stamping lightly: March 2018

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Loads of Wishes {Avery Elle}

Hello friends,

I have a card to share today featuring just one of the greetings from the Loads of Wishes stamp set. Loads of Wishes is filled with so many sentiments for every occasion! The set features beautiful styling and fonts that take the guess-work out of designing the perfect sentiment.

For my card, I paired Loads of Wishes with the new Hand Drawn Florals stamp set. I stamped the floral images with Versafine ink and heat embossed them with Avery Elle's Clear Embossing powder. I colored the images with Copic markers and arranged them on a panel of patterned paper from the Sorbet Collection patterned paper pad.

I heat embossed the "hello" sentiment with Avery Elle's white embossing powder onto a strip of black card stock and adhered it to the panel. I attached the completed panel to a black note card and added a few clear gems as a finishing touch.

Supplies

Loads of Wishes Clear Stamps

Hand Drawn Florals Clear Stamps

Dies- Hand Drawn Florals Elle-ments

Clear Fine Embossing Powder

Pure White Fine Embossing Powder

Sorbet Collection Paper Pad

Thanks for stopping by!

Katie

Friday, March 23, 2018

Watercolor Blog Hog!

Hello friends! TGIF!!!

We are so excited to be hopping along with our friends at Ellen Hutson today. We are featuring projects using our NEW Liquid Watercolors and are SO excited to show them off in action. Avery Elle's liquid watercolors come in 10 gorgeous shades that can be used on their own or easily mixed together to create custom colors. For an intense shade use the watercolors straight out of the bottle. If you want lighter shades, just add various amounts of water to get the color you desire. The possibilities are endless. Be sure to check out all of the details of the hop as well as how to be entered to win one of TWO FULL SETS of our Avery Elle Liquid Watercolors over on the Ellen Hutson Classroom Blog.

Let's get to the hop shall we?

I used the Avery Elle Liquid Watercolors to create the under the sea background. I sprayed the background watercolor paper with water and added drops of the liquid watercolors (Aquamarine, Sea Glass, and Mint to Be) directly to the wet paper. I was able to swirl and blend the colors by just tilting and rotating the paper. I let the panel dry and repeated the process to create additional depth- no brushes required!

I stamped images from the Bubbles and Mermaids stamp sets onto white paper and colored them with Copic Markers. Does this scene remind you of a famous Little Mermaid?

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark and embossed it with white embossing powder. A few clear gems add a finishing touch.

Supplies:

Mermaids Clear Stamps

Dies: Mermaids Elle-ments

Bubbles Clear Stamps

Dies: Bubbles Elle-ments

Dies: Double Pierced Elle-ments

Liquid Watercolors (Mint to Be, Aquamarine, Sea Glass)

That's all for me today! I hope you are inspired to make these awesome watercolors "A Part of Your World!"

You are off to Carly Tee Minner next.

A full list of the hop participants is below.

Thanks for stopping by!

Katie

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

World's Greatest What? {Avery Elle}

Hello friends,

Popping in today to share with you a funny card featuring the World's Greatest stamp set. Literally, it's the greatest! It's not every stamp set that includes a "farter" sentiment, so my inner 4th grader and I couldn't resist using it on a card.

I stamped, colored and die cut the trophy image from World's Greatest and added the sentiment (hee hee). Next, I added some little bunnies to the mix from the Party Pals stamp set. They are the perfect size for fitting inside and next to the trophy.

I die cut the Star Frame Elle-ments from white card stock and added color with a few shades of Distress Oxide inks. A frame cut created with the Pierced Mats Elle-ments holds everything together.