25 Days of Christmas Tags / Hello Bluebird

Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas Tags using Hello Bluebird!  

My sweet friend Tracey McNeely hosts and this is so much fun!  Make sure to visit her blog for a complete rundown of this event!  

In My Creative Opinion

My tag was created using the Stitched Tag Builder Die.  Using the largest tag, I used it to die cut a piece of paper that was stamped using the Country Gingham Background Stamp.   I added a glittery trimmed hill to the bottom and added my Copic colored penguin from Snow Play.  For the sentiment, it was stamped onto a speech bubble from Photo Stack Die.

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For all the details on the 25 Days of Christmas Tags, please click HERE.

Here is a look at the AMAZING sponsors Tracey has lined up this year!

Reverse Confetti / Favorites and a SALE!

Hello!  Reverse Confetti is having a big SALE!  From now until December 1st, use RCTHANKFUL25 for 25% off everything!  Yes, your entire order!

I have a card to share using one of the recent adorable sets, Joyous Holiday.  I started with my background.  First, Fossilized Amber and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks were ink blended onto a white notecard.  The Large Diamond Cover Panel was "impressed" into the notecard using an embossing mat.  

I added a white heat embossed sentiment strip cut at an angle.  The cute images from Joyous Holiday were stamped, Copic colored, die cut, and added with foam adhesive.  

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Now it's time to share a few of my RC favorites I've created over the past year!

This uses the Peony stamp set......

This uses the Let's Shellabrate stamp set......

And this one uses Over the Rainbow Confetti Cuts.............

 

Thank you for sharing a part of your day with me!  

Avery Elle / Fall Release Blog Hop

Hello!  Welcome to the Avery Elle Fall Release Blog Hop!
The full release is available NOW!

SHOP the new Avery Elle HERE

I created my first Valentine card!  One of my favorite holidays to create for! 

The background I created for the shark from Shark Hugs was done using the Waves Elle-ments.  I created a stencil and blended Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink onto a white panel.  I added a white Postage Stamp Elle-ments frame.  I added the Copic colored Shark, hook, and mini envelopes.

Here's the blog hop lineup:

Avery Elle  

Caryn Davies

Heather Campbell

Yainea

Melania Deasy

Katie Gehring 

Amy Kolling 

Ashley Marcu

Elena Roussakis

Nicky Meek

To celebrate our Winter 2019 Release Blog Hop, Avery Elle is giving away a stamp set of their choice to 3 winners.  To enter to win just comment on this post.  There is no purchase necessary and you must be 18 years of age or older to enter.  This giveaway is void where prohibited.  You can also do options 2, 3 and 4 of the following to increase your chances of winning. You have until midnight Sunday, December 1st to enter.  The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle Blog on Monday, December 2nd .  All products are available for purchase in the Avery Elle store right now.  You can check them all out here. 

To enter to win you can do 1, 2, 3, or all 4 of the following to increase your chances:

1. Comment on the Avery Elle Blog
2. Follow / Tweet on Twitter (we are @averyellestamps )
3. Follow / Share us on Facebook (we are www.facebook.com/AveryElle ) .
4. Follow / Comment on Instagram (we are https://www.instagram.com/averyellestamps/).

Crafty Friends Blog Hop featuring The Stamp Market

 

Welcome!  

It's time for the Crafty Friends Blog Hop!  We’re a group of amazing stampers that share similar paths…and we want to share our crafty projects with you!    We’ll be hopping each month featuring a specific company or brand…and this month’s favorite is The Stamp Market!  

SHOP The Stamp Market

Check below for a code to use at The Stamp Market for TWO days only--November 20 & 21.

Amy, from The Stamp Market, has some AMAZING designs and seriously, her COLOR CRUSH line??  I *need* these colors in my stash!  

My background was stenciled with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink onto a blueberry cardstock using the Plaid Stencil.  I added a Botanical Beauty die cut in white and then overlayed just the outline over the top lifting the edges.  Once simple die cut "hi" (from Scallop Frame Die) from grey cardstock was adhered slightly overlapping the leaves.

List of products used:

Plaid Stencil

Scalloped Frame

Botanical Beauty

Iliana Crouse

Becky Roberts

Sandi MacIver

Sue Plote

Sara Sherlock

Lydia Fiedler

Jill Hilliard

Jen Timko

Amy Kolling

Jenny Hall

Tanya Boser

SugarPea Designs / Happy Holidays

Hello!  I am here today sharing some winter inspiration for you using Hey Winter.

The background was created by blending some Distress Inks over the Falling Snow Stencil.  My bear was Copic colored and die cut using the coordinating Hey Winter SugarCut.  A snowy hill was made using a stitched die from Card Front Element Builder SugarCut and was added with foam adhesive.  

The bear and one of the trees were added with foam adhesive while the remaining trees were added flush to the cardstock.  As a finishing detail, the bear's nose was embellished with Glossy Accents.

Avery Elle / Polar Playtime

Hello!  I am here today with a CAS winter card.  Often creating a "scene" card seems overwhelming, right?  I wanted to share how I brought the "clean" and "simple" to this card.  

Shop for Avery Elle HERE!

To create the "clean" part of the card is simply the background........keep the white space!  I did this but added color with a simple die, Snow Scene Elle-ments.  Several colors of blue Distress Oxide inks were blended onto a panel of Bristol Smooth Cardstock and then die cut.  Once cut, the panel was spritzed with Clear Shimmer Spray and Crystal Stickles were added to the snow that stayed in place during die cutting.

For the "simple", I knew I wanted to use this ONE image from Polar Playtime......the critters sledding.  I thought about what these critters would be doing and voila a simple panel cut at an angle becomes the slope.  Add a bit of fine glitter to the edge with a Zig 2-way glue pen......perfect snow.  

The angled panel was added with foam adhesive over the Snow Scene background.  To finish, the sledding critters (colored with Copic markers) were added with foam adhesive and the sentiment was stamped out behind as if skidding down the hill.  Once done, a few white pigment ink details were added to the critters.

Supplies:

Polar Playtime

Polar Playtime Elle-ments

Snow Scene Elle-ments

Clear Shimmer Spray

Catherine Pooler Designs / Retro Winter

Welcome to winter!  I have a few more cards to share using the newest collection from Catherine Pooler Designs--Retro Winter!

Shop the new Catherine Pooler Designs Retro Winter HERE! 

The release brought us even more fabulous COLOR from the Catherine Pooler ink collection--Sangria, Pink Champagne, Orange Peel, and Hot Tub.  Pair these new ink colors with the pattern papers.....match made in heaven!  Love the color palette!

Reverse Confetti / Framed Floral

Hello Reverse Confetti fans!  I'm here with a floral card using some of the newest products released.  It may be fall/winter but you can make floral cards any time of the year!

SHOP for Reverse Confetti HERE!

 

Using The Best Days bold floral cluster, the image was black heat embossed onto Bristol Smooth cardstock.  The image was colored using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.  The panel was trimmed to fit behind a frame from All Framed Up Confetti Cuts.  Remember, you don't have to use the whole image!!!

The framed floral panel was adhered to a notecard layered with pattern paper from the new Winter Wonder 6x6 Paper Pad.  For the sentiment, the 'thanks' was die cut using the Thanks and Hello Word Duos Confetti Cuts in a coordinating cardstock.

 

25 Days of Christmas Tags / Reverse Confetti

 

Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas Tags using Reverse Confetti!  My sweet friend Tracey McNeely hosts and this is so much fun!  Make sure to visit her blog for a complete rundown of this event!  

In My Creative Opinion

SHOP for Reverse Confetti HERE!

I paired some old with the new!  Triangle Trees is hands down one of my favorite stamp sets EVER!  

I created a pair of tags using the new tag.......Circle Tag.  I created my tags using coordinating cardstock to match the pattern paper from thew new 6x6 paper pad:  Winter Wonder.  I added coordinating stamped trees (using Reverse Confetti Inks) and simple sentiment strips.  To finish, twine and silver gems were added.

 

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For all the details on the 25 Days of Christmas Tags, please click HERE.

Here is a look at the AMAZING sponsors Tracey has lined up this year!

Reverse Confetti / November Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the Reverse Confetti November Blog Hop!  Hope you have enjoyed the new release this month.  With so many new beautiful sets and dies.....it's hard to choose which is my favorite!

  

Make sure to check out the Reverse Confetti blog for all the details of this hop and for a full list of inspiration and information.

SHOP for Reverse Confetti HERE!

The floral image from The Best Days was black heat embossed onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock.  The image was colored using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and die cut using the coordinating The Best Days Confetti Cuts.  The image was layered onto a Circle Tag that was backed with a circle of black cardstock.  Everything was mounted onto a white notecard that was given texture by using the Stitched Bursts Cover Panel.

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Make sure to visit more of the design team for inspiration using Reverse Confetti!

Reverse Confetti Blog

Amy Kolling-->you are here!

Tricia Barber

Kelly Lunceford

Lisa Henke

Leanne West

Heather Hoffman

Amy Tsuruta

Kathy Schweinfurth

Julee Tilman

Audrey Tokach

Jeanne Jachna

Becky Roberts

Deanne Kuntz

Channin Pelletier

Susan Wymer

Olga Moss

Olga Matyushevskaya 

Ali Farmer

Daniel West

Don't forget it's time to shop!  
SHOP for Reverse Confetti HERE!