23.03.2018

Ellen Hutson/Avery Elle Watercolor Mini Blog Hop

Hello!  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.

 

So let’s carry on with the hop.  You should have arrived here from the amazing world of Julie Ebersole (major fangirl here).  If you’re lost and want to get back to the start, the list is all the way down at the bottom of this post!

I have been having SO much fun with these watercolours since I got them and just love their versatility.  If, like me you’ve jumped on the latest alcohol ink trend then I you may be interested to know that a lot of similar, but more subtle results can be achieved with these water colours.  Grab a cuppa and watch this short video to see what I mean 🙂

I have a few cards here showing how I used the panels I created in the video:

Supplies:

Avery Elle Water Colours Cherry and Sugar Plum

Horizontal Stripes Die,

 Mom and Dad Clear Stamp Set

Star Frame Die

Supplies:

Avery Elle Water Colours Aquamarine and Celery

Mom and Dad Clear Stamps

Gold sequin mix

Avery Elle Gold Embossing Powder

 

Supplies:

Splash Stamp Set

Splash Dies

Liquid Watercolour Aquamarine

Critter Crew Stamp set

Aquamarine Twine

White Embossing Powder

 

After I filmed the video, my Ellen Hutson order came with some AMAZING stamps and dies I’ve been dying to get my paws on!  Couldn’t help but make an extra couple of cards – after all I had loads of the water colour panels left!

Supplies:

Avery Elle Watercolours Celery and Aquamarine

Avery Elle Fog Dye Ink

Ellen Hutson Mermaid’s Tail Stamp Set

Ellen Hutson Mermaid’s Tail Dies

Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Shimmer Spray

Essentails By Ellen 40lb vellum

Ranger Gold Tinsel Embossing Powder

 

Supplies:

Avery Elle Watercolours Celery

Avery Elle Pigment inks: Lemon Grass, Celery, Conch Shell, Mimosa, Ocean Mist, Sea Glass, Mint To Be

Ellen Hutson Wasabi Stamp Set

Ellen Hutson Wasabi Dies

Ellen Hutson Wasabi Accessories

 

Are you still with me, lol?  You now need to hop along to the amazing Lisa Spangler to see what delights she has in store…

 

A full list of the hop participants can be found below.

Avery Elle

Julie Ebersole

Caryn Davies <<<me>>>

Lisa Spangler

Heather Campbell

Emily Midgett

Yainea

Melania Deasy

Carissa Wiley

Katie Gehring

Amy Kolling

Carly Tee Minner

Ashley Marcu

Elena Roussakis

Laurel Beard

Sandy Allnock

 

16.03.2018

Unicorn love <3

I have 4 daughters so it was inevitable that unicorns would feature in my life from time to time (in the case of one of them, lets say there was a time she was OBSESSED!).  Even though she’s older now and not QUITE so unicorn mad I still can’t pass up a unicorn stamp set and this one from Neat and Tangled is a MUST HAVE!  There’s something about the way the main flows that I just love.

I created the background using distress oxide inks and added little die cut stars cut from glitter cardstock.  The circular mat in the centre is from Simon Says Stamp.  The unicorn is coloured with Copics with some extra glitter added to the tail and horn – obvs!

 

Thanks for stopping by xxx

15.03.2018

#GetCrackingOnChristmas – MARCH

 

Yes it’s the third Thursday of the month again (wait, what??  REALLY?)  and that means time for another festive little number to help you along with getting a headstart on your Christmas craft projects.  Dreamed up by Jenn Shurkus, Cheiron Brandon and Chari Moss the idea is to create at least one Christmas card a month so that there is slightly less of a panic come Christmas time!!  I’m joining in again this month along with the awesome Libby Hickson

For today’s card I pulled out some older supplies and went for a rustic look with lots of kraft and copper glitter card.  I used the Splendid Stags dies from Newton’s Nook and added some glitter foliage using the Tim Holtz Mini Greens dies.  The background was done using the Simon Says Stamp Gingham Cling background stamp with Kraft pigment ink from Avery Elle.  The Joy was die cut using a die set from Avery Elle (Peace Love Joy) which is now retired.

 

Supplies:

 

Gingham Background Cling Stamp – Simon Says Stamp

Taylored Expressions – Banner Stacklets 1

Tim Holtz Mini Greens Thinlets

Newtons Nook Splendid Stags Dies

Kraft Pigment Ink Avery Elle