Welcome to Joy Clair November New Release! Today we are so excited to share with you inspirations using the new November products for the blog hop!

We have 4 new stamps released this month:

• A Child Is Born – Bible Journaling Clear Stamps
• Three Wise Men Clear Stamps
• Christmas Clear Border Clear Stamps
• Holly Jolly Santa Clear Stamps

They all are available at the Joy Clair store for purchase this month. Here’s the sneak peeks of the stamp sets:

For this New Blog Hop, I created cards using the Three Wise Men Clear Stamps:

When I see the image of the Three Wise Men, I was imagining stained glass that I saw at church windows. So, I started with stamping the image with Versamark ink pad using my MISTI on a piece of Canson watercolor paper. Then I added the Ranger Gold Princess embossing powder. I did not remove the stamp of the MISTI yet, then I thought I wanted to double-heat embossed the image for more bold line for the watercoloring later. I re-stamped the image and heat-embossed it again. But if you have high-raise embossing powder, you can do the embossing just once 🙂

After embossing process, I started to color them with Spectrum Noir Aqua markers. Then with a small round painting brush, I wet the colors and turned them into watercolor look 🙂 They look fabulous, don’t you think?

And I decided to do the same double-heat embossing for the sentiment for bolder and shiner effect on a one-layer card:

Then I added some splatters on the card using Shimmerz – Inklingz Good As Gold watercolor paint with small round brush. This gold paint gives the extra shiny and metallic texture on the panel. After that I die-cut the panel with Double Stitched Rectangles Dies from Our Daily Bread Designs.

I added the panel on a black card base with lots of adhesive runner on the backside to make sure the watercolor paper stays well and flat on the card base.

This is the card I created for the Joy Clair November Challenge that I shared here:

GIVEAWAY ALERT

Joy Clair is giving away two (2) gift cards of $25 each from Joy Clair Store. To enter, please comments on each Design Team blog post from until Sunday November 6. The winners will be announced on Joy Clair Bog on November 30.

Let’s get hopping and be inspired!

• Joy Clair Stamps Blog
• Helen Gullett –> You’re Here
• Martha Lucia Gomez Hernandez –> Next Hop
• Jessica Pascarella
• Cornelia Wenokor
• Lori Kobular
• Steph Ackerman
• Donna Green Idlet
• LeeAnn McKinney

THANK YOU so much for stopping by on my blog today! Have a fabulous blessed day!

Welcome to the Joy Clair November Challenge! This month we have a new Photo Inspiration and Color Combo for you to create projects this month.

For your creation you can use almost three colors from the board and/or use the photo as theme You will have the entire month to participate with unlimited creations. Just keep in mind that:

• all projects needs to be new
• not back linking
• include the link to Joy Clair Challenge in your blog post
• you can enter as many time as you want
• using Joy Clair products is an optional, but if you have them, we wold love to see them on your creations, too 🙂

The random winner will receive a $25 gift card from Joy Clair Store and will be announce on November 30th, 2016 on Joy Clair Blog!

And here’s my take on this challenge. I am inspired by the color combo and those pompoms 🙂 I used the color combo to create the night sky scene with Distress inks and heat-embossed the stars with White Embossing Powder for resist technique. And the twines are from Doodlebug – Christmas Collection that happen to have the same color combo 🙂

The three wise men and city silhouette images are from new stamp from Joy Clair stamp – Three Wise Men. I stamped them with Versafine Onyx Black, and added some Clear Embossing powder, then heat set them with my Craft Heater. Then I fussy cut them just the top of the panel to make it look like they are partially die-cut 🙂 Then I layered all the panels, overlapping each other to create the scene. Last step, I added them on the card with 3d foam tape for some dimension.

So… Come back tomorrow for the full reveal of the new stamps release blog hop! To link up your creations and check out more inspiration for the challenge from team at Joy Clair blog! Can’t wait to see your projects for this challenge!

THANK YOU for visiting me today and have a fabulous day!

November is here and we are just getting so close to Christmas! I have been working on cards almost every day to reach my goal before the end of November 🙂 And today I am sharing more Christmas cards with Our Daily Bread Designs.

First, I would love to share a great news to share with you all… starting this month, I am designing for Our Daily Bread Designs! I am so thankful and excited to create with this amazing and talented ladies in ODBD team and share projects with you using ODBD products. Our Daily Bread Designs is a stamp/die/crafting company that provides Christian, Scriptures, God-Focus, inspirational theme stamps, custom-dies, and designer papers. We, hope to continue inspiring to create with faith, and sharing the love of God through our handmade cards, and other DIY projects, too.

Today, ODBD releases new stamps, die sets, paper collections. And… they is giving away 3 gift cards to the store. Keep reading… 🙂 and visit ODBD November New Release Blog Post to read more about the new release and how you can save money on the Bundles and get free shipping!

For this new release, I created 2 cards. On my first card, I use the Jesus Loves You Stamp/Die Duos, Snow Crystals dies, Snowflake Season Collection Paper Pad, Fun & Fancy Folds – Center Step Card, Double Stitched Rectangles Dies, and Rectangles Dies:

Using my WRMK Evolution Advanced, I die-cut and embossed the pieces. For the word Jesus and the Star, I die-cut them 5 times and stacked them together with glue pen to create thicker chipboard. Sentiment I stamped with Versafine Onyx Black on one of the beautiful Snowflake Season Collection papers. I finished the card with some gold sequins.

The ODBD dies are not online for die-cutting, but also for embossing and stenciling. Check out the details on the die-cuts after embossing:

On my second card, I use the new Snowflake Season Collection Paper Pad, Merry & Bright clear stamp,  Snow Crystals Dies, Double Stitched Rectangles Dies, and Rectangles Dies:

I diecut a black cardstock with the double stitched rectangles and rectangles dies to create the chalkboard window. Then I cut out a piece of black cardstock for the chalkboard background where also I stamped and heat-embossed the light strings from Merry & Bright clear stamp set using Ranger White embossing powder. After that, I colored the light bulbs with my Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils.

Aftercoloring, I added some White Archival ink on the panel with sponge to create the chalkboard look. Then I finished the card with some clear gems.

Here are the new stamps, die sets and paper collection that I used on my cards today:

GIVEAWAY ALERT!

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 Gift Code to the ODBD Website just for commenting on the Design Team cards! You have until November 2, 2016 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win! The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on November 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

Design Team members have created amazing projects to inspire you, visit and leave them some love on their blogs:

Cathy * Dawn * Lori * Robin * Julie * Sandee * Anita

Helen * Angie * Chris * Grace * Lisa * Sabrina * Kathy * Diana

I hope the cards today will give you some inspirations to create handmade Christmas/Holiday theme cards. Thank you so much for visiting me today and have a fabulous blessed day!

Hello crafty friends, today wanna share another Christmas card with you at Joy Clair blog. I am using the one of the new release stamps, Merry Christmoose Clear Stamp. This stamp set is super adorable!

I created the background with my Tombow Dual Brush pens. I scribbles the red, yellow and blue on a piece of clear acetate and sprayed with some water. Then I dipped my watercolor paper in it. Gently I moved my fingers on it to make sure the surface of the card would be covered evenly with the colors.

Then I lifted up from the plastic acetate, and I used paper towel to remove some of the colors on the edges. I dried it with my craft heater because I did not want to wait 😀 But also drying with craft heater will make sure that my watercolored panel is dry well before stamping.

Next step is I stamped the tress on the panel, one is bit lower and other bit higher becuase I wanted to add some snowy hills on the card. I stamped the images with Versafine Ink Pad with MISTI couple times to give extra bold and dark for the silhouette effect. I stamped the sentiment also with the same ink and did it couple times. And then I heat set the stamped image again with my craft heater.

I added some snow on the trees with Uniball Signo White Gel Pen. Randomly I added some snow on the branches, imaging the snow will fall and sit on the branches. Then I decided to add some extra snow on the background with some white paint splatters using toothbrush and big round paint brush for bigger drops.

For the snowy hills, I cut out white cardstock shape like small hills and then using a make up sponge, I added some Broken China Distress Ink on them. Lighter on the middle and darker on the edges. Then I added them on the card with 3d foam tape.

My card is done 🙂 I hope this will inspire you to create more Holiday handmade cards to share the joy with your friends and family.

Don’t forget you still have time to play along with Joy Clair – October Challenge to win a $25 gift card to the store!

THANK YOU for visiting today and have a fabulous day!

I am playing along with:

Challenge Weeks #254-255 – Anything Goes

Simon Says: Anything Goes