Thursday, November 10, 2016

Avery Elle Winter 2016 Blog Hop!


Hello everyone! 

I am so excited to share with you the first of my projects made with Avery Elle's Winter 2016 Release!  The Winter Release is available now in the Avery Elle store.  There are so many fun, cute and clever stamps and dies in this release perfect for celebrating Valentine's Day and beyond! 

For my card, I used the Love Puffin stamp set, coordinating Love Puffin Elle-ments dies and the Rocky Shores Elle-ments die.  All of my Avery Elle supplies are linked below. 


I started by creating the blended ink background using three shades of Distress Ink: Scattered Straw, Spun Sugar, and Tumbled Glass on Distress Specialty Stamping paper. This paper has a coating that makes ink blending a breeze.  The Spun Sugar (pink) between the yellow and blue helped to prevent the sky from turning green when the colors were blended together.

Next, I created the background using the Rocky Shores Elle-ments die. I die cut the craggy lines into the larger rock formation so that the little tufts of grass could peek out.  I love this little detail- it really adds a lot to what could be a very basic shape.


I stamped and die cut the Puffins and adding some shading using Copic markers.  I stamped the sentiment and added a couple final details using the rocks and birds included in the Love Puffin stamp set. 

Supplies: 

To celebrate our Winter 2016 Release Blog Hop, Avery Elle is giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to one random winner.  To enter to win just comment on this post or any/all of the Avery Elle Design Team Winter 2016 Release posts.  Links to the team member's blogs are below.  You have until midnight Sunday, November 13th to enter.  The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle Blog on Monday, November 14th .  All products are available for purchase in the Avery Elle store right now.




Well I won't keep you because you have loads more inspiration to check out!  Thanks for stopping by! Happy hopping and good luck! 

Katie

30 comments:

  1. Beautiful colors/shading and THE most adorable little puffins! Love!

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  2. I love the beautiful inked background you created for this adorable scene card!

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  3. Love is in the air with this release!!

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  4. Awe, such a cute card. This is one of my favorite sets out of this release.

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  5. Too sweet and
    lovely colors.
    Carla from Utah

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  6. This card is so cute! And that background is FABULOUS!!

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  7. Your puffins are adorable and you background sets the mood. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. Very nice card. Great ink blending of the sky.
    And those puffins are the cutest.

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  9. What gorgeous shading you created for your background. Really pretty. Love the puffins. I've seen them in the wild and they are a silly looking little bird!

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  10. this is darling. You showed off the stamp very well.

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  11. What a sweet card, great use of the dies and love the softly shaded background.

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  12. Wow! I'm in love for your card! It's really adorable!!!

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  13. Such a sweet card! The Puffins are adorable & your background blending is awesome!

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  14. Such a sweet card! The Puffins are adorable & your background blending is awesome!

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  15. This card is just perfect! Love the blended background and the dark rocky base.

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  16. So sweet. I like the soft background.

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  17. What a sweet card Katie. Love the cute images... the sponged background looks great!

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  18. Such pretty coloring! Love your adorable card!

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  19. Just adorable!! I love that sentiment...so cute!!

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  20. What an adorable image and love the background you created.

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  21. So cute! Your blended background is a beautiful backdrop for your sweet card.

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  22. So cute! Your blended background is a beautiful backdrop for your sweet card.

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  23. Wow the background is amazing! Beautiful card!

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  24. Adorbs to the max and gorgeous background!!

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