HEY FRIENDS! Today I’m featuring my last project from the Confection Collection release by Colorado Craft Company. Here I’m once again featuring the Kris Lauren Eat More Cake stamp set colored with Copic markers. Colorado Craft Company is offering free US Shipping and $6.95 OFF International Shipping today so here’s your chance to get a break on shipping costs. Check out the full release and supplies for today’s project below.
I stamped the image from the Anita Jeram Eat More Cake stamp set on X-Press It Blending Card using Hero Arts Intense Black ink. You might have noticed that I selected colors that were close to those in the artist’s illustration. It’s been awhile since I’ve done any coloring so I tend to rely on the illustration when I’m just starting back. This way, I can concentrate on coloring rather than color selection.
The candles are not part of the cake stamp, but are included in the set so I created a mask for the top of the cake using Mint 4″ Repositionable Tape so that I could stamp the candles in place. Once the coloring was complete, I added clear Wink of Stella over the flames, cake decorations, and blue icing to add some subtle sparkle. Afterwards, I stamped the sentiment using Versafine ink.
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HEY FRIENDS! I’m back today with another project featuring stamps from the Confection Collection release by Colorado Craft Company. Here I’m featuring the Baking Background and Piece of Cake stamp sets along with a sentiment from the Piece of Cake stamp set. Colorado Craft Company is offering free US Shipping and $6.95 OFF International Shipping today so here’s your chance to get a break on shipping costs. Check out the full release and supplies for today’s project below.
For the background, I cut 0.75″ x 4.25″ strips from various colors of cardstock (I have the assorted colors pack of Spellbinders Essential Cardstock). Next I laid out the strips in my Misti as shown on the card front and stamped them using the Baking Background stamp using Versamark ink. I had intended embossing the images with clear embossing powder, but my ink pad must have been too dry and the powder wouldn’t stick. But I was happy with the resulting tone on tone images. I glued them to a piece of white cardstock as shown and then trimmed the panel to 4″ x 5.25″. I stamped the sentiment from the Eat More Cake stamp set using Versafine ink.
I stamped the squirrel and cake slice from the Piece of Cake stamp set on a piece of Hammermill cardstock. I colored the images with Copic markers (see list below) and trimmed the images with the Piece of Cake coordinating dies. I assembled the layers and shown and added some confetti from Studio Katia.
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HEY FRIENDS! I’m back today with a project featuring the new Confection Collection release by Colorado Craft Company featuring birthday and related baking images by Kris Lauren. I did some tricky (but fun) merging of two stamp sets – Piece of Cake and Eat More Cake. When I saw these squirrels, I knew that I had to create a cake assembly line! Included below are the details for the blog hop and giveaways so be sure you stick around to the end of the post!
I don’t merge and mask images very often because it requires more patience than I generally possess, but I could see this card in my mind and masking was the only way to make it work. First, I stamped the center squirrel using Hero Arts Intense Black ink. I masked the center squirrel and stamped the cake and the squirrel on the left. Next, I masked off the area for the grass and blended it with Simon Says Stamp Positively Saturated Ink in Sprout. I used the MFT Stamps cloud stencil with Positively Saturated Ink in Tidepool to create the clouds. Then, I stamped the sentiment using Versafine and colored all the images with Copics (see list below). The squirrel in the foreground was much easier since I could use the Piece of Cake coordinating dies. Finally, I assembled all the layers as shown.
Giveaways
Colorado Craft Company (3C) is doing two giveaways!You can enter to win as many times as you wish. Entries will end on July 2nd at Midnight (ET). Winners will be announced on July 3rd on the 3C Blog. Giveaway 1:3C will be giving away one clear stamp set per designer to a lucky winner drawn from all the comments left on our social media hangouts. Leave a comment, follow and like! Winners are chosen randomly. Giveaway 2:3C will also give away be giving away the entire release to one randomly chosen winner that has placed an order using your favorite designer’s affiliate links (HERE’S MINE!). When you visit their blogs you can then hit their links to the 3C shop to be entered.
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HEY FRIENDS! I’m back today with the new Adventures with Friends release from Colorado Craft Company. This release features images by Kris Lauren. As you can see from the banner, this release includes lots of cute animals, but I was drawn to the daisy stamps, so here’s a quick card that I put together that requires no coloring at all! Included below are the details for the blog hop and giveaways so be sure you stick around to the end of the post!
I’m not sure why I labeled this coloring notes because there’s no coloring! To start, I created an A2 top folding cardbase from Neenah Solar White cardstock. Next, I trimmed a piece of Hammermill Smooth Cardstock to 4″ x 5.25″ using the Nesting Rectangle Infinity Dies from Hero Arts. I masked the right side of the panel, covering approximately 1.75″ with Mint Tape. I stamped the Daisy Background stamp on the left side of the panel using Versafine Ink. I removed the mask and glued a narrow piece of Licorice cardstock to cover the transition between the two areas. On the right side, I stamped the sentiment from the Wild and Free stamp set using Versafine Ink. Once the ink was dry, I assembled the layers as shown.
Giveaways
Colorado Craft Company (3C) is doing two giveaways!You can enter to win as many times as you wish. Entries will end on April 30th at Midnight (ET). Winners will be announced on May 2nd on the 3C Blog. Giveaway 1:3C will be giving away one clear stamp set per designer to a lucky winner drawn from all the comments left on our social media hangouts. Leave a comment, follow and like! Winners are chosen randomly. Giveaway 2:3C will also give away be giving away the entire release to one randomly chosen winner that has placed an order using your favorite designer’s affiliate links (HERE’S MINE!). When you visit their blogs you can then hit their links to the 3C shop to be entered.
Blog Hop
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HEY FRIENDS! Today I have projects featuring the new Winter Holiday release by Colorado Craft Company. This release includes stamp sets from both Anita Jeram and Kris Lauren. So get ready for a while lot of cuteness! Be sure to read to the end for the blog hop links and information on the giveaways from Colorado Craft Company.
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This was my favorite image from this release. I loved that the cat bought a fish and net as presents and the mouse had mouse-sized presents (but of course!). The colors for this image and the next are very similar to the one used by Anita Jeram (see the image on the back of the packaging). When I’m short on time and stuck on a color scheme, I sometimes translate the artist’s coloring into Copics, adding some variations.
Like the last image, I used colors similar to those supplied by the artist on the packaging. I don’t usually think to add details like stripes to the stockings so I made a point of doing it here.
Giveaways & Blog Hop
Colorado Craft Company is doing two giveaways! You can enter to win as many times as you wish. Entries will end on December 3rd at Midnight (ET). Winners will be announced on December 5th on the 3C Blog. GIVAWAYS NOW CLOSED. Giveaway 1: All designers will be giving away one clear stamp set to a lucky winner drawn from all the comments left on our social media hangouts. Leave a comment, follow and like! Giveaway 2: 3C will also give away be giving away a complete bundle of EITHER the Anita Jeram or Kris Lauren release (your choice) to one randomly chosen winner that has placed an order using your favorite designer’s affiliate links (HERE’S MINE!). When you visit their blogs you can then hit their links to the 3C shop to be entered.
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