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Spring 2017 Release Blog Hop

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Hello everyone and welcome back for our Spring 2017 Release Blog Hop! I hope you enjoyed seeing all the new products and inspiration this week by the team.  This week we released 18 new stamps (including 2 exclusive incentive stamps), 13 dies and 14 Couture Mixes.  Everything is available in our shop now except our incentive products which will be available in May.

 

 

For our Spring 2017 Release, we have three new gifts with purchases that you can obtain in your order. This promotion does not apply to prior purchases. The threshold amount is calculated before taxes and shipping. This promotion will continue until April 15 at 11:59pm EST or until supplies last. Limit one incentive package per order.
Spend $75 or more: Receive a free pack of our new Guava Sparkle Couture Mix
Spend $100 or more: Receive a 2×3 Sunflower Cluster Mini Stamp (and Guava Sparkle Mix)
Spend $150 or more: Receive a 2×3 Peony Cluster Mini Stamp (and Sunflower Cluster Mini Set and Guava Sparkle Couture Mix).

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We have more eye candy in store for you today by our team and some super special guests who are helping us celebrate this release!

  1. The Ton <—- You are here
  2. Brenda Noelke
  3. Svitlana Shayevich
  4. Lisa Harrolle
  5. Chris Dayton
  6. Miriam Prantner
  7. Janette Kausen
  8. Justine Hovey
  9. Laura Jane Head
  10. Amy Kolling
  11. Tae Eun Yoo
  12. Amy Tsuruta
  13. Eunji Jung
  14. Isha Gupta
  15. Jenny Yamasaki
  16. Kay Miller
  17. Vera Yates
  18. Stephanie Klauck
  19. Emily Midgett
  20. Taheerah Atchia
  21. Mayline Jung
  22. Laura Sterckx
  23. Laurel Beard

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For my card today, I went all out with our new wildflower stamps: Wishful Wildflowers,  Wildflower Banner and Modern Labels.

I started off by gold heat embossing the four corners of my card panel with the large floral portion of the Wildflower Banner stamp.  Then I heat embossed the individual blooms from our Wishful Wildflowers in the same gold powder. Next I colored in all the blooms with the same yellow and orange zig markers (50 Yellow, 52 Bright Yellow, 57 Orange). For my foliage I chose a minty green (No 45 Pale Green) which gave it more of a tropical look (which was not something that I was expecting but was pleasantly surprised at).

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Next I heat embossed my Modern Label and sentiment.  When all the embossing and coloring was complete, I die cut everything with their coordinating dies.  Before I assembled everything onto my panel, I added stitching to the edges of my colored panel using the largest die from our Double Stitched Rectangles die (large) set. Then I popped up the label in the center of my colored panel and then created clusters with my individual wildflowers at the top and bottom edges of my label.

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For my next two cards, I white heat embossed our Peony Crush background stamp on a watercolor panel and watercolored with color bursts. However my technique for the card shown on the right utilized a different technique.  My video shows how I made the card on the right.

For the card shown on the right: After I heat embossed the background image,  I started painting the peonies with my color burst powders. I started off by wetting the area I was planning on painting on first with water. Then I dropped a little bit of color (Peony color burst) onto the wet areas.

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Once I finished watercoloring my panel, I set it aside to dry. While that was drying, I white heat embossed my You’ve Got sentiment (from our new Mini Mail set) onto black cardstock and then cut it out to create a sentiment panel. Next I used our Pretty Mail word plate to die cut the bottom portion of my panel.

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Next I adhered some Turquoise Foil Adhesive Paper underneath the window onto a cardbase and then adhered the watercolor panel onto the base with our strong double sided adhesive.  I popped up my black sentiment piece above my die cut Pretty Mail and that completes my card!

That’s all from me today! I hope you enjoyed my cards and hope you’ll hop along with us. Before you leave here, this is a reminder that there are more giveaways today!

BLOG HOP GIVEAWAYS:
Five $25 gift certificates to our shop will be given away to random commenters from the hop participant blogs. To qualify, you must leave a comment on The Ton’s Blog Hop post here. The comment period will close on Monday, April 10th at 11:59pm. Winners will be announced thereafter here.

I hope you enjoyed today’s cards and videos! Your next stop on our Hop is the fabulous Brenda!

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Video: Masking Layered Peonies for a Background

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Hello everyone, Effie here today! I hope you all have had a fabulous weekend and are enjoying the day off today.  For today, I created this card and a video on how I made it.

peony bg congratsI used our Fresh Cut Peonies layering stamp set and the sentiment from Shoe Wardrobe Filled set.

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I masked a lot in this card and did a little heat embossing for the sentiment.  Here is the video:

It’s my custom to hand stamp (and handwrite) small thank you cards for all of the orders the come in.  It gives me a chance to play with all of my stamps and gives all you fabulous crafters out there a first hand look at some of our stamps.  A couple of months ago I created these thank you cards:

I wanted to create an actual card using the same technique because I absolutely ADORE this look. I’m obsessed with floral backgrounds at the moment. It’s also a different way of using your stamps.  So in addition to creating bouquets and centerpieces, you can create a beautiful vintage looking background too!  It’s so easy to get inspired. Just go onto Pinterest and search for peony backgrounds or floral backgrounds. You won’t be disappointed in what comes up.

For my card, I started off with a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 80lb Neenah Solar White card panel by stamping the layered peonies first in Memento Angel Pink dye ink, Hero Arts Bubble Gum dye ink and My Favorite Things Razzle Berry hybrid ink.  After I stamped the blooms, I created masks for the flowers.

  • Tip #1: Create several masks for your flowers prior to starting your stamping! This will make your life easier 🙂
  • Tip #2: Create some plastic/acetate masks because your dye inks will not bleed through. You can use any plastic you find on packaging for everyday things you buy.

After I created the masks, I temporarily adhered them onto the coordinating blooms on the card.  Then I stamped the leaves and stems with My Favorite Things Spearmint hybrid ink, Hero Arts Green Hills dye ink and Simon Says Stamp Fern Dye ink.

After I finished stamping I die cut the card panel to create the stitched outline around the card panel. I used Lawn Fawn’s Large Stitched Rectangles – I used the largest die in the set which measures 4 1/4 by 5 1/2.

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Then I used my handy dandy MISTI tool to stamp the Congratulations sentiment (from the Shoe Wardrobe Filled stamp set) onto my card panel. I use the MISTI to help align all my sentiments. I used to stamp all my sentiments crooked before MISTI came into my life 😉  I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with Ranger Gold Tinsel embossing powder.

After the card panel was finished I adhered it onto some heavy 110lb Neenah Solar White card stock.

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I hope you enjoyed my video, card and post for today! Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all enjoy your Memorial Day and to remember all the veterans who have fought for us.

-Effie