Hello everyone 🙂 I have another happy news to share with you! Starting today, I am a guest designer at A Jillian Vance Design for January and February.
I would like to thank my friend Amy who connected me with Bunny and Jillian, the owners. Super thankful! And I am sharing my first project A Jillian Vance Design blog where I share a simple tutorial how to mass-produce CAS cards.
I hope you all can visit me there! THANK YOU so much! Have a fabulous day!
Hello everyone! Today is a start for a new week and I hope you all ready for to fill each day with joy, love, laughters, and creativity. School is back and still cold here in Southern Ohio. I try to keep myself and my youngest one busy doing some activities and crafts.
I have a news to share with you today… I am joining Joy Clair 2017 Design Team! So excited and thankful to be part of this new company and amazing team. You can read the team announcement here and see who is in the team, too.
Today also is the Joy Clair New Release Day! Joy Clair releases 4 awesome and beautiful stamp sets for Bible Journaling and Valentine’s Day:
On this blog hop, I would love to share with you a Bible Journaling Page and a card using Treasure – Bible Journaling Stamp Set, one of the new release stamp sets from Joy Clair:
On my Journaling Bible, I created a long bookmark to put inside the page. First, I cut out Canson watercolor paper with the same width and length with the side journal space. Then I created the background with Smooshing technique using Tombow Dual Brush Pens, acetate plastic and water.
Once the background dried well, I heat-embossed the images with Versamark Ink Pad and Gold embossing powder. Then I stamped the sentiment and other images with Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad with second generation stamping technique.
I added the ribbon and brad using my WRMK Crop-a-dile. And it is done 🙂
For my card I did the same technique to create the background, but this time I added some Pearl spray mix on it to give it some shine and sparkle. And then I stamped and heat-embossed the gems all around the panel with white embossing powder. Once they all cool done, I die cut the panel with the WRMK Scallop Rectangle nesting dies.
I added them on the card base, first with regular adhesive runner, then the second one with 1 layer of 3D foam tape, and the third one in the middle I added 2 layers of 3D foam tape so they will pop up like steps.
Last step, I heat-embossed the sentiment on a piece of vellum mix of black and glitter embossing powder, then I die cut it with the rectangle die and added it in the middle of the card with vellum adhesive.
And my watercolored, clean and simple card is done. Sorry in the picture it does not look like it shiny. I tried to capture the pearl shine but did not show up really well, but it is really sparkly in real life 😀
NOW… IT IS TIME FOR THE GIVEAWAY!
You have chances to win the TWO Gift cards of $25 dollars each of Joy Clair Store! What you need to do is to visit and leave a comment on each blog designer and Joy Clair Blog between January 9th and January 11th, 2016 (EST Midnight). And here’s the full list of the Blog Hop:
THANK YOU so much for stopping by my blog today and I hope you are inspired today! Have a fabulous day!
Hello everyone… I hope you all have a great first week in 2017! We have been having colder days on this week, and also no school because of snow. I do not like the cold, but I love the snow and the beauty of the view here in our backyard during the winter snowy days…so calm and peaceful.
In these cold days, I got to spent a moment in my craft room and created a birthday card with my new stamp, word die and paper packs. Also, I use heat embossing resist with watercolor paint to create this card.
I use the new Whimsical Wildflowers Collection and Plum Pizzazz Paper Pad from Our Daily Bread Designs. The dies I use are ODBD Custom Ornate Ovals Dies. And the sentiment is one of the new ODBD script word dies, Happy Birthday.
I not only die cut the pieces, but I also embossed them with the same dies to give extra texture on each the die cut. Check it out the details on the Ornate oval die cuts below.
I stamped and heat embossed the flower from ODBD – Seeds of Today stamp set with Ranger Gold Embossing powder. Then I colored it with my Koi watercolor paint. I picked the purple that match the paper 🙂 I added more colors when the first layer dried for the depth of colors and shadows.
Also, I added some splatters with some gold paint and brush. And then IÂ decided to give it some sparkle using Spectrum Noir Sparkle Clear Brush. And I finished it with adding some glitter dots using Gold Stickles.
I used Tombow permanent adhesive to add the paper and ornate ovals die cuts on the card. And I used my mini Xyron sticker maker to add adhesive to the Happy Birthday Script Word Die Cut.
This card is flat even though there are 2 layers of mats on it. So it is mail-friendly. That is all about my card today. I hope you are inspired to create today 🙂 Thanks a lot for visiting me and have a fabulous, blessed day!
Today I am playing along at:
HLS Anything Goes With Dies – January Challenge
Anything Goes – Challenge Weeks #264-265
Hello everyone! It has been a fabulous first week of the New Year for us here and we finally got some snow 🙂 Both of my daughters, especially, are very happy!
Walking into 2017 with faith knowing God holds the future and has planned each day for us according to His will and will give us peace. Keep the faith, my friend for God walks before you and will help you step by step.
Today, I would love to share with you a happy news. Starting this month until March, I am joining STAMPlorations –Â Theme and Sketch Challenge Team as Guest Designer. So super excited to be part of this team!
You are invited! We would love to see your projects using the theme and/or the sketch of January challenge:
Our definition of mixed media is using stamps and ink, plus at least 2 other elements, either techniques and/or products. And here’s my mixed media card using the theme and the sketch and my new stamp set!
I used the Faith Expressions stamp set and Crisscrossed ARTplorations Stencil on my card. Techniques I used to create my card are stamping, watercoloring, stenciling, and inlaid die-cutting.
Mediums I used are Versafine Onyx Black ink pad, Tombow Dual Brush Pen, Spectrum Aqua Markers, Spectrum Noir Sparkle Clear Glitter Brush, Heidi Swap – Silk Screen, and water for watercoloring the background and painted the stamped flower.
For die-cutting I used ODBD – Snowflake Sky Dies and Double Stitched Rectangles Dies.
The Design Team share their project inspirations on STAMPlorations Blog and I hope you all can play along with us this month! By linking up your projects with this challenge, you have chances to win the prizes from STAMPlorations!
And… you can get 20% off on all STAMPlorations stamps, stencils, and dies by using this code:Â STAMPGIRLHELEN when you check out, it is a sensitive case, please copy and paste the code. You can use the code to get discounts on all regular and sale-priced items in the store, but can not combine your code with any other discount codes.
And do not forget to also link up your projects that you create using any STAMPlorations products at:
STAMPlorations Anything Goes Challenge
THANK YOU so much for stopping by today 🙂 Have a fabulous day!
I am playing along at:
Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #32 – Put a Stencil on It
Happy New Year to you and your family! Let’s kicking off the 2017 with some creative challenges! I created a mixed media card with some embossing paste, embossing powder, watercoloring and die-cutting.
Hero Arts products I used on my card today are:
To create the background, I added the Ranger Texture paste on the canson watercolor paper using the one of the Petal Stencil Pair set, then I added the Ranger Princess Gold embossing powder while the paste still wet and set aside to dry while I was working on the potted succulent and die cut.
I stamped and die cut the Potted Succullent. Then I watercolor it with Spectrum Aqua markers. Then I added some glitter using the Spectrum Noir Sparkle clear glitter brush.
Next, I die cut the word thanks out of Black cards stock and black fun foam for extra dimension.
Before I added the watercolored Potted Succulent and sentiment die cut on the card, I heat set the embossing powder using craft heater. I pre-heated the heater for 15 seconds then run it over the card. It was fun to watch the embossing powder melt on top of the embossing paste 🙂 Once it is done, I added  the embellishments with liquid glass glue.
I also stamped the inside card with the sentiment from the Thanks Stamp & Cut set. That finished my card for today. Don’t forget to check out a2z Scrapbooking Store for your crafting supplies and deals, also take extra 15% OFF your order of $25 or more by using this code: Helen15 when you check out!
THANKS a lot for visiting me today and have a fabulous day!
I also link up at:
a2z Scrapbooking blog – Anything Goes
Paru’s Card Making Challenge – January 2017
Anything Goes – Challenge Weeks #262-263