A floral and plaid grad party (EBE May release sneak peek!)

Hi there!

Elena here with a girly take on a graduation party, using the new EBE May release stamp sets and dies. Everything you see here will be available for purchase on Sunday, so this is a fun sneak peek!

I love, love, love these new sets! The Plaid Maker set and Mondo Sakura flowers don't look like obvious choices for a graduation party, but I hope you love them together as much as I do.

I started out with a quote on my letterboard - it made me smile!

To create all of the party decor, I stamped a few sheets of plaid. Yes, a few sheets. It sounds daunting, but this set is so forgiving! I can see stamping wrapping paper with it for Christmas - eek! In the meantime, I did a classic black and white check and used it to create cupcake wrappers and little flags.

I also stamped a bunch of the large flower cluster found in Mondo Sakura. It is so gorgeous, isn't it? I put 2 of them together to top the cake,

and one, standing upright, made the perfect and most dramatic cupcake topper.

I wrapped waterbottles with the plaid paper that I stamped, and cut some of the flowers to add just a hint of them, without overwhelming the plaid.

I used the letters found in the Blockwords dies to monogram each water bottle, and placed them onto a tag included in the Parcel box die set.

Speaking of the Parcel box die, I used it to add a gift card to the front of store-bought clear favor boxes. By wrapping the clear boxes in more plaid paper, and adding more floral touches to the fronts of the Parcel boxes, I reinforced my party theme.

These favor boxes are my favorite things on the table by far!

As a last touch, I created a table sign. I wanted to include a few sentiments to show the grad how great she did! The little YAY on the cupcake flags, and GREAT JOB here are just a few easy ways to celebrate your grad!

I hope you like what I created! Thanks for stopping by!

Pinkfresh Studio florals

Hi there!

I have a few soft, floral cards featuring some of the newest Pinkfresh Studio products to share!

I used a peach-colored ink to stamp the leafy cluster image from Be You onto my card base. I did a very quick mask of the side before stamping it down again, just to make sure that it wouldn't look like stamped blocks.

Because I didn't want to cover up the beautiful card base, I kept things very clean and simple for the other elements. I die-cut a flower from Smile With Botanicals and kept it white, save the tiny bit of shading I did with an E40 copic marker.

The flower die flanks the sentiment, from Aviary. The font is so pretty!

My next card features the largest floral cluster from Fleur 1:



I stamped the image twice, die-cut and colored it before slicing into them. I cut each cluster in half, then played around with the positioning before adhering them to a white card mat. I then cut off the extra excess with my scissors.

I stamped a heartfelt greeting from Folk Tree right in the middle. I love this sentiment so much. Immediately I thought this would make a lovely mother's day card, wouldn't it?

The green gingham paper, from the Be You collection, matches the feel of the card so perfectly.

I hope you like what I've created for you today! Thanks for stopping by!

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Thanks so matcha!

Hey there!

There is an awesome giveaway going on to celebrate the fact that I hit 5K followers on instagram! Check it out!

Thanks so matcha for all of your encouragement and kind words!



I couldn't help but create a card to say it with style! I used the super cute So Matcha stamp set and matching dies to create this card.

I colored them in non-traditional, bubblegum colors instead of in traditionally-colored kimonos.

I used a patterned paper by Lawn Fawn as a ground for them to stand on, and stamped the greeting onto a banner flag by Avery Elle. The wonky stitches rectangle die is part of the same die collection as the banner flag.



Before you go, I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to all of my teams. Ellen Hutson, Lawn Fawn, Neat and Tangled, Pinkfresh Studio, and Avery Elle all very generously donated gift cards for me to offer as prizes for my instagram giveaway.

I hope you'll check it out!

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Pinkfresh Studio spring release blog hop

Hi there!

I'm joining the rest of the Pinkfresh team to celebrate the new spring release. I'm showing off Constellation, a starry set with some gorgeous sentiments:

I did some ink layering to bring dimension to that starry circle:

I popped the circle stamp into the MISTI tool, to be sure that as I inked it up numerous times, it would not shift around. I inked it up once with a medium blue ink color, and then for the second and third inkings, I tapped darker and darker blues around the edges.



I then added little dark blue dots around the edges for added texture, and also used white Nuvo drops to add extra stars in the sky.

The constellation die set includes that amazing connecting stars die. I cut it out of gold cardstock and used the tiniest foam adhesive to pop it over the night sky.



I love this encouraging sentiment!

Now, for the fun stuff:

There is a new release promotion! A free Party Animal stamp set with a $50 purchase, using the code FREEPARTYWITH50. It's valid as of now, until April 29th at 11:59pm. Fine print: for the code to be valid, your cart must total at least $50, then you would add the Party Animal stamp set. It will add 15$ to your total, which will disappear when you use the code upon checkout.

There are also prizes to be won! The grand prize is the entire new release! A winner will be picked from comments on the Pinkfresh Studio blog post. Also up for grabs: a $25 gift certificate - from among comments left on this post! Each one of the designers is giving away a $25 gift card to the Pinkfresh store - woo hoo! You have until Friday (April 27th) at 5:00pm CST to leave comments on all of the participating blogs.

The winners will be announced on Saturday morning!

Here is a full blog hop list:

Pinkfresh Studio Blog

Erum Tasneem

Zsoka Marko

Rebecca Luminarias

Julia Stainton

May Sukyong Park

Elena Roussakis

Amy Tsuruta

Isha Gupta

Lea Lawson

Evelin Tee

Speech bubbles (Lawn Fawn inspiration week)

Hay there!

I have a farm-themed birthday card to share with you today, for the last day of this month's Lawn Fawn inspiration week:

We're showing off the Speech Bubbles dies today, and I've used it with images from Hay There.

Instead of laying the speech bubbles over the gingham sky, I opted to die cut into the gingham layer and reveal a punch of black underneath. I white-heat-embossed the greetings on the black layer and framed out my scene into 2 sections.



I don't know what happened to my sad little chick in the corner. Somewhere between making the card and photographing it, the adhesive loosened and he keeled over a bit. ha. I never noticed until I was editing the photos.

I hope you like my card, and check out the LF blog this morning for even more speech bubble inspiration - click!

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Color challenge (for Ellen Hutson)

Hi there!

I have a pretty card to share today, made with goodies from the Ellen Hutson store.  I created a card using this color palette as my inspiration:

I just want to say, I am terrible with colors. I had to keep asking my daughter if the colors I was choosing were a match. At the end of it, she threw her hands up and said "good enough." ha.

You'll let me know what you think:




I used Neat and Tangled's Friendly Florals set, and fit together not only the flower clusters but some of the extra blooms to create a fullness around the cut-out (especially at the top.)

I used the new Avery Elle watercolors to paint a background on the base layer, and then used Neat and Tangled's Hello Winter to heat-emboss the greeting in the middle.



I flecked lighter and darker inks over the purple/blue watercolored background, and added white gel pen highlights to the flowers.

I hope you like my take on the color board inspiration! Thanks for stopping by!

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Butterflies for mom (Lawn Fawn inspiration week)

Hi there!

Welcome back to another day of this month's Lawn Fawn inspiration week. Today, we're showing off the Mini Pop-Up Butterflies and the Happy Happy Happy Add-On: Family stamp set. I've used both on this card:

I already gave this card to my mama for her birthday last week, but it would make a stunner of a mother's day card too!

I colored all of the butterflies in the same shades of purple, but altered the designs on each one just a bit. I love the dimension you get from the dies! I stamped the word "mom" into the opening of one of the butterflies and added a purple heart next to it.



For the background, I created a wash of color with copic markers. I used BG23, BG11 and BG10 to color around the butterflies, and then faded out the color with a colorless marker (0). I added some white enamel drops all around to fill the space and add more texture.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

♥.