October Release | Blog and Instagram Hop with Colorado Craft Company

 Welcome to the October new release blog and instagram hop from Colorado Craft Company. I'm delighted to have been invited to be a part of new product reveal as well as a fun hop. And how can a reveal be complete without a fun giveaway! :) Please read my complete post to know all the details.

Let me share what I have made using the new release, which includes Thanksgiving- and Halloween-themed stamps. I made a couple of Thankgiving cards, and a tag, with the beautiful sentiments as the focal point. I've featured the stamp set namely Savvy Sentiments ~ Gratitude Slimline

I found all the sentiments very meaningful and heart-warming; that's why I decided to make these the hero of my cards and the tag.

Card #1:

My first card is pretty quick and easy to make. I started off by a watercoloured wash over an 8 by 3 inch panel of Arches watercolor paper (100 % cotton, cold-pressed) using fall colours from Whitenights watercolour set. After letting it dry, I stamped of the sentiment using Versafine onyx black ink. Mounted the panel on a Sizzix textured pastel card stock in as a base (measuring 8.5 by 3.5 inches). This is one of those easy-to-mass-produce cards.

Card #2:

The second card features a beautiful sentiment from the same stamp set, which was gold-embossed with Ranger's embossing powder. The tiny acorns were watercoloured using Whitenights Watercolours. The background panel was made by free-hand watercolouring of some leaves and berries to give the card an autumnal feel. If you enjoy free-hand watercolouring like me, you can try any free-hand patterns such as tiny pumpkins, maple leaves, or mushrooms in the background, paired with a nice, meaningful sentiment.

Tag:

This one was a last-minute plan and I love it when last-minute plans turn out beautiful. :) I had a few tag diecuts in my stash and I decided to put one of those to good use by painting some loose hearts in fall colours and pairing it with a similarly diecut vellum tag with the gold-embossed sentiment over it. Don't you think vellum and gold look elegant together, especially when accompanied by some watercolour ;)

I hope my projects inspire you to create something quick, simple, and pretty. I would love to hear your feedback. :)

Giveaway:

Colorado Craft Company would be randomly choosing 9 winners who would be getting one stamp set each of their choice. To participate in this giveaway, please leave a comment here to win a stamp set of your choice. There are  some amazing  designers participating in this hop, and to increase your chances of winning, leave a comment on their blogs as well as instagram posts. You have until midnight mountain time, Wednesday, October 6. 

You can find me on instagram here: @eternallygreetful

Hop List:

Here's a list of the fabulous artists joining me for this hop and giveaway:

Adrienne Kennedy CCC

Bibi Cameron

Nichol Spohr

Jennifer Kotas

Daniel West

Emily Midgett

Kassi Hulet

Melissa Andrew

Donna Hitz

Amy Young

Kelly Griglione

Jasleen Kaur--------------->> you are here

Instagramers:

Joe Sysavath---------->>> Your next stop

Traci Jenkins

Chris Dayton

Check out the entire line-up of newly released stamps and dies here:

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Some cards with Colorado Craft Company-- September release

I was super happy when I received an email from the kind folks at Colorado Craft Company inviting me to create projects using their products. They loved the cards I had made previously using their stamps (you can view those HERE and HERE) and it is very generous of them to send me their entire product line of stamps and dies from the September release. I absolutely love their adorable stamps with co-ordinating dies. I'm sharing a few cards I made in the past few days using these. 

Card #1:

Card #2:

Card #3:

Supplies used:

Clean and Simple Card with MFT

 Hello bloggers,

I'm hoping you are are doing well.

It's been long since I participated in any card making challenges owing to time constraints. But this one challenge is something that I love to participate every year. Last night, I made a card for participating in  2021 Card Design Superstar Contest hosted by My Favorite Things for the Clean and Simple Genius category. 

I started by diecutting a watercolour paper panel using the LOVE die from MFT Die-namics. I stamped those cute pigs from BB Hog Heaven stamp set using Spun sugar distress ink. I did no-line watercolouring using Tim Holtz distess inks (coral pink, spun sugar). Adding a third piggie peeking through the "O" window was a last minute idea, just before taping down the panel over the card base. I love the idea of that cute piggy peeking out ;) After adjusting the panel and taping it down over a 6 by 6 inch card base, I stacked a few "LOVE" diecuts and added those to their respective negative spaces, except "O." Finally, added the sentiment from MFT- Hug in a Mug Stamp set--- I like how the sentiment feels complete-- "Love makes things better" :)

Thank you for stopping by. 

Autumn-themed Slimline Card with MFT

 Hello friends!

I've always wanted to try a slimline card but never got around to actually making one, until yesterday. This month's MFT Slimline Card Challenge is about making fall-themed cards and that gave me a chance to ink one of my favorite stamp sets-- MFT Harvest Mouse. 

Since I'm neck-deep into watercolouring these days (and I'm absolutely enjoying it), I decided to go for a an autumnal watercoloured scenery paired with no-line colouring of the cute images. 

Supplies:

Paper for card panel: Arches cold-pressed, 100% cotton

Paper for card base: Generic

Watercolours used for the background landscape scenery: Whitenights watercolours

Colours for images: Zig brush pens, distress inks

Stamps: MFT Harvest Mouse

Envelope: Handmade from textured paper from Sizzix Pastels collection

I hope you like my first slimline card. Thank you for stopping by.

Linking this one to:

MFT Slimline Challenge -- Feeling Fall

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Few Cards using Colorado Craft Company Stamps

 Hello friends!

Last year, I ordered a few stamps from Colorado Craft Company. I absolutely love their stamps sets, especially the ones illustrated by Anita Jeram and also the ones from the Big and Bold stamp set series. In my previous post, I used Big & Bold~Missing You Peony stamp set. You may view the card here. 

Today, I'm sharing three more cards I made using CCC's Anita Jeram- Birthday Wishing and Anita Jeram--Better Together.

Card #1

I stamped the images using Versafine Onyx black ink and coloured these using White Nights watercolours. The background over the card base was also made using the same watercolours and a Number 0 brush. 

Card #2

For card #2 as well, I used Whitenights watercolours. I wanted a happy, bright background to go with the happy sentiment and the clean focal image; therefore, I decided to paint some yellow-coloured stripes using the same watercolours.

Card #3

For this one, I decided to create a nice little scenery with no-line watercolouring of the main images. The colours I used for this one were Zig Clean Color Brush Pens, whereas the paper I used was Arches watercolor paper. I like how it has turned out.

Linking card #3 to 

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #401-- Make your mark

I hope you liked the cards that I shared today. 

Happy crafting! Take care and stay safe.

3rd International Women's Day Blog Hop - 2021

 Hello dear friends!

Here's wishing all the wonderful ladies a very happy women's day. 

I warmly welcome you to the 3rd International Women's Day Blog Hop (2021) at my stop.

You are doing great you've arrived from Ishani's blog. If not, then you may check out the hop list that I have shared below to get yourself back to the hopping order. This is the 3rd year of our hop and it wouldn't have been successful without the hard work and co-ordination of my team members and the support shown by our generous sponsors. Thank you!

To know more about the prizes, please visit the link here.

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And here's my card for the hop

That gorgeous floral stamp is from Colorado Craft Company's Big & Bold~Missing You Peony stamp set. The word "BIG" is also from the same stamp set, whereas the gold-embossed "DREAM" belongs to My Favorite Things- Adorable Elephants stamp set. I coloured the image using Tim Holtz Distress inks as well as Whitenights watercolours. I used Arches cold-pressed watercolour paper for making this one.

I'll leave you with a beautiful quote that inspired me to make this card:

"Dream Big....For if I can dream, I can act; And if I can act, I can become." 

May we all strive to become the best versions of ourselves.

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I'm sure you must be excited to check out the cards made by the rest of the designers. Your next stop is a very talented gentleman Joe Sysavath.

Below is the hop order:

Alberto Gava

Alex Syberia Designs

Anila Dikay

Casual Fridays Stamps

Colorado Craft Company 

Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps

CrafTangles

Crafty Meraki 

Deepti Aggarwal

Ishani Sai

Jasleen Kaur------------------->You are here

Joe Sysavath-----------------> Your next stop 

Joy Clair Stamps

Kinda cute Patricia 

Kitchen Sink Stamps

Mugdha Gujrathi

Pear Blossom Press 

Penguin Palace Stamps

Cardsncolouring

Radhika Hobbycrafts

Raga Senthil

Rahmat Gouse

Rainbow Craftykari

Sathyakala Sankaran

Simon Says Stamp

Stamplorations

Uniko 

Varada Sharma Designs

Women.beyoutifully.you----------------> Our main and final blog-hop stop

Rules:

1. Please leave a comment on each stop and in the end, please comment as "done" on  women.beyoutifully.you blog

2. Only one comment per person please.

3. When linking a card, add our graphic and a backlink to the blog.

4. Following all accounts is an added bonus, though it's optional.

5. Although sharing about the hop is not mandatory to win, we would highly appreciate it if could you give us a shout-out on your social media.

6. Only Cards linked in the linky tool (which is on our main blog) are considered for prizes.

7. Lastly and most importantly, ENJOY! :)

There are 3 ways you can win:

1. Hop along the blogs.
2. Add your cards (maximum upto 3) to the linky on the main blog, the theme for the cards being "Women Empowerment."
3. Hop along the Instagram accounts.

Please add your cards and comments to the main blog post here by 15th March, 12pm GMT.

Further, if you are on Instagram, you could hop there too, to increase your chances of winning- Women.beyoutifully.you

Linking my card to the following challenge (s) :

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - - Add some green

Dragonfly dreams challenge-include-flower

Happy Little Stampers -- Watercolour Challenge- Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a beautiful and a blessed week ahead!