Hello everyone! Amy Y. here with two cards featuring the upcoming 3″x 4″ stamp set Happy Turkey (releasing on September 10th).

To create the background, I stamped the leaves and the sentiment included in the Happy Turkey set on an A2 Bristol cardstock with Versamark ink. I applied gold embossing powder and heat set it.

To create my focal point, I die-cut masking paper using the smaller scallop circle from Scallop Circles, and adhered it to the panel. Then, I inked the panel using Fired Brick, Abandoned Coral, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxides with a blending tool. After, I removed the masking paper. Using the same scallop die, I die cut gold cardstock. I mounted the die-cut circle with foam tape as shown.

I stamped the adorable turkey twice on smooth white cardstock and colored it with Copic markers. I used the Happy Turkey coordinating die to cut one of them out. With the other image, I fussy cut just the body and adhered that on top of the die-cut turkey with foam tape. This is not a necessary step, but I do this sometimes to add fun dimension to the image. Lastly, I mounted the turkey inside the circle and adhered the panel to a card base.

To make front panel for the second card, I stamped the leaves an A2 Bristol cardstock, using Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade and Peel Paint Distress Oxides and applied pearl embossing powder. Afterwards, I heat set it and inked it using the same colors as the first card. To make the background panel, I inked another A2 Bristol cardstock using the same colors.

To create the window, I die-cut the front panel with the larger die from Window Frames. I heat embossed the sentiment using gold embossing powder on a trimmed heat resistant acetate, and adhered that behind the window panel. I mounted the window panel to the background panel using two layers of double sided foam tape.

Inside the shaker, I added my own mix of Pretty Pink Posh Sequins and some leaves that were colored with Copic markers and die-cut. For the turkey, I used the same process as the first card, but I made small changes to the eyes with a Copic liner. To finish, I adhered turkey to the front of the shaker window and adhered the panels to a card base.

I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek. Make sure to join us again tomorrow for a look at another new set!

Hi friends – it’s Suzy here to show you one of the brand new stamp sets called Trick or Treat Friends (releasing on September 10th). I’m not a fan of scary Halloween images, so this one is so perfect with these darling little kids all dressed up in costumes! I love that you can add little stamped images to complete their costumes. The pumpkins are perfect for completing a Halloween scene.

Today I am using one of my favorite techniques for this card called random stamping. It works so well with the cute PPP kid images because I can fit all of them perfectly on one card front.

I started with a piece of watercolor paper die-cut in the size of a card front. I use a Misti tool to align a few of the stamps, starting in the center of the paper (you can also do this with just a stamp block, but it will take a little longer). I continue to add a few more each time aligning them together like a puzzle. I prefer my stamped images to not have black outlines, so I use a light tan ink to stamp them. I fill the entire space by stamping some images to overlap the edges of the paper.

Once all of the images are stamped, I paint them in with watercolor. I also paint the background around the images using a wet on wet technique. I wet the background and then drop in a little color here and there letting the colors blend together. Once it is all dry, I use gel pens to outline the images and add details and shading.

To complete the card, I added a sentiment on a stitched rectangle from the Mini Storybook 1 die. I die-cut one rectangle in black and another one in yellow to layer them. I embossed the sentiment from the Trick or Treat Friends stamp set with white embossing powder. I attached the rectangles to the top of the card and completed finished it off with some Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix.

These stamps are so cute it makes me wish I had little kids to dress up in real life again! Thanks for letting me guest blog today Paulina!

I hope you enjoyed this Halloween card today! Join us tomorrow as we reveal another new stamp set from our upcoming release!

Suzy

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing the new upcoming Pretty Pink Posh Angel Friends stamp set, Angel Friends Coordinating dies, and Tic Tac Toe die (all releasing on September 10).

To begin, I stamped all my images on a watercolor paper and used the Memento Luxe ink pad in Rich Cocoa. I used this color because it gives you a rich color, but you will have to let it sit for the ink to dry because it’s a pigment ink before watercoloring. After watercoloring I let the image dry and die-cut each piece using the Angel Friends Coordinating dies.

Next, I created my background using Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and Chipped Sapphire. Then splattered it with water and the gold watercolor paint from Gansai Tambi Starry Colors to give an interest in the background. Once it dries, I added the die-cut Tic Tac Toe in white, I die-cut 4 white cardstock and glue it on top of another to make it a thick die-cut.

Then, I adhered everything together the die-cuts I used foam tape but the Tic Tac Toe I used the Multi Medium Matte to adhered on the card panel.

I also used the new Metallic Gold Confetti Mix and Marshmallow Confetti Mix to decorate the main panel.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek. Join us tomorrow as we reveal another new stamp set!