
Hello and welcome back to Day 2 of our Anniversary Blog Hops! We’re continuing to celebrate our 4th Anniversary! If you missed Day 1 of our hop, head over here (Our Day 1 hop post contains all the details on our free gift with purchase promo and double points promo going on right now). If you missed our Anniversary Release debut blog post, head over here. All of our new products are available for purchase now and new release orders will begin to ship on the 11th.
Today’s lineup of talented team members and guests are:

For my project today, I used our beautiful Smiling Cosmos set. This is our new 4×6 floral cluster stamp. The actual stamp is large! It almost covers an entire 4×6 panel.
I started off by heat embossing the floral image onto watercolor paper with our Rose Gold Embossing Powder. Then I did some loose watercoloring with Ken Oliver Color Bursts. For my cosmos petals, I added three different colors: Cerulean Blue, Indigo and Orchid. I love the three toned look to the petals once the paint finally dried.

Once the petals were painted, I painted the leaves with Olive Green color bursts. There are other smaller foliage and sprig elements in the cluster which I painted with Turquoise color bursts. The painting process went very quickly for this card since the design is more stylized.

Once my panel was dried, I die cut the watercolor panel into a stitched A2 panel using the largest die from our Double Stitched Rectangles Large Die Collection. I stamped (Caviar Hybrid Ink) my sentiment from the same set, trimmed it out and then popped it up onto my panel. Next, I mounted the painted panel onto a top folding A2 base and added some Gold Medallion sequins to embellish my card.
That’s all from me today! Your next stop on this hop is our super talented DT member Tae Eun!
GIVEAWAYS – We have giveaways everyday on these mini hops! Win a stamp of choice from our 4th Anniversary Release. To enter, leave a comment on each blog each day. We’ll choose one winner per day (4 winners total) and announce the winners on our blog by January 12. The comment period for all release giveaways will close on January 11 at 7pm EST.
We still have two more days of hops left! Join us tomorrow and Tuesday to continue celebrating our 4th Anniversary.

Gorgeous card!
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Beautiful card. Love the large stamp. Happy 4th anniversary!
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Beautiful blue cosmos! The rose gold is a perfect accent.
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Beautiful watercolor flowers! Thank you for sharing!!!!
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Wow, absolutely gorgeous! Amazing watercoloring and stunning colors.
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Love the watercolor look on your cosmos and the embossing is perfect!!
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The cosmos are beautiful. I love how large the stamp is! That it fills the card. The coloring is amazing and blue with purple is a favorite color combination of mine!
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What a stunning card and I love the colours, the gold embossing powder really sets off this beautiful flower. Thankyou for sharing on this Great blog hop. Xxx
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Stunning colors! I love this flower!
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Beautiful card. Amazing colors and stamp set. Love!
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Gorgeous card. Thanks for sharing.
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I love how that flower card looks! 🙂
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I love the beautiful and delicate elegance of this flower card
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That color burst is just beautiful.
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Effie, your cosmos stamp set is wonderful. They are such “happy” flowers & the combination of the colour bursts you used makes them look glorious. Let me congratulate you on your 4th anniversary. I’d not been introduced to The Ton stamps before but I must say I am so very impressed with what I’ve seen in this release. And then to learn that this is your company & you design, create & run your business single-handed, well, what can I say other than you must be a strong woman of character. Bravo Effie!!
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You are truly a wonderment. Love this cosmos stamp and the colors are so perfect. You as a one woman show Effie, and I love that! Thanks…..
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My garden used to be filled with cosmos. Soon I’ll be coloring them!
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The flowers are gorgeous.
Wonderful release.
thanks for sharing
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This is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
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WHAT A LOVELY SENTIMENT! AND those Color Bursts on these flowers are WONDERFUL!!! LOVE the different shades of blue! I LOVE this image! It has become ONE of my FAVORITE on this release! Everyone else, has done a WONDERFUL JOB with it too! The gold embossing on this piece makes it SO ELEGANT!!! 😉 GORGEOUS WORK, Effie!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉
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Beautiful floral card!
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Beautiful card!! Love the colors you chose for the flowers!
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lovely water coloring:)
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Beautiful – I love the colours, and such a great stamp too
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WOW Gorgeous!! You are amazing!!! Love the cosmos ❤
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Love the colors!
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What a beautiful card! Love the watercolours.
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this is a beautiful stamp set – love how you used it Effie – beautiful card
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Love this stamp set and the card you have made. What inspiration.
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Gorgeous card. I love the Cosmos set and your blue colors are beautiful. Wonderful release.
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Wow!!! Great colouring!!! Love this colour palette!!!
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I love the colors of this card. Amazing.
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I love the cosmos. They are some of my favorite flowers.
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Once upon a time I stumbled on a demo by this gal named Effie. I thought to myself “How talented she is! She’s magic!” and I continued to look for her demos. She demo-ed for this company called The Ton. At the time – all I knew about really was the rose gold embossing powder – because I asked. And the flowers. And Effie’s magic.
It was quite an epiphany (aka how stupid could I have been?) when I realized that Effie IS The Ton? I just hadn’t put 2 and 2 together.
Fast forward – I anticipate her videos and demos now and, somehow, am even more appreciative of her magic!
Thank you, Effie, for your magic, your demos, and The Ton. And thank you for this blog hop. I love seeing others’ work the magic, too.
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I LOVE the blue Cosmos flowers!! I’m always drawn to blue flowers!!!
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We have Cosmos’s in our garden, and I really like them. Your coloring looks great. Nice job.
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I love the colors you used on your card. Very pretty!
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Ever since seeing your rose gold embossing powder for the first time, I can only use it from The Ton. No other will do. The watercolor makes the flowers shine.
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love those cosmos!
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Love the large floral stamp. Beautiful colors and coloring.
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Your card is lovely. I like the coloring. The sequins are a great touch.
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Love, love, love those blue cosmos! Gorgeous coloring & such a bright cheery card!
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Love the rose gold embossed flower! Makes an elegant looking card even more stunning! Thanks for sharing your creativity with us all!
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Congratulations on your 4th anniversary; love the floral stamps – so big and bold! Thanks!
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What fabulous cards and colors!! Awesome!
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I love the rose gold embossing. The watercoloring is beautiful!!
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Happy bday The Ton!!! Love this release Effie! Excited to add more peony florals to my collection!
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Congratulations on your 4th anniversary! And Cheers to many successful years ahead!. I love Cosmos and plant them in my gardens each year, this stamp set is a must-have for my wish list. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Those shades of blue are stunning. I love the look of those flowers.
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luv the size of this stamp!!
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