Egg-traordinary

 

Pink & Main's February Release has been egg-traordinary! These fabulous items will help you create amazing spring and Easter projects!

For my card, I first created a fun background using the Layered Eggs Stencils to blend inks with Ergonomic Blending Brushes. This pretty sentiment and floral images are from the wonderful Easter Joy stamp set with a coordinating die set. To finish, I added a few Glitter Dots.
 

 

Spring is Coming!

I'm so ready for Spring!  The new Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frame collection creates gorgeous Spring flowers in a snap!  Today I'm sharing two ways to uses these fabulous goodies!

For my first card:

 

1)  I stamped the Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frame floral stamp using Gina K. Designs Barely There Amalgam Ink directly onto a card base.

 

2)  To color the flowers, I used the Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frames Stencils.  The set includes 6 coordinating stencils created to easily ink blend parts of the stamped images separately and in different colors.  I used the following colors of Distress Oxide Ink Pads:  Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron and Ground Espresso.

 

3)  On black cardstock, I gold embossed one sentiment and cut it out using the coordinating Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frames Dies and popped it up in the center of the card.  The other sentiment is stamped directly onto the card.

 

4)  To finish, I added a few Pinkfresh Studio Bubblegum Jewels.

 

 

For my next card, I utilized more of the coordinating Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frames Dies.

 

1)  On white cardstock, I stamped the Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frame floral stamp using Honey Bee Stamps Intense Black Ink Pad. 

 

2)  To color the flowers, I again used the Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frames Stencils with the following Distress Oxide Ink Pad colors: Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed, Abandoned Coral, Ground Espresso and Mowed Lawn.

 

3)  The floral image was then die cut using the outer and inner frame dies from the Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frames Dies.

 

4)  A piece of pattern paper - large enough to be seen through the center opening -  was attached to the back of the floral frame colored image.

 

5)  The floral frame colored image was then attached to a black cardstock layer and adhered to the cardbase.

 

6)  I stamped one image onto red cardstock then cut it out using the coordinating Honey Bee Stamps Friendship Frames Dies and popped it up in the center of the card.  The other sentiment is stamped directly onto the card.

 

7)  To finish, I added a few Pinkfresh Studio Espresso Jewels.

 

Happy New Year!

 

 

We'll be ringing in a new year in a few weeks...get ready to party! Pink & Main's recent release is packed with lots of goodies that will definitely have you celebrating!

For my card, I first layered some gold glitter cardstock from the Metallics Glitter Paper Pad. I then cut Ice Rink cardstock with one of the Stitched Rectangle Set 1 dies. After heat embossing the sentiment from the Happy New Year stamp set with Embossing/Watermark Ink Pad and Golden Palace Embossing Powder, I blended the new Barbershop Premium Dye Ink with an Ergonomic Blending Brush then splattered some white ink. I add these darling images from the Party Time stamp set with coordinating dies that I've Copic colored. To finish, I placed a bit of Glitter Enamel Dots.

 

Tis The Season

 

Tis The Season to begin creating Christmas/Holiday Season projects!! I LOVE making Christmas cards and the newest release from Pink & Main includes amazing goodies to help you create THE MOST adorable cards, tags, gifts and more!

For my first card, I cut red cardstock from a Stitched Slim Line Rectangle die and used the Blizzard Stencil and Ergonomic Blending Brush with white ink to create the background. How adorable are these new Christmas Squares?!! I've used the photo frame die from the new Mini Frames Dies set and put the stamped/colored images inside. It's a bit hard to see, but I used Ice Rink super Fine Glitter on Santa's beard/trim and on the elves hats. For the sentiment, I used the Christmas Greetings Dies. So fun!

For my next card, I first cut white cardstock with one of the Stitched Rectangle Set 1 dies. Then I heat embossed the new Christmas Streamers image first applying Anti-Static Powder then using Embossing & Watermark Ink Pad and the new Sterling Embossing Powder. To complete the background, I blended different blues and purple Distress Oxide inks with Ergonomic Blending Brushes then lightly rubbed off excess ink on the embossed images with a paper towel.

To finish, I added the diecut sentiment using the Christmas Greetings Dies.