VIDEO: Tonic Studios Stamp Club Release and Giveaway- Christmas Rose!

Hey everybody and happy release day for Tonic Studios Stamp Club! This month's release is called Christmas Rose and it is such a beautiful and versatile set. You can get artsy with it, you can stamp, or, you can die cut your way into mass producing your holiday cards. We've got a blog hop full of inspiration and an epic giveaway so head to the bottom of this post to get those details. I've also got a VIDEO showing a ton of ways to use this bundle so make sure you check that out too.

Now, I've got about a million cards to share with you with you so let's get to it. For my first card I stamped the main floral image (by the way, I illustrated this stamp which is a first for me) in black ink onto white cardstock and I colored it with my copic markers.

Before I get any further here's that video I promised you...

 

If you are having trouble viewing this video you can watch it HERE on YouTube.

Next, I used the dies cut the panel and add a dotted frame.

I stamped the border of my cardbase in a light blue using one of the texture stamps to add some soft, subtle texture.

For my next card I used the same stamp but this time I stamped it twice in black ink.

I ink blended the background in Distress Oxide Ink and then splattered the background with Glitter Gloss for some extra sparkle.

I stamped and die cut the sentiment and popped it up using foam tape, added a black mat, and mounted the whole thing to a white cardbase.

This next card has a totally different look. I watercolored the background using Nuvo Aquaflows in different greens.

Then I heat embossed the pine needle stamp repeatedly in gold to create a frame for my sentiment.

I cut the sentiment out in Gold Glitter cardstock and vellum, layered it up and added it to my card to finish it off.

I used the same pine needle stamp for this next card. This time I die cut the center piece with one of the dies included in the set . Then I stamped it with pine needles in green ink.

I heat embossed my sentiment in red and die cut it out so I could add it to my card front using foam tape. I added it to my kraft card base using foam tape to add a little extra dimension.

I added a few enamel dots in red to add a little more color and called it good.

This bundle is amazing for making shaker cards! I cut out multiple solid frames and glued them together to create a frame for my shaker card. I created the two top layers using a solid red layer and a dotted layer in gold glitter.

I added holly berries that I cut in green and red foil and added those to the edges of the frame.

The final step was to add my die cut sentiment to the front of the shaker.

This next card was so easy to put together using some patterned paper and the dies from the bundle. I started out by covering my card base in blue star cardstock. Then I cut a layer of star paper to put my sentiments on.

I added some detail to the background using the dotted detail from one of the dies.

Then I added my sentiments. This was such an easy card but I love the way it came out.

 

This next card was made similarly to my last one. The cool thing about this one is that I used the layering dies to create some custom sized layering pieces. Check out my video to learn how to do that.

Again, I used patterned paper to make an easy card. I don't use a lot of patterned paper in general but I have to say it sure made for some easy but pretty cards.

I added bot a die cut and stamped sentiment to this card followed by some stars to finish it off.

This next card started out with a base of patterned paper.

Then I added a circle of red foil and topped it off with a sentiment and some dies.

This may be one of the easiest cards I've ever made but with all of the foil I think somebody will be happy to get it in the mail.

If you like to send photo cards out then this set is great for that! You can build frames in different ways and easily add a photo and a sentiment. I've just got one example for you of you can do this but if you have a little play with all of the different frames you can create with this bundle I think you'll be surprised at what you can create.

This next card is a mini slimline card and it is a really easy card to make. I used some patterned paper as my base. Then I gold embossed the splatter stamp set a few different times in a diagonal. 

I heat embossed my sentiment in black onto vellum and cut it out in a strip. I adhered it to the background using glue dots.

The final touch was to add a few rhinestones to increase the sparkly factor.

My last card is a three by three card and is the perfect size to include with a gift. 

I added the die cut sentiment with a swirl of gold thread behind it. Then I added a few rhinestones as accents. It only took a minute to make this card and I'm sure I'll end making quite a few more before I'm done.

Well, that's it for today you guys! I hope you'll check out my VIDEO  to get even more information than I've shared here. Make sure to enter the giveaway by leaving a comment here on my blog before you continue on with this awesome blog hop!

Have an awesome day!
Maria

GIVEAWAY:

-One lucky winner will win a £50/$50 Giftcard to Tonic Studios and the Christmas Rose bundle!

-To enter, comment on every blog in the hop by 11:59pm PST on September 1, 2021/ 7:59am GST on September 2, 2021

-Winner will be announced on September 3rd, 2021 on IG and FB so make sure you're following all of the Tonic Studios social media accounts!

BLOG HOP LIST:

Maria Willis: You are Here.

Emily Midgett

Jen Kray

Erica Andersson Burke

Seeka 

Sandi MacIver

Marie Heiderscheit

Ilina Crouse

Channin Pelletier

Jessica Frost Ballas

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Hero Arts Winter Release 2021: Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Hello everybody! Can you believe that the Hero Arts Winter Catalog is finally here?! And, it's absolutely amazing too! I've got eight cards to share with you today but before we dive I want you to know that today's post is part of an awesome blog hop with a ton of inspiration sharing the new holiday products. Head down to the bottom of my post to hop along with us. We also have some really great GIVEAWAYS today so make sure to check the bottom of my post and get yourself entered to win!

In other big news... you can now register for the next Hero Arts Stamp-Along!!! The last one was so much fun and this one packs an even bigger punch because for the same $25 fee you will now get two days of instruction and ten different classes! You can sign up now to join the fun!

And now on to my cards! For my first card I heat embossed the String Dots Bold Prints stamp in white puff embossing powder onto Lapis cardstock.

I stamped the birds and some branches from the Christmas Robins stamp set and colored them with my copics before cutting them out with the coordinating dies.

I heat embossed my sentiment using Onyx Pigment ink and clear embossing powder onto Cherry cardstock. I added that to my background with foam tape and then layered my colored images on top. The finishing touch was to add some sequins from the Winter Sequins mix.

For my next card I heat embossed the Buffalo Check Pattern Bold Prints stamp in clear onto Cherry cardstock. I love how that gave me a subtle yet textured background.

Next, I colored and cut images from the Christmas Robins set.

I die cut the sentiment from the Christmas Holidays Stamp & Cut XL in silver glitter paper. Then I added my images and some green sequins.

For my next card I put the String Dots Bold Prints stamp in my misti so that I could stamp repeatedly. I inked it up with Aegean, Summer Sky, and Orchid inks and stamped my background. I left the background in my misti, added Versamark ink and Clear Embossing Powder and then heat set it for some great shine.

I cut and stamped my sentiment using the Christmas Holidays Stamp & Cut XL. I love that you can use the die cut sentiments alone or with the shadow die cut background (Nautical cardstock).

My background is mounted on Paradise cardstock which matches the stamped sentiment strip.

My next card was made using the Graphic Lines Holiday stamp and coordinating die set. This is a bold, graphic set that I can see being really fun for holiday art journaling as well as for handwritten/ hand decorated holiday cards.

I heat embossed the stars from the set in gold glitter embossing powder onto Cherry cardstock. Then I sprayed it with Ranger spray in Antique Bronze and splattered it with White Glimmer Metallic ink. I stamped and die cut the tree, star and sentiment. I added my handwritten words to the tree to make it a little more meaningful to me.

I added my background onto some Pitch Black cardstock before adhering my other pieces with foam tape.

This next card was so easy to put together! I started out by stamping a piece of Cherry cardstock with the Buffalo Check Bold Prints stamp in Raspberry Jam ink. 

Then, I cut the Very Merry Christmas Coverplate die out of gold glitter cardstock. 

I saved the letters for my next card and used Precision glue to adhered the gold die cut to my background. It was so quick and easy to put together and is so bold and eyecatching!

My next card started out by inkblending Key Lime Fizz, Green Apple and Blue Raspberry inks on white cardstock. 

I sprayed the background with White Iridescent Shimmer Mist and then splattered it with Gold Glimmer Metallic ink.

Finally, I added the die cut letters that were left over from my last card. To line them up perfectly I added tape to the front of the die and stuck the letters back into the die. They stuck to the tap and stayed in place allowing me to add foam tape to the backs of all of the letters. Then, I flipped the die over, aligned it with my background and pressed down to adhere the letters in the perfect position.

This next card is a mini slimline card. I stamped the Snowy Rooftops Bold Print in Soft Sky ink and cut it down. 

I heat embossed the sentiment from the Christmas Rose stamp in silver onto vellum. I wrapped silver thread around my image piece and layered the sentiment on top. 

I added layers of silver glitter and Nautical cardstock before adhering the whole shebang to the white card base with some sequins.

My next card was made entirely by using one single stencil... the Layering Ornaments & Trimmings Stencil. This stencil does coordinate with a stamp and die but it can be fun to see what you can create using only the stencil. 

I used the stencil to add layers of color and detail to the card before heat embossing each ornament with clear embossing powder.

I inkblended the background, splattered it, added sequins and glued it to a black cardbase. The final touch was to add some extra detail with a white gel pen.

And that does it for today you guys! I hope you'll enter the giveaway below and keep on hopping along with us.

Have an awesome day!

Maria

GIVEAWAY:

Hero Arts will give away THREE $50 gift cards, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, August 29th at 11:59pm pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

BLOG HOP LIST: 

Hero Arts
Channin Pelletier
Dana Joy
Daniel West
Debi Adams
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Libby Hickson
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Willis: You are here.
Michelle Short
Mindy Eggen
Pocono Pam
Seeka
Nichol Spohr
Jennifer Kotas
Meg Brooks
Rebecca Keppel

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VIDEO: Gina K. Designs Release: Poppy Garden Watercoloring!

Hello everybody! Exciting news- it's Gina K. Designs release day! I've made a one-layer card using the new Poppy Garden stamp set (it has coordinating dies!) by Hannah Drapinski. This set is stunning and made me want to sit down and watercolor it straight away. I've made a VIDEO to share some easy watercoloring techniques so be sure to scroll on down and check out that video on my YouTube Channel.

I started out by heat embossing the largest image from the set onto Strathmore watercolor cardstock. To do this I used Onyx Pigment ink from Hero Arts and clear embossing powder.

You can check out the entire watercoloring process here...

 

If you are having trouble watching this video you can view it HERE on YouTube .

My video shares my process for layering ink colors and easy application of color using Karin Brush Markers and a paint brush. I used four colors of ink for the poppies and three colors of ink for the leaves. I started by applying my lightest color of ink (yellow for poppies, lime green for leaves) as a light layer of color over my entire image. I used very little water and allowed my paint to almost entirely dry before adding the next layer of color. I added the darker colors into the areas where I wanted to have shadows and kept the other areas light as highlights.

After I finished watercoloring I stamped a sentiment in Gina K. Design Black Onyx ink and added a few white highlights with a gel pen.

It was a huge struggle not to splatter the heck out of this card but I managed to leave it as a clean and simple card. I hope you've enjoyed learning a little bit about my process today. For all of the details you can head over to YouTube and watch my VIDEO. You can also head on over to Gina K. Designs to check out the full release!

Have an awesome day!

Maria

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VIDEO: DIY Watercolor Sprays using the Hero Arts August 2021 My Monthly Hero Kit

Hi everybody and happy Hero Arts release day! The August My Monthly Hero Kit is here and it is such a magical kit! 

If you aren't familiar with the My Monthly Hero kit, it's a kit that is released by Hero Arts on the first Monday of every month. It always has a fun, themed collection of stamps, dies and other goodies. The cost is just $34.99/month and the value is always much greater! This month's kit is valued at $70!

You have the option to subscribe (subscribing now means your first kit will be the September release), or, to buy your favorite kits as a one-off purchases. Be aware that once these kits sell out they are gone for good. If you see a kit you like make sure to snatch it up quickly! There are also always a ton of fantastic add-on products offered. You can choose to buy your favorites or buy them all at a discounted rate.

We also have an awesome GIVEAWAY and a BLOG HOP with tons of inspiration going on so please make sure to check the info for those at the bottom of my post! And, I have a VIDEO today sharing a really fun DIY technique for making your own watercolor sprays (see below)!

Ok, on to my first card! If you'd like to watch me put this card together you can watch the video below. I started out by making a cool watercolor background using my DIY water color sprays (see the video for how to make yours). Then I used a die from the kit to out the purple heart hands. I love these hands and keep thinking that they look like a heart fist bump.

Here's that video I keep talking about...

 

If you are having trouble watching this video click here to watch it on YouTube.

I used the stencil from the kit to add some white glacier paste to a black cardbase. Then, I heat embossed my sentiment in white.

I added my purple hands with foam tape and then added a gold glitter heart in the center. I thought this sentiment was perfect because it looks like the light is shining through from the heart hands.

I shared this card on Friday but wanted to share it again in case you didn't see it. I used my liquid watercolor sprays to make this background and loved how easy it was to make.

The "love" dies are from the kit so I cut those in black and added them with foam tape after heat embossing the word "you."

I added a few sequins from the Winter Sequins mix and that was it!

My last card was made using a piece of the background that I made in my video. I cut a 3" x 6" piece out of it and then heat embossed the Floral Color Wheel Bold Print stamp in Brass Embossing Powder.

I heat embossed a small sentiment from the Better Together set in white embossing powder on black cardstock.

I tied some gold thread around the side of the sentiment piece and attached it with foam tape. Then I added some gems in different colors to finish my card off.

Ok you guys that's it for me today but make sure you enter the giveaway and continue on with our awesome blog hop to catch all of the amazing inspiration along the way!

Have an awesome day!

Maria

GIVEAWAY:

Hero Arts will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, August 8th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

BLOG HOP:

Hero Arts

Hero Arts
Channin Pelletier
Dana Joy
Daniel West
Debi Adams
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Lydia Fiedler
Maria Willis
Michelle Short
Mindy Eggen
Pocono Pam
Seeka
Chari Moss
Jennifer Kotas
Jennifer McGuire
Meg Brooks
Nichol Spohr
Rebecca Keppel

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