Hello everyone and welcome to our first ever Anniversary Blog Hop! Can you believe that an entire year has passed? We certainly can’t. We’re turning one on the 19th and in celebration of this day, we have a full lineup of extremely talented designers and tons of inspiration for you today as you hop around.
- The Ton <—- You are here!
- Amy Tsuruta
- Vera Yates
- Laurel Beard
- Keeway Tsao
- Laura Sterckx
- Eunji Jung
- Virginia Lu
- Emily Midgett
- Nicole Picadura
- Mayline Jung
- Taheerah Atchia
- Jessica Frost Ballas
- Stephanie Klauck
- Ruby Naz
For today, I created these cards using our new Honey Bears set (which was designed by Mayline). I used a repeated stamping and masking technique.
The entire panel was stamped with the same bear stamp in Light Onyx dye ink. However, I did stamp one black bear in Noir dye ink. This black bear also has a different expression and some rosy cheeks on it which I stamped with our Ballet Slippers dye ink. I chose to emphasize one bear in the crowd as the theme for my card. The sentiment I chose, which can be found in our new Timeless Icons set, quotes Coco Chanel, “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” So I wanted to create one bear that was different from the rest.
This card was a bit involved because of the amount of masking that needed to be done to get this effect. I actually had to re-do the card two times before I was able to complete the final project. Remember to mask off the appropriate areas as you stamp or else you’ll end up with a non-masked image and you’ll have to re-do your card!
Third time was the charm for me! After the masking was finished, I created the sentiment strips using regular pink card stock and dark pink glitter paper. I popped it up with some foam tape and then finished the card by adhering some Medallion Gold sequins in the 8, 6, 5, and 4mm sizes.
I hope you enjoyed today’s video as I enjoyed making the card! Be sure to leave a comment here and the other hop participants for a chance to win one of four $10 gift certificates and one $25 gift certificate as blog hop prizes. Winners will be chosen randomly from the comments left on all the blogs. DEADLINE TO LEAVE COMMENTS: WEDNESDAY 1/20/16 by 11:59pm.
Your next stop is Amy’s blog! Enjoy the rest of your hop!
-Effie
That is one of my favorite quotes! And a really nice card. Happy Anniversary !
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Love this card & set! Thanks for the hop 🙂
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Congrats on your one year anniversary! I love your stamps, and wish you continued success! Thanks so much for today’s video!
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What a special year it has been for you! Congrats to you and the entire design team. You all have surely inspired all us. Keep up the good work!
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Love the quote you used and such a sweet card. It may have taken 3 tries, but it was definitely worth it. Happy Anniversary!
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Those bears are very cute and that’s an inspiring quote. Happy First Anniversary!!!
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Love the patterns of the bears on the card! thanks for the inspiration 🙂
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What a sweet card! Thanks for the great instructional video!
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Such a sweet card!! Congratulations on this release!! So many awesome new products!!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
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Great card and quote!
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This is great, such a perfect sentiment and great background
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Adorable cards!! I really love that you included some cute images to your stamps now!! 🙂
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Love the cohesiveness of your panel and the sentiment!
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Adorable card.
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What a wonderful card! Great job with all the masking, that looks intimidating, but I’ll give it a try!
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What great products!
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I just love that stamp set – Timeless Icons! As soon as I saw it in the release line-up, I added it to my “crafty wishlist.” Beautiful release and happy birthday!
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Wow! That is a lot of masking! But totally worth it because you’ve created a wonderful card!
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Thank you for the video. I was curious to see how that was accomplished. Nicely done and very creative. The sentiment is one of my favorites. My other favorite is…Life is a journey, not a destination.
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What an awesome hop!!!! So inspiring! Great Stamps!!!
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Gorgeous card, Effie! Well worth the masking woes…LOL
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I am loving the new releases especially the timeless icons sentiments and cannot wait to get my hands on them! I’m from London and have only just found out about thetonstamps but had to get my hands on the fresh cut stamps set and cannot wait to get some more, they don’t really do layered stamps like these in England. Also the delivery time is not bad either!
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Congratulations on you first year! I have enjoyed your new products release.
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Happy Anniversary to The Ton! Today’s card is super adorable!
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YOU are ONE-OF-A-KIND Effie 🙂
LOVE your BEAR-riffic card design and FABULOUS release!!!
CONGRATULATIONS on your 1st Anniversary too … WOW – the year has flown by so fast but on the other hand, it feels like I have known you, your team and your products FOREVER!!!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I LOVE your new release!!! Well done & wishing you a bright future! Yours, Steph
http://www.CraftedBySteph.blogspot.com
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Awesome card! Love those adorable bears!
Happy Birthday to The Ton!
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Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! Perfect card for the perfect sentiment.
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