January Leading Lady Stephanie Klauck | Take Three {Video}

Our January Leading Lady, Stephanie Klauck, is back for her triumphant third performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or sensational second performance CLICK HERE.   Today she brings you bright, vibrant card and video that will have you feeling like it's spring.

Without further ado, Stephanie....

Hello everyone! It's Stephanie here again and today I have a card to share that features some bright happy colours and a spring wreath! Since it's winter in a lot of places right now, I thought a spring wreath would be a nice change from the snow.

For my card I used the In Bloom: Eva's Favorite Flowers and stamped a bunch of the leaves and flowers into white cardstock in an assortment of pretty colours.

Once I had them all stamped, I used the coordinating cutaways and cut them all out. It took a bit of time but was totally worth it when I was all finished.

To create the wreath, I used a compass to draw a circle onto a cardstock panel that I had inked up with Cracked Pistachio distress ink and then I added the flowers and leaves on with glue dots until I had the entire wreath full.

Once the wreath was done, I used the Sending You with Evelin T Designs stamp set (officially releasing soon) and stamped my sentiment with black ink in the center of the wreath. I also added a few hearts with it.

I completed the card by adding the finished panel to a grey card base and adding some white gems to the centers of some of the flowers in the wreath.

You can see how I created the card in the video below:




Thanks so much for joining me on the blog today! Ill be back next weekend with one more card to share!

In Bloom: Eva's Favorite Flowers

The Big, the Bold and Greetings

In Bloom: Eva's Favorite Flowers Cutaways

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Sending Hugs with Lydia

Hi there everyone and happy Friday! Lydia here with you today with a very vibrant card.



I have to say that I totally love this! If you are anything like me and are dreaming of summer this may be just what you need. I started off by stamping the sentiment from The Big The Bold & Greetings in a bold black ink- I did this so I could work around it, just over-lapping some flowers over it.

 

I then stamped flowers and leaves from In Bloom: Eva's Favorite Flowers in the brightest inks I own. I do love the bright, crispness of having these vivid colours against the white card blank. And that's it!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I'll see you again soon!

Hugs, Lydia x

In Bloom: Eva's Favorite Flowers

The Big, the Bold and Greetings

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Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Hello there lovelies!  It's Shay here joining in on a very special event.

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Now on to my card....



I just can't stop stamping backgrounds!  I pulled out this month's featured Rerun stamp set, In Bloom: Hollie's Festive Florals, and got to stamping (all while watching a documentary about gingerbread...which was fascinating, made me crave gingerbread and put me in the holiday mood).  I stamped flowers, leaves and dots until I felt good about the colors and design.

As the background was pretty busy I decided to add white space with the sentiment.  I die cut "greetings" from The Big, the Bold and Greetings Cutaways on an A2 panel of white cardstock...I placed the die about a third of the way into the panel and tried to center the sentiment.  I decided how much I wanted the word to hang down from the panel and then cut to the die cut from the left and right side and pulled the bottom portion of the panel away making sure not to pull the top of the die cut from the rest of the white panel.  To ensure it stays together you can tape the back of the panel together.  I placed quite a bit of foam dimensional adhesive on the back of the panel which helped keep pieces together.  I stamped the "season's" from The Big the Bold and Greetings in black ink.  I attached the white panel to the background.

I felt the background needed something so I added some dots of gold acrylic paint to the background panel as well as adding some details to the flowers and some leaves.  I also used Wink of Stella over the "greetings" which you can see in person, but is not apparent in the photo.  All of this is all attached to a white A2 card base.

That's it from me, but there is so much more to see from Taheerah this month.

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!

It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is supplied by w&w so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as here in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2016 to enter.

Don’t forget Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas!

Happy crafting,
Shay.