Glitter Me Silly

04.04.2018

Sharktastic 10th Birthday

It was my nephew’s birthday recently and he went into double figures – yay! We bought him a shark nanobot thingy as a gift so I thought it would be cool to create a card to compliment the present – and what better set to reach for than one I designed myself for Avery Elle, Hello Chum. I know I’m totally biased but I STILL love this set. I love sharks so this will always be close to my heart.

I created the background panel using alcohol inks on Yupo paper. A very addictive pass time that is – alcohol marker play. I used the Horizontal Stripes dies and number balloon dies along with the sentiment from the Birthday Bus set all from Avery Elle.

Supplies used:

Hello Chum Clear Stamp Set

Hello Chum Elle-ments

Horizontal Stripes Elle-ments

Number Balloons Elle-ments

Birthday Bus Clear stamps

Aquamarine Twine

Alcohol Inks Ranger

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27.03.2018

Ellen Hutson Pinsights Challenge – Pantone Attitude Colour Palette

I recently made my first purchase from Ellen Hutson.com and boy are their products amazing! I picked up a few sets and most of the Catherine Pooler Inks – can’t wait to get stuck into them! I got to playing and noticed the current Pinsights Challenge – how could you not be inspired by that colour palette?

Anyhoo, here’s what I made. The first card was created by blending Distress Oxide Inks on Tim Holtz watercolour paper then spritzing with water and some Heidi Swapp Gold Lame colour shine. I then overlaid the panel with the MFT Sun Ray stencil and applied white gesso over it. While that was drying I stamped the image from Mermaid Tail in vermark onto vellum and heat embossed it with Gold Tinsel embossing powder from Ranger. I chose the sentiment from Avery Elle’s Mermaid stamp set anf heat embossed it in gold Avery Elle embossing powder. I assembled everything onto the card adding some gold thread and a few rainbow sequins here and there. Sweet huh?

Supplies:

Mermaid Tale – Essentials By Ellen

Mermaid Tail Dies

Mermaids – Avery Elle

Sun Ray Stencil – MFT

Gesso

Distress Oxide Inks

Gold Tinsel Embossing Powder – Ranger

Gold Lame Colour Shine Spray – Heidi Swapp

My second card uses the stunning Mondo Peony stamp set from the Essentials By Ellen line. I stamped the large image in gold embossing powder the used Zig Clean Colour Brush Markers to add loose areas of colour randomly across the image. I then sprayed it quite heavily waith water and blended it until I was happy. It did go in the bin at one point because it looked a hot mess! I grabbed it out again though and played with it some more and actually was quite happy in the end!! I added a good spray of shimmer mist to it before fussy cutting it out and putting it on a 4 bar sized card. To finish I added a strip of gold and die cut the happy from Avery Elle’s Sentimental Too dies and the birthday from the co-ordinating stamp set.

Supplies:

Mondo Peony Stamp Set – Essentials By Ellen

Sentimental Too Dies – Avery Elle

Sentimental Too Stamp Set – Avery Elle

Gold Embossing Powder – Avery Elle

Zig Clean Colour Markers

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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!