Countdown to Confetti - Christmas Cheer

Reverse Confetti is kicking off its November release countdown today. The November release has 6 new stamp sets, ten Confetti Cuts dies, and a super fun new paper pad. 

All of the new products will be available in the Reverse Confetti store

at midnight ET November 8.

Be sure to visit the Reverse Confetti blog for links to all the designers posting peeks today. Leave comments on each designer's blog for a chance to win a $15 Reverse Confetti gift certificate. Also, head over to the Reverse Confetti Facebook page for an additional giveaway. 

Today's featured stamp sets are: Christmas Cheer, Cool Friends, and Sweet Holiday. You're going to love these darling winter-themed sets!

Today I'm sharing Christmas Cheer, with these cute-as-can-be elves making their special delivery. You'll also see another new product here, Scalloped Squares Confetti Cuts. I love incorporating frames into my designs, so I can see this set becoming a go-to very quickly!

I did some green ink blending on the background panel, splattered with white and a darker green, then arranged my Christmas Cheer scene around a Scalloped Square frame. The images are all colored with Copics, and the hat is accented with a white gel pen. 

Visit the Reverse Confetti blog for lots more Christmas Cheer, Cool Friends, and Sweet Holiday inspiration! Thanks so much for joining the Confetti Crew today!

Queen & Company Snow Globe Kit

Hi all! I'm on the Queen & Co. blog today helping to introduce the super clever Snow Globe Kit! I love that this kit includes stamps and supplies for both fall and winter cards. Today I'm sharing two fall cards.

My first card is a shaker card. Inside the globe I've stamped a tree with some fall leaves. To get the watercolor effect, I painted over the stamped images with a wet paintbrush, moving some of that ink around to blur and soften the leaves. Once the "watercoloring" was dry, I added some fine splatter. 

For shaker filler, I've used a variety of fall-colored pearlies and diamond toppings.

To finish the globe, I added the stamped base, a stamped leaf embellishment, and a Green Iridescent Bubble. (If you picked up the adorable Halloween Hoopla kit, you might have a few of these left over!)

For balance, I added a pair of stamped leaves, cord, and another Green Iridescent Bubble to the the globe.

Supplies: Snow Globe Kit, Green Iridescent Bubbles, Foam Front Die - Circle

Be sure to save those big foam circles you pop out to create your shakers. They work great on cards too!

Here I've stamped a similar fall tree, more colors and a different leaf this time, but same watercolor effect and same splatter. You can use the Foam Front Die - Circle to cut a perfectly sized circle for that leftover foam.

I added a sentiment by mixing a "hello" die-cut and the word "autumn" that I cut out of a piece of patterned paper. The "hello" die I used here is part of the Heart Throb Kit.

Supplies: Snow Globe Kit, Foam Front Die - Circle, Heart Throb Kit

So glad you stopped by!

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For A Special Friend - October SFYTT

Hey there, just stopping by today to share my take on this month's Sketch For You To Try from Reverse Confetti. We'd love to have you play along! Just link up your entry by noon CST on Sunday, October 29. All the details and the link-up are posted HERE on the Reverse Confetti blog.

Here's our October sketch:

I started with some of the adorable images from Nuts About You, die-cut them with the coordinating Nuts About You Confetti Cuts dies, and colored with Copics. I arranged the images onto a pair of tags that I cut with the Tag Duo Confetti Cuts. For the horizontal strip element the sketch (the taupe/gray rectangle), I tucked in two branches (also from Nuts About You).

For the larger horizontal band, I opted to give a hint of a scene with the grassy slope die that's included in the Nuts About You Confetti Cuts set. The final touches were some loops of black and white baker's twine through the tags and a pair of subtle white-on-white clouds (die-cut with the Sun 'N Clouds Confetti Cuts die set). 

Stamps: Nuts About You

Confetti Cuts Dies: Nuts About You, Tag Duo, Sun 'N Clouds

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: Premier Polar White, Avocado

Other: black/white baker's twine, Copic markers

 

Thanks for visiting!

Queen & Co Halloween Hoopla

Hey there, a little more Queen & Co. Halloween Hoopla inspiration for you. I have absolutely loved working with all the colors, patterns, and shakers in this collection!

For my first card, I've featured the cauldron shaker shape and a background of layered patterned paper waves. When I'm mixing a lot of different papers, I try to alternate between smaller and larger patterns and between tone-on-tone patterns and more colorful patterns. The tone-on-tone patterns act as solids and give the eye a place to "rest." They often show off focal elements best as well.

I die-cut the cauldron out of dark gray and black card stock. Before filling the cauldron shaker, I added a wavy layer of green patterned paper in the background to give the effect of a potion gurgling and bubbling. Also rolling around down in that potion are various Halloween Hoopla toppings including the green eyeballs, spider webs, and purple and orange beads. Bubbling up from the potion are orange and purple Iridescent Bubbles.

I hand-stitched some steam lines coming up from the cauldron, as well as several more Iridescent Bubbles. The sentiment is stamped on a vertical strip of the graph paper pattern and accented with green and white twine.

Supplies: Halloween Hoopla, Twine Assortment

For my next card, I've combined colorful background patterns with an offset witch's hat focal point shaker element.

I filled the shaker with an assortment of purple toppings and embellished with a Purple Sparkle String bow.

I am loving the Iridescent Bubbles. They're kind of like the best of enamel dots and sequins rolled into one embellishment! Here I've used three of them to accent my stamped sentiment.


Supplies: Halloween Hoopla, Purple Sparkle String


So glad you stopped by today!

I'm on Confetti Camera!

Hello friends, please join me on the Reverse Confetti blog today for a Confetti Camera double feature with Lisa Henke!

The current Confetti Camera theme is favorite color palettes. I've been having so much fun putting together color combos with Reverse Confetti's new ink colors. I hope you'll pop over there to see my non-traditional fall pumpkin arrangement! Here's a little peek for you:

Hope you're having a great week!

Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello friends! I'm excited to be part of Altenew's 2-Day Crafty Friends Blog Hop + Giveaway. If you're already hopping with us, you'll have arrived here by way of Galina Filippenko. If not, be sure to head over to the Altenew Card Blog to begin! And when you're finished here, you'll visit Papercraft Magazines next (I'll link again at the end).

Today's hop is all about celebrating our unique community and all that it means to us! We have lots of sponsors and prizes and special offers, so stay tuned for that in a bit.

I can still remember seeing a hand-stamped card for the very first time. A friend of mine came in to the Little Gym class our kids were attending waving it around saying "I MADE this." (That was at least 15 years ago, only because the preschooler I was taking to the gym class is now 17!) I really do believe I was hooked on card making that instant. That magic never gets old! Little did I know then that the real blessing would be the online (and sometimes in-person) community that has built up around this hobby. I was shy and very slow to put myself out there in the online community. It actually took me four years to work up the courage to post a card of my own. Now I realize that every day I chose to watch instead of participate was just another day I missed out on the joy, support, and camaraderie of our community! 

I've put together two projects for today, both featuring the Fantasy Floral Die Set and the More Than Words stamp set. 

As soon as I saw the Fantasy Floral Die Set I wanted to watercolor those die-cuts! That layered effect of the flower dies is gorgeous.

 I die-cut these from watercolor paper, used used Zigs to color, and added some splatter after everything had dried.

For the background, I spritzed the watercolor paper with water, then scribbled Zigs on an acrylic block and smooshed to the watercolor paper. After I let that dry, I lightly splattered with a metallic gold mist. Last, I stamped one of the More Than Words sentiments in black.

This next card was a bit of an accident. I had stamped the beautiful Charmed image onto watercolor paper, intending to watercolor that image. But when I happened to lay the watercolored Fantasy Floral  die-cuts down on top, I ended up really liking the simple black-and-white Charmed line art as a background pattern. 

I added a strip of black and white striped paper along the right, the More Than Words sentiment, and some clear sequins to finish.

And now for some special offers, prizes, and a giveaway:

Special Offer

FREE U.S. shipping with code CRAFTY or $5 OFF international shipping with code FRIENDS at checkout. Offer valid from October 17th at 12:01 am EDT through October 19th at 11:59 pm EDT. Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other promo codes.

Prizes

Altenew is giving away a $100 Altenew prize pack to FIVE lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/magazines who are offering the following prizes:

Jennifer McGuire Ink: 1 prize pack of three Altenew stamp sets

Online Card Classes: 3 class spots

Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate

My Sweet Petunia: Mini MISTI

Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate

Pretty Pink Posh: $30 gift certificate

Simon Says Stamp: $30 gift certificate

Chameleon Pens: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon pens

Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 dual brush pens

WOW! Embossing Powder: $25 gift certificate

Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate

Freckled Fawn: $20 gift certificate

Papercraft Magazines: One copy of each of the latest issues of four magazines

Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 1-year subscription

Be sure to leave comments by Friday, October 27th, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 21 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on October 28th, 2017

Giveaway:

And last, leave a comment here on my blog by 11:59 Eastern Time on Thursday, October 26 for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Altenew. I will post the winner here on Friday, October 27. Good luck!

For more Crafty Friends inspiration, visit all the stops on the hop:

Altenew Card Blog

Jennifer McGuire

May Sukyong Park

Keeway Tsao

Svitlana Shayevich

Galina Filippenko

Amy Sheffer (you are here)

Papercraft Magazines

Taheerah Atchia

Joni Nina Andaya

Virginia Lu

Simon Says Stamp

Enza Gudor

Nina-Marie Trapani

Lilith Eeckels

Laurel Beard

Chameleon Pens

Vicky Papaioannou

Erum Tasneem

Laurie Schmidlin

Carissa Wiley

Thanks so much for visiting today, and thank you Altenew for having me!