Hello everyone! It's the 5th of the month - which means a new release from Waffle Flower!
This is a smaller release (it always looks like more as you can get the stamps and coordinating dies separately or in a bundle) with the CUTEST little mini sets and a couple of amazing larger sets:
And to celebrate the release and provide inspiration there's a hop AND a giveaway too!!
If you didn't get here from the Waffle Flower blog I'll have links to all the stops on this hop further down in my post!
I was so excited to see this new Thinking of You stamp set. I have the Always set with the same girl image (in that one she's holding a bird) that I made a card with HERE. This time she's holding a cat and the stamp is much bigger.
I ended up making three cards because I couldn't settle on one - plus they all started with a simple card design and then I step it up a bit for each card following:
I heat embossed the image onto white card stock using Ranger's Liquid Platinum embossing powder. For the first card that was it. The detail and size of the image lends itself nicely to just stamping or heat embossing the image, adding a sentiment and you're done!
For the second card I did the same thing, but offset the image on the white card stock. I then stamped the new Halftone Background onto the card base with Simon Says Stamp Stone ink. I added the sentiment and some glitter paper that I tinted with the same Stone ink. It's still a simple card - but more detail and more involved than the first clean and simple card.
For my third card I used the same embossing powder but this time I heat embossed it onto watercolor card stock. I then did some simple watercoloring with a couple of my Prima palettes. Once dry I die cut the image with a large stitched rectangle die. I don't have any card stock that matched the Stone ink color - so I blended that onto my white card base.
On all three cards I finished the insides by stamping the main image with the Stone ink and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!
Next stop on the hop is Channin's blog! <-------click!
If you missed any of the stops you can find them all here:
Amy Rysavy
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Now for the GIVEAWAY info!!!
To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 12/10/18 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts on this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower blog on 12/12/2018.
Thanks for stopping by and good luck!!
