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Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a card to share with you using the Geraniums stamp set. To colour these flowers, I also decided to pull in the Pearl Colors Watercolor Set from Gansai Tambi for my colouring today, since I haven’t used them much and thought it would be super pretty for my bouquet of Geraniums today.

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To begin my card today, I started off with stamping out my Geraniums, I used Versafine Onyx Black Ink and clear heat embossed over them so it would contain my watercolour easier. I then used the Pearl Colors Watercolor Set, to colour them in. I used the same technique I do for colouring, start off with the darkest areas first and then blend them out to create a gradient. Watercolours are super easy like this, since generally you only need to use water to create several shades. I used the pink, red and then made my own purple to colour the flowers in. I then used the green for the leaves, and then I’ll use the blue on its own for a simple background. I dried all my pieces with a heat tool and cut out the Geraniums with their coordinating dies.

Now all my pieces were cut I used the rectangle from the Stitched Notes Die Set and cut it from some watercolour cardstock. I then used the blue from the Pearl Watercolor Set and did a simple wash over the background. I dried that off with a heat tool as well and moved onto assembling. I grouped together my flowers and added foam tape onto the backs. I adhered them down over lapping each other to create sort of like a bouquet.

For my sentiment, I wanted to use the ‘Love You’ dies, but it didn’t really fit well and I couldn’t find a colour that matched well enough but also stood out. So I used the Bear Hugs stamp set and white heat embossed the ‘Hello Friend’ sentiment onto a thin strip of black cardstock, like I always do and adhered it onto the card with more foam tape. For a last finishing touch I pulled a piece of patterned paper from my stash, this one is from an old Dear Lizzy pack and I mounted my panel over top and then onto a card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. See you all next time.

Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a friendship card to share with you all. I’ll be creating an alcohol inked background and using the Flourishing Fuchsias stamp set as my main focus. I’ll also be pulling in the Encouraging Greetings stamp set and Scallop Ovals Dies to help complete my card.

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To begin my card today, I started off with my background. I pulled a few colours of Alcohol Inks out and some Yupo paper. I sprayed the background with alcohol solution that I popped into a small spray bottle. Once the background was coated, I took the alcohol inks and drew lines onto the background. Then taking a paint brush and more alcohol solution, I added it around the edges of the lines to soften them. I repeated the same process for all four colours I used. Once I was happy, I dried it off a little with my heat tool, but also dabbing up any excess with a paper towel so the paper didn’t warp too much. I set that off to the side and worked on my images.

For my images, I stamped all the flowers and leaves I thought I would use from Flourishing Fuchsias onto some watercolour paper with Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Then, I clear heat embossed over the top so it would contain my watercolour easier. I used my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers to colour today. These markers are super handy for when you want a quick colouring job and don’t feel like using a ton of shades of different colours. I used three colours for all my flowers today and they came out looking so gorgeous and with lots of shading, too. I also used a water brush to help spread the colour. I dried off my flowers and leaves with my heat tool and cut them out with the Flourishing Fuchsias coordinating dies.

Zigs Used: No. 25 – Pink, No. 81 – Light Violet, No. 47 – May Green

Now, it was time to finish up my card. I cut down my alcohol inked panel down to the size of my card base, then I used the Scallop Ovals dies and cut out the largest one from white cardstock. I added foam tape at the back and adhered it off to the right hand side of my panel and cut off the excess. I then added foam tape onto the back of my flowers and leaves and adhered them into place as well. I didn’t end up using all I coloured, but I can save those for another card later on. Once my card was looking pretty complete, I white heat embossed the ‘Life Is Better With You’ sentiment from Encouraging Greetings onto a strip of black cardstock. I adhered that down with foam tape as well underneath the frame a little. To finish off my card completely, I adhered my panel onto a white card base and scattered some of the Sparkling Clear Jewels around as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by and watching the video today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. I can’t wait to share more with you and I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here today with a new card and video. Today I’ll be using the Koala Friends stamp set along with the Hello Shaker die to create a windowed shaker card. I’ll be altering my dies to fit my card better and also to share how to stretch your dies as well.

Watch the video above  I  Watch the video in HD on YouTubeTo begin my card today I stamped out the koala’s from Koala Friends onto some Neenah Solar White Cardstock. I then used my Copic Markers to colour them in and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Now that I had my die cutting machine out I took the Hello Shaker Die and ran it through my die cut machine partially. Meaning, I only ran through the top half of the die. Then, I pushed down the die a little more, making sure it sits into the grooves of the last die cut area, and ran it through again. This made sure that the die cut was longer than the square it was before. Now that the die was cut, I used an exacto knife to cut away the words from the inside, so now I’m just left with a scalloped frame.

Copic Markers Used: W0, W2, W5, W7 / YG03, YG13, YG17 / R000, R00, R20 / E53, E55, E57

Next up I measured how large the frame turned out to be and cut the same size rectangle out of a card base. I managed to find a rectangle die that was more or less the same size, but you can use an exacto knife and a ruler. I also did the same out of a piece of patterned paper. Once they were both cut, I added a piece of acetate to my card base and then adhered my patterned paper over top to hide the adhesive. I added another piece of acetate to the scalloped frame piece and then added a layer of foam tape around it. I then adhered my Koala images to the front of the scallop frame using foam tape as well. Then to cover the adhesive from the inside, I adhered my blank die cuts to the inside.

Shaker filling: Whimsical Forest Mix, Sparkling Clear Seed Beads, Pewter Seed Beads, Metallic Gold Confetti Mix

Now that my panels were ready, I added in some sequins and seed beads onto my card base. I removed the backers off my scalloped frame and adhered it over top. To finish up my card, I used the Bear Hugs stamp set and white heat embossed the ‘Hello Friend’ sentiment onto a thin strip of cardstock and popped it up on more foam tape.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. Thanks for watching and I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

Hi everyone, Rina here today. I have three PUPPY shaker cards using the Playful Puppies, Happy Mail and Simple Sayings: Life stamp sets.

I am a huge dog lover and have three beagles of my own.  I did some simple copic coloring today and my goal was to color the images like my beagles.  After I colored the images, I cut them with the coordinating dies.

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The card front was created by ink blending distress oxide inks about ¾ of the way down, leaving the top white for contrast.  I used Picked Raspberry , Cracked Pistachio, and Fossilized Amber.  I finished off the blending with a microfiber towel, then used a Distress Sprayer to create splotches for added depth.  I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors to create black paint splatters.  Wait for your card front to dry before die cutting the shaker frame.

I used post it notes to hold the dies in place on the shaker fronts and then adhered acetate.  I used one layer of foam tape to create the shaker well and filled the shaker well with my favorite shaker bits from Pretty Pink Posh:

• 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins
• Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix
• Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix
• Gold Mini Star Confetti
• Watermelon Jewels
• Spring Green Jewels
• Buttercream Jewels
• Sparkling Clear Stars

After filling the shaker well, remove the backers on the foam tape and adhere a card front. Make sure to press down firmly so no shaker bits escape!

I stamped out sentiments from Happy Mail and Playful Puppies in Versafine.  I used the Hugs Shaker die cut in white and adhered it to the acetate frame with glossy accents.

I had the inside pieces of the Window Frames die and Stitched Stars left over.  I thought it would be cute to stamp “You make life fun” from the Simple Sayings: Life stamp set and use the die cut to decorate the inside of the card.  I used a little red heart to embellish the remaining card.

Copic Markers Used: B00, B000 // W00, W1, W3, W5, W7 // R11, R14, R20, R24 // YG02, YG25, YG41, YR21 // C3, C5, C9 // Y21

I adhered the completed card front to the card bases and finished the card off by adding Sparkling Clear Confetti to the front of the card.

Hope you enjoy these fun shakers! Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

Hello everyone, Eloise here and for today’s video I’ll be sharing another 3 Cards 1 Stamp set video, using the brand new School Friends stamp set. This set was perfect because it had a ton of images and also included 3 sentiments. I also tried to keep these cards quite simple, so I just used three small die sets; Scallop Frames, Stitched Duo 1 and Stitched Film Strip and then I also just pulled in a few colours of Distress Inks to make my backgrounds as well.

To begin my cards today, I first started off with stamping, colouring and die cutting all my images. I stamped pretty much two of everything and used a colour combo I found on Pinterest for my colour inspiration. Once they were all coloured and die cut, I could assemble my cards together.

Watch the video above  I  Watch the video in HD on YouTubeCopic Markers Used: E000, E00, E21 / E53, E55, E57 / Y32, YR21, Y26 / C00, C1, C3 / W00, W2, W5 / Y35, YR15, YR09 / G12, BG32, BG15 / BG72, BG18, BG72 / BV02, BV04, BV08 / YG03, YG13, YG17 / R14, R24, R35 / RV42, RV25, RV29

For my first card today, I die cut two of the Stitched Film Strip from some white cardstock. Then I added foam tape to the backs and set them off to the side. For my background, I used Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio and ink blended a gradient onto some watercolour cardstock. I then flicked some water onto my background, picked it up with a paper towel and dried it off with a heat tool.

Next, I arranged all my images onto the base, figured out where I wanted the sentiment and stamped the ‘Hey There Smarty Pants’ into one of the gaps with black ink. I then adhered down my frames over top and adhered the images inside with foam tape as well and that finished off my first card.

For my second card, I pulled out the Scallop Frames and cut them twice out of some white cardstock. I then adhered some foam tape onto the backs of the frames. For my background I again went for a simple ink blended look. This time I used Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron and repeated the same steps as before. I dried it off with a heat tool and adhered my frames at an angle into place.

I then took out a few images and arranged them into place as well. I adhered them down with flat adhesive. For my sentiment I used the ‘You’re An A+ In My Book’ sentiment with more black ink onto the background as well and that finished up my second card.

For my final card, I wanted to make a mini card; something that would be perfect to put into your kids lunchbox with a little note for their day, or what have you. So I took the Stitched Duo 1 and cut out two tag shapes; one from watercolour cardstock and one from plain white cardstock. I ink blended some Carved Pumpkin and Spiced Marmalade ink onto the bottom of the watercolour tag and then ran it through my Big Shot Machine with the geometric embossing folder from We R Memory Keepers. I then took the second tag, and scored the top edge with my scoring tool. I added adhesive onto the flap and adhered it to my coloured tag and that created my mini card base.

To finish up, I adhered down the remaining images with some foam tape onto the bottom and then for the sentiment, I white heat embossed the ‘Just A Note’ sentiment onto some black cardstock. I cut it down to a strip and adhered it on the right hand side of my card and that finished off the last card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise