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Easy Ink Blending Fall Leaves

September 24, 2021

Hey everyone. I’m back with a tutorial sharing easy ink blending fall leaves with Hero Arts Fall Leaves stencil. A pretty stencil and colorful inks make fall cards so easy to make.

Since I live in Florida, we really don’t get fall weather so creating a fall inspired card is the way to go for me. LOL

Adding a little bit of shimmer on the card really makes it stand out.

All products are linked below for your shopping ease. Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll see you back here soon. Have a great weekend.

Hero Arts My Monthly Hero September 2021

September 7, 2021

Hey everyone. It’s the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero September 2021 release. You should have arrived here from Channin’s blog. Oh if you are a sunflower lover like me you are going to love the kit for this month. The September My Monthly Hero release celebrates the pleasures associated with the arrival of autumn. From cool, crisp days with blowing leaves, to wonderful fall blooms and pumpkins galore, this release will get you in the mood for the changing season. Our main kit features a big, beautiful sunflower image, which can easily be colored with the layering stencils, inks and brush also included. Two useful message dies in a lovely font round out the kit.

Kit includes:
• 4″ x 6″ Clear Stamp Set
• Coordinating Frame Cut
• 2 Fancy Word Die
• 5 Color Layering Stencil
• 1 Ink Blending Brus
• 4 Ink Cubes (Butter Bar, Caramel, Root Beer, Key Lime Fizz)

I have a tutorial for the first card I made using this month’s kit. This kit is so much fun to use and it makes such strikingly beautiful cards. You can’t get much fall than this easy card.

You can watch the tutorial here on my page or you can view it on my Youtube channel.

I’m also sharing a card using one of the add-on stamp sets for this month called Hero Halloween Greetings. Keeping the design simple, I used the small stamps in this set to create a circle panel full of candy pieces with a sweet sentiment. For the background of my card, I trimmed down piece of colorful card stock and adhered it t a green card base. The background was kept simple so it wouldn’t compete with the candy panel.

I love the stripes on the background so much I plan on making this card again using a different color palette.

All products I used on these two cards are listed below for your shopping pleasure. Please make sure to leave me some love so you can be entered into the giveaway. Hero Arts will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, September 12th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

Next on the hop is Daniel. Have a great day everyone and I’ll see you back here soon.

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STAMPtember® Blog Party

September 2, 2021

Welcome to the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember Party! So glad you are here today. Let’s get this party started shall we? Let start with the big news first. See the graphic below? Get SSS exclusive Mesh Zipper Bag FREE with any purchase. The code is valid until 9/2 at 11:59 PM EDT. There are different offers throughout the party so make sure to visit the creators around so you can find what offer they have for you. It’s like a crafty scavenger hunt!

As promised from my post yesterday, I have a tutorial showing you how to create a few gorgeous cards using the Paper Layering Circles. Before you get started, pick a fabulous color palette (if you need help, check out my Pinterest Color Combinations board). Then it’s all about the die cutting and layering of these circles.

Simple sentiment strips finish off the larger circle cards and a large stamped sentiment fills in the extra pieces card. You understand that better when you watch the tutorial.

You can watch the tutorial here or over on my Youtube channel.

Make sure to visit the Simon Says Stamp blog to find the links to crazy talented card makers to see what they have for you today. Also don’t forget Simon Says Stamp will be having STAMPtember Facebook Lives throughout the month so make sure you’re set up to get the notifications. Throughout STAMPtember Simon Says Stamp will be celebrating every day posting exclusive collaborations, contests, prizes, special promotions, announcements, and more surprises! Simon’s blog will announce what they have planned every day. 😘

Altenew Plentiful Patterns Stand-alone Dies/Stencils Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

August 26, 2021

Welcome to the Altenew Plentiful Patterns Stand-alone Dies/Stencils Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway. You should have arrived here from Kelly’s blog. The new release is full of fantastic products from Altenew so let’s get started. I have several cards to share and I also have a tutorial.

My first card is using the Altenew Brick Rosette Layering Stencil. I really loved using this stencil as it create a beautiful background for your cards. I also kept the color palette very simple. If the colors look familiar they should. These are my brand colors.

I paired the card with the new You Matter Die. Love how big the you is in this set and the small additional dies really take this die to the next level.

You can watch the tutorial here on my blog or check it out over on my Youtube channel mzdanajoy.

My next card is featuring the Illusion Hexagon stencil along with the You Matter Die. This stencil is so awesome! First I used Altenew Rogue and Coral Berry inks on Rouge card stock from the Red Sunset Gradient Cardstock set to lay down my first color. Next, I shifted the stencil slightly and ink it up with white ink. Using this technique really steps up the stencil.

For the you dies,I also used a piece of Rouge cardstock and the same ink to make an ombre effect on the paper. I backed each die with black cardstock.

Adding just a touch of shimmer on the you with a Tonic Shimmer pen and a few black gems completed this panel. All that was left was to place the panel on a white card base.

Okay next on the hop is Jaycee. Now on the giveaways. There is $300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 08/30/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 09/02/2021.

There are also free gifts. Altenew is running a free gift promotion to celebrate the release. Feel free to share the promotion banner/info on your blog hop post or on your social media post using your affiliate links for a chance to make some extra money.

Here are TWO ways to get a FREEBIE to kickstart your creativity! Free gift will be added to cart automatically.

Get a FREE brand new Plentiful Patterns Release Inspiration Guide (worth $5.99) with every order of high-value Plentiful Patterns release bundles. Shop HERE! *Exclusions apply.
Get a FREE brand new Plentiful Patterns Release Mini Inspiration Guide with every order from 08/26/2021 through 08/28/2021. Shop HERE!

Have a great time on the hop and I’ll see you back here soon!

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Lush Garden Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

August 12, 2021

Welcome to the Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Lush Garden Release Blog Hop + Giveaway. You should have arrived here from Seeka’s blog. So glad you are joining us today. The Craft Your Life Project Kit is full of card making products that all work together. Let’s take a look at my cards.

The Lush Garden kit is absolutely gorgeous. I love that the kits have a stamp set, die cuts, stencil and embossing folder. It make creating so much fun and a lot easier especially if you don’t have the time to color your images with markers or color pencils. I’ll show you how this card came together in the tutorial.

The focal point of my card is definitely the flowers popping off of the simple lined. The contrast of colors is what really works here.

Keeping the design clean and simple also helps to draw your eye in. Check out my tutorial I made showing you how to create a focal point on your cards.

You can watch my tutorial for this card here on my blog or over on my Youtube channel.

Craft Your Life Project Kit: Lush Garden Product Description:

Enjoy our Craft Your Life Project Kit, an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creative juices flowing! Featuring a 6×8 stamp set, coordinating die set, as well as a stencil and embossing folder to fit the theme, this project kit has almost everything you need to start crafting. Just add ink and cardstock, and you’ll be good to go!

This project kit contains the following exclusive products:

– one 6″ x 8″ clear stamp set containing 24 stamps made in the USA from high-quality photopolymer

– four coordinating dies

– one simple coloring and layering stencil which coordinates with the stamp set

– one 6×6 3D embossing folder

– one simple coloring stencil set (3 stencils) which coordinates with the embossing folder

Note: These products are NOT sold separately.

Giveaway Prizes

There is $300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $ 25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 08/18/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 08/20/2021.

Next on the hop is Erin. I’ve also included the entire hop list just in case you get lost along the way.