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Saturday, August 15, 2015

pumpkin shaker

today i'm sharing my last halloween card created with the new essentials by ellen got candy? stamps and dies. i love these sets and i'm sure there will be more halloween cards in my future, after all it is only august, but next week, fall!

i created this non-traditional round shaker card with the help of two different size circle from the lawn fawn circle stackables die set to create rings.

to create the shaker pocket, i cut apart a 9-pocket page and filled it with sequins and small star die cuts from the essentials by ellen home & hearth die cut.

to secure my shaker pocket i used a permanent marker to draw a line where i should stitch, i stitched the top and then cut off the excess.

i sandwiched my shaker pocket between the two rings i die cut. and then i stamped and die cut a pumpkin from the got candy set? and a sentiment. i watercolored the pumpkin with spiced marmalade distress ink. and i added a few embossed stars to the front with versamark and detail white powder.

i'm guessing i'll have to write a message on the back of the ring, it will be short but it will be fun to send!

thanks for stopping by!

xo,
carly
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

today...

...i'm over in the classroom at ellen hutson llc for #throwbackthursdays. please stop by and say hi.
xo,
carly


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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

little boo

i have another halloween card to share today and i'm getting pretty excited for halloween (or maybe its just the halloween candy).


i started with a 3.5 x 5 card cut from solar white and i added the little b black white dot washi tape to the binding.

next i cut a piece of julie's smooth bristol to 3 x 5. i'm totally late to the party but i have just discovered julie's smooth bristol for watercoloring and i'm in love! it blends so easily and the smooth surface is so nice! so i used my piece of fabulous julie's smooth bristol with dusty concord & twisted citron distress ink and i watercolored a messy background in the corner.

while my background was drying, i stamped my ghost from the essentials by ellen got candy? set and die cut it. i also die cut the speech bubble from black cardstock, stamped "boo" in versamark and embossed with detail white. i gave my little ghost a tiny bit of watercolor detail with a clean color real brush light blue pen. 

i adhered my background to my card. and then i added my die cuts to my card with foam adhesive and finished with a few black rhinestones.


thanks for stopping by!

xo,
carly
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Sunday, August 9, 2015

distress ink pumpkins

have you seen the 2015 holiday release from ellen hutson llc and julie ebersole? i know i'm more than a little biased, i've admitted it before, but i've been so excited for this release to come out! i love it to pieces! i've been playing and i thought i'd start sharing some of my cards in holiday order, halloween first.


i started with a 3.5 x 5 card cut from ranger watercolor paper. to create the messy scalloped background, i used a stencil from the studio calico brighton pier set (an oldie but a goodie). i tacked the stencil down with washi tape and used a zig clean color real brush marker in cool gray to color in the lines of the stencil. i did it quick and messy, for a sketched look.


to create my pumpkins, i applied squeezed lemonade and spiced marmalade distress inks to solar white cardstock with a ink blending tool. when i was happy with the color, i added a few drops of water and i let it all dry for a few minutes.

next i prepped the surface with the powder tool for embossing. i usually skip this step but i find with so much ink already on the paper, its nearly impossible to get clean embossing without powdering first. then i stamped my pumpkins and heat set.

i die cut my pumpkins and adhered them to my card, one flat and one 3d mounted. i stamped some black stars and "happy halloween" in versafine. and i finished with a few black rhinestones and a little bit of glossy accents on the pumpkins stems.


thanks for stopping by!

xo,
carly
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Sunday, August 2, 2015

faceted gem

i love the essentials by ellen clear stamps, hello gorgeous set and i have been using it to practice my no-line watercoloring because someday i want to be as good as alice wertz, i'm going to need sooooo much practice and maybe a genie with magic wishes for that because she is amazing! but anyway today i thought i would just practice some simple watercoloring...

 i'm such a product oriented kinda girl, i couldn't just watercolor, i had to make something. and after 5 tries, because i guess i need to practice my simple watercoloring too, i finally ended up with this little card. 

so besides learning i need more practice or maybe just more crafty time (wink), i also learned i can emboss with my versafine inks. i knew they were pigment inks but they are meant to be fast drying so i've never tried it before. i was stamping and watercoloring without embossing but i wasn't liking the messy look but of course i was really committed to the smokey gray color (i'm stubborn and honestly now that it's done, it's kinda washed out). so anyways, i stamped in the smokey gray versafine and quickly applied some super fine clear embossing powder and heat set. i'm sure i'm the last person to know this but i thought i'd share in case i'm just the second to last person and there's one more of you out there.


thanks for stopping by!

xo,
carly
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