Deboss and Shine

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments.  I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Today's card features the debossed side of the rose embossing folder, and shine from filling it with SU's Fine Tip Glue, hence the title of the post.

Card: Tip Top Taupe and Whisper White
Ink: Sweet Sugarplum
Stamp sets: Artistically Asian
Tools and embellishments: Rose EF  Scalloped Oval punch
Adhesives: Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
#11 AAG at Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge
#174 AAG at Artistic Inspirations
#17 AG at Cardz TV

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Colored & Embossed Spotlight

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments.  I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The main feature in today's card is a gorgeous rose embossing folder that I won a while ago from Di at Pixie's Snippets Playground.  Unfortunately it was won that long ago that I can't remember which company made it, or the name.  Oops!  As much as I love butterflies, roses are a close second, so I loved playing with it...

Card: Flirty Flamingo and Whisper White
Ink: Flirty Flamingo, and Pink Pirouette and Tip Top Taupe Stampin' Write Markers
Stamp sets: Artistically Asian
Tools and embellishments: Layering Ovals framelits and Scalloped Oval punch (retired)
Adhesives: Tombow and Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
#267-268 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#268-269 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#121 AAG at Inspiration Destination

I'll be back on Friday with another creation using some of these elements, so I hope you'll join me then.

A Slushy Farewell To Gifts Of Kindness

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

For today's card I've used one of the stamp sets from Stampin' Up, Gifts of Kindness, that I got with my starter kit when I joined. It's one of the sets that won't be available after the new catalog launches in a few days and I'll admit that it's been a while since I've used it. I've stamped it in one of my favorite outgoing In Colors, Strawberry Slush and yep, that's the slushy part of the post title!

Card: Whisper White and Strawberry Slush
Ink: Strawberry Slush
Stamp set: Gifts of Kindness
Tools and embellishments: Scallop Oval and Decorative Label punches and Basic Pearls
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
#185 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
All or Nothing (layers) at Incy Wincy Designs
#108 AAG at Sister Act

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one! I'll be back on Sunday with my latest DT creation for 613 Avenue Create, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Golden Perfect Peacock

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I adore the gorgeous Perfect Peacock stamp from Stampin' Up! Following on from yesterday's card, today's is another CAS creation, this time featuring gold embossing and a pop of color...

Card: Strawberry Slush and Whisper White
Ink: Versamark and Strawberry Slush
Marker: Strawberry Slush Stampin' Write (from In Color 2013-2015 pack)
Stamp sets: Perfect Peacock and Trust God
Tools and embellishments: Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder, heat tool and Scallop Oval punch

Challenges...
#56 Gold at CAS on Sunday
#195 Super Scraps Saturday at HIMCR (scrap of Whisper White)
April Showers or Spring Flowers at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge
Embossing at Incy Wincy Designs

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Perfect Peacock creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Watercolor With Love Is Kindness

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

If you're at all like me and totally fed up of winter, with no sign of spring in sight, then hopefully the card I've got for you today will help brighten your day.

I love both the gorgeous wrapped tulips image in the Love Is Kindness stamp set from Stampin' Up! and the sentiment, but to get more use out of them I very, VERY carefully cut the sentiment from the image when I initially mounted the stamp onto the wooden block.

I have used my Aqua Painters and Watercolor paper to create the focal point of today's card...

There's a hidden surprise. This isn't a standard 5" square card, it's an easel...

Card: Crisp Cantaloupe (10" x 5" folded for base, 5" square, 4¼" x 3 1/8" piece for layering and snippet for punching), Watercolor Paper and Best Year Ever DSP (Sale-A-Bration, two 4 3/4" squares)
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz
Stamp Sets: Love Is Kindness and Bloom With Hope (sentiment, hostess set from the annual cattie)
Tools: Aqua Painters, Decorative Label and Scallop Oval punches and Basics Rhinestones

Stamp the image in Jet Black StazOn onto Watercolor Paper and allow to dry for a few moments.
Squeeze the Melon Mambo and Pear Pizzazz ink pads before opening so ink transfers into the lid (or use Reinkers). Paint the image with the transferred ink and the Aqua Painters.
To create the base card, score the 10" x 5" piece of Crisp Cantaloupe at 5" and 7½". Fold and burnish score lines. The second score and fold will create the easel
Attach one 4 3/4" square of Best Year Ever DSP to the 5" Crisp Cantaloupe Square and the other to the inside of the base card. Attach square to base by adding adhesive to the second smaller panel.
Trim the image piece to desired size (mine is 2 3/4" x 3 3/4"), layer onto Crisp Cantaloupe piece and pop up onto the base using Stampin' Dimensionals.
Stamp the sentiment from Bloom With Hope in Melon Mambo ink onto a snippet of Watercolor paper. Punch with the Scallop Oval and layer onto a Crisp Cantaloupe punched Decorative Label. Pop the sentiment onto the inside of the card with Stampin' Dimensionals to create the stopper for the easel.
Attach Basic Rhinestones to complete the design

If you've not tried this type of card before, although it sounds complicated, it really is easy.

Challenges...

#58 Designers Choice at CYCI
#231 AG with birthdays at OSAAT
AG at TTCRD

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Love Is Kindness creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em

Going Crackers, Again!

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I really enjoy creating anything with the versatile Envelope Punch Board from Stampin' Up!, and as the title of today's post says, I've gone crackers again for today's project! You can see my previous Going Crackers post here.

This time around, I stamped one of the stamps from Gorgeous Grunge in Versamark and embossed it with Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder on Cherry Cobbler card for the cracker bases. I then embossed the sentiment from Making Spirits Bright and punched with the Scallop Oval punch, layering it up with a Very Vanilla Decorative Label.

Challenges...
December Linky at DL.ART
AG at Through The Craft Room Door

All the products I've used for today's project are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another luminary, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em x

Monochrome with Melon Mambo

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I truly do appreciate each of you more than you know!

The card I'm sharing with you today is in the same style as those I shared with you on Monday and Tuesday this week, but this time I've turned it and used Melon Mambo ink and Blendabilities to create it and added a touch of Crisp Cantaloupe card to layer the sentiment panel...

Challenges...
AG at Through The Craft Room Door
#98 AG w/ optional at 613 Avenue Create
#63 Monochomatic at Beyond Grey

All the products used to create the card are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back tomorrow with my fifth "Blendie" creation of the week, which is very different to this one, so I really hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,

Em x

Monotone birthday with Blendabilities

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I truly do appreciate each of you more than you know!

Regular readers will know that I absolutely LOVE Stampin' Up!'s Blendabilities alcohol markers and I turned to them again to create today's quick and easy card. For most of my other "Blendie" creations, which you can see here, I've stamped the image in Memento ink before coloring, but not this time...

I stamped the largest flower from the Hostess set Bloom with Hope in Rich Razzleberry ink randomly on Very Vanilla card. I then colored all the flowers with the lightest shade of Rich Razzleberry Blendie and then used the medium shade to color the centers of the flowers.

I popped the stamped panel up onto another slightly larger one using Stampin' Dimensionals and added that to a folded tent card base. The sentiment from the set is stamped in Rich Razzleberry ink and punched with the Scallop Oval Punch.

I love the look and would love to know what you think of it too.

Challenges...
#31 AG at Scribble and Scrap
#158 AG at Word Art Wednesday
#83 AG at Sister Act

All the products used in today's card are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to be taken straight to them.

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I'll be back tomorrow with another Blendie creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em x