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Hello, Jeanne here! Today I’m playing with the new Winter Woodland stamp set and coordinating dies.  This set is perfect for making winter scenes.

I started out with a simple distress ink background. I inked up a white card stock panel with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink along the outer edges, and then added Wilted Violet Distress OXIDE down the center.  I used the Wilted Violet Distress Oxide because it’s lighter than the regular “Distress” ink.  I didn’t want the center of the panel too dark.  I splashed the panel with water, and then again with some watered down Distress Ink Wilted Violet.   The finishing touch is a splash of white ink. I like to experiment with layouts before I commit and start gluing them down. I usually stamp, color and die cut several images and keep them with the stamp set so next time I want to create the images are ready to work with.

I created snowy hills by die cutting the Scallop Borders 1 Dies.  I stamped the sentiment directly on the white snowy border.

 Now to adhere the elements in place. I used glue dots to adhere the holly branches – a liquid adhesive might activate the inky background. Once they were dry I snipped off the ends.

I tucked the bunny’s log into the snow drift.

I stamped all the images with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them with Copic markers. The little dots on the berries were added with a white gel pen.

This scene was fun to create and embellish.  What will you make today?

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Hello Everyone, I hope you guys have been enjoying the Thanksgiving Week inspirations.

In this post I want to share my take as well, I made two cards to inspire you even more. For this first card I used the cute stamp set Happy Turkey and is Happy Turkey Coordinating Dies.

To begin I first distressed my back panel then splatter it with diluted Doe ink from Lawn Fawn.

Then, I colored and die-cut the images from the Happy Turkey set.

I then stamped the sentiment first, then assembled the pieces around it. To finish off the card I added some Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix.

For my next card, I really highlight the use of these gorgeous Stitched Foliage Dies.

To begin after die-cutting the dies on a white cardstock, I then distressed each one.

Next, I stamped the sentiment from Giving Thanks stamp set on the center of the card.

I arranged the Foliage on the top. Next, I added some Peacock Feather Sequins to finish off the card.

If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

  

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I’m helping participate in the Thanksgiving Theme Week! Even though we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here in Australia I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to help with this theme week and create a fun card for you all! I’ll be using the Happy Turkey stamp set that was released this year along with using Alcohol Inks and Copic Re-Inkers to create a very fall inspired background.

First off for my card today, I started on my background. Ive used Alcohol Inks before, but definitely don’t see myself as an expert with them. I see these beautiful background and pieces that people make with them and yet I can’t seem to get it right at all. But I want to get more confident with using them and understanding how they work more so today was all about experimenting for me. Firstly, I wanted to create an emboss resist background piece. Using the leaves from the Happy Turkey stamp set. I started off with a piece of Yupo paper, which is slick and stamped my leaves randomly with Versamark ink all on the background. Once I covered the piece I used clear embossing and heat set the background.

Next, I pulled out some colours of Alcohol Inks that I felt matched Fall well, so I went with a brown, green, orange, purple and also pink. I didn’t have a red Alcohol Ink, but I thought maybe the pink would mix in with the other colours and go darker. I dropped on my colours randomly onto the background, not worried about how the colours would mix. I then took some rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle and sprayed my background repeatedly. I picked up some of the colour with a paper towel and dried it off with a heat tool. I didn’t feel like the colours were “fall” enough, so I brought out some Copic Re-Inkers I chose some red, yellow and started splattering them onto the background also, picking some colour up with paper towels and spraying with running alcohol in between till I reached the desired effect.

What I found interesting with this, it sort of stained the embossing. I expected it to resist like the embossing usually does but instead it stained it and actually, made it stand out more than the background did, which was kind of neat and I definitely didn’t expect it. Once I got my desired effect, I dried it off with my heat tool.

I used the Scallop Circle Tags dies and cut the largest die out of the middle of my coloured piece since I wanted to create a shaker. Next I made a card base, masked off the edges and ink blended some Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron into the center. I then laid over my coloured panel and stamped the ‘Happy Turkey Day’ sentiment in black ink onto the green ink blended piece. For my shaker I used a variety of sequins, seed beads and confetti in coordinating colours and added them all on top of my green ink blended piece. I then added acetate into the back of my panel and added one layer of foam tape all along the back. Making sure to make a solid circle with no gaps so the sequins and beads wouldn’t fall out as I shake it. I removed the backers and added the panel onto the card base.

Embellishments used: Gold Shimmer Seed Beads, Metallic Gold Confetti Mix, Iridescent Confetti Mix, 4mm Lemon Meringue, 4mm Tangerine, 4mm Marigold, 4mm Metallic Gold, 6mm Metallic Gold, 6mm Pumpkin, 6mm Sand

Copic markers used: (R24, R27, R89, E51, E53, E55, E57, E59, YR04, YR12, YR18, Y13, Y15, Y19)

Next I coloured up my turkey image with Copic markers and cut him out using the coordinating dies. I added foam tape behind him and stuck him onto my card. To finish up my card I used a twine bow and added it to the top of my shaker circle and then scattered some Metallic Gold Confetti Mix around my card.

If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

Eloise

Hello, there!  Marge here with you today.

Today I’m sharing two shaker cards featuring our Happy Turkey Stamp Set and several other popular Pretty Pink Posh products.

To begin , I made a background panel using Stacked Edges 1 Die. I used scallop shape die to cut three different colored card stock papers which are natural, kraft, and brown. Then I stacked the pieces one by one, using double sided tapes behind the stacked die cuts. I then cut the panel into an A2 sized rectangle and then adhered it onto a card base.

I stamped images from Happy Turkey Stamp Set on a white card stock, colored them using copic markers, then cut them using Happy Turkey Coordinating Dies. To give more autumn mood to the card, I chose a pumpkin piece from Stitched Foliage Dies, and  ink blended it using distress inks : Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, and Rusty Hinge. For a lovely shaker frame, I cut a  rectangle frame using Scallop Frames Dies, Now it’s time to arrange them all together and check if they look okay and I really loved how it came out with these variable elements.

I stamped “Happy Turkey Day” sentiment on an Acetate film with versamark ink, and heat set it with gold embossing powder. My favorite thing to do in cardmaking is to put various sequins in the shaker! I used Metallic Gold Confetti Mix, Marshmallow Confetti Mix, Autumn Harvest Sequins Mix, Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix, Champagne Sequins, and Espresso Sequins.

Tip: I adhered a few sequins here and there, so that all the sequins are not falling down when you hold it up.

After I finished shaker, I adhered the turkey and leaves on the outer surface of the window.

For the second card, I cut brown card stock paper using Scallop Hexagons Dies for a shaker frame. The background was ink blended with distress inks : Fossilized Amber and Squeezed Lemonade.

Stamping, die cutting, putting sequins are all similar with the first card. To make a twine ribbon, I punched a tiny hole in the mini maple leaf, passed a piece of string through it, then tied a bow.

Finally, I brushed Clear Wink of Stella on the the stamped images to give interests. You can see glitter effects on leaves here.