August Essentials Challenge | Beautiful Joy

I'm realizing I love a good card making challenge. I typically gravitate to color challenges, but the August Essentials Challenge was all about Alcohol Inks (which I never used before) so I thought I would give it a try. I splattered, smooshed and dabbed my way through this challenge and here are the results. 
How To Summary:
  1. I created some "patterned" paper by dropping, smearing and dabbing more Alcohol Inks on Yupo Paper. 
  2. Once I liked the pattern (going for that marbled-geode look), I used the Concertina Tag die and Modern Christmas die (which is retiring and on SALE!) to create the JOY, stars and holly from the "patterned" Yupo Paper. I also die cut the word beautiful from the Mondu Sakura die. 
  3. I created two cards by using both the letters and the negative die cut and assembled as shown in the photos below.
  4. I added some Washi to the base of the cards to help ground the pieces together but really because *I cannot* stop adding Washi to my card designs. The Washi was a fun find from Felicity Jane. 
  5. The cards were finished with a little pop of star and clear sequins.

Big Paper Hugs! 🤗
Emily







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Color Throwdown Challenge: #505

Hello, Friends! Thank you for visiting today, I'm so happy you are here! Today I'm sharing my take on the Color Throwdown Challenge: #ctd505. This is absolutely one of my favorite color combinations!! To create my card, I'm using the world image from the Peas on Earth set from Ink Blot Shop stamps. While this set has many holiday images, I wanted to use it as an every day message card.

The best Aha! moment while working on this card was that the world image fits perfectly a 2-1/4 circle hole punch! For the Copic Coloring, I used RV00, RV02, RV04 and BG10, BG13 and BG32.
Peace on Earth My Friends and Big Paper Hugs! 🤗
Emily
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