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Friday, November 25, 2016

Christmas in November

Happy day after Thanksgiving everyone!! Let the Christmas season begin 😀 I wonder how many of you are out doing your Black Friday shopping? I slept last night, and will be working all day and all of the weekend. Shopping will have to wait for another day. BUT, I still have a Christmas card for you!
I decided to play with the glitter embossing powder again, on a panel of vellum of course.


Inside, I stamped some of the fun images from Stitched with Cheer. This is such a fun set, with so many images and ways to use it! I hope you check it out, and consider getting it even if you don't get the card kit.

One more shot of the card front, hoping you can see the glitter :)


If you have seen something you need for your crafting life, just click the image in the supply list below and it will take you to my store! If you order less than $150, please use this month's Host Code, which can be found at the top of the sidebar on the right.

And be sure to check the box allowing me to contact you when you check out. I can't send you a thank you card if I don't know your address! And I promise to only send you happy mail, no junk mail :)

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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Stamp Review Crew: Picture Perfect Edition

http://stampreviewcrew.blogspot.com/2016/11/picture-perfect-edition.html
Yeah! It is Stamp Review Crew time again, and this time we are featuring Picture Perfect, a great layered, multi-step stamp set. It makes such stunningly realistic images, it makes you feel like a true artist. Gotta love that! There are so many pretties this year in the Annual Catalog, and in the Minis, it can be hard to pick what to get. I know, such a horrible problem, wink-wink!

For those who are new to the Stamp Review Crew, here is a little background. We are an international group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that gets together on the first and third Mondays of every month to do a blog hop. Each hop features a single stamp set to give you loads of inspiration for that set! The hops are archived at the Stamp Review Crew blog, and you will be able to click through each hop at any time, going directly to the posts for that hop whenever you want! And you can click on the banner of this post to go to the master blog roll for this hop also.

If you are following along in order, then you have just arrived from the ever fabulous Nikki Spencer's blog.

Now, let's get to playing with this set!

My first play with this set was stamping the rose in Blushing Bride, Sweet Sugarplum, and Rich Razzleberry on Kraft cardstock. Then I sprinkled the stamped image with Clear embossing powder and heat set it. Wow! The leaves are Pear Pizzazz. And I used the Petal Burst embossing folder for the panel behind it. I liked the look of Gold embossing powder with this one.

See how much more dimension you get with the Clear embossing powder? Love it!

And here is the rose with the same color combo on white inside the card.


Then I made a little tag. The starfish is stamped in Pool Party and Bermuda Bay, and Clear heat embossed. Then I pressed the Versamark pad onto the cardstock in the lower right corner, and Clear embossed that too. Then I dabbed some Whisper White Craft ink on with a Stampin Sponge to make it look like a wave was rolling up to it. I love how this one turned out! And the sentiment is Copper heat embossed on a scrap of Vellum, then stitched on.

And my last project has some layered Mint Macaron watercoloring, splashes of the same watery ink, and splashed then dabbed off with water. I dried with the heat tool between layers of color. Then, making sure the watercolor paper was really dry, I swiped the panel with the Embossing Buddy and stamped the leaves in Versamark, and Gold heat embossed them. The vellum strip is Gold heat embossed also. Of course, I stitched around this one too :)

Inside got some stamped off leaf layers piled in the corner.

Well, that's all I have for you, all of the supplies I used are listed at the bottom of this post. And it is now time to head on over to Mike Funke's blog where he will dazzle you with his creation!

http://thispinkrooster.blogspot.com/

http://nikkispencer-mysandbox.blogspot.com/2016/11/stamp-review-crewpicture-perfect-edition.html


If you have seen something you need for your crafting life, just click the image in the supply list below and it will take you to my store! If you order less than $150, please use this month's Host Code, which can be found at the top of the sidebar on the right.

And be sure to check the box allowing me to contact you when you check out. I can't send you a thank you card if I don't know your address! And I promise to only send you happy mail, no junk mail :)

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