Winter Bouquet Flourishes and Imagine Crafts Blog Hop

This card has a lot of sparkle - perfect for the holidays. The stamps are by Flourishes, l.c. The sparkle comes from Imagine Crafts, as part of a blog hop! The card is simple to make but looks very elegant.

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Imagine Blog
Barbara Thompson
Toni Storie
Alison Heikkila
Beverly Cole
Kren Kurts
Neva Cole
Roni Johnson
Linda Lucas
Davi Long
Jennifer Vanderbeek
Naomi Gong
Vickie Yeakley
Nadine Carlier
Rebecca Ednie
Gloria Hayoung Lee
Mark Melnick
Shirley Qu
Martha Lucia Gomez
Terre Fry
Mary Prasad <- You are here!
Trisha Traxler
Monica Edwards
Flourishes L.C

Making the Card

1. Cut red cardstock to 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; inches. Fold in half to form a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch card base.

2. Stamp large bouquet and tag with "Winter Cheer" greeting on white cardstock with StazOn Jet Black ink. Color bouquet with Memento Markers, going from dark to light, overlapping colors to shade and blend. Cut around bouquet and tag with detail scissors. Go around outside edges from the back side with Tuxedo Black Memento Marker (this hides the white edges and gives it a finished look). Spray bouquet with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Spritz. Spray tag with Gold Sheer Shimmer Spritz.

3. Cut about a 6 inch long piece of seam binding. Spray with Gold Sheer Shimmer Spritz.

4. Cut black cardstock 3 3/4 x 5 inches. Spray with Gold irRESISTible Texture Spray. Once dry, spray Gold Sheer Shimmer Spritz over the entire piece. Wrap gold sprayed seam binding around middle where shown, adhering on backside. Adhere to card base.

5. Die cut 3rd smallest Dotted Scallop Oval from white cardstock. Spray with Gold Sheer Shimmer Spritz. Add dots of Gold irRESISTible Pico Embellisher to outside scallops. Let dry. Adhere to center of card.

6. Adhere bouquet with dimensional tape as shown. Adhere tag where shown.

Supplies

• Memento Markers: Lady Bug, Love Letter, Rhubarb Stalk, Dandelion, New Sprout, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves, Cottage Ivy, Tuxedo Black
• StazOn Ink: Jet Black
• irRESISTible Texture Spray: Gold, Sparkle
• irRESISTible Pico Embellisher: Gold
• Sheer Shimmer Spritz: Gold
• Flourishes Stamps: Winter Bouquet SSBCA024
• Elizabeth Craft Designs 1173 Dotted Scallop Ovals
• Cardstock: White, Black, Red
• Seam Binding: White
• Dimensional Tape

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Creating a Galaxy or Nebula with Radiant Neon

Creating galaxy or nebula backgrounds is really popular these days. Many people are using watercolor paints to create them. I decided to use the incredibly bright Radiant Neon Inks by Imagine Crafts to create mine, along with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. This combination gives a surprisingly realistic look (well, similar to the enhanced space photos seen in magazines and online). I applied Sheer Shimmer Spritz to the background as well - it's so beautiful in person! Unfortunately the photos don't pick up much more than a few shiny dots here & there but you can see it better in the video (although the colors are duller in the video, sigh).

Making the Card

1. Cut purple/blue cardstock to 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; fold in half for a card base.

2. Cut watercolor paper to about 5 x 6 inches. Note: the final size will be 4 x 5 1/4 inches, leaving extra space for taping down and triming.

3. Watch the video below to create the nebula look on the watercolor paper. To create a galaxy, just apply the color in a band across the card. Hint: do a Google search for "nebula" or "galaxy" - click the "Images" tab and use one of the photos as a model as you work. You will see me do this on my iPhone, which I set up in front of my work area (out of view of the video camera).

NOTE: YouTube took down my video and put a strike on my account due to a FALSE copyright claim by Sony Music Entertainment (SME). The actual music copyright owner is Pacific Digital Video, from whom I have permission to use their music. Someone called "Ogie" sang over Pacific's music track illegally and SME is distributing it. SME filed a false copyright violation against me and YouTube will not even look at this unless I allow SME to sue me! Their process rewards false copyright claims - the victims have no viable recourse. I now have a strike on my YouTube account because I filed a counter notification and wouldn't yield to them. No one at YouTube will look at the issue.

4. After cutting down the watercolor piece to 4 x 5 1/4 inches, emboss the sentiment in white embossing powder where shown (I use an anti-static tool before embossing). Mount it on the front of the card base using a strong tape, e.g. Tear It tape. Adhere alien using dimensional tape.

Supplies

• Radiant Neon Ink Pads or Inkers:  Electric Yellow, Electric Orange, Electric Coral, Electric Pink, Electric Purple, Electric Blue, Electric Green
• StazOn Ink: Jet Black
• irRESISTible Texture Spray: Wedding Dress
• Memento Ink Pad: Tuxedo Black
• Memento Marker: Tuxedo Black
• Sheer Shimmer Spritz: Sparkle
• VersaMark Ink Pad (For Embossing)
• Embossing Powder: White
• Watercolor Paper: Arches Hot Press (Recommended)
• Ink Blushers
• Tear It! Tape
• Painter's Tape (Masking Tape)
• Stamps: Paper Smooches Space Cadet
• Plastic Packaging
• Paintbrush(s)
• Optional: Spray Bottle with Water
• Cardstock: Purple/Blue
• Dimensional Tape

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Get Organized: Labels with Imagine Crafts (Featuring Tsukineko)

This was my first video as part of Imagine Crafts' Artist in Residence Team. I've been on the team now since December 2015 but this didn't get posted so here it is now! The theme was Get Organized. I thought I would make labels for the jars I use to store my craft products. For the binder clips and @ paper clips, I made the labels to match the colors of the items inside.

Making the Labels

Here is the video tutorial of how I made these fun, colorful labels:

I didn't show it in the video but I used StazOn to stamp on the label with irRESISTible texture spray. You may also use StazOn to stamp directly on the recycled plastic before adding irRESISTible pico embellisher.

Supplies

Imagine Crafts Supplies

• Memento Dew Drop Inks: Cottage Ivy, Dandelion, Paris Dusk, Love Letter, Bamboo Leaves, Grape Jelly, Rose Bud
• VersaFine Ink: Onyx Black
• StazOn Ink: Jet Black
• InkBlushers
• GlazOn
• irRESISTible Neon Texture Spray: Electric Pink, Dandelion, Electric Purple
• irRESISTible Pico Embellisher: Wedding Dress, Tuxedo Black, Shimmer
• Tear It! Tape

Other Supplies

• Spellbinders Nestabilities: Labels Four, Labels Four Small
• Stamps: Paper Smooches (We Totally Click - Pen, Smarty Pants - Paper Clip, I Heart Art - Pencil and Paint Brush), Lawn Fawn (Smitty's ABCs), TPC Studio (Alphabet 72558)
• Office Depot Mini Binder Clips, Smartz @ Paper Clips, Coins
• Alcohol Markers (e.g. Copic)

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Clay Embellishments

Makin's Clay is a no bake polymer clay that comes in several colors. I used black so that the iridescent Creative Mediums and irRESISTible products would really stand out. Use these embellishments for decorating cards and other projects.

Making the Embellishments

The following video is a step-by-step tutorial on how to make these embellishments.

Supplies

Imagine Crafts Supplies

• Creative Medium: Iridescent-Pink, Chartruse, Turquioise, Purple; Metallic-Silver
• irRESISTible Texture Spray: Silver
• irRESISTible Pico Embellisher: Shimmer, Tuxedo Black, Wedding Dress
• StazOn: Blazing Red, Cactus Green
• Ink Blushers
• Palette Knives

Other Supplies

• Makin's Clay: Black
• Optional: Pasta/Clay Machine or Clay Roller
• Dies, e.g. Sizzix/Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers
• Stencils, e.g. Heidi Swapp (Dots/Hearts/Stars), Crafters Workshop (Butterflies)

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