Seasons Givings Blog Hop

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pattykJanuary 1, 2019 at 6:33 PM

HAPPY NEW YEAR --great card--- Cleaning my craft room is a must do millierose651@aol.com

GIVEAWAY CLOSED!!!!    Patty - I will have your package in the mail to you!!!!   Thank you for all your inspiration of what you are looking forward to this new year!   Bless you all!  

I am so happy this year to be participating in the Seasons Givings Blog Hop.   This hop was put together 7 years ago by Latisha Yoast as a way of saying thank you to all the blog readers who take the time to read our posts, comment or follow along in our adventures in the paper crafting community!   This is a HUGE hop and each stop will be hosting a give away!  

So THANK YOU EVERYONE!   I really appreciate the sweet comments, the time you take to read my posts and visit with me! I am so thankful that I am part of this wonderful community of crafters and companies that support and love one another.   

I have put together a prize package to give away of dies and stamps that I hope the winner will enjoy receiving!   All you need to do to enter is to comment below and tell me what is one thing that you are looking forward to in the new year!   

Before you leave and move on to the next stop on the hop, I would love to share with you a card that I made with a stamp set that I just got during the Black Friday sales!   I loved this stamp set called Stay Cool from Neat & Tangled.   The little eskimo's stole my heart and I just had to have this set.    

I started off by ink blending a sky background with some of my favorite Reverse Confetti inks: Iced Aqua, Lagoon and Midnight.    I love Reverse Confetti inks, they are so bright and blend so easy.   I used the new life changing blending brushes that I got from Picket Fences Studios.   

  

I set the background aside to dry while I stamped the images from Stay Cool and added another image from Get Yeti (mountains) to create my scene.    I colored my images with my Copics.   

It is hard to see in the photos but I added so much sparkle to the fur trim on the hats, the coats, the mountains, the fish and penguin with my Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle pen.   I also added some additional details with a Sakura White Gel pen.    My sentiment was white heat embossed onto the inked panel.   

I adhered some of the images directly down to the panel and others were popped up with some foam tape.    I love making scene cards!   I usually stamp out all the images and then decide how I will use them.  I also stamp a few extra images for the future and store with the stamp set. 

Ok... for the giveaway to one commenter below - there are three stamp sets and four dies that I would love to share with the winner!   Please enter your comment below on what you are looking forward to in the new year and comment by 11 pm EST on January 5th!    I will draw a winner on January 6th and share the winner once selected on this blog post after the 6th.   If you are selected, please contact me by email (triciabarber@live.com) by January 11th!  

Here is the full hop list for you to hop along!   Thank you again for your support!   If you are new to my blog, you can find me here each week and follow by email, or follow me on Instagram or Pinterest! 

Happy New Year!  

Full Blog Hop List: 

Lawn Fawn
Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine

Hero Arts

My Favorite Things
Reverse Confetti
My Sweet Petunia

Picket Fence Stamps
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Ink Blot Shop
Indigo Jade Art
Sunny Studio Stamps
Paper House Productions
Kraftin Kimmie Stamps
The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store
Newton's Nook Designs
Kelly Klapstein

Latisha Yoast

Lydia Fiedler
Lori Craig
Dina Kowal

Nichol Spohr
Chari Moss

Jenn Shurkus

Vera Yates

Ashley Newell
Beth Pingry
Giovana Smith
Dana Joy
Heather Hoffman
Margie Higuchi
Mindy Eggen
Julie Tilman
Cindy Lawrence
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Kelly Latevola
Emily Midgett
Ilina Crouse
Emily Leiphart
Kristi Goulet
Debi Adams
Tracey McNeeley
Wanda Guess
Ashley Harris
Tracey McLennon
Janine Tinklenberg
Amy Rysavy
Caly Person
Marcie Sharp
Mary-Ann Coulter Maldonado
Amy Tsuruta
Tricia Barber - You are Here!
Shemaine Smith
Christine Meyer
Lisa Henke
Shellye McDaniel
Kathy Schweinfurth
Yvonne Van Der Grijp
Lynette Kaufmann
Laura Williams
Dana Tatar
Cheiron Brandon
Patti Gilliam
Gracie Chavez
Carisa Zglobicki
Debbie Seyer
Mariana Grigsby
Michelle Woerner
Deborah Saaranen
Lisa Stein
Ceal Pritchett

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Neat and Tangled - Card for the Heart Card Drive

First I want to thank 7 Kids Craft Store for my prize package!    I recently won some of the items from the most recent Neat and Tangled release and I received my prize this past Friday and inked them up right away.  

I was getting a packet ready for shipping for the Cards from the Heart Card Drive and these stamps came in real handy.   If you have not heard about Cards from the Heart Card Drive, you can read about it hear.   But you better act quick if you want to send some in, Winter needs them by 1/31!

I used the new Beavers Eh stamp and die set along with the new Nesting Hexagon Stencil.    I had fun coloring these images!    Some of my sentiments were from other Neat and Tangled sets, My Favorite Nut and Lumber Jack Love.   I shared image that I colored up on my instagram account using the Koalifications    Follow me to see a picture of it!  

Here are some close up's of those adorable beavers!  I used Copic Markers to color them:  E30, E31, E34 and E35.   The darker Beaver I used E37, E35 and E34.  For the bellies, I used E50 and E51, I added a little R11 to make them pink.   

Here is a link for the 7 Kids Craft Store - Thank you Kelly for the Prize!!!   

Here is a link for the Cards from the Heart Card Drive.   

Thanks for stopping by!!! 

Stamptember - Hello Pumpkin

I finally got to ink up this stamp set that I got back in Simon Says Stamptember.    I loved this collaboration set from Neat and Tangled.   Fall is almost over and I had not inked it up!    I am joining in the challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Furry Friends.  

I stamped and colored my images with Copic Markers.   I think I stamped every image in the set and almost used every single one of them for the card :-)

I created a scene using some Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Fall paper and inked around the edges.   I die cut a frame using the My Favorite Things Single Stitched Line Oval frames using SU Early Espresso cardstock.    I then cut another oval frame from Primitive White card stock and some Kraft. I inked with Tumbled Glass on the Primitive white and inked the edges of the Kraft and stamped my sentiment.   

I then added my images flat to the card and added some clear Pico Embellisher to the pumpkin and apple.   

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!    

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Furry Friends 

Neat and Tangled - My Favorite Nut - Simon Wednesday Challenge

This week it's all about love.... the Simon Wednesday Challenge that is!   This week's theme is the color of love.   So I used my Neat and Tangled My Favorite Nut stamp set and Simon Says Falling Hearts stencil to create a Valentine Card.   I used Distress Inks and applied thru the stencil and cut the panel down to 3 3/4 by 5 inches.     I created a small window for a mini shaker and add some Martha Stewart heart glittered hearts.  

Simon Says The Color of Love 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Neat and Tangled - My Favorite Nut

Hey there!    I am sharing a card that I made using the Neat and Tangled My Favorite Nut stamp set.   I was inspired by this card made by Debby Hughes from LimeDoodleDesigns. 

Instead of watercolor background, I ink blended a light inking of Broken China Distress ink with a stencil to create a very faint hint of color.   It is more notice in real life.    The images were colored with Copic markers.   The panel was placed on a MFT Grout Grey card base.    

 I added some Sparkling clear sequins and a felt heart (inspired by her card) and a twine bow. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Neat and Tangled - Lumberjack Love & Into the Woods

Here are some other cards that I made for the Cards from the Heart Card Drive.   Find out more here.   Each year Winter runs a card drive collecting Valentine Cards to deliver to children in the hospital on Valentine's Day.   Last year she collected 4707 cards delivered to 17 hospitals and 2 foster homes.  If you are a card maker, hop over to see the details and join in.  

I made simple watercolored panels with the two stamps sets and colored them with my Zig Clean Color Markers.    The panels were popped up on some Kraft card stock.  

Thanks for stopping by! 

I am adding these cards to the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes!

Neat and Tangled - Beary Merry

I made some Christmas tags using the Neat and Tangled stamp set called Beary Merry.    This is a really cute set and the artist that designed it had a similar digital image that she did last year that I just loved.   I am not really into digital stamps person.   I have bought a few but much rather stamp them out then print them out.    I stamped the bear and the accessories out on Canson watercolor paper and then watercolored them with my Gansai Tambi watercolors.     I have not done this in a long time and really have never used these watercolors to color images.  Usually I reach for my Distress inks but the Gansai are more pigmented color.   I varied the color of the bear using the same paint color just by how much water I added to the pigment.   Once they were colored, I used the dies for the images to cut them all out.    This particular die has cut lines for the hands which allows you to tuck the little image into.

I ended up making ten tags total.    I used two different backgrounds.   For one,  I die cut the largest tag using the MFT Pierced tag stax.   For one, I used Kraft card stock and Hero Arts White Unicorn pigment ink and a MFT Snowfall background stamp.    For the other tags, I used MFT Jelly Bean Green card stock and stamped with the MFT Gingham Background stamp.     The Gingham background is one of my favorite stamps to use, especially this Christmas.   I used it for card and tag bases.    

I stamped the sentiment on a snowball cut with Stitched Basic Edges on Smooth White card stock.   Details were added to the images with my Christmas Red Stickles and Prisma color pencil to add detail to the scarf.     A simple to and from was stamped on the back from a Mama Elephant Stamp set called Confetti.    

I hope you enjoy!  

Thanks for stopping by! 

I am adding this card to the Simon Says Wednesday Stamp Challenge - Gift It 

I'm Fawned of you

Here is a card that I made with a super cute stamp set from Neat and Tangled called Lumbarjack Love.   I created a mountainy scene with several dies from My Favorite Things and Mama Elephant.

Stamps: Neat and Tangled Lumberjack Love, MFT Linen Background, Swiss Dots Background

Inks: MFT Black licorice Hybrid, Jelly Bean Green and SSS Sea Glass, Versamark

Papers: MFT Jelly Bean Green, Grout Grey, Smooth White, Sno Cone, Red Hot, PI Kraft, SU Basic Black

Tools: ME Snow Capped Mountains, MFT Campy Trees, Blueprints 13 & 2, Hero Arts White embossing powder, Brother Scan and Cut 2

Thanks for stopping by!  

I am linking this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Stamp Challenge - Anything goes!