Merry & Bright with Ceal

 

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Team Tuesday.

It's Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a couple merry and bright holiday cards. 

The holidays aren't always the best for some folks so I thought that I would share some cheery cards. 

To create these I started with a top folding card bases, white panels and the Original MISTI 2.0

The top card I used the emboss resist technique. I love using the Misti for arranging stamps and being able to emboss all of them at once. After I embossed them with white embossing powder then I ink blended the panel with Atelier inks in rainbow order.

The second card I left the stamps in the position that they were on the Misti and then added different inks to each.  I used a clear envelope and created a shaker the easy way without foam tape. 

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Bees, Cosmos and a Butterfly

 

Hi,

This is Susan on the blog today. I needed to make a very special birthday card for a dear young woman. She is expecting her fourth child so I needed to knock this out of the park. The pink butterfly represents their daughter and the 3 bees are their sons. The third bee, who is not quite here yet, is just tucked under the large "mama" flower. As you can see on the detail shot, I used a lot of 3M Foam tape.

I got out my standard sized MISTI and stamped out WPlus9 Designs Flora and Fauna 3 onto Arches 140 lb cold pressed water color paper. The MISTI is great for water color paper as I often have to stamp 3 times to get the image fully stamped. The MISTI keeps everything lined up until I am done with the stamping. I wanted a no-line look so I used InkOn3 Fade Out ink. I think used my water color palette to color everything in. Most of my paints are by Daniel Smith. The flower color is mostly Quinacridone Coral.

After I finished all the painting, I used the accompanying dies to die cut all the images out. I stamped the sentiments using my MISTI. I think I used WPlus9 Designs Old Silver for both. I did use the shadow die cut three times for the with love sentiment. I also die cut the WPlus9 Designs Lattice Frame die for the back ground. I mounted everything with 3M Foam tape and added droplets using Gina K Connect Glue.

Thanks for stopping by;

Susan

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You Are My Sweet Petunia

 

Hi, This is Susan. I hope you were able to grab this My Sweet Petunia set from Ink On 3. I love it when stamp companies collaborate and never more so than when they make fantastic products. Using my MISTI 2.0, I stamped the image in Ink On 3 Fade Out No Line Ink onto Arches 140 lb cold press watercolor paper. I did have to stamp the image 3 times because watercolor paper has a texture. 

For my base coat I used the new Atelier color - Sweet Petunia Pink from Ink On 3. It is linked below and is the perfect pale hot pink. I think it is a similar color to Opera Pink in watercolor. I then pulled out my watercolor palette which is mostly Daniel Smith watercolors and mixed up some pinks and deep reds. 

I used the wet on wet technique for the first wash with the ink and then used glazing with a wet brush afterwards to smooth out the hard edges. Honestly, I think this took a few days to paint as I frequently left it to dry. I added a blue background made from Lunar Blue and Prussian Blue. I splattered on the dark pink wash and some gold splatters. 

Also using my MISTI 2.0, I stamped the sentiment in Atelier Sweet Petunia ink onto Neenah Solar White 110 lb paper. This is actually a leftover scrap that I just keep near my desk. I did trim it a bit with one of my trimmers. 

I mounted the watercolor panel onto an old piece of pink paper that made the flowers bounce! I added some clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh. So easy and this stamp set is very versatile so go buy it while you can. 

Thanks for stopping by;

Susan

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InkOn3: You Make My Heart Smile

 H everyone! 

Happy Thursday. Today the InkOn3 and My Sweet Petunia design teams got together for super fun collaboration over on Instagram. So I decided to share a card here using InkOn3 products too. I used the My Sweet Petunia stamp set and coordinating stencil, along with Sweet Petunia InkOn3 ink ;) 

To make the card I started by stamping the image in black couple times in my MISTI. Once stamped I secured my panel in the middle of the MISTI, positioned the first stencil and ink blended the lightest colors. Next I swapped it to the second stencil and added darker colors, then the 3rd stencil. 

Having the panel in my MISTI it help me get better and sturdier surface for ink blending. Once done I trimmed it to 4" x 5 1/4" , added sentiment, some pearls and adhered to a top folding note card!