is just the image after I colored it! It's perfect for pencils or Copics too.

 

This is the brush marker set that I have! It's the 60 piece set. I love it so much! It was a gift from my husband last year!!

 

Markers are on sale through Monday!!

 

Here's a close up of that awesome cloud background die! And you can see the ink blending and splattering too...

 

I attached the mailboxes to the card using foam tape for dimension. 

 

For the past month or so I've been trying to be good about mailing letters! Here is one stack I sent out. I've sent three stacks so far... I'll get to everyone soon I hope! It feels good to actually mail out all these cards. Do you hoard your cards or mail them?? 

 

And here's a photo of the local strawberry patch by my house. OMG they are so delicious. Straight from the field and so ripe and juicy! I eat a lot of strawberries!! I can't wait to get back out to the Farmers Markets in town. I'm hoping they open up soon. Nothing like that fresh California produce for summer cooking. YUM.

Thanks for stopping by today!!! It's good to see you!!! Next week is the amaaaaazing new release from The Greetery! It's the one year anniversary collection. Lemme tell ya. Better save up your pennies. Just sayin. LOL. I cannot wait to share my projects with you!! I put extra love and care into them this time in honor of Betsy's accomplishment!! Happy start of Summer to all of you! XOXO

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supplies I used for this project. (Affiliate Links Used)

There's gnome place like home... Fun with Lawn Fawn!

Hey everybody! How are youuuuu? I'm so super duper mega excited to share this card today finally! This card came together in parts...and it's finally all done, put together, and photographed and ready to blog! Yeah! (And the dies are finally back in stock!) It's made with awesome new and old stamps that I love from Lawn Fawn. I combined lots of stamps sets and dies to create my gnome home to show you! This card represents me and my husband at home sheltering in place! LOL. The little couple actually looks like us! My husband has been growing a beard for four weeks! - the first time I've seen him with facial hair in the 27 years I've known him! This pandemic is doing weird things to everyone. So here we are in our little mushroom house trying to stay positive. There's gnome place like home my friends...

This card has a lot going on - and I'm posting tons of pictures to show you everything. The finished card is a 5.25 inch square card. I needed more real estate for everything!! There's Copic coloring, die cutting, stenciling with distress inks and glitter. What more could we ask for!? This card began with me wanting to finally use that fun mushroom house die set. So I started there...

 

See - that's us - out on the front porch! Hee hee. We're happy and still smiling and holding hands. Who wouldn't be happy in that mushroom?! The mushroom house is a Lawn Fawn Die Set. I die cut all the pieces from papers in my stash. The top of the mushroom is red and underneath the dots is cream paper. To make the red top stand out more, I actually die cut three layers of red and glued them together. It looks really nice and clean like that!! I also used some white paint splatters on parts of the card.

 

There are lots of little mushroom all around and even a cute snail. Everything was colored with Copic Markers and then I added white gel pen accents and glitter accents. See that fern in the background?? We have one sweet little fern growing in our front yard so I went and cut some for photo props. I'm getting very creative around here since we can't go shopping. 

 

I totally eyeballed this sentiment and thought I had plenty of room to make it fit. WELLLLLLL it was close!!! I used my MISTI to line it up exactly right. Whew. I stamped right over the stenciling of the sun rays. The little window in the house has Unicorn Stickles on it.

 

One of my favorite color combos is red and aqua. So I knew I wanted the little house to have an aqua door. The way the die is designed - the door opens! SO freaking cute. The die set also comes with the little lantern part too. Adorable. I put a red sweet heart on the door. 

 

For the background I used the MFT Radiating Rays Stencil and three colors of yellow Distress Inks... EASY!

 

This photo shows the construction of the background of the card before all the goodies were attached. Hills, sunshine, gingham....

 

Look at that pile! SO much fun coloring everything!!! 

 

I took a photo for Instagram for the Daily Marker 30 Day challenge. It was just the mushrooms and a cute little gnome who lives in my craft room!

 

This is another photo I took for Instagram. You can see what the house looks like before glitter and white gel pen accents and the heart. You can really see how the small details really make all the difference. I hope you will try some of these tricks!

 

 

All the elements and images were attached to the card with foam squares and circles.

 

I added some sparkles to that cute little snail. And oh how I love the details in that crooked chimney. Sigh. 

 

 

 

 

 

Truly, there's gnome place like home! I'm not sure if I will mail this card or not. I might get a cute red frame and frame it for my craft room! What do you think? It makes me happy, so maybe I'll keep it. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! I looooooove this card and I hope it makes you happy too! Maybe I can bring a smile to your face today! I sure hope so. Stay healthy and stay crafty. Love you all! XOXO

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supplies used in today's project. (Affiliate Links Used)

Taylored Expressions - New Rainbow Kit launch!!!

Hey there my creative friends! How are you these days? I hope you are doing well! I hope you are finding joy in crafting and being at home with your family. I am here today to help launch something that will surely bring a smile to your face! Taylored Expressions Somewhere Over the Rainbow Card Kit! YAHOOOO! It's so pretty, and cheerful, and happy!! I am super excited to be part of the team today featuring the first projects made with the kit. I love a good rainbow - but who doesn't? They are the perfect crafty theme for right now!

The new kit has two amazing stamp sets, two sets of dies, a layering stencil set, rainbow envelopes, and delightful stickers, and MORE! Click here to see the entire kit! It's Taylor's first kit, and if this is any indication of how the kits are going to be, we're in for a BIG TREAT! The kit is $75.00 which I feel is a great value. All the kits will come in their own pouch too, for storage and a cute sticker on the front. Taylored Expressions always has free shipping over $50 so your kit will include the shipping. 

I made two cards to show you today. Let's look! For this first card, I combined the kit with a TE Embossing Folder, and some pretty vellum. I used the rainbow die, the clouds dies and one of the stamp sets from the kit. The rainbow die is slightly wonky and playful - I'm already obsessed with it! My finished card is an A2 white card base. The embossing folder layer is a light gray cardstock.

 

I die cut the sweet clouds from vellum and affixed them together with a dot of glue. I used the sentiment to cover where I glued the clouds together and also where I attached them to the card. I heat embossed the sentiment onto black cardstock for a graphic pop.

 

I used non traditional colors for my rainbow - heck - use your imagination! The rainbow strips were attached to the card with liquid glue.

 

This is the perfect card to send to a friend right now! And oh what a happy day it will be when we can get together and hug, and craft in person again! 

 

My second card is also an A2 white card base. I layered pretty teal cardstock and then a white panel. I used both of the stamp sets to make this one layer card. Clean, simple, and fast. Oh, and flat for mailing. The perfect mass production card! Get out your pretty ink pads and go to town with it! Use any colors you like. It's so fun that the rainbow layers are all different!! The sentiments are curved to wrap across the rainbow, but I can already think of many other uses for those curved sentiments!!

TIP: I used the graphic stamps by themselves to make a rainbow! They are perfectly sized to go over the top of the rainbow die layers or the stencil layers! I just wanted to show a different way of using them! There are so many possibilities (I can't wait to see what everyone else made!)

 

 

THE FULL KIT! $75.00

 

In the kit you will receive a rainbow of envelopes and the MOST ADORABLE happy mail stickers!! (Once you order your kit, you will have first dibs to order more of those stickers. YES please!) 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by today! It's good to see you! And launch something happy and new. CLICK HERE to visit Taylored Expressions and see the new kit and all the other amazing products. 

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supplies used for today's projects. (Affiliate Links Used). Be well! XOXO

Pinkfresh Studio New Release - April 2020 - Blog Hop!

Heeeeyyyyyyy creative and crafty friends! Thanks for stopping by today! It's a fun blog hop today to celebrate the brand new release from Pinkfresh Studio! Everything they make is fresh and pretty - and this release is just that - fresh and pretty! I love being able to join the awesome crew at Pinkfresh to share the love. You should have arrived here from Tae-Eun's blog! Welcome! So glad you're here.

The new release is live now for shopping! CLICK HERE to go to their website and look around at the new things! I have two projects to share today. Please read all the way to the bottom of my post for details on prizes and shipping deals!! 

First up is a card made with the fabulous new Diagonal Stripes Die and the new Whole Lot of Awesome stamp set! The finished card is a 4.75" square card. I used heat embossing, vellum, and some pretty flowers too!

 

I started this card by choosing a modern color palette of lime, aqua, coral and grey. That's where my inspiration came from for these projects. Some of my favorite colors. I used those four colors with vellum and bright white! I first die cut the Diagonal Stripes one time from each color paper. Then I layered them onto a thin piece of paper using an adhesive roller. Once I had the strips in order, I used a Stitched Square Die to cut them into a perfect square for my background. 

 

I used this gorgeous new stamps and white embossing powder to emboss the sentiment onto a vellum strip. I splattered the vellum with white gloss spray also. I wrapped the vellum around the square/stripes layer and the grey bottom layer. I affixed it on the back using adhesive runner. I made some flowers using the Lovely Blossoms Stamps and dies.

 

Here is my pretty pile of stripes!!

 

To finish off this card I used pretty, shiny, bright white enamel dots for the flower centers and accents. 

 

 

 

 

Next up is a pretty trio of tags I made using the Fillable Pocket Tags and the brand new awesome Bows Dies! I used the exact same color palette (because it makes me happy!) and also used vellum and white. I'm going to save these pretty tags to tie onto gift bags and wine bottles. I love to have handmade tags in my stash for when I'm putting a gift together. You could also glue these tags onto a card front - the ideas are endless! The white tags tuck into the grey sleeve. 

 

Here's a close up of that pretty bow! I accented it with silver cardstock. I do love shimmer and vellum together! The tag set comes with smaller dies that cut out the designs. I love this concept!

 

 

This is the other bow in the new die set. I love that it's really modern and different!! 

 

I splattered white glossy spray onto the grey parts of the tag holders. I also used the same enamel dots and twine as accents.

 

Here are my little tag holders!! You can see those accent dies in the background.

 

 

 

I die cut the beautiful Leafy Envelope Die using vellum and then snipped off the top part with my scissors. This way, the leaves look like they're busting out of the top of the tag holder!! I love how this came out.

 

 

 

These would make wonderful Christmas tags - with red and green and maybe pops of gold cardstock instead of silver! An entirely different look with the same supplies. 

Okay, that's it for my projects today! Thank you for coming by! Next up on the blog hop is Yasmin Diaz! To see the entire blog hop list, please go to the Pinkfresh Studio Blog!

PRIZE ALERT PRIZE ALERT PRIZE ALERT!  Pinkfresh Studio will be giving away the full release on the Pinkfresh blog, Instagram feed & YouTube channel. WOWZA! Each blog stop will be giving away a $25 gift card on our blog posts! So be sure to leave a comment here and on all the other blogs. The winners will be picked from the comments. Pinkfresh will pull the winners & post them on May 8, 2020 on their Giveaway Page. Be sure to check that page & claim your prize within 2 weeks!!

Pinkfresh is also offering free US or discounted international shipping on all orders $35+ from April 30th to May 7th!

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supplies used for today's projects! (Affiliate Links Used).

Watercolor Sketch Book Card!

Hi creative and crafty pals! It's time to post another card... How are you holding up? I hope you're doing okay and staying healthy and happy. I'm starting to fade and burn out, if I'm keeping it real. My positive attitude is now not quite so steady. I'm worn out and weary - tired of the anxiety and the unknown. It's truly been a test. I can feel the weight of knowing that we will all be so different once this is over. I'm sending each one of you a virtual air hug right now. No matter how you're doing, it's totally okay. Grace. 

Crafting remains my one respite from the stress and overthinking. I can get my mind off things by coloring and painting and stitching. So that means I've had lots of projects to share. Today's card was made with water color paints and some cute Waffle Flower stamp sets. The finished card is an A2 horizontal card base. I layered a stenciled panel over the card base, one other layer and then my colored images. It's going to be perfect for one of my crafty friends. 

 

I stamped all the images with my MISTI onto water color paper. The MISTI is best for wc paper because sometimes you have to stamp a couple of times to get a crisp dark image. I used my Mijello Mission Gold 36 watercolor palette. It's my favorite true watercolor paint palette! I used warm earthy tones of greens and browns and then popped in a little pink and blue.

 

After I watercolored everything, I die cut out all the pieces using the matching dies. I set everything aside to work on the stenciled background. 

 

I used a cream cardstock panel and die cut it with a Stitched Rectangle Die. I used Distress Inks and daubers to color in that pretty leaf stencil from Pretty Pink Posh. I edged it in brown and green and also did some water splatters onto it. I wanted my card to conjure up the image of being outside painting in the woods!

 

I used this image below to show the images for the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge! I love creating a little scene for photos!

 

I heat embossed the sentiment in white embossing powder onto black cardstock and then die cut it out with a stitched banner die. I used a few enamel dots to pop a bit more of the aqua blue color onto the card. 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your kind comments, your support and love, and for coming by my blog to visit! I'll keep crafting as long as my brain still has mojo! Thinking of you! XOXO

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supplies used for today's card. (Affiliate links used)

Hello from the garden! I tried No Line Watercoloring - and I loved it!

Helloooooo my sweet and crafty friends! Happy to see you here on this Monday! I am SOOOO happy to finally be sharing this post with you. It took me forever to edit all the pictures and get this one ready. I love how this project came out. I tried something new to me that I've been interested in forever. No line water coloring! And I used some brand new tools too. I have a lot to tell you about in this post. I am a convert to this technique already and excited to try more images. I used one of my favorite stamp sets for this project because there are tons of small and pretty stamps to color in. I hope my post will inspire you to try no line water coloring if you haven't already!! 

This finished card is 5x5 inch square card made from wood grain paper. I layered another layer of wood grain paper and then the pretty gingham. I wrapped the top two layers in natural twine and then affixed that to the card base. The top layer is a water colored circle and I'll talk more about that later in this post. The images were all colored with Karin Brushmarkers and die cut out after they were colored. 

 

This is probably the best photo to see up close on the coloring. Here's how you do it! I used Antique Linen Distress Ink to stamp all these images onto a sheet of watercolor paper. This color ink is a very light beige so it will 'disappear' as you color over it. That's the 'no line' part of it. Usually I would stamp in black and color in the images - the lines. With this technique it looks like I painted the images!! Aren't they pretty!!?? I'm so excited.

 

The sentiment was stamped onto the top watercolor circle using a MISTI. 

 

I water colored the circular background, splattered it with white paint too! All the little gardening images were attached to the card using foam dots. The stamps and dies are all from Altenew. LOVE. 

 

 

 

I'll talk a bit more about the markers and the technique here... I used small paintbrushes, clean water, and the Karin brush markers. The markers are filled with watercolor paint. You can write with them (think brush lettering) or paint with them as I did here. The colors are GORGEOUS!!! I have the Zig markers too and I think I prefer these new Karin Markers because the colors are softer, and that is more my style. I did not mix colors at all... The set I have has 60 colors and that's plenty! I found that the markers worked best with a wet to wet technique. I put a bit of water onto the area I wanted to color and then touched the marker tip to the water. It spread so nicely and was easy to work with my brushes. Like so easy. I can't believe I haven't tried this sooner.

 

I really took my time with the coloring of these images. I got lost in the process and let my worries go! I love coloring like that. I would say it took me about two hours to color everything. I used quick bursts from my heat tool in between colors to get nice separation of the different colors.

 

This is what the set of markers looks like. They come in this very cool packaging too. Easy to store away and they look pretty in my craft room. I think they will never run out of ink! They are fat and juicy. I'm hooked. If you buy the entire set, it works out to less than $2 per marker which is a great price.

 

 

 

Here are all my little images before I die cut them out. I adore those sweet gardening boots!!

 

The circular background layer is kind of hard to see, so here's a photo of it! I used a stitched circle die and made it from watercolor paper. I smushed some Distress Inks onto a stamping block for my palette. I used LOTS of water and a big paint brush and swirled the colors around. I wanted it to look like ground and sky. I showed my husband this part and he said it looks like a globe! LOLZ. Super simple way to get a nice background when you don't want it to be just white behind your images.

 

 

Everything was attached together with foam tape and foam dots! 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for visiting my website today! I wish you a blessed and happy and creative week ahead! I'll be back later in the week with another water color card! Until then, stay well! XOXO

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Cupcakes please! Revisiting an old favorite stamp set!

Hey everyone! Happy Saturday! I'm popping in with a quick blog post to share something cute and fun!! The other day Taylor was doing a Facebook Live and she used this older stamp set and I was like "I LOVE that stamp set!" So I thought I would go through my photos and find some of my projects I've made over the years and share them with you! This is hands down my favorite cupcake stamp set from any company!! And as you'll see, I love to pair it with the Sprinkles Embossing Folder. 

For five weeks I have been cooking EVERY meal for us here at our house. I've been keeping it super healthy - salads, grilled chicken, light pastas, etc. and I've been super proud of me. Yeah me! LOL. Well, yesterday we had pizza and ice cream and extra toasty Cheezits. Lawdy be, I'm so ready to go out and have someone else cook for me! Yesterday was the first time we ordered food too. I guess the streak had to come to an end. So today I'm thinking of making some cupcakes. 

I'm sharing three cards with ya, all made with the Simply Stamped Cupcakes set!! This first one is a perfect birthday card! It's an A2 card covered with patterned paper. Iayered pretty pink cardstock and then cream embossed with the embossing folder. The sentiment was gold heat embossed onto a strip of vellum. Some Diamond Stickles - of course - and you're done! The stamps are super easy to line up either with a MISTI or your stamp positioner. (Also, they are delicious red rubber!!)

 

Next up I took the same exact concept and made it into a Halloween card! Just a few yummy bats and a green cherry! I made a Christmas one with holly too but I can't find that photo anywhere!!! 

 

For this most recent one I used the awesome blender brushes and the Polka Party stencil. Then I used the embossing folder on an accent circle to frame the cupcake. This is a fun way to use your embossing folders - cut your shape first and then emboss so the embossing doesn't get squished.

I told you this was a quick post! I hope you're having a nice weekend! The weather is nice here and I think we're going on a trip to Puerto Backyardo! LOL. Seriously, some Vitamin D can't hurt. I feel like a vampire stuck inside. Love you guys! XOXO

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Sending a Squeeze!

Hello friends! What day is it? It's Friday!  I'm excited to have a project over on The Greetery Blog today! I'm posting here too because sharing is caring! Every Friday on The Greetery Blog there is a feature called TGIF = The Greetery Inspiration Friday = and one of us on the design team shares a card or project with everyone. Well, today is my day! Yeah! I'm sharing a bright and cheerful card for you this Spring Friday! As the season changes to Spring I am always inspired to use vivid and happy colors in my crafting. Right now I am making everything with yellow! I guess we can all use a little sunshine, right? And I know I could use a squeeze! (I'm definitely a hugger)

 

I'm featuring one of my very favorite The Greetery stamp sets - Lemon Blossom. So fresh and pretty, and so many different ways to use this stamp set. I combined it with the beautiful Windowpane Background Stamp. Reminds me of a pretty tablecloth with a big bowl of lemons. I even made my husband go out in the backyard and get some lemons to use in my photo shoot! LOL! The finished card is an A2 kraft card base.

 

 

 

I used a MISTI to stamp and heat emboss the background in white embossing powder onto a sheet of teal cardstock. Then I die cut that layer out with the awesome Crimped Dies. Then I added a layer of vellum, die cut from the smallest size of the Crimped Dies. 

 

I wanted to try something a bit different with the lemons, leaves and flowers stamps. So I stamped the images onto colored cardstock instead of white! I used a slightly darker shade of the same color to stamp onto the paper. I used the matching dies to cut out everything. 

 

 

 

The Lemon Blossom stamp set has the word "squeeze" in it! I paired that word with the "sending a" word dies. At this time, I know I miss squeezing my friends...so this is the perfect card to send.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I finished off the card with a few clear gems in the flower centers. I also used white paint to splatter white ink onto the die cut pieces and the background. That is one of my favorite techniques! 

 

 

 

Wishing you a beautiful weekend full of happiness and creativity! Take care friends. I'll be back on Monday with a pretty water color card I made with Altenew stamps and dies! XOXO

 

Please head over to THE GREETERY BLOG to share some love and look around at all the other inspiration there! I'm so blessed to be part of this creative team!

 

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