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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Pink and Main and Paper Sweeties Blog Hop

Hi everyone.

Pink and Main is celebrating Paper Sweeties 7th Birthday with a fun hop full of inspiration!

For my card I used the Paper Sweeties Birthday Banners set and . the coordinating dies. I stamped the triangle banner twice on watercolor paper, die cut and colored.

For the sentiment I used the new Pink and Main set Special Day and die cut the sentiments using the Sentiment Strip dies.

I assembled the front and adhered to layer of Summer Splash patterned paper.

Pink & Main is giving away a special prize to one lucky commenter...
Paper Sweeties is offering 25% discount... get all the details on the PS blog.

Pink and Main Line Up

Make sure you hop along to all the blogs and leave comments for a chance to win. Winner will be announced on Wednesday, August 28th on the Pink & Main blog. Must leave a comment on each stop.

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Hero Arts: Oh What Fun Catalog Release, Blog Hop and Giveaway

Hi everyone!

Today is the day! The new Hero Arts winter catalog products are live on the Hero Arts website and we are celebrating with a hop and giveaway!!!

If you are following the hop, you have probably arrived from Emily Midgett's blog and your next stop will be the fabulous Janette Kausen.

Today I have few fun projects to share with you!

My first card features the new Merry Christmas Banner die, I cut it out from gold shimmer card stock and adhered to a background I made using card stock strips in: Peony, Cherry red, Pesto and Palm.

Next is a card using the From the Vault Winter Joy stamp set and coordinating frame cuts, along with the Merry Christmas Cover plate, that I cut the top off.

Then, a cute little card using the Birch Forest Background stamp combined with the Winter Forest Animals set and the coordinating frame cuts.

And last but not the least, I have a card using the Color Layering Peace stamp set!

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Blog Hop Giveaway: Hero is giving away $50 gift cards to the Hero Arts shop to two lucky winners drawn from all comments left across the hop. Comment by August 31 at 11:59 PST. Winners will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.

Blog Hop List

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Crafty Friends Blog Hop: Concord and 9th

Hi everyone!

Welcome to our first monthly Crafty Friends Blog hop!

Who are the crafty friends? We are group of talented, crafty, stampers who all share a similar crafty beginning and want to show our amazing projects to all of you!

Each month we will be focusing on a specific brand or company that we all love and this months surprise, surprise is is CONCORD and 9TH!!! You already know how much I love Concord and 9th!

We have exciting things to share from other brands in the coming months, so be sure to stay tuned.

For my card today I HAD to use one of the turnabout stamps, and since I LOVE butterflies I had to use the Butterfly Love turnabout and stamped it in Tiara, Aquatini, Lime Rickey and Coral Cabana. Next I stamped the sentiment from Filled in Florals set on Bellini card stock and embossed in white, then die cut using the coordinating die. Assembled the card. I added circle of vellum under the sentiment to make it pop up little bit more.

And, to celebrate with us Concord and 9th is offering 20% discount to our readers! See code below!!!!

And if you are following the hop, you have probably arrived from Tanya Boser blog and your next stop is Maria Willis

Jenny Hall

Tanya Boser

I lina Crouse - that's me

Sue Plote

Friday, August 16, 2019

Sweet 'n' Sassy Stamps and MISTI Collaboration

Hi everyone!

Happy Friday! Today we are celebrating collaboration between Sweet n Sassy stamps and My Sweet Petunia, and we are celebrating with a hop and of course prizes!

If you are following the hop, then you should have arrived from Stephanie Severin blog and your next stop will be Giovana Smith.

To make my card I used two sets from Sweet'N'Sassy stamps Peony Cluster and Scripty Thoughts .

I used my MISTI to stamp the image with Watermark ink onto cold press watercolor paper. I stamped few times to have nice coverage, then embossed in white. Watercolored with Tombow markers and set it aside.

Stamped the sentiment onto Pebble card stock and embossed in white. Using my Cut And Align tool I cut the sentiment then assembled the card

Prizes: Each company is giving away $50 gift certificate. Winners will be drawn from across all coments. Winners will be announced on August 27th

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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Partners: Pink Fresh Studio & Hero Arts Blog Hop + giveaway!

Hi everyone!
Hero Arts is celebrating 45 years, and we are honored and humbled that Pinkfresh Studio is sharing in the celebration! A special “Partners” Hero Arts + Pinkfresh Studio stamp set is available on the Hero Arts Website, also it is available on the Pinkfresh Studio website!!!

This is an amazing 6x8 stamp set called You Make a Difference! The flowers are amazing also the sentiments included in the set, they speak tons to me!

So, we are celebrating this partnership and release with a hop and giveaway. So if you are following the hop then you should have come from Heather's blog and your next stop will be Ivana!

For my card I stamped the big flourish onto watercolor paper using watermark and embossing ink, then embossed in white. I watercolored it using Zig clean color real brush markers. Set it aside to dry.
In mean time I stamped the sentiment onto vellum using watermark ink and embossed in white. Trimmed to size and adhered to the watercolored panel. To finish it off I adhered it to Pebble note card using fun foam