29.09.2014

Avery Elle and Add a Little Dazzle Blog Hop!

It’s Add A Little Dazzle and Avery Elle week! This week the Avery Elle design team is playing with some amazing metal sheets from Add A Little Dazzle. These sheets work great with our Elle-ments dies! After visiting here, be sure to check out the Add A Little Dazzle blog for even more inspiration! Be sure to comment on our company and designer blogs throughout to week to be entered to win one of two prizes – a $30 Avery Elle Gift Certificate or a prize from Add A Little Dazzle! Winners will be announced on Monday, October 6th.

The Add a Little Dazzle metal sheets are such a fun material to use – they add a totally different different dimension to your cards and the Avery Elle dies cut like a dream! I used the black sheet to cut the spider’s web from the Boo Elle-ments collection and the letters from Avery’s Alphas. The background panel was created using Avery Elle pigment inks in Sapphire and Sugar Plum – I used a direct to paper technique of dragging the ink pad across the panel several times to get the intensity I wanted.

I hope you can join us for the rest of the week – the rest of the design team have some amazing designs to share with you!

Thanks for stopping by.

Caryn xxx

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24.09.2014

Simon Says….Anything Goes!

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Tag It Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is ,,,,,,,,

ANYTHING GOES

We are showcasing HERO ARTS PRODUCTS this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

I used one of my all time favourite Hero Arts stamps – the Zig Zag Chevron background cling stamp. I started with a white panel (4″ x 4.25″) and stamped the background in Versamark and embossed in white WOW embossing powder. I then blended Peacock Feather, Broken China and Tumbled Glass distress inks over the embossing to give a gradient effect. I chopped a bit out of the middle and popped the two pieces on foam squares leaving a gap for my sentiment. This is from Avery Elle’s latest release “Look Up” – love the sentiments in this set. I coated the chipboard stars with white enamel accents (I think I pinched this idea off Julie Ebersol!!) for some extra shine!

hero arts

Well thanks for stopping by – I hope you get a chance to play along with us this week.

Hugs,

Caryn xxx

You have until Wed 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

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10.09.2014

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Create Your Own Background!

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the STAMPtember® Stamp-It Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is ,,,,,,,,

MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND

there are so many ways to make your own backgrounds, using stencils, splattering, gelli plate printing etc

We are showcasing GELATOS made by FABER-CASTELL this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

I am really pleased with how my background turned out for this card – the colours came out just how I wanted them! I was going for a bokeh effect and used the Hero Arts Bubble Confetti stencil to create it with the Gelatos (Tropical set). I first scribbled the colours onto my craft sheet and spritzed with water to dissolve the pigment. I then taped my stencil down over some Tim Holtz Distress Watercolour card and using the bristle brush that came with the Gelatos started dabbing the colour over the stencil one at a time, moving the stencil around to get random spacing of one colour before moving onto the next. I could’ve used sponge daubers but I’ve ran out and am waiting for some new ones to arrive!!

I just continued to keep adding spots of colour over the panel until I was happy with the coverage and then took a white pigment ink (Avery Elle) and added random spots of white. I think it’s this step that really helps to add to the bokeh effect. I set the background panel to the side to dry and die cut the Simon Says Stamp ice-cream cone parade from white card and pastel card shades. I used a glue pen to cover the coloured centre pieces before sprinkling them with fine clear glitter. I assembled them back together and popped them up on foam tape and set aside. Before adding the sentiment (from Clearly Besotted’s Many Messages) which I stamped in Versamark and embossed in Ranger gold powder, I added a few splats of Heidi Swapp Gold lame spray and a few Doodlebug gold sprinkles. Finally I adhered the ice cream die cut and mounted the panel to an A2 white card base.