Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Premiere of Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant + giveaway

To enter our July Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.
To enter to win The Big, the Bold and Blessings CLICK HERE
To enter to win Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant continue reading!
To enter to win The Big, the Bold and Seasons CLICK HERE (live July 23, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)
To enter to win Scenery: V for cheVron CLICK HERE (live July 24, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)
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Today we have the pleasure of introducing you to the Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant.  Another basic shape with plenty of variety and options, this set will be a building block for projects of all sorts including backgrounds, banners, trees, party hats and even ice cream cones!  We've included 2 sizes of elongated triangles, an outline and solid tree trunks, 2 sizes of stars and little triangles to use to hang your pennants.

>>>THE DETAILS<<<

Available for purchase on July 25, 2014.
Retails for $15.00
Includes nineteen (19) stamps with seven (7) large pennants and six (6) smaller pennants

>>>THE GOOD STUFF<<<

Let's get to the fun part and see what Julie, Shay, our guest stars, Diane Jaquay and Jenny Martin (our fabulous winners of the Playdate No. 2 challenge) and The Talent (our supernova creative team) made with it. And make sure you visit Diane's, Jenny's and each of The Talent's blogs for more knock-it-out-of-the-park projects and details.  Don't forget to share some love with them too!

Julie

Hello again!  I'm excited to show you two more projects, this time using Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant - and wonderful it is!.  This one is brimming with possibilities! :)  Gotta love that, right?

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I've got a lot of love right now for our w&w digital files.  On this card, I've chosen one of the pennants from the coordinating w&w digital files for Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant and resized and cut them with my Silhouette Cameo from white cardstock.  Then, I colored them with favorite distress ink colors and my new smaller round ink applicators (love).  Next, I stamped the DAD from Parentville, and then fussy cut them and inked over them to coordinate with the pennants.  I did the same for the "so glad you're my" sentiment and just cut the ends at an angle.  Everything is popped up on foam tape.

Next, I have a card that started out as a 3x4 pocket journaling card, but evolved into this fun shaker card.  This is my first shaker in a very, VERY long time. I hope I make the DT proud!  They seem to be very good at making them.

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The card base is a series of stamping the small outline triangle with versamark and then embossing with clear EP for a background with a little interest.  The white 3x4 card is stamped with the diagonal pennant twice in worn lipstick distress ink and then 2nd generation stamped with the flash image from The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect.  I like the softer look of the ink for this application, and makes it feel like it is off in the distance. The sentiments are from Bubble Talk and are stamped in seedless preserves.

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I had to make this camera twice because I wanted this cut out area, and I needed more edge space to make the shaker portion, so I put the png of the camera in my Silhouette software, and after tracing the image, I de-constructed it so that it would only cut the outside edge and the inside opening, and then I made the lines offset to give me a slightly larger camera so that I could stamp on it, plus have space to add the foam tape along the edges.  This was not difficult, but did that a little planning.  After I stamped it, I colored the image using distress inks (crushed olive, worn lipstick, seedless preserves and dusty concord), and water and a brush.  I think I got carried away a little with the sequins, but love how it turned out.

Now, check out what Shay has made for you today!  I marvel at her backgrounds, and I think you will too!

Shay

I am so taken with Julie's camera shaker card!  Love it.

I have a couple of easy cards to show you today in which Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant make dramatic backdrops.

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I chose a fun, summery palette of picked raspberry, salty ocean and squeezed lemonade Tim Holtz Distress Inks with a dash of navy thrown in for good measure.   You can get a fairly good impression with Distress Inks if you first coat the stamp with Versamark, but for this card I really love the uneven stamping of Distress Inks.  I stamped the horizontal smaller pennant in a star pattern numerous times.  In between each of the triangles I stamped the tiny solid triangle in salty ocean.  Inside the pennant stars I stamped the larger star in salty ocean.  I also stamped the triangles within a triangle from Scenery: Retangled & Triangled in squeezed lemonade inside the pennant star.  In the background I stamped the smaller star in squeezed lemonade.  I added a little clear Wink of Stella to the yellow and blue stars (does not show up in the photographs).

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I finished the card with the sentiment from Bubble Talk and edging the card with my ink blending tool and chipped sapphire Tim Holtz Distress Ink.

My next card uses navy once again this time to stamp the diagonal stripe larger pennant at the top and bottom of a card.  The navy is Hero Arts Mid-tone Shadow Inks.  I added a banner made from a journaling card from Maggie Holmes Project Life Mini Kit which I sewed onto the card.  Over the banner I added a sentiment Thicker from Trinket by Dear Lizzy for American Crafts with foam dimensional adhesive.  I added the heart inside the "o" and little star both from the same Thicker package.  

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The last bits are the sequins(naturally) and the addition of some chipped sapphire Tim Holtz Distress Ink to edge the card.

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You are in for some superb inspiration from our guest stars and the Talent!

Guest Star, Diane Jaquay


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Guest Star, Jenny Martin


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The Talent

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072214 - Heather P
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Lea will be joining us for our next release.

 >>>THE GIVEAWAY<<<

Comment here on this post for a chance to win a Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant stamp set of your own by 12:01 a.m. (central standard time) July 25, 2014. One comment will be chosen at random.

All winners during our July Release will be announced on July 25, 2014.

To enter our July Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

w&w supplies (new items will be released on July 25, 2014):


Monday, July 21, 2014

Premiere of The Big, the Bold and Blessings + giveaway

To enter our July Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.
To enter to win The Big, the Bold and Blessings continue reading!
To enter to win Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant CLICK HERE (live July 22, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)
To enter to win The Big, the Bold and Seasons CLICK HERE (live July 23, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)
To enter to win Scenery: V for cheVron CLICK HERE (live July 24, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)
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We are so excited to show you The Big, the Bold and Blessings today!  This is set is perfect for the upcoming autumn and winter occasions to express gratitude, welcome family and friends, thank hosts and hostesses, celebrate family and appreciate blessings.  We think you will find this new addition to The Big, the Bold series so very useful and charming.

>>>THE DETAILS<<<

Available for purchase on July 25, 2014.
Retails for $15.00
Includes twenty-three (23) stamps with four (4) large words: blessings, family, grateful and welcome and nineteen (19) small words

>>>THE GOOD STUFF<<<

Let's get to the fun part and see what Julie, Shay, our guest stars, Diane Jaquay and Jenny Martin (our fabulous winners of the Playdate No. 2 challenge) and The Talent (our supernova creative team) made with it. And make sure you visit Diane's, Jenny's and each of The Talent's blogs for more knock-it-out-of-the-park projects and details.  Don't forget to share some love with them too!

Julie

Welcome to the July release!  Lots of fabulous inspiration to come, and it is only day 1.  I have 2 projects today - the first is a thank you card that is simple and shimmery!

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I never have enough thank you cards, and I love the idea of this one.  You could of course stamp the lovely "grateful" from The Big, the Bold and Blessings, but I wanted it a bit larger.  I used the coordinating w&w digital files to cut the word at approximately 5 inches wide.  Then, using the uber shimmery Heidi Swapp Color Shine sprays in primrose and mustard, I spritzed the word here and there to get a pretty gradient look.

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Once I finished drying it with my heat tool, I added foam tape to pop it up.  The little words are from the same set and are stamped in black Versafine ink and the lovely sequins in sundrop and light sundrop are the perfect shades of yellow with pink iridescent.  *happy place*

My second project is a digital scrapbook page for a project I will be working on throughout the year - a family reunion scrapbook.  I wanted to create a sweet cover and I knew that the new "family" image would be perfect, but I am making this album mostly digital and maybe some hybrid pages. So, I turned again to my w&w digital elements and created this page.

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My first item to tackle was how to get these two photos to work on the same layout - it turns out the my Great Grandmother's jewelry in the photo is nearly the same shade of teal as in the color photo, so that was my jumping off point.  I also knew I wanted to add some woodgrain, and I used the paper from our w&w daily grind collection of papers, and then scoured through my many digital collections to find colors that would work with the color photo.

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 In this closeup, you can see the family title element is colored to coordinate with the photo but could also be masked with a digital paper, like the heart that is tucked under the y.  That heart is from our The Write Stuff: Love Story digital files. The font shown in the title is from Laura Worthington, Adorn Slab Serif.

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I made one more page element using images from tomorrow's set, Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant.  I used the diagonal pennant, plus both the size 1 and size 2 solid pennants to create the whole element.  The H is in the same font, just typed in white and much larger, and set off with the contrasting felt flower.  What I love about our stamp sets and coordinating digital files is that they both work well for scrapbooking and cardmaking.  The sky's the limit!

Additional digital supply list items:
LaurieAnn HGD-Bloom Baby Bloom (Grey Graphic, felt bloom 2 and felt bloom 3, journal card 3)
Micheline Martin - PicturePerfect (PP12, PP20, PP21)
One Little Bird - Rise & Shine (Paper 02, rise&shine paint)
Paislee Press - DayPlanner (lg banner 3)

Shay

I am here with 2 really simple cards and for whatever reason I was on a red kick. :-)

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My first card uses "family" stamped in Versamark and heat embossed in gold from The Big, the Bold and Blessings and other little words from The Big, the Bold, and the Happy and The Big, the Bold and You stamp sets along with "4ever" from The Write Stuff: Love Story stamped in black to create a custom love message onto a die cut red heart from Lifestyle Crafts.  I used pickled raspberry Tim Holtz Distress Ink with a mini ink blending tool with the falling hearts stencil from Simon Says Stamp and then with the ink blending tool edged the heart.  I added the heart with foam dimensional adhesive to a card base that I added a diagonal half of patterned paper from Basic Grey.

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Last is some gold sequins, of course!

My next card features the big "blessings" from the set.

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I decided to doctor blessings from The Big, the Bold and Blessings into blessing.  I used tape to mask the "s" while inking up the stamp with Versamark and then removed the tape before I stamped.  I stamped my sentiment using the little words from The Big, the Bold and You onto a panel of vellum with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  The floral panel is made by stamping the largest flower from The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom repeatedly on a piece of watercolor paper in festive berry Tim Holtz Distress Ink.  I used a water brush and extended the flower outside its original shape.  I let it dry and then stamped the flower found in The Big, the Bold and Seasons (premiering later this week) into the center with red royal Hero Arts Mid-tone Shadow Inks.

Originally I was just going to sew the vellum sentiment panel on the floral panel, but as I was sewing it did not sit flat so I decided to make a little shaker pocket instead by adding red and iridescent sequins.

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Last I edged the watercolor panel with picked raspberry Tim Holtz Distress Ink and adhered it to a white card base.

Now, you will not want to miss the delightful projects by our guest stars and The Talent!

Guest Star , Diane Jaquay
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Guest Star, Jenny Martin
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The Talent
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072114 - Heather P
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Lea will be joining us for our next release.

>>>THE GIVEAWAY<<<

Comment here on this post for a chance to win a The Big, the Bold and Blessings stamp set of your own by 12:01 a.m. (central standard time) July 25, 2014.  One comment will be chosen at random.

All winners during our July Release will be announced on July 25, 2014.

To enter our July Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

w&w supplies (new items will be released on July 25, 2014):