Blog post for Picket Fence Studios

 I have a blog post up at Picket Fence Studios today - here's a sneak peek!

And I have a video up on the Picket Fence Studios YouTube channel, too!

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Texture for A Blog Named Hero

 The newest challenge at A Blog Named Hero is "Texture". My favourite way to add texture is to use Paper Glaze from Picket Fence Studios, so I went with an ombre look. 

I used the Glorious Petal Stencil from Hero Arts, along with the Big Hugs Stamp & Cut set.

 A Blog Named Hero has recently moved to Instagram! If you want to enter our challenge, post your card to Instagram, tag @ablognamedhero and use the hashtag #abnhOctoberChallenge  

 

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Instagram hop for Picket Fence Studios and Waffle Flower!

 There's a special hop going on today over at Instagram - make sure you go visit, hop along and leave a comment for your chance to win! 

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OCC Day 4

It's day 4 of the current Online Card Class. I used Jennifer's idea of scrunching up some cardstock to give it some texture. I added some Perfect Pearls spray to the pink and green pieces behind the J and Y in the die cut window, as well as some Paper Glitz mixed with water flicked onto the green and pink cardstock. I added some texture to the pink and green panels in the background with an embossing folder.

 

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Ombre stenciling

 Just popping by with a card I made using some products from Picket Fence Studios

 An extra post, you say? Well, there's 20% off the ENTIRE SHOP at Picket Fence this weekend! 

Make sure you use the promo code "PRESIDENTS" when you shop!

Thanks for visiting, and happy shopping! :)

Release day at Picket Fence Studio

 It's release day at Picket Fence Studios! There's new stamps and dies, but you know I have a soft spot for stencils, and I've used stencils on every card I'm sharing today!

This card uses the Centre Flower stencil, with the "you are the best" word die.

 

This card makes a feature of the Thank you word die, with  stencil in the background. I finished with a sentiment white embossed onto black cardstock. 

 

 

This elegant card uses the Slim Line centre flower stencil, along with a sentiment from the Fancy congratulations set (a new favourite of mine, along with all of the other Fancy Sentiments sets) - it also comes with matching dies, which are a game changer! I also used one of the new Paper Glazes from last month's release - I paired it with two older paper glaze colours to get an ombre look across the card.

 My mum thinks this card looks like a mask. I wasn't particularly going for that look, but if Karma could kick Covid in the teeth, that would be nice!

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Vellum flowers over alcohol ink

 Today, I'm sharing a card for Picket Fence Studios.

 I used the new stamp set, Que Sera Sera, and I stamped and white embossed the glowers onto some vellum. I arranged them over an alcohol ink background, and added a white embossed sentiment on a scrap of peach coloured cardstock.

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Alcohol ink kaleidoscope for Picket Fence Studios

 I have a blog post up on the Picket Fence Studios blog today - here's a sneak peek: 

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Case me a Christmas Card with Kimberly Wiener

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2020 - a slight variation on my annual Challenge me a Christmas Card blog series!

From October to December, I will link to a series of guest cardmakers on my blog. I will CASE one of their cards, and they will CASE one of mine! CASE stands for Copy And Share Everything - but it's not about just copying a card. It's about getting inspiration from cardmaking friends, but making a new card that is our own. And, of course, the card we each make has to be a Christmas card!

Today, my guest is Kimberly Wiener! I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE. 

 All of the products I used are linked below :)  

This is the card I Cased:

 Ardyth came up with a genius acronym to help you make a Case of a card without making a direct copy of it - LIMES. I am going to be using this acronym for all my Cases from now on:

List: Cake with pink flowers, pale blue ink-blended background, white floral diecuts, black stamped sentiment

Include: black sentiment, white die cuts, pink flower, blue ink-blended background

Modify: much larger pink flower, snowflake die cuts

Exclude: cake, floral die cuts

Spin: Christmas card!  

 

 Kimberly has also Cased one of my card - you can check hers out HERE!

 

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Hobbies and Pastimes Video Hop

Today, I am a part of a video hop with the theme "Hobbies and Pastimes".

You'll have to watch the video to see how I made this card, and make sure you visit my YouTube channel, because that's where you will find the next stop on the hop. The list of products I used is below.

Here's my video!

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Red Roses for Picket Fence Studio

I have a post up on the Picket Fence Studios blog today - here's a sneak peek: 

Did you know?

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MISTI Collaboration hop with Picket Fence Studios

Today, I'm hopping with the design team from Picket Fence Studios - we're collaborating with My Sweet Petunia to make cards using the MISTI!

We will choose winners of a $50 gift certificate to My Sweet Petunia, and a $50 gift certificate to Picket Fence Studios from all of the comments on the hop.

I used the Botan Peony stamp for this card - I stamped it in a pale colour onto watercolour paper, then did some ink smooshing with Hero Arts shadow inks and very simple copic colouring over the top. I then put the panel back into my MISTI and stamped over the image with Versamark ink and added white embossing powder. I heated the embossing powder, but then stamped again to add a 2nd layer of embossing powder.

I liked this card so much, I decided to make another one in a different colour scheme - and I made a video to show you how I did it!

I used a different colour scheme, and I also used a different sentiment - this one is from Early Tulip Bouquet from Picket Fence Studios.

 For my 3rd card, I used a technique that I saw a few years ago from Kelly Latevola.

I cut a white panel to 5.5 x 4.25 inches, and cut another panel half the size. I used temporary adhesive to adhere the smaller panel in the middle of the larger panel, and stamped the Wild Rose Bouquet stamp onto both using my MISTI. This left a bit of a halo around the smaller panel, so I removed the smaller panel and re-stamped the image onto the larger panel - easy to do with the MISTI! I coloured the top panel with a rainbow of Copic markers, and the lower panel in greyscale. I matted the smaller panel onto a piece of Hero Arts black cardstock, lined it up to match the bottom panel perfectly, and added a white embossed sentiment on black cardstock. I finished by adding some white gel pen over the flower stamens.

The next stop on the hop is Karen Reategui, and below is the complete list of stops on the hop. Don't forget to comment along the way for a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from My Sweet Petunia or Picket Fence Studios! Get in quick, though - the winner will be announced on the Picket Fence Studios blog on June 2nd!

Picket Fence Studios 

Judy Rozema 

Becky Roberts

Sara Sherlock 

Sandi MacIver 

Lisa Henke 

Angela Bode 

Michelle Lupton

Karen Reategui 

Erica A B 

Susie Moore 

Channin Pelletier

Ilina Crouse 

Ceal Pritchett 

Lydia Fiedler

My Sweet Petunia

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