tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586528477664087302024-03-14T02:52:51.265-05:00Cat Tales and Paper TrailsChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04336325678692298517noreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658652847766408730.post-24753936804779575272019-12-10T09:00:00.000-06:002019-12-10T09:41:45.100-06:00Taylored Expressions Blender Brush Blog Hop!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today I'm excited to have been invited to participate in a Taylored Expressions Blog Hop featuring her awesome color-coded <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/blender-brushes/">Blender Brushes</a>. These brushes are fantastic. They come in a set of ten 1-1/2" wide, velvety-soft, bristled brushes. The sturdy handles are colored, so you can keep one brush specifically for each color family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I actually have two sets of these brushes in caddies on my desk. I have one for my dye-based inks, and one for my pigment-based inks. I now never have to worry about mixing up ink formulas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'd like to share a few projects with you today. The first is a rather simple emboss-resist holiday card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To start, I used my <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/misti-precision-stamping-tool/">Original MISTI</a> and Versamark ink to stamp the Twinkle Twinkle Background onto an A2-sized panel of white cardstock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I then applied Potato Chip ink to the lower center of the panel with a brush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next, I added Blue Corn, slightly over-lapping the yellow, to create a warm glow in a night sky. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used a dry micro-fiber towel to wipe off any excess ink from the embossed stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used the Nativity Border die to cut my focal image die cut from black cardstock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now I heat-embossed my sentiment onto my die cut. I used a piece of Dritz quilting template plastic that I've cut down to fit inside my MISTI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By stamping the sentiment first onto the plastic sheet (which was tucked securely into the corner of my MISTI), I could use that stamped image to line up my die cut behind the plastic sheet. Once I was happy with the placement and alignment, I secured the die cut with a magnet, removed the plastic sheet, and stamped to my die cut and embossed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I adhered the die cut to my panel, first checking my inking. I did decide to add just a bit more Blue Corn ink so I could shrink the size of my yellow glow. I wanted the glow, to appear somewhat contained within the manger image. I also added one white, prominent star die cut to my sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My next project was a self-imposed coloring challenge. I wanted to see if I could create the majority of a card using only die cuts. But, my self-imposed challenge was to add dimension and shading to a plain WHITE die cut, using only a blending brush. I needed to do all the coloring myself with a Blender Brush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This part was rather easy: I'd cut several Pine Clippings, and had inked them up with Cilantro and Poblano inks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This lantern die cut was the perfect focal image to color. It took me a bit to visualize how I would be able to shade this image, but as I studied, I realized that the guide and the tool I needed was right in front of me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The piece from the cut-out window! I almost tossed that away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those angles on the die cut window negative are the same angles that are carried out throughout the whole lantern! I'd found a perfect masking piece to protect areas I wanted to keep a bit lighter while I added ink to others. I was able to turn the "masking piece" in whichever direction necessary to find the correct angles that matched up with areas of my lantern!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I actually made a LOT of them in many different colors. After the first three or four, I'd learned how to color the lantern quite quickly. I'd gotten it down to about 3-4 minutes per lantern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I turned my video camera on, in case you are interested in watching a 6+ minute video on coloring this bronze-colored lantern:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanks for stopping by today! Please visit all of today's hop blogs! They are all listed below. Remember to find the holiday gift guide and promotion info on the Taylored Expressions blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://flutterbyatomicbutterfly.blogspot.com/">Kelly Lunceford</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello! Happy Monday to you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'd like to thank you for all of your sweet comments from my Growing in Unity week. You were so kind. I appreciate your support so very much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I'd like to announce the winners of the two prize packs of Unity Stamp Company's fabulous red rubber stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Crissy and Sandee, please email me at chris@junkiefest.com to claim your prize. Please put GIU Winner in the subject line, and include your mailing address in the body of the email.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Welcome to Day Five, the final day of my <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/">Unity Stamp Company</a> Growing in Unity week. I've been sharing projects all week that feature Unity's high quality, red rubber stamps. If this is the first day you've joined me, please scroll through the previous posts! If you are a returning visitor, thank you, and welcome back. Be sure to leave a comment on this week's blog post to be entered for a chance to win one of two fabulous prize packs from Unity Stamp Company. Winners will be announced on this blog and on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/537864239611706/">Unity Stamp Company Growing in Unity Facebook page</a> after December 7th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! In between food and football, we decided to put our Christmas tree! It was more fun than usual to do that this year. We were traveling last year at Christmas, so I never put it up at all. So now, I'm really in the winter and holiday spirit! (But not enough to brave the malls to go Black Friday shopping. I haven't done that in years.) . But we are all decorated for tomorrow's family post-thanksgiving party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since it's now the official winter holiday season, and the weather is transitioning to snow, I have a day full of snowmen to share with you today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My first snowman comes from the stamp kit, <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/winter-frosty/">Winter Frosty</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used additional distress ink from my makeshift craft pad palette to darken areas of my image, as well as paint my background. I used an acrylic stamp block to add the small snowflakes from Wonder, the November 2019, S.M.A.K. kit. The sentiment was added in black ink, and stamped again and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.</span></div>
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Today is Day Four of my Growing in Unity week. I am sharing five day of posts featuring projects created with Unity Stamp Company red rubber stamps. I'm so thankful for the great people at Unity Stamp Company for their amazing products and for giving me this opportunity to share my love of Unity Stamps this week.<br />
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Unity Stamp Company has also given me two prize packs of their deeply etched red rubber stamps to give away after the conclusion of my Growing in Unity week. If you would like a chance to be the recipient of one of these prize packs, please leave a comment on one, or all of my Growing in Unity posts this week. Winners will be posted on this blog, and on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/537864239611706/">Unity Stamp Company Growing in Unity Facebook page</a> after December 7th.<br />
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In honor of the first measurable snowfall, I decided to finish an image that I had started at the past weekend's swim meet. Painting sure helps fill the time between my son's events! I bring a small <a href="https://amzn.to/2sg0E4a">lapdesk</a> with me, so I have a little workspace.<br />
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I had stamped this panel of <a href="https://amzn.to/2OqNIkU">Fabriano cold press watercolor paper</a> with the image from <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/winter-girl/">Winter Girl</a>, illustrated by Angie Blom. I used Fade Out ink, and using my <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/original-misti-laser-etched/">Original MISTI</a>, carefully selectively inked only the girl, leaving off the snowflakes. I gradually layered Daniel Smith watercolors with a waterbrush, letting each layer dry before adding another.<br />
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Eventually I ended up with the depth of color that I was looking for. Yesterday, I finished my card by splattering a bit of white acrylic paint over my painted area, adhering my watercolored panel to a top-fold card base and adding a sentiment strip, using a white heat embossed sentiment from <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/owl-bundle-up/">Owl Bundle Up</a>.</div>
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My husband, son and I are having a small, quiet, non-turkey Thanksgiving celebration today as my adult children either working or spending this holiday day with their in-law family. We will be celebrating together on Saturday instead.</div>
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Today, I'd like to also share a few snowy projects that use images from the <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/memberships/s-m-a-k/">Unity S.M.A.K. Kits</a>. S.M.A.K. stands for Scrapbooking, Mixed media, and Altered art Kit. The S.M.A.K. kits are one of Unity's subscription programs. As a subscriber, you will receive a large full sheet of rubber stamps, that are perfect for many uses. The images contained in these kits are in general, a bit larger than those in other Unity stamp kits, and often include larger sentiments and images that are perfect for backgrounds.<br />
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This is the current Kit, Beauty of Life, and I have created two cards using the large script font sentiments.<br />
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My first card uses an emboss resist technique. I used my Original MISTI to stamp the large snowflake onto the left side of my white cardstock panel with clear embossing ink. I used clear embossing powder and heat embossed the image.</div>
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I added some pale blue and gray ink to the panel with a blending brush.</div>
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I placed the sheet music background stamp, (also from Beauty of Life), near the center of my Original MISTI lid and stamped it in gray ink onto a sheet of <a href="https://amzn.to/2QXdChu">Dritz quilter's template plastic</a>, which I have cut down to fit into my MISTI. I tuck the sheet of plastic </div>
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This plastic template is flexible, so I am able to slide my embossed panel behind that plastic template to see my alignment. Once I like the placement, I can secure my panel with a magnet, then completely remove the plastic template and stamp. </div>
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I then replace the template in the corner of my MISTI once again, and rather than having to more my stamp, I can just move my cardstock panel!</div>
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I did this three times, so that my card panel was covered with the subtle music background.</div>
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I used a soft microfiber towel to dab/wipe away any excess ink that remained on top of my embossing.</div>
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The Simply Blessed greeting that is included in this kit is very large. Too large for my horizontal A2 sized panel. So I did a bit of stamp surgery. I simply snipped it in two, separating the words.</div>
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Now I set about deciding how to align my words.</div>
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Starting with the word Blessed, I once again used that quilter's template to decide the alignment before stamping in gray oxide ink. By stamping first on the template, and just moving my cardstock behind the template, I am able to decide exactly where I would like my word to fit within the points of the snowflake easily. Once I like the placement, I secured my card panel with my bar magnet and stamp. </div>
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Since red rubber stamps are obviously not clear, I use this plastic template often to double check my alignment before I commit ink to paper. Especially when adding my sentiments to panels I've spent considerable time coloring images. It sure has spared me a lot of "OH NO!" moments! </div>
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Now I wiped the ink from my template, and repeated with the word "Simply", as well as with the line which reads "to have you in my life" which I stamped and heat embossed with silver rather than stamping in gray ink.</div>
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I added a dusting of "snow" on top of my Simply Blessed with a white gel pen.</div>
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I snowflake and a pretty script-y sentiment stamp from the November 2019 S.M.A.K. Kit for my card as well. This time, I stamped the large snowflake, as well as the smaller snowflakes, in a light blue ink and added just a bit of pale gray ink with a blending brush to create more contrast to my white cardstock before adding the beautiful sentiment in silver embossing powder.</div>
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I used a frayed edge rectangle die to trim down the panel before adding it to my top-fold card base.</div>
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Now go eat some pie, and take a nap!</div>
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Happy Thanksgiving!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy Snowy Wednesday from the midwest! Snow started falling (and sticking) at about 8pm last night. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Today is day three of my Growing in Unity week, in which I am posting five consecutive days of posts sharing projects I have made using </span><a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Unity Stamp Company</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">'s high-quality red rubber stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know Thanksgiving Day is tomorrow, but since it falls so late in November this year, many of us have already thinking about Christmas cards and gifts for some time. My first two projects are Christmas themed, as I have been working on Christmas for weeks already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My first project uses a fun stamp kit called <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/impurr-fect-christmas/">Impurr-fect Christmas.</a> This set is designed by Angie Blom, and makes me smile, as we have cats at our house who enjoy our Christmas tree even more than we do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The next is such a simple way to decorate a hostess gift at holiday time. I used the sweet little scraggly holiday tree image from <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/small-stuff-christmas/">Small Stuff Christmas</a>, also designed by Angie Blom. I love this little mini kit, and it gets used so much each year. There's something so humble about it, that this Charlie Brown-style tree is one of my all time favorite Christmas stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Using my MISTI, I stamped it onto a skinny wine tag, in charcoal brown ink, then added just the few areas of color with Copic markers. After coloring, I re-stamped with embossing ink and heat embossed in clear. I added a strip of both glittered and striped washi tape to decorate the tail of the wine tag, and added a simple kraft sentiment strip above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good morning! Happy Tuesday to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today is Day Two of my Growing in Unity week. I'm sharing projects created with <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/">Unity Stamp Company</a>'s wonderful red rubber cling stamps, each day, Monday through Friday this week. Today's post is VERY picture heavy, but I hope some of the information I share might be helpful to some.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There really is nothing better than red rubber stamps. Even though you can not see through them like a clear photo-polymer stamp, the red rubber gives fabulous crisp images, and the red rubber can give much more fine detail than a clear stamp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unity Stamp Company offers three subscription programs: The <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/memberships/kit-of-the-month/">Kit of the Month</a>, the <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/memberships/s-m-a-k/">S.M.A.K. kit</a> (Scrapbooking, Mixed Media, Altered Art Kit), which are a both full sheet of red rubber stamps and a smaller kit, called <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/memberships/ang-mag-uniquely-unity/">Uniquely Unity</a>. I have been subscribing to the first two full-sheet kits for years. They are such a bargain. Each month's kit, contains many images and sentiments that generally center around a theme. It's always exciting to see the sneak peak of each month's kit online, and then I anxiously await delivery! Here are this month's kits:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because my original enrollment date was early in the month, my subscription kits arrive in a padded shipping envelope rather early each month, and here are my November kits! I was so excited for those trees!! I'll be using those in my first project today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used the moon mask to protect the white of my cardstock panel as I was ink-blending my sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But then I decided the white of the cardstock was just too stark, so I added just a bit of yellow over my moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used my Original MISTI to stamp a crisp black image of Santa and his sleigh. The Santa stamp was in the September Kit of the Month, <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/all-kinds-of-holiday-love-kom-9-19/">All Kinds of Love</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I then added the sentiment from <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/comfort-to-go/">Comfort to Go</a> using my MISTI, and then used the skinny pine tree from this month's kit, Wonder, and an acrylic stamp block to stamp my trees along the bottom. I used navy blue ink, and stamped many times: full strength ink, a second time without re-inking (second generation), and a third time without re-inking (third generation). This gave me a look of depth to my forest of trees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have a database program that syncs on all of my devices, desktop computer, laptop, ipad and iphone. I use the program called <a href="https://evernote.com/">Evernote</a> to keep an inventory of all my stamps. Evernote is a note-taking app that has way more capabilities than I know how to use, but I still love it. I use it in its most basic form, primarily for the search feature. There are options for creating categories, and sub-categories, but I don't really mess around with doing that. I basically have one huge folder, that contains hundreds of notes. I create a "note" for each one of the stamp sets or kits that I own. Here are some screen shots of how I created a note for Wonder, my November kit of the month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once I opened the program, (which actually stays open on my desktop almost all of the time), I use my cursor to open a "New Note" under the file menu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This will open a new window with the note (the center box). Then I open my browser, and adjust the size of the window to fit side by side with my Evernote window to make it easy to see both. I then search the Unity Stamps website for the newest Kit of the Month (when the kit is brand new, it only appears on the subscription page), right click their image photo and copy photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now I can go to that untitled New Note screen and paste the Kit of the Month photo that I copied into the body of this new note.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now here's what is truly magical: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the upper bar of my new note screen, there is a box to add "tags". Tags are key words that will be linked to this particular note, and if I were ever to want to use the search feature on the Evernote program, all I do is enter the word I am searching for. In this "add tag" box, I add a tag for EVERYTHING. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is the list of search tags I added for this Kit:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've tagged the company, typed in every sentiment - all of it, added a tag that identifies each general image, as well as various themes that the images may fit into, etc.. You can add as many tags as you want here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These tags are so helpful. Someday, when I want to create a card wishing someone well on a new adventure, or a job change or move. I can search just the word "adventure" in Evernote on any of my synced devices and the program will show me the notes, and photos of the sets that I have that contain the adventure tag, as well as any sentiment stamp that I own that contains the word adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is a screen shot of what that search looks like on my iphone (YES. It syncs to stay current on all of your devices!):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> It shows that in my entire stamp inventory, I have 13 notes that are tagged Adventure. I can now click on any of the thumbnail images, to take a peek at the sets/kits to see if any of the highlighted images or sentiments would be a perfect fit for my project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adventure is the theme of my next project. This card could be used for a wide variety of occasions: a move, a new job or job transfer, heading off to college, etc..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This image from the November 2019 Kit of the Month, Wonder; and is an Angie Girl, designed my Angie Blom. Quite often, a new Angie Girl image appears in the Kit of the Month subscription kits. Illustrator Angie Blom designs many of the stamps that are included in the Kit of the Months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I stamped the image of the girl and her luggage onto a panel of Fabriano Artistico cold press watercolor panel using Fade Out ink using my MISTI. After stamping the image, I left the stamp in place in the MISTI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was at home the day I made this card, so I used Distress Inks to paint this image. Distress inks are a great and simple way to experiment with watercoloring. They move incredibly well on the paper, and many people already own them, (and likely own the full set of 60 colors). To do this, I took my Distresss ink cubes, and just squished the ink pad directly onto my craft mat, leaving a rectangle splotch of ink. This ink splotch was now my watercolor medium which I simply picked up from a palette with my damp paintbrush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I painted the background first, loosely adding rectangular swatches of ink to create the impression of a city scape. (I needed to be sure my background idea worked before I put time into painting the focal image.) I was careful to let each color dry before switching colors. I didn't want to risk the colors blending, and resulting in a muddy look. Once I was happy with my background, I painted the girl and her luggage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When my panel was fully dry, I put it back into my MISTI and heat embossed the image with clear embossing powder. This put a bit of the details that I lost back into the image, especially in her hair, and her boots. I also added the greeting (also from Wonder) with dark brown ink, cleaned my stamp while still in place, then stamped over it with embossing ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now I'm going to share my secret to storing these large subscription kits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These kits have so many stamps included, that once you have fully separated the stamps from their sheet of rubber, then can end up in a big pile at the bottom of the bag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I slide the whole sheet of rubber to my work surface, face down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I remove the paper backing from each of the stamps. Some people save these backings to use as masks, but I do not. I toss them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next I find one of these <a href="https://amzn.to/2QGOAmX">EZ Mount storage panels</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And place it over the whole sheet of rubber and give it a little pressure over the whole panel. The stamps will cling to the coated surface of the storage panel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I flip it over, and often holding each stamp in place on the storage panel, peel away all the excess rubber and dispose of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, thats enough for today. That was a LOT. If you made it this far, thank you. I appreciate you being here and hope you found a bit of useful information. I'll be back with more projects tomorrow, as well as share my storage tips for the smaller Unity Stamp kits/sets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pssst! If you would like to be entered to win a prize pack of amazing Unity Stamp Company's stamps, just leave a comment below. Unity has generously offered a prize pack for me to giveaway to TWO lucky commenters this week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I haven't been blogging much lately. Life tends to get in the way of writing blog posts, I spend an awful lot of time in my car driving to and from various swimming pools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But this week, I have some special stuff to share with you: This is my Growing In Unity week! The The Growing In Unity program, is sponsored and promoted by Unity Stamp Company. Each year, Unity randomly selects 52 "guest" designers from the pool of applicants to share projects Monday through Friday, each during an assigned week, and this week it's me! I have prepared lots to share with you this week, so I hope you will visit each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unity Stamp Company wants to share with you as well. They have offered a prize pack of their fabulous, deeply etched stamps for me to give away to two lucky winners. If you have never tried one of their beautiful stamps, you could be in for a real treat. If you are already a loyal fan like I am, you know their dedication to making quality products. To enter this prize pack giveaway, simply add a comment on any or all of my Growing In Unity posts this week. The winners will be announced on this blog, and on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/537864239611706/">Unity Stamp Company Growing in Unity Facebook page</a> after December 7th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unity Stamp Company is a family-owned red rubber stamp company based right here in Minnesota. They are located in New London, MN, about 75 minutes from my house, and the Magnuson family is about the sweetest family you could ever meet. They are an absolute joy to be around, and I sincerely love to support such a generous, hard-working, family-owned, "local" business. Their stamps are "cooked to order", so sometimes you won't receive your order Amazon Prime fast, because they are vulcanizing your specific stamps just for you, from their assortment of literally thousands of production plates. And they are definitely worth a few days wait! I once was able to see the process of them making their stamps, and it was fascinating to watch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today, I am sharing a series of watercolored cards using a few of the many Unity Stamp Company stamps that are designed by artist Phyllis Harris. Illustrator Phyllis Harris creates line image stamps, often featuring children, that are so simple and fun to color or paint. These happen to be some of my favorite images to pre-stamp and bring with me to color or paint when I'm away from home traveling, while a passenger on a flight or sometimes even in the car. The projects I'm sharing today, I actually watercolored while sitting in the bleachers at my son's all day club swim meet three weeks ago. I apologize for not having step photos to share with you on these cards, but I didn't take any photos at all until I had finished and assembled my cards at home. Actually that's not quite true. I did take ONE photo that day. It was so hazy and blurry, that I put my camera away in my bag and just painted and watched a few minutes of swimming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My images I'm sharing today were all painted using Daniel Smith watercolors, and a simple waterbrush. I used Inkon3's ink to stamp my images on panels of <a href="https://amzn.to/33artUk">Fabriano Artistico cold press watercolor paper</a>. The first three used Inkon3 Fine Detail Black ink; and for the last image, I used Inkon3's Fade Out ink for a no-line look. The Phyllis Harris images are very simple to paint, as they lend well to using light color washes, letting the layer dry, then adding another layer one at a time. I worked on the panels, start to finish. I was at the swim meet for 5 1/2 hours, so each of these watercolor panels took around an hour to paint, including the few minutes of drying time between each layer of paint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My first card used the stamps from the <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/brandy-emma-goodbye/">Brandy & Emma Goodbye</a> stamp kit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This last image using the images from <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/simple-places/">Simple Places</a> took me the longest to paint. I used the Fade Out ink for a no-line look, and the horse needed many layers to build up the levels of color I wanted. Each layer took a few minutes to dry, but when you sit at a swim meet for 5 1/2 hours to watch your child swim a total of less than five minutes, literally waiting for paint to dry sure helps pass the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is post number two today. If you are looking for my Concord & 9th <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/stocking-stuffers-bundle">Stocking Stuffers Bundle</a> Feature post, please click <a href="http://0.0.7.227/09/concord-9th-feature-friday-stocking.html">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This post is my final <a href="https://concordand9th.com/">Concord & 9th</a> <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new">September Holiday Release</a> Feature Friday post. It's been an honor to be a guest designer for September. And September certainly has flown by!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today I'm sharing projects created with the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holly-berry-bundle">Holly Berry Bundle</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Holly Berry Bundle consists of the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holly-berry-turnabout">Holly Berry Turnabout Stamp Set</a>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holly-berry-dies">Holly Berry dies</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I made a number of very simple, but classy holiday cards using the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holly-berry-dies">Holly Berry Dies</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had experimented with heat embossing the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/woven-stripes-background">Woven Stripes Background</a> on dark cardstock. Look how pretty that is! The woven detail is still visible even when embossed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holly-berry-turnabout">Holly Berry Turnabout</a> makes gorgeous holiday backgrounds, and has two turnabout stamps included. One for the leaves, one for berries. The leaf turnabout images are very stylized, so much so that I wondered if it could be used for more than just the holidays. (I love when I can make seasonal themed stamps work all year long!) I tried fall ink colors, beige, kraft, chocolate and turquoise and loved the result. I paired my background with an ink blended leaf from <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/thankful-leaves-dies?_pos=6&_sid=122e473a1&_ss=r">Thankful Leaves Dies.</a> I had inked the full leaf before cutting the veining. I removed the veins, and darkened them with more brown ink, then popped it back in place and adhered it to the background panel. I cut a small strip for the partial greeting, and added the word wonderful, that I had stamped in turquoise and carefully trimmed out with scissors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Can you believe that September is almost over already? Today is my final Friday Feature day as a guest designer for <a href="https://concordand9th.com/">Concord & 9th</a>'s September Holiday Release. Once again, I have two blog posts today. This post features projects created with the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/stocking-stuffers-bundle">Stocking Stuffers Bundle</a>.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Stocking Stuffers Bundle includes the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/stocking-stuffers">Stocking Stuffers stamp set</a>;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/stocking-stuffers-dies">https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/stocking-stuffers-dies</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Stocking Stuffers Bundle contains stamps and dies to create interactive holiday cards. Today I made hanging Santa stocking cards with hidden slide-out greetings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I stamped the three gift toppers onto a Copic friendly white cardstock using my <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/misti-original-size?_pos=5&_sid=eb151c57d&_ss=r">Original MISTI</a>. I stamped all three at once, as well as the small pinecone and holly image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I then added color to the images with Copic markers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next, I stamped and colored the stockings, and die cut and colored the cuff of the stockings as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is one of the assembled cards. I first used the small die to cut the slider hole in a panel of black cardstock before adding my mantel. My wood mantel was created by stamping the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/barnwood-background?_pos=1&_sid=3d57ba443&_ss=r">Barnwood background stamp</a> on white cardstock with dark gray ink. Using a blending brush, I added kraft and gray inks to create a neutral stained wood color. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I die cut the slider tab from white card stock and stamped my hidden greeting, then slipped it through the hole and carefully adhered the topper to the top of the greeting. Next I adhered the black panel to a top-fold card base, adding adhesive only to the edges of the panel to make sure that my slider greeting was free to move beneath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next I added my pine boughs. These pine boughs were cut from 4 different green cardstocks using the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/take-a-bough-die?_pos=11&_sid=81866d677&_ss=r">Take a Bough dies</a>. I simply snipped portions from the ends of each die cut and layered above the mantel. I added a piece of twine and the tiny tag to the garland too. I adhered the stocking in place and heat embossed the visible greeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A second, very similar card using gold cording in the garland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And a third, which uses the string bows from the Stocking Stuffer die set to attach the tiny tag with the "pull me" directions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The set of three showing the hidden messages:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I still have several colored pieces to create more cards with. I decided to use of of the stocking toppers here on this cards. I stamped the background using the Woven Stripes background stamp. I stamped it both horizontally and vertically to create the plaid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I created a "tray" with a strip of red cardstock, and wanted to have the little monster from <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/monster-love-bundle?_pos=2&_sid=33e9ad4fa&_ss=r">Monster Hugs Bundle</a> carrying it as if bringing gifts to a good friend. The little matching die that cuts the separate monster fingers was perfect to add to the edges of the tray!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I added the nice list greeting to the die cut (from <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holly-berry-dies">Holly Jolly dies</a>) and inked the edges before adding two extra pinecones to the bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please click <a href="http://0.0.7.227/09/concord-9th-friday-feature-holly-berry.html">HERE</a> to see my other post that showcases the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holly-berry-bundle">Holly Berry Bundle</a>. I'm using the dies to make very simple, but classy holiday cards, as well as experimenting with a way to make a holiday set a year-round set! </span></div>
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Hello! This is post number two for today: Part two of my <a href="https://concordand9th.com/">Concord & 9th</a> September Release Feature Friday. If you'd like to see the post which features the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/merry-shapes-bundle">Merry Shapes Bundle</a>, please click <a href="http://0.0.7.227/09/concord-9th-friday-feature-merry-shapes.html">HERE</a>.</div>
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This post features the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/mistletoe-messages-bundle">Mistletoe Messages Bundle</a>. This bundle includes the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/mistletoe-messages">Mistletoe Magic stamp set</a> which is a 3"x 4" set full of small holiday greetings that are perfect for cards and tags:</div>
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and the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/mistletoe-messages-dies">Mistletoe Messages Dies</a>, which includes the large Mistletoe sprig, berries, a string bow and a double ended banner die sized for all of the stamp set sentiments.</div>
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My first project uses the Mistletoe die, both for the ivory die cut, and the negative from that diecut used as a stencil to ink the Mistletoe image onto my card panel with Tea Dye Distress Oxide ink. </div>
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I added the ivory die cut and layered the gold berries, cut from the gold foil paper from the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/neutrals-foil-paper-pack?_pos=2&_sid=6c198e363&_ss=r">Neutrals Foil Paper Pack</a> to my inked panel. The panel was trimmed down to 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" and layered with a dark brown cardstock, a striped patterned paper and the gold foil before adhering it to a folded cardbase. The sentiment was heat embossed in ivory onto the dark brown banner strip and added right-justified to the card.</div>
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My next card uses the Mistletoe dies once again. This time, I die cut the Mistletoe sprig multiple times from the green foiled paper from the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/holiday-foil-paper-pack?_pos=1&_sid=6c198e363&_ss=r">Holiday Foil Paper Pack</a>, as well as some pale green glitter paper. I snipped the die cuts apart, into mini sprigs which I arranged to fit beneath the frame die from the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holly-berry-dies">Holly Berry Dies</a>. The berries were die cut from white and gray cardstock and added randomly amongst the sprigs. </div>
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I used the Jolly Dies to cut dark teal cardstock and the pale green glitter paper to cut the tiny banner and the large word. The teal letters were inlaid into the glittered banner before adhering to my card.</div>
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For my final card, I used the tiny snowflake, one of the sentiment stamps and the banner die along with one of my older stamp sets in my collection. These sentiments can give new options to many of your other holiday and winter themed sets. Here, I used the Let It Snow sentiment to along with the large snowflake from Snow Flurry. I had heat embossed the large snowflake with clear embossing powder onto a white cardstock panel. I then inked the panel with Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink. I added spritzes of water to lift some of the ink with a paper towel. I also splattered some white acrylic paint to add tiny snow specks. When my panel and paint were fully dry, I also stamped the tiny dainty snowflake randomly over the panel using white pigment ink. </div>
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Once that ink had dried, I trimmed the panel to 4 1/8"</div>
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x 5 3/8" and adhered it to a white cardbase. I added the sentiment banner strip with foam dimensional tape, and also added a few gems.</div>
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I also used the banner strip and Noel sentiment on a card in <a href="http://0.0.7.227/09/concord-9th-friday-feature-merry-shapes.html">THIS</a> post today which features the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/merry-shapes-bundle">Merry Shapes Bundle</a>. Please feel free to check that post out too!</div>
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Two other guest designers are featuring the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/merry-shapes-bundle">Merry Shapes</a> and <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/mistletoe-messages-bundle">Mistletoe Messages Bundles</a> today also. Please visit <a href="https://emilymidgett.com/">Emily</a> and <a href="http://www.muchlovesara.com/">Sara</a> by clicking their highlighted names.</div>
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Happy Friday everyone! It's been a warm week here in Minnesota. Having 80+ degree temperatures in September is not uncommon, but 80+ degree days with a non-working air conditioning system has been rather uncomfortable. A faulty capacitor has been replaced and it's working again now, but having some fun new winter holiday products to work with helped make a few hot, humid days this week much more bearable. Today I'm excited to share more <a href="https://concordand9th.com/">Concord & 9th</a> September Release Feature Friday projects with you. Today's features include this post featuring the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/merry-shapes">Merry Shapes Bundle</a>, as well as a second post <a href="http://0.0.7.227/09/concord-9th-friday-feature-mistletoe.html">HERE</a>, which features the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/mistletoe-messages-bundle">Mistletoe Messages Bundle</a>.</div>
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My first project uses the candy cane from Merry Shapes as my focal image for some holiday gift tags. After cutting several of the canes from white cardstock, I stamped the candy cane onto the grid paper in my MISTI, then aligned one of the negatives from my die cut around the stamped image. I used the bar magnet and a disc magnet to secure the negative in place.</div>
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Now I am able to pop those white die cuts into the negative and stamp on each of them perfectly.</div>
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I cut tags using the tag dies from both <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/holiday-cheer-tags-dies?_pos=8&_sid=b698cc2eb&_ss=r">Holiday Cheer Tag Dies</a> and <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/little-love-tags-dies?_pos=10&_sid=b698cc2eb&_ss=r">Little Love Tag Dies</a> from white cardstock. I used my MISTI to stamp a border of <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/woven-plaid-background?_pos=2&_sid=68bbc0745&_ss=r">Woven Plaid</a> to the bottom of each tag. (I could stamp two at a time!)</div>
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I used a small acrylic block to stamp the MERRY three times to each tag before adding the stamped candy cane with dimensional foam tape. As a finishing touch, I added the red bow diecut to each candy cane (from the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/mistletoe-messages-dies">Mistletoe Messages Dies</a>).</div>
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Since these tags will be given away, I decided to make a small gift bag for the tags. I used my Original MISTI to stamp the geometric tree image and greeting from Merry Shapes onto a small muslin bag. I placed a small piece of cardstock inside the bag to prevent any ink from transferring through from the front to the back panel of the bag, then stamped with regular dye ink, and set it aside to dry carefully before handling.</div>
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I used the tree image and dies for this cards, stamping two trees directly to my white card base, then adding three more that I had die cut from felt using the solid tree die, then die cut once again using the stitching die. I used several strands of silver embroidery floss to simply stitch around each tree before adhering them to my card base with Scor-Tape.</div>
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I cut three tree die cuts from the Silver foil paper from the Neutrals Foil Pack, three from a silver glitter paper and one from white cardstock. Beginning with the solid silver mirror-finish trees, I placed them low on my ink panel, then added a hand cut "snow drift" over the top, covering about half of the die cut. I trimmed the excess drift paper away using a paper trimmer. </div>
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I added the three silver glitter paper trees in the same manner, this time placing them higher on my panel, and coverinng only the lower third of the die cut with a second hand-cut snow drift.</div>
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I sprayed my single white tree die cut with spray adhesive and added clear prisma glitter to give it a fine glittery shine before adding in to my panel. </div>
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I placed it even higher up than previous trees on my panel so it would appear taller and closer in the foreground of my scene. I stamped the Happy Holidays greeting to another strip of white cardstock and cut one more snow drift curve before adding it to my panel and trimming the bottom edge flush with the previous layers. </div>
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Trees are also the focus of this card, using three patterned paper die cuts along with white and foil diecuts from the Holly Jolly Dies. These die cuts were added to my white cardbase that I'd added <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/woven-stripes-background">Woven Stripes Background</a>.</div>
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The following simple card uses the letters from Merry Shapes. Instead of using the letter O to form the word Joy, I used the globe from Globe Greetings. I stamped with globe with Kraft ink, then the blue oceans were added with an ink blending brush. The Noel banner is from the Mistletoe Messages Bundle.</div>
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One final project uses the light bulb filament and stamps from Merry Shapes and a makeshift stencil that I created by cutting into post-it tape with the smaller circle die. Using this circle stencil, I created the bulb shape with a buttery yellow ink for each bulb, then added a brighter yellow ink to create the glow. I also brushed in a pale gray ink to accentuate the glow of the bulbs before adding the sentiment from Shine On.</div>
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Merry Shapes was a very fun set to play with. It's simple geometric shapes allowed for lots of creativity, and added some new ways to use sets and sentiments I already owned.</div>
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Thanks for stopping by today! Make sure you check out the <a href="http://0.0.7.227/09/concord-9th-friday-feature-mistletoe.html">Mistletoe Messages feature post</a> as well as the posts from <a href="https://emilymidgett.com/">Emily</a> and <a href="http://www.muchlovesara.com/">Sara</a> too!</div>
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September is my favorite month for many reasons: school starts again, and our family falls back into a regular routine. the temperatures start to cool and the Minnesota fall colors appear. September is also my birthday month, and best of all, stamp company Christmas releases happen! (So I usually make full use of that birthday month excuse and order ALL the things.)</div>
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This September is even more special. I was thrilled and honored to invited to be a guest designer for <a href="https://concordand9th.com/">Concord and 9th</a> for their <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new">September Holiday Release</a>!! I was absolutely thrilled to get an early chance to see and work with all of these amazing new Holiday products for Concord and 9th's Feature Fridays.</div>
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Today's Feature Friday post focuses on the Concord & 9th <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/christmas-florals-bundle">Christmas Florals Bundle</a>. This Bundle is the holiday version, very similar to their very popular previously released <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/wonderful-florals-bundle?_pos=2&_sid=a10c65efb&_ss=r">Wonderful Florals Bundle</a>. This set features Poinsettias, the large font Christmas, and a variety of mix and match coordinating words and sentiments.</div>
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It also has a matching die set, with dies to cut the whole large image, the letters alone, as well as various portions of the image, and a small sentiment frame for the add on sentiments.</div>
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I chose to stamp the large image in black ink and colored with Copic Markers. I colored very loosely, leaving lots of white areas for highlights, using several shades of reds and greens and blue-greens for variation and shading. </div>
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While my panel was drying, I created a background for my image. I stamped the Barnwood Background stamp onto a panel of white cardstock, with dark gray ink. Then using a blending brush, I brushed in kraft, and brick red ink to create a warm, rich wood grain color. When the ink was dry, I covered the whole wood grain panel with embossing ink (direct from the ink pad), then heat embossed the whole panel with clear, to create a highly varnished shine. This panel was the added to my A2 side fold cardbase.</div>
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I used the matching die to cut my painted image out and adhered it to my shiny woodgrain panel. I also cut the merry word die from both red and white cardstock and layered them slightly off-set to the upper left of my card.</div>
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I used the large image again, this time heat embossing the image onto hot press watercolor paper with gold. This allowed me to add color with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.</div>
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I lightly added color direct to paper with my markers in small areas, then pulled with color across and blended colors with an aquabrush. To create variation of color, I used colors from peach to corals to reds, trying to create dimension on each half of the petals and shading by using different tones.</div>
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This time, I used the large image die as well as the letter die to create the cut out letters from my colored panel. I built a shaker card, by flipping my colored and die cut panel face down, and adhering a small piece of clear window plastic behind the cut out letters of my panel. (My ATG gun is my prefered adhesive when making shaker cards.) . On top of my window plastic, I added a 3' x 4" frame of double layered adhesive foam tape, making sure that all sides of the frame fit tightly against each other and were tightly sealed, so none of my shaker pieces would be able to escape through any gaps. I then added a mix of sequins inside the frame, then sealed the sequins into shaker frame with a piece of red mirror foiled paper from the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/holiday-foil-paper-pack">Holiday Foil Paper Pack</a>. My shaker panel was now ready to be adhered to my card base. I decided to use the Barnwood Background again, this time though, I stamped in a medium gray ink onto a beige cardstock, and brushed in kraft ink to add a bit more variation of color to the wood panels. </div>
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I have one more quick card to share in this post. I love the very clean font of the letters in the Christmas word die that is included in this bundle, and I was curious if they would fit across the front of a horizontal A2 card. I cut them from red cardstock and lined them up carefully along one of the printed grid lines of my craft mat on my desk. With a bit of careful adjusting, I was able to make them fit within a 5 1/2" space. Since they were now all aligned and spaced, I wanted to save that arrangement to use on a cards. So I cut a piece of Post It tape (washi tape works too), about y6 1/2" long and taped it right on top of my aligned letters. This saves them all in a row, perfectly aligned. I was able to pick up the whole row together and set it aside to use when I was ready.</div>
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I stamped the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/woven-stripes-background">Woven Stripes Background</a> onto a white, top-fold A2 cardbase. Then added my row of letters that spelled out CHRISTMAS. I simply flipped the row of taped together letters, added liquid adhesive to the back of each letter, then glued the whole row to my card base at once. As soon as the glue was secure, I simple peeled off the tape!</div>
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I cut mistletoe die cuts from the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/mistletoe-messages-bundle">Mistletoe and Holly Bundle</a>, from a light and darker green, added a hint of highlight to some of the Mistletoe leaves with a white gel pen. I added them to my cards, along and a bright red die cut bow with liquid adhesive.</div>
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And also stamped the two small add on sentiment builder stamps from Christmas Floral onto the small strip die cuts. I layered these sentiment strips onto red double ended banner diecuts (also from Mistletoe and Holly Dies). The sentiment strip fits perfectly over this banner die! I added them left and right justified above and below my word Christmas and simply snipped off the outer flag ends.</div>
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Thanks for visiting today! I have a second post featuring the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/silent-night-bundle">Silent Night Bundle</a> <a href="http://0.0.7.227/09/concord-9th-guest-feature-silent-night.html">HERE</a>. And... I'll be back next Friday with more!</div>
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Make sure you check out today's other Feature Friday Guest Designers:</div>
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Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Today I'm thrilled to be one of the Feature Friday guest designs for the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new">September Concord & 9th Holiday Collection</a>. This is post #2 for today. My post featuring <a href="https://concordand9th.com/">Concord & 9th's</a> Christmas Florals is <a href="http://0.0.7.227/09/concord-9th-friday-feature-christmas.html">HERE</a>.</div>
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In this post, I'm sharing some projects that feature the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/silent-night-bundle?_pos=2&_sid=593c7b209&_ss=r">Silent Night stamp and die bundle</a>. This is such a sweet set. The simple fonts and sketched images are perfect, and the manger image and matching die give tons of possibilities for your Christmas cards. The die set includes both solid outline and stitching options.</div>
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I love the frame dies. They have a whimsical slightly off-kilter handmade charm. There is one that cuts the large frame, and the nested one that cuts a smaller outline plus stitching holes. It was the stitching die that I chose to use for this card. </div>
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I cut the stitched frame from a piece of white cardstock. I saved the negative piece and used that inside my <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/misti-original-size?_pos=5&_sid=76d3c9a55&_ss=r">Original MISTI</a> to align both the large greeting stamp and the manger stamp within the opening. When I was happy with the alignment, I added the frame diecut within the opening and stamped with embossing ink, then heat embossed with gold powder. I actually stamped and embossed it a second time, since it was so easy to replace into that negative piece and I knew I'd be able to stamp in the exact same place. This second layer of heat embossing gave me a really smooth raises texture. I decided I wanted to keep my card very simple and classic, so I made a background using gold embossing too. I used a small stamp block to stamp the leaf sprig stamp randomly over the top half of my white folded card base with embossing ink. I then embossed it. By only heat embossing half at a time, I could easily hold my paper without disturbing any images, and that unstamped half was cool enough to hold as I melted the powder. It was easy to see where to place the rest of my images too.</div>
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I assembled my card by simply adding the frame to my card base with dimensional foam tape.</div>
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I used the same stitched die for my next project. This time doing a bit of stitching. This time, I used the die to cut two pieces of 100% ivory wool felt to make a little ornament. I knew I wanted to use the little pine branch stitching dies, and also wanted a simple greeting so I flipped through some of my previously released C&9th holiday sets for a simple greeting that could be stitched easily. I chose the Noel from <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/very-merry-sentiments?_pos=6&_sid=b61b9253a&_ss=r">Very Merry Sentiments</a>. This was perfectly sized and in a very thin simple font, that i knew would be easy to stitch, even without guide holes. I aligned the Noel and the die into my MISTI for placement, then removed the die before picking up the stamp with the lid of my MISTI. I stamped it twice using Antique Linen Distress Oxide ink. Antique Linen waa pale enough ink that it would not be visible under my stitching and the pigment formula did not absorb and spread through the felt as I feared a dye formula might. It worked! The stamped image was faint, yet crisp and adequately visible for stitching. </div>
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I then added the stitchinng holes for the Pine Sprigs, by running my felt and die through my die cutting machine. The tiny centers of the holes popped right out.</div>
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I used the large needle and embroidery floss from the <a href="https://concordand9th.com/products/sew-essentials-kit?_pos=1&_sid=58c08913a&_ss=r">Sew Essentials Kit</a> to do my stitching, I backstitched the letters and pine sprig using 4 of the 6 strands of embroidery floss. When finished, I lined up the two felt pieces (make sure you have them aligned correctly the frame die is NOT symmetrical!) and starting at the upper left corner used a running stitch, (leaving gaps between the stitches) worked my way around to the upper right corner. At this point, I added some light polyfill to the pocket I'd just created. I'd have loved to add some holiday scent pot pourri, but I did not have any. But these would make great little sachets, wouldn't they? </div>
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After adding some polyfill, I added a few more stitches to get almost to the top center. Now i added a loop of red grosgrain ribbon and stitched it into my seam. I continued stitching to where I'd started. could have stopped right there, but instead, I decided to stitch around once more, this time filling in those previous gaps with a stitch. This added more strength to my seam, especially for my ribbon loop. When I'd finished the second trip around the ornament, I simple tied off my floss. My ornament was complete!</div>
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My last uses the regular non-stitching dies from the Silent Night die set with the small poinsettia image and large script-y Merry Christmas greeting from <a href="https://concordand9th.com/collections/new/products/christmas-florals">Christmas Florals</a>. I love that large greeting and heat embossed it in gold to the lower corner of a white card panel and adhered it to a kraft card base. To create the holiday spray, I first stamped the small singular poinsettia image from Christmas Florals onto a small piece of colored pencil paper and used pale blue, greens, lavender and grays to shade the petals of the flower, and blue greens to color the leaves. Rather than used the die, which would leave a tiny white border, I chose to hand trim out my image. </div>
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I cut many of the Silent Night pine and leaf sprig die cuts from three colors of cardstock. I added a piece of dimensional foam tape to the back of my poinsettia, then added the small sprig die cuts one by one to create the floral spray. I secured them all with liquid glue, then added them to my card with additional liquid adhesive. </div>
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If you are like me, and use USPS delivery notifications, you probably have a pretty good idea of what is arriving in your mailbox most days. You probably remember if you've ordered something, and have a relative idea of when it is expected to arrive. You might stalk the notifications, waiting for the one that says "Out for Delivery". On Saturday morning, I found a mysterious "Out For Delivery" email notification for a package that I wasn't expecting. I had no idea what it might be, so I was very surprised to find a small padded envelope in my mailbox that contained a letter with this letterhead!</div>
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I'd rather forgotten all about the earlier email that I'd sent a few weeks ago, expressing interest to receive a random Simon Says Stamp Stamptember set to play with and to help promote the Stamptember event! My email had been one of several dozen chosen to receive an advance Stamptember set! How exciting!<br />
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Stamptember is a month-long celebration featuring a large fall/holiday release of <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/">Simon Says Stamp</a> branded products, and a fun industry collaboration month, with limited editions of special collaborative stamp sets released each day.<br />
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I received a Stamptember limited edition collaboration set between Simon Says Stamp and Colorado Craft Company: a 6x8" set called <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Colorado-Craft-Company-Clear-Stamps-STAMPtember-2019-Exclusive-sss202052">Stamptember: Lovely Legs</a>.</div>
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This is an adorable set for a dance family. The large image has jazz or tap, Irish dance and ballet represented, and has, like all of the <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/search?currency=USD&q=colorado+craft+company">Colorado Craft Company sets</a>, amazing sentiments included.</div>
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This set is one of the very first collab sets of the Stamptember celebration and is available for purchase at Simon Says Stamp now, so if this set appeals to you, grab one while you can! These limited edition stamp sets sell out very quickly!</div>
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Here are four cards that I made using this <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Colorado-Craft-Company-Clear-Stamps-STAMPtember-2019-Exclusive-sss202052">Lovely Legs</a> set over the holiday weekend:</div>
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I stamped the large image onto a panel of <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Gina-K-Designs-ARTISTS-CHOICE-110-LB-WHITE-CARDSTOCK-85-x-11-Inches-47113-gkd47113">Artist's Choice cardstock</a> using <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Gina-K-Designs-JET-BLACK-AMALGAM-Ink-Pad-4020-agkd4020?currency=USD">Black Amalgam ink</a>. I allowed the ink to dry a minute or so, then colored with <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Faber-Castell-POLYCHROMOS-COLORED-PENCILS-60-Piece-Set-in-Tin-110060-vfc?currency=USD">Polychromos Pencils</a>.</div>
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I loved the thank you sentiment for a dance instructor so much, that I knew that I wanted to use that one, but I wanted it to be created for a specific ballet instructor. I decided to use only a portion of the large image, isolating the single ballerina. Since the ballerina's leg is partially hidden behind the Irish dancer's dress, I had to do a bit of masking to be able to only stamp the ballerina.</div>
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I first positioned both the ballerina and the sentiment in my <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/MISTI-Precision-Stamper-Stamping-Tool-mistimsp?currency=USD">Original MISTI</a>, so they would fit on a horizontal A2 panel. I then removed the sentiment before picking up the image stamp. I then covered the Irish dress with small pieces of <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/3M-2-INCH-WIDE-POST-IT-TAPE-36-Yards-White-Mask-62220?currency=USD">Post-It tape</a>. then carefully inked with <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Inkon3-FADEOUT-NO-LINE-COLORING-Detail-Ink-98712-98712io3?currency=USD">Inkon3's Fade Out Ink</a>.</div>
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The ballerina was really fun to color with markers, but I wanted to try to paint the ballerina too. On my second card, I used the same masking technique to stamp the ballerina again, but this time onto cold press watercolor paper, and this time I was thinking ahead. I lightly penciled in my floor edge and barre first before I started painting.</div>
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My final card uses only one of the dancers once again. This time, I used Post-It tape to isolate the Irish dancer. I also used the MISTI Creative Corners to allow for the large image to go off the side of my cardstock panel. I wanted it to be held securely in place when I stamped and I also wanted to re-stamp after I had colored the image and wanted to know exactly where to replace my panel when I came back to my MISTI after coloring. So after inking with Warm Glow ink, I left my stamp in place on the lid of my MISTI. I just cleaned it right there on the lid.</div>
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Once my Irish dancer was stamped on to my panel of <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Strathmore-BRISTOL-SMOOTH-9-x-12-Paper-Pad-365096-365096S">Bristol Smooth paper</a>, I colored with <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Zig-CLEAN-COLOR-60-set-Real-Brush-RB600AT60V-RB600AT60V?currency=USD">Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers</a>. After the panel was colored and fully dry, I replaced it into my Misti, secure between the Creative Corners, I dusted the panel with <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Ranger-ANTI-STATIC-POUCH-ink62332-ink62332?currency=USD">anti-static powder</a> and very gently tapped the very tiny tip edge of a <a href="https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Tsukineko-Versamark-EMBOSS-CUBE-Watermark-Stamp-Ink-Pad-VM500-635?currency=USD">mini Versamark ink cube</a> only on the portion of ornate designs of the Irish dress. This careful inking allowed me to heat emboss the pattern in gold onto the blue dress.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hello! Welcome to a special trifecta blog hop! Today the teams from <a href="https://pfstamps.com/">Picket Fence Studios</a>, <a href="https://www.thermowebonline.com/">Therm-O-Web</a> and <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/default.asp">My Sweet Petunia</a> are sharing projects made using products from each of the three fabulous companies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today I'm sharing this card, which is created with the <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/MISTI-p/original-misti.htm">MISTI</a> and <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/product-p/retail-cutalign.htm">Cut-Align</a> from <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/">My Sweet Petunia</a>; the <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/bear-family-2/">Bear Family stamp set</a>, <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/sunburst-stencil-6x6/">Sunburst stencil</a> and <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/life-changing-blender-brush-2-pack/">Life Changing Blender brush</a> from <a href="https://pfstamps.com/">Picket Fence Studios</a>; and <a href="https://www.thermowebonline.com/">Therm-O-Web's</a> <a href="https://www.thermowebonline.com/p/pixie-spray">Pixie Spray temporary adhesive</a>, <a href="https://www.thermowebonline.com/p/deco-foil-transfer-gel">Decofoil Transfer Gel</a>, <a href="https://www.thermowebonline.com/p/gina-k-designs-fancy-foils-6-x-8-%E2%80%A2-gold-sequins/our-brands_gina-k-designs_fancy-foils?pp=24">Gold Sequins foil</a> and <a href="https://www.thermowebonline.com/p/deco-foil-flock-transfer-sheets-%E2%80%93-blue-diamond/crafts-scrapbooking_deco-foil_flock-transfer-sheets?pp=24">Decofoil Blue Diamond Flock Transfer Sheets</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good morning! Today I'm back again, with these new blending brushes from <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/">Taylored Expressions</a>. I love the uniform size and the color coded handles. But I especially love the plush white bristles. And a 10-pack with color coded handles? I love that. Except now I have no excuse for grabbing the wrong brush, or using it in the wrong ink pad, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today I've used these new Taylored Expressions white bristled blending brushes with embossing folders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've never really had good luck inking up an embossing folder before embossing, so I add color to the embossed portions of my panel after dry embossing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this example, I used Blueberry ink to brush color to the raised numbers of the embossed panel to create a tone-on-tone background panel for this graduation card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I began by running a panel of shimmery cardstock in the Take a Number embossing folder through my Gemini. I then chose Blueberry ink to add the tone-on-tone color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> After inking up the brush with the Blueberry ink, I very lightly brushed the ink over the tops of the numbers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Once I had added enough ink to be satisfied with the depth of color, I chose the Just a Number dies, with their matching font, to add the year to my card. I used a double sided adhesive foam. First adding a thinner blue paper to one side of the foam, then running the dies through my Gemini.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After popping the die cut numerals from the foam, I arranged them on my panel before sticking them down, then using a piece of Post-it tape, and the grid lines of my MISTI mouse pad created a line to use as a guide to adhere the numbers to my panel straight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Once I had peeled the paper backing from each of the numbers, I used a book binding awl to carefully place them just above my paper line. (The awl helps keep the sticky adhesive from sticking to my nails, and distorting the shape of the numerals.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Then I peeled away my guide tape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I added a dark navy Grad Cap and white tassel to the zero using foam tape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also created this card similarly, using the Blending brushes to add ink to the embossed Brick panel. Finishing this simple card with a the Be Kind sentiment from Wonderful World, heat embossed in white onto a piece of vellum that was cut with one of the Frayed Edge Stacklets dies and a few rhinestones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today is release day at <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/">Taylored Expressions</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Taylor's new release features a product she's been working on for quite a long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ink Blender Brushes with soft, velvety white bristles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These brushes come in a set of 10 identically sized brushes, with color coded handles, so it's easy to tell which color you are working with! And there's no real need to clean them, but instead just wipe any excess ink off onto a dry towel before putting away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is a super cute spinning rack to hold them all too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The colors are so, so pretty when assembled and stored in their ROYGBIV glory! It's like a carousel of crafty color!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This set of brushes was a gift; it's a little sneak peek at one of the products that Taylor will be using in her classes this week at my Junkie fest 2019 event in Minneapolis. I'm very excited she's in town, and can't wait to see her class projects on Thursday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Using a white top fold card base on my <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/water-media-mat-by-waffle-flower.html">Water Media Mat</a>, I very quickly created an airy background by brushing in Salt Water Taffy ink over the Set the Scene - Clouds stencil strips. I started at the top of my card, lightly brushing ink up from the edge of the stencil strip. I used a second strip slightly lower, inking very faintly, then continued down my card, twisting, turning and finally flipping the stencil strip to create a varied cloud bank with a puffy lower edge as well. The ink application was quick and very smooth with these brushes, and took only a minute or two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used my <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/supplies/tools/misti-precision-stamping-tool.html">MISTI</a> to add the Walt Disney dreams quote from <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/stamps/plot-twist.html">Plot Twist</a> with Sprinkles ink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used a circle die to create a template that fit over my A2 top fold card base. I wanted to create a birthday card using the little bear from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_330295007"></span>Look Who's Talking<span id="goog_330295008"></span></a>. and have him peeking out from a hole in the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I picked up the stamp and inked up just the tiniest edge of his ear and stamped it onto the template. This showed me where I needed to trim away to allow the full ear to stamp. I also added a very faint pencil line inside the circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I stamped the bear. and also stamped a second time onto masking paper before removing the template. I then trimmed out only a small portion that would protect that ear and added it to my image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now with that ear covered with the mask, I added the circle I'd diecut from that template with temporary adhesive. I used the pencil line as a guide for placement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Next I added the <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/polka-party-stencil.html">Polka Party</a> stencil and inked in a rainbow of dots using the Blender Brushes. I used Guava, Candy Corn, Pineapple, Green Apple, Cookie Monster and Plum Punch inks. It was great to not have to clean a brush between colors, but rather just reach for the the color family brush!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now I wanted to use the birthday greeting from <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/the-inside-scoop-belated-birthday.html">The Inside Scoop - Belated Birthday</a>. but I wanted to used only half on the front of my card, the other half on the inside of the card. Once I had placed my stamp in my <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/supplies/tools/misti-precision-stamping-tool.html">MISTI</a>, I covered the portion I did not want with a piece of <a href="https://www.tayloredexpressions.com/supplies/adhesives/icraft-purple-tape.html">Purple Tape</a> before inking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm thrilled to be part of this really fun and exciting blog hop. Today the <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/">Gina K. Designs</a>, <a href="https://pfstamps.com/">Picket Fence Studios</a> and <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/default.asp">My Sweet Petunia</a> teams have joined up and are using products from all three companies to share inspiration and our love of these three companies' amazing products. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are many participants in this hop, so I know you will find lots of inspiration. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy hopping through all of the blogs. Leave comments along the way to be entered to win one of three great hop prizes. Each company is offering a $50 gift certificate to a lucky winner chosen from comments left along the hop. Each company will announce the winner of their $50 gift certificate prize on or before June 7th, so don't delay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My first card uses the <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/martini-glasses/">Martini Glasses Stencil</a> from <a href="https://pfstamps.com/">Picket Fence Studios</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used two pieces of <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gina-k-designs-masking-magic-sheets-5-in-x-7-in-12-sheets/">Masking Magic</a> to protect the majority of my single layer top fold card base, using the grid lines on my <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/product-p/original-mouse-pad.htm">MISTI Mouse pad</a> as a guide to line up the masking paper, creating an area for my images. I laid the stencil over my card base, and used <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/">Gina K. Designs</a>' Key Lime ink to add color to the martini glasses. I removed the stencil and washed it as the ink on my martinis was drying. Once dry, I replaced the stencil, and pressed my Versamark ink pad into the stencil, then used a clean Picket Fence Studios' <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/life-changing-blender-brushes-4-pack-broad-application/">Life Changing Blending Brush</a> to carefully and evenly distribute the Versamark ink into the stems and corners of the glasses. I then removed the stencil and heat embossed the martini glasses with <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/embossing-powder-detail-clear/">clear embossing powder</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I cleaned my stencil and brushes, then brushed ink my focal area with Gina K. Designs' Blue Denim, Sweet Corn and Jelly Bean inks, then used a dry cloth to remove any excess ink from the embossed areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I diecut the word Wishes with the Gina K. Designs <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/wishes-die/">Wishes Word Die</a> from <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/heavy-base-weight-card-stock-white/">Heavyweight White Cardstock</a> that had been partially inked with Blue Denim ink, and adhered it to my card with Connect Glue. I then, using my <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/MISTI-p/original-misti.htm">Original MISTI</a>, stamped the word Birthday from the <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/clear-mini-stamps-wishes/">Wishes Mini Stamp Set</a> onto a small piece of Jelly Bean Green cardstock with Blue Denim ink. Leaving my stamp and cardstock in place, I cleaned the stamp, and restamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I then used the <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/product-p/retail-cutalign.htm">Cut-Align</a> from <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/default.asp">My Sweet Petunia</a> and a craft knife to trim out the embossed word with a 1/16' inch border.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My next two card use the <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/clear-stamps-elegant-asters/">Elegant Asters Stamps</a> and <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/elegant-asters-die-set/">Dies</a> from Gina K. Designs. I cut a variety of the Asters from her Sea Glass, White, Wild Dandelion, and Sweet Mango cardstocks. I used Jelly Bean Green and Fresh Asparagus for the leaves. I saved the negative from one of my cardstocks to use later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My next step was to darken the edges. I used the blending brushes from Picket Fence Studios to add the following colors of <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gkd-color-companions-complete-ink-pad-collection/">ink</a>: Jelly Bean Green, Sweet Corn, Tropical Teal, Soft Stone, Faded Brick and Dark Sage. The ink looks rather dark at first when it was wet, but it did fade considerably when it dried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now I placed my three Aster stamps on the lid of my <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/MISTI-p/original-misti.htm">Original MISTI</a> and stamped them onto a sheet of the lined paper pad. I used the negative piece from my earlier die cutting to frame each of those stamped images, securing them with Purple Tape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My next step was to create a vase for my flowers. Using my MISTI, I stamped the vase from Gina K.'s <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/clear-stamps-buds-and-vases/">Buds and Vases stamp set</a> at the bottom of a panel of <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/artists-choice-110lb-white-card-stock/">Artist's Choice Cardstock</a> with <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gkd-amalgam-ink-pad-whisper/">Whisper Amalgam ink</a>. It's very soft color makes it a great no-line coloring ink. I added color with Prismacolor pencils, using various turquoise, blues, greens and even a yellow-orange as a reflection, and used a blending tortillion and gamsol to blend the colors together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I trimmed the panel to fit within a <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/heavy-base-weight-card-stock-turquoise-sea/">Turquoise Sea</a> card base and stamped the greeting from Picket Fence's <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/forever-ever/">Forever and Ever Stamp Set</a> in Turquoise Sea ink. I added small dots of both Copic marker and white gel to my flower centers, and even added a bit of white highlight to some of the flowers with gel pen, smudging it out and softening it with my finger. My last step was to assemble my floral arrangement, layering the leaves and flowers and adhering them to my card panel with <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/connect-glue/">Connect Glue</a> or foam dimensional adhesive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used a few more of the Asters that I'd inked and stamped for the next card as well. I started with a piece of Heavyweight White Cardstock, and Gina K.'s <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gkd-art-stencils-rounded-swirl/">Rounded Swirls Art Stencil</a>. This is a rather delicate stencil with lots of little tendrils. I used <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/pixie-spray/">Pixie Spray Stencil Adhesive</a> to help hold my stencil in place as I inked it with <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gkd-color-companions-ink-pad-soft-stone/">Soft Stone</a> and <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gkd-color-companions-ink-pad-slate/">Slate</a> ink with a blending brush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wanted a simple sentiment strip for this card, so I stamped the sentiment from Picket Fence Studios' <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/lets-shake-tail-feathers/">Let's Shake Our Tail Feathers stamp set</a> in Versamark ink onto Slate cardstock and heat embossed it with <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/embossing-powder-detail-white/">white embossing powder</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used my <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/product-p/retail-cutalign.htm">Cut-Align</a> tool and my craft knife to trim out the strip. I used the 1/8" grid measurement along the bottom of my letters, to leave room for any descenders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I likewise flipped my Cut-Align and strip and used the same measurement along the top of the lower case letters, leaving enough room for any ascenders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I then simply adhered the sentiment strip to my glittered panel, and trimmed it to fit an A2 card base, and added the white Asters, some of my remaining inked leaves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My final card, uses stamps from both Picket Fence's <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/lets-shake-tail-feathers/">Let's Shake Your Tail Feathers</a> and the sentiment from Gina's Elegant Asters stamp set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Using my Original MISTI, I stamped with Versamark and heat embossed the peacock tail image with <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/embossing-powder-detail-silver/">silver</a> to the bottom of an A2 panel of Heavyweight White Cardstock. I turned my panel and repeated the image on the opposite side. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used Seaglass, Turquoise Sea and Wild Lilac inks to ink the panel, wiping excess ink from the embossing with a dry cloth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I created my own background for my oval sentiment by first arranging the two thin sentiment images along one of the grid lines in the center of my <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/product-p/original-grid-paper-double.htm">MISTI grid paper</a>. I picked up the stamps with the MISTI lid and stamped onto the grid paper. Next I traced the outer edge of my stitched oval die, onto a slightly larger rectangular piece of white cardstock. This allows me to easily repeat stamp my sentiments, creating my background. I simply placed my rectangle lined up with one of the 1/4" spaced grid lines, secured it with my <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/product-p/bar-magnet.htm">bar magnet</a> and stamped. For the next and following stampings, I simply moved my paper, up or down, to the left or or right, each time lining it up again with one of the grid lines before stamping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's all from me today, but there are many more posts to visit! Make sure to visit them all, commenting your way through to be entered to win one of the $50 gift certificate hop prizes and make sure you stop back to the company blogs on June 7th to see if you are one of the lucky winners! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thank you for visiting, and enjoy the hop! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your next stop should be <a href="http://emilyloggans.com/2019/05/30/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop">Emily's blog</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The full list of hop participants is listed below for your convenience:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/?p=56464"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gina Krupsky</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://blog.mysweetpetunia.com/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Sweet Petunia</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://pfstamps.com/?p=9727"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Picket Fence Studios</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://karenscreativedesigns.com/?p=291"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Karen Hightower</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://ilinacrouse.blogspot.com/2019/05/three-way-swap-my-sweet-petunia-gina-k.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ilina Crouse</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://papercraftyscreations.blogspot.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sheri Gilson</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://inkypaws.splitcoaststampers.com/2019/05/30/pfgk/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jeanne Streiff</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://catdidit.blogspot.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cathy Tidwell</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://understandblue.blogspot.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lydia Fiedler</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://myblogidlet.blogspot.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Donna Idlet</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.created4creativity.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Susie Moore</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://simplybeautifulcreations.blogspot.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ceal Pritchett</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://indigojadeart.com/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lisa Hetrick</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://giovana-believe.blogspot.com/2019/05/three-way-swap-with-gina-k-picket-fence.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Giovana Smith</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://mindyeggendesign.com/?p=7854"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mindy Eggen</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://ingeniousinkling.typepad.com/ingenious_inkling/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stephanie Severin</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://paperpanacherd.blogspot.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rema DeLeeuw</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.cattalesandpapertrails.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop-gina.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chris Dayton</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://emilyloggans.com/2019/05/30/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emily Loggans</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.handmadebyheatherruwe.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heather Ruwe</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.arjita.in/product-swap-blog-hop"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Arjita Singh</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://littleblessingsbyka.wordpress.com/?p=1616"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Karen Reategui</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Melanie Muenchinger</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://stampingbowd.blogspot.com/2019/05/30.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Angela Bode</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://silaika.wordpress.com/?p=159"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beth Silaika</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://stampinonthefly.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jen Timko</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://janamillen.typepad.com/this_little_card_of_mine/2019/05/gina-kpicket-fence-studios-and-my-sweet-petunia-swap-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jana Millen</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://mylittlecreativeescape.blogspot.com/2019/05/picket-fence-studios-gina-k-my-sweet.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lisa Henke</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://sweetmissdaisy.typepad.com/sassy_sweet_notes/2019/05/stamping-friends.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anna Wight</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://jarfullofjoy.blogspot.com/2019/05/stamping-friends-trifecta-blog-hop.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Judy Rozema</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://stampbackandrelax.blogspot.com/2019/05/my-sweet-petunia-picket-fence-studios.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Susan Wymer</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://hanlynart.com/blog-2/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hannah Schroepfer</span></a></div>
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04336325678692298517noreply@blogger.com88tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658652847766408730.post-1915326362874384242019-05-07T10:00:00.000-05:002019-05-07T10:00:06.414-05:00Picket Fence Studios' First Birthday Celebration WinnerGood morning!<br />
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l'd like to thank Picket Fence Studios for the opportunity to celebrate their first birthday with them, and for the gift of such an amazingly generous prize for one of my blog readers!<br />
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Picket Fence Studios has given me a $100 gift certificate code to their store that I'm able to give away to one lucky reader!<br />
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Is it you??<br />
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If your name is Cathy, it might be! But more specifically, if your name is Cathy Lillie:<br />
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Cathy Lillie, you are the lucky winner of the $100 PFS gift certificate! Please email me at chris@junkiefest.com to claim your prize. I hope to hear from you soon!<br />
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Thank you, Picket Fence Studios and congrats to Cathy!<br />
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04336325678692298517noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658652847766408730.post-89724457043347081912019-04-30T07:30:00.000-05:002019-04-30T07:30:02.165-05:00Team Tuesday. More Picket Fence Studios<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Hi everyone! Today I'm also over on the My Sweet Petunia blog, sharing a coloring tutorial for this card using the <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/lily-bouquet/">Lily Bouquet</a> and <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/thank-you/">Thank You</a> stamps from Picket Fence Studios. Click <a href="http://blog.mysweetpetunia.com/2019/04/team-tuesday-with-chris-picket-fence.html"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a> to hop right over to the MSP blog to read about this card.</div>
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Picket Fence Studios is celebrating their First Birthday this month, and I'm thrilled to be celebrating with them! I have another post today using their unique and amazing products <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">HERE</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy First Birthday <a href="https://pfstamps.com/">Picket Fence Studios</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Picket Fence Studios is celebrating their first birthday with a whole month of special activities and giveaways, and I am thrilled to be invited to help them celebrate in this month-long celebration! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And even though it's Picket Fence Studios' Birthday, they have special gifts for YOU! There's special discount coupon for you at the bottom of this post, as well a chance to win a $100 gift certificate from Picket Fence Studios!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was first introduced to Picket Fence Studios through Lydia Fiedler and Iliana Myska, who absolutely raved about their <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/life-changing-brush-set-2/">Life Changing Blending Brushes</a>. I resisted buying them for awhile. I'll admit. But once I did buy them, I realized just how life-changing they truly were. I have not touched a foam blending pad since! They are just that lovely! They are so simple and easy to use and clean, and they apply ink to paper with such soft and smooth blends, that I couldn't believe I had resisted buying them. They are always within reach on my desk now! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I could never get blending like this with a foam blender pad or sponge dauber! I always seemed to end up with a big ink-y blotch, no matter how careful or light-handed I tried to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How easy is that to create some super-simple, single-layer notecards?!? That took less than 3 minutes to heat emboss the sentiment from <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/simply-wonderful/">Simply Wonderful</a> onto a white cardbase and blend color to the bottom of the cardbase. (Use a dry micro-fiber towel to remove any excess ink from your embossing.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today I am also using these Life Changing Blending Brushes with one of their stencils, the <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/sunburst-stencil-6x6/">Sunburst Stencil</a>, to create a sunrise background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I then replaced the stencil, turning it slightly, centering the stencil openings over the darker inked sun rays. I then added a thin coating of Glitter Gel. The gel picks up a bit of the ink, and takes on a really pretty pale yellow sparkle. I tried to be very careful not to get the Glitter Gel onto the actual sun. Once applied smoothly, I carefully removed the stencil. I set my panel off to the side to dry (for about 35 minutes) and went and washed the excess glitter and temporary adhesive off of my stencil and tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As part of this Birthday celebration, Picket Fence Studios has generously offered a $100 gift certificate for one lucky visitor to my blog today! To be entered to win, please leave a comment on this post. Comments must be entered before 11:59pm Central Time, Sunday May 5th. The lucky gift certificate winner will be announced on Tuesday, May 7th, on this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome to <a href="https://www.thetonstamps.com/">The Ton Stamps</a>' Spring 2019 Release Blog Hop! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today we are celebrating the new release of The Ton's seven new designs with a blog hop, giveaways and free gifts with purchase. Head over to <a href="https://thetonstampsblog.com/?p=46643">The Ton's blog</a> for all the details.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Three winners will receive a stamp set of choice from this new Spring 2019 release (excluding Fantastic Feathers). To enter, please leave a comment on each blog or youtube video. Comments must be entered prior 4/10 at 6pm EST to be eligible. Winners will be announced on the The Ton's blog following.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I'm sharing cards created with the <a href="https://www.thetonstamps.com/products/wildflower-bouquet-builder">Wildflower Bouquet Builder</a> set. This is a great spring floral set with lots of possibilities! And you truly don't have to build. In fact, I didn't build at all. My first card uses the large bouquet image from the set. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used my <a href="https://www.thetonstamps.com/products/misti-original">Original MISTI</a> to stamp the image unto a piece of Fabriano Artistico Cold Press watercolor paper. I added some vibrant color with Daniel Smith watercolors. When dry, I trimmed the panel to 3.5" x 4.75", then added the two-part greeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used the <a href="https://www.thetonstamps.com/collections/red-rubber-background-stamps/products/modern-plaid-cling-background">Modern Plaid background stamp</a> in my MISTI to stamp my white card base with <a href="https://www.thetonstamps.com/products/couture-color-beach-blondie-dye">Beach Blondie ink</a>. I cut a blue mat with a 1/16th border, and assembled my card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also made a few simple notecards, stamping the single floral image multiple times in varying directions unto panels of Hammermill Color Copy Digital Cover paper. So I could color with Copic Markers. I did some quick sketchy coloring to create some Echinacea blooms, flicking color from each end of the petals, leaving a bit of white showing through as highlight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A second note card is very similar but I used my Copics this time to color them as Black-eyed Susans. There are lots of options with this stamp!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each panel was added to a horizontal top-fold card base for super simple cards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for stopping by today. I do hope you enjoy today's hop and find lots of Spring inspiration. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Don't forget to comment to be entered to win prizes! Your next stop on the hop should be </span><a href="https://lingshappyplace.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop.html?fbclid=IwAR1Skxo-3wbD_zvCdB6o2gZYQUVh5eefSyNxa9lTX5i6TS0bbWIIQxqhZiI" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Vera's blog</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, but I've added the list of all participants below. Have fun!</span></div>
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<a href="https://thetonstampsblog.com/?p=46643" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Ton</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://rainbowinnovember.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop.html?fbclid=IwAR1D1SWbF8zJb14z7eR9b2E5aszOIJz--q6ATkNGsCo4K5OumPtPE5y8NvM" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tae Eun Yoo</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/COo7P-jTTMA" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Heba Alsibai</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(Youtube)</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cattalesandpapertrails.com/2019/03/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop.html" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chris Dayton</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://lingshappyplace.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop.html?fbclid=IwAR1Skxo-3wbD_zvCdB6o2gZYQUVh5eefSyNxa9lTX5i6TS0bbWIIQxqhZiI" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vera Yates</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://wp.me/p3TRKZ-38n" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kymona Tracey</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop.html" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amy Tsuruta</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.mypapercutcreations.com/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop?fbclid=IwAR1VD5dxuXWsdb4BOfmB9_tQ_mvYbjpZkkCiULwtwOh9AZ2ZO3w4V-PRb9M" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Brenda Noelke</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://janamillen.typepad.com/this_little_card_of_mine/2019/03/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop.html" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jana Millen</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.matyushevskaya.com/blog/the-ton-spring-2019-release-blog-hop?fbclid=IwAR3FXWLe0N_M8HbD6Xdyhv9zSG6CPZkO0CuGxqoKuBdzOB1ug-gjYny-Kcw" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Olga Matyushevskaya </span></a></div>
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<a href="https://bbepxdnombimbom.blogspot.com/2019/04/spring-2019-release-blog-hop.html?fbclid=IwAR25bSmRd6gR8q0rE6AalQpNQCTtUgILELOCEuWFqGj-c2X2u7PzEyTqxH0" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anna Kutcenko</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://scrappykiraness.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kira Ness </span></a></div>
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<a href="http://craftwalks.com/2019/04/06/the-tons-spring-2019-release-blog-hop/" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Svitlana Shayevich </span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello everyone! Today I have a fun mixed media card to share with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a 5" x 7" card created with amalgam and dye inks, acrylic paints, Polychromos pencils and a white gel pen. But it all started with a stencil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a new stencil from <a href="http://acolorfullifedesigns.com/?aff=7">A Colorful Life Designs</a>, called <a href="http://acolorfullifedesigns.com/nature-girl/?aff=7">Nature Girl</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Recently I received a can of </span><a href="https://www.brutusmonroe.com/products/pixie-spray?aff=30" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pixie Spray</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, a removeable spray stencil adhesive from Therm O Web. That stuff is magic! I sprayed it on the back of my stencil, let it dry for about 45 seconds then placed it on my card. It</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> sticks amazingly well. And removes easily without leaving any adhesive residue behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted a soft layer of ink on my ecru card as a guide, so I lightly brushed <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gkd-amalgam-ink-pad-warm-glow/">Warm Glow Amalgam ink </a>lightly through the stencil with a <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/life-changing-brush-set-2/">blending brush</a>. I only wanted something to show me the outline, and to have enough markings to be able to replace the stencil in the same spot once I'd added some paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I removed the stencil, setting it aside for later, and quickly brushed in a light layer of <a href="https://amzn.to/2CZs0y7">acrylic paint</a>, creating the shape of the face and hint of a nose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I worked in darker colors of <a href="https://amzn.to/2CZs0y7">paint</a>, mixing colors until I had created the illusion of the contours of her face and neck. I also drew in lashes and pupils, and sketched in some movement in her hair with <a href="https://amzn.to/2WJrU56">Polychromos pencils</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided that she needed a bit more bright color in her hair, so I used <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gkd-amalgam-ink-cube-whisper/">Whisper Amalgam</a> ink and my <a href="https://www.mysweetpetunia.com/MISTI-p/original-misti.htm">Original MISTI</a> to stamp the Jane's Doodles <a href="http://www.janesdoodles.com/hibiscus/">Hibiscus</a> outline in her hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, to cover the oxide inks I'd added previously, I used more <a href="https://amzn.to/2WRR5Tj">acrylic paint</a> to paint in the hibiscus. Once the paint had dried fully, I inked a subtle background using the <a href="http://acolorfullifedesigns.com/stonework/?aff=7">Stonework</a> stencil, my blending brush and Old Paper Distress ink, carefully inking around her face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used my MISTI to add the sentiment from the 11/18 Unity Stamp Company Kit of the Month, <a href="https://www.unitystampco.com/whole-lot-of-lovely-kom-11-18/">Whole Lot of Lovely</a> in <a href="https://www.ginakdesigns.com/product/gkd-color-companions-ink-pad-charcoal-brown/">Charcoal Brown ink</a>.</span></div>
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Today I'm sharing another very simple card using a <a href="http://acolorfullifedesigns.com/new-releases/march-2019/">new March release</a> stencil from <a href="http://acolorfullifedesigns.com/">A Colorful Life Designs</a>. This is that is very quick to make and can be used for a variety of celebrations.</div>
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Today I used the <a href="http://acolorfullifedesigns.com/spatter/">Spatter</a> stencil.</div>
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I inked up this stencil using <a href="https://pfstamps.com/">Picket Fence Studios</a> <a href="https://pfstamps.com/product/life-changing-brush-set-2/">Life Changing Blending Brushes</a> and Distress Oxide inks. I started in the center of the stencil with Festive Berries, and worked my way out, cleaning my brush on a damp towel before moving to the next color, in ROYGBIV order.<br />
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I trimmed my kraft panel to 4" x 5.25" and added it to a royal blue cardbase. I added the word die cuts from <a href="https://thestampmarket.com/product/oh-happy-day-shaker-dies/">Oh Happy Day Shaker Dies</a> (from <a href="https://thestampmarket.com/shop/">The Stamp Market</a>). The Oh Day is cut from the same blue as my card base, but the orange Happy is cut from adhesive-backed, craft fun foam for a fun and easy raised texture.<br />
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