Birthday Girl

I have been finishing off the year, spending some time in my craft room, puttering away at organizing supplies and using up found items that I had laying around over the last couple of days. 

Supplies: Maggie Holmes Confetti Collection patterned papers, stickers, emboss folder (Crate Paper), baker's twine (MME), adhesive (Xyron), foam tape (Dollarama), black packaging insert (misc.)

For my last card of 2017, I made a quick fun and easy birthday girl party card. The black base for this card is made from an upcycled packaging insert that I embossed with the Maggie Holmes Birthday Song emboss folder and then sanded a bit before adhering bits and pieces from Maggie Holmes Crate Paper Confetti collection.

It will be the perfect card to celebrate a family member's birthday upcoming birthday next week as well as for entering it into Simon Says Stamps Monday Party Challenge.

TTFN,

Winter Magic

Today, I am up on the Magenta blog with a simple wintery magic card. It has been so frigid, where I live of late, that my card was inspired by the beautiful effect of frosted snow crystals creeping up the corner of the window pane in my craft room.

Supplies: Snowflakes mask, magic sentiment and Cerulean Blue Nuance powder (Magenta), texture paste, watercolour paper, Jet Black Archival ink (Ranger), Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Spritz (Imagine Crafts), vellum (The Paper Company)

While it is hard to see in the photo, I just love the beautiful sparkle effect of the Imagine Crafts Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Spritz on top of the texture paste. Pure magic!

If you would like to learn how to make this card, a simple step-by-step can be found by visiting the Magenta blog here.

I am entering this card into the More Than Words December "Us" Mini Challenge. Details on the challenge can be found here.

Wherever you are this holiday season, I hope you are enjoying some wintery magic!

TTFN,

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Magenta products used:

MC05

07.807.I

MNU011

Creative Scrapbooker Magazine's - Day 11 with Magenta

Have you been following Creative Scrapbooker Magazine's 12 Days of Giving? Today is Day 11 and Magenta is one of the sponsors. 

Head on over to the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine's blog here for details on how to enter. 

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Emerald Creek Excitement

It's Day 7 in Creative Scrapbooker Magazine's 12 Days of Giving and one of today's sponsors is Emerald Creek Craft Supplies with a prize pack that includes their exciting announcement for today...

Check out these cool colour releases...

Details on how to enter the Day 7 draw can be found here and the new Seth Apter Baked Texture release details can be found here.

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Christmas Joy

Today, I have a little Magenta watercolour merriment to bring some joy during the holiday season.

Starting with the Christmas Tree stencil, I used a mini Broken China Distress ink pad and ran it along the outline shape of the tree. I spritzed it with water and then used it like a stamp on a 140 lb piece of watercolour paper. While the colour dried, I cleaned off the stencil and dried it. Next, I lined the stencil up with the tree shape and using three colours of watercolour pencil crayons, I outlined the ball ornament shapes and added more colour to one side of the ball. I repeated the same process with a brown watercolour pencil crayon for the tree trunk. Then using a fine waterbrush, I moved the colour around creating a darker to lighter area and leaving a highlight.

Once dry, I added a shadow outline area with a graphite Stabilo All pencil. Next, on a piece of acetate transparency, I used the Love Letter stamp with Saddle Brown StazOn ink. Then, I stamped the Joy part of the Joy to the World sentiment stamp with Jet Black StazOn ink. Once completely dry. I cut them into three pieces, and adhered them with a gloss gel media. Then, I mixed Delicata Golden Glitz re-inker mixed with texture paste and used the Stars stencil to create the star at the top of the tree. Lastly, I adhered a piece of birch bark to the cardbase prior to adhering the painted panel and added some baker's twine.

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Produits Magenta utilisés:

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

TM197

95.017.L

TM180

07.958.H

I hope you enjoyed today's creation. 

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We Are Like Snowflakes

For this month's EC Anything Goes Dare, I was inspired by the crisp whites, cool blues, and shimmery tones of iridescent and silver sparkle that all come with a fresh snowfall creating a magical winter wonderland.

To begin, I stamped the Snowflake stamp using VersaMark numerous times across the bottom of my 4 3/4 x 6" white cardstock card base and then heat embossed with Silver Sparkle emboss powder creating a border. 

Next, I stamped both Flakee and Elegant Flake multiple times with Unicorn Hero Arts Hues pigment ink and then heat embossed some with Iridescent Shimmer and some with Soft Fallen Snow on the 4x6 Wild Whispers card. I fussy cut out a snowflake from a 4x3" Wild Whisper card as well as cutting out and ticket corner punching the sentiment from another 4x3" Wild Whisper card in this collection.

Once all the components were prepared, I was ready to assemble by glueing down the stamp embossed card to the base, adhering the sentiment with foam tape and then using glue dots to mount the metal ring clipped Victorian Snowflake Charm and Mini Victorian Snowflake Charms. Beautiful shimmer, texture and dimension, this is a great multi-occasion seasonal card. 

Check out the Emerald Creek Dares blog for more details on the December Anything Goes Challenge for a chance to win a $50 EC Gift Certificate.

Hope you have fun creating this Holiday Season!

Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Used:

Snowflake Stamp

Flakee

Elegant Flake

Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder

Soft Fallen Snow Embossing powder

Iridescent Shimmer Embossing powder

Mini Victorian Snowflake Charm

Victorian Snowflake Charm

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Deck the Halls

I'm on the Magenta blog sharing this distressed foiled card. I must say, I seem to have a thing for the bling of glittery foil so far this season in my card making. I paired the foiling up with some glitter emboss and added a bit of sanded distress to it to go with the rustic appeal of the kraft cardstock.

I started with a 4 1/4 " square piece of cardstock which I applied Decofoil heat transfer gel with the new release Star stencil. I set it aside for about an hour to dry.

While the star was drying, I cut a 5 1/2" square piece of kraft cardstock and using a stamp positioning platform, I stamped the Deck the Halls stamp with Versamark ink. The stamp set up for this is really quick and easy as you only have to position the stamp twice; once at the top left, and once at the top right. Once you have set a position, you simply rotate the square each time after stamping thus, four rotations for the left position and then I heat embossed it. Placed it back in and positioned for the right top side, and repeated by stamping and rotating four times and then heat embossed that set. Next, I adhered it to a card base.

Newly foiled star on the left and one with the dried transfer gel on the right.

Then, I went back to the now dried star, placed it in a piece of folded parchment paper and placed that sandwich on a thin piece of chipboard to run it through my laminating machine (you could also use an iron). Next, I peeled away the foil sheet and revealed the foiled surface. Then, I decided to give is some buffing with sandpaper to distress it before adhering it with foam tape on my base.

And there you have it...

I am really pleased with how this one turned out. If you give the heat transfer foil technique a try, be sure to share it either in the Magenta Facebook fan group or on Instagram. I would love to see what you create.


TTFN,

Magenta products used:

07.416.F

TM228

Link to boutique

Shiny & Bright

Using the new Magenta All Over Stars background mask, I made a shiny and bright card for the upcoming holiday season to share with readers which is up on the Magenta blog here with step-by-step tutorial details.

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Magenta products used:

MC58

07.959.I

ME164

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Magenta Mirrored Bird Thanks Card

I am up on the Magenta blog sharing a card that was created using a reversed image or mirror image of a stamp.

I try to get the most out of my craft supplies so after using pastes, paints, or gels on a project, I will put the leftovers onto a 4x6 index card or two. Such was the case for the start of this card's background. Full step-by-step how-to details can be found on the Magenta blog here.

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Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

44.022.L

TM216

07.837.H

MNU008

ME164

TTFN,