Sweet November Stamps ~ Dancing Together Forever

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Have you checked out the latest digital release from Sweet November Stamps yet?  Make sure you check out the new "My Wee Valentines" images in the shop....

Today I'm sharing a fun card featuring the adorable "Edward and Vivian" image.... this super cute dancing couple.

I began my card by printing out my image on to Neenah 80lb White Cardstock.  Then I created a mask for my little dancing couple by sending my copy paper through my printer with a piece of masking paper.  Then I fussy cutting that image out and applying it over top of my image.

Next I masked off my sentiment at the bottom and then I stamped the plank flooring image from the "Background Builder: Simple Room" stamp set in brown ink. 

Then I masked off the flooring and created a "ray" shaped mask and then I used my Copic Air Brush System to color in my deep green wall color.  I also used the air brush system to soft the "ray" edges.

I peel off all the masks and colored in the texture on the flooring and also the dancing couple in Copic Markers.

To get the light sparkles in the background, I used my Copic Blender to make different sized dots to push that ink back into the paper to create a lighter or whiter dots.

To achieve the sparkle on her dress, I used 2 different sized tipped white gel pens and lots of dots.  I tried to put all the larger dots of white on the high points of her dress folds.

Thanks for checking out my dancing pair today!

~ Ally ~

Catherine Pooler Designs ~ Membership has it's PERKS!!!

 

The gorgeous new "LOVE & LACE" collection from Catherine Pooler Designs is almost here!  It arrives in the CP shop tomorrow at 12 noon ET for your shopping pleasure!

This collection contains all kinds of lovely things... from hearts to lace to all kinds of beautiful sentiments and cool dies!

There 3 perfectly coordinated bundles for you to pick and choose from:

• Roses & Lace Bundle: contains the Roses Are Red Stamps & Dies, Love & Lace Stamps & Dies, With Love Word Die, Roses & Lace Patterned Paper and the Venice Sequin Mix
• Yours Truly Bundle:  contains the Yours Truly Stamps & Dies, Nottingham Lace Cover Plate Die, Paper Hearts Patterned Paper and the Lisbon Sequin Mix
• Forever Extras Bundle:  contains the Forever Yours Sentiments Stamps, Diamonds Are Forever Background Stamp, Fancy Loop Die and the Around the Loop Nested Dies

Plus for all you shoppers that "I Want It All"... there's a bundle for that too! 

If you are a StampNation member then you get to SHOP TODAY at 12 noon ET!  PLUS this month, your membership has even MORE PERKS...

• EARLY ORDERING - You get to order TODAY instead of waiting until tomorrow!!!  Plus we have a FREE and fun release party!
  
• FREE STAMP SET - This month is StampNation's 12th birthday and you will receive an email with a special code to add one FREE stamp set to your cart during the month of January!
• You get a FREE StampNation exclusive Zoom Class in March!
• You can participate in our fun challenges!

Want to become a member?  

Check all out all the details HERE!

I'll be LIVE this afternoon at 2pm ET (12 noon MT) over on my Instagram page, @i_card_so_hard, where we're going to play with a few of our brand new LOVE & LACE goodies!

Hope yo see you there!

~ Ally ~

 

All products go LIVE in the CP Shop tomorrow at 9am ET unless you're a StampNation member.  Members can shop at 12 noon ET TODAY.

Sweet November Stamps ~ My Wee Valentine

Today the Sweet November Stamps team is sharing creations featuring the brand new digis from the "My Wee Valentine" collection.

Today's card features the new "My Wee Valentine: Ryan and Molly".

I chose to pair these two sweeties with the "Background Builder: Beach Hut Set" and this sweet little beach hut to sit on.

This little card is near and dear to my heart as the water has played a big part of my life with my husband.  He grew up in a family that sailed and he was a lifeguard as a teen and young adult.  We got married at the beach in Ontario and we've lived on a lake in Alberta for a series of 7 years.  We've also owned a few different boats over the years.

I had a blast creating and coloring up this little beachy scene this week!

I hope you'll join me again soon as I have 4 cards to share with you using this little Valentine's Day cuties!

See you soon!

~ Ally ~

Three Room Studio ~ Love is in the Kitchen

Happy New Year everyone!  It's time for another fun Saturday Challenge for Three Room Studio.

This week our challenge is to create a card using the following photo as your inspiration.  You can be inspired by color, shape, theme and whatever you see as inspiration in the photo...

For today's card I was inspired by the shades of pink and red plus the hearts of course!

I began my creating my background using the "Heart Ray Quarter Stencil" and 3 different colored red/pink inks.  Then I splattered with some fun sparkly silver paint.

Then I stamped one of the sweet little fairies from the "Believe in Fairies" and colored her in with Copic Markers.  I die cut her out with the coordinating die, here.

For my sentiment, I kept it super simple.  I just stamped the "Thank You" image with black ink from the "Aww Thanks" stamp set and die cut it out with the "Aww Thanks Die" set.

I popped up my little sparkly winged fairy and sentiment on the card and tada... a thank you card was born!

Now, check out my fellow Design Team member's creations...

Kerri Boucher - http://kerri-thankgodforcolors.blogspot.com OR @kerri1974mar

Susan Powell - https://creatingwithsusan.blogspot.com/ OR @creatingwithsusan  

Sheila Harper - https://lalacrafts.blogspot.com/ or @sheharper

Now it's your turn!!  Check out all the details on the post below.

 

Good luck!

 

~ Ally ~