Happy Tuesday!!! Welcome back to Day 2 of The Ton’s Spring Release!!! So much goodness to share today!!!
Wishful Wildflowers
Wildflower Banner
Marvelous Perfumes
Sunflower Cluster (free gift with $100 purchase & Guava Sparkle Mix)
Peony Cluster (free gift with $150 purchase & Sunflower Cluster & Guava Sparkle Mix)
Wishful Wildflowers Die
Wildflower Banner Die
Marvelous Perfumes Die
Guava Sparkle Couture Mix (free gift with $75 purchase)
Hot Cocoa Couture Mix
Pretty Petals Couture Mix
Pink Diamond Couture Mix
Wishful Wildflowers is a set that I could color over and over again!! I want to use ALL THE COLORS!!! I started by stamping the image with Caviar Ink (which is Copic friendly) onto heavyweight white cardstock. I colored the image with Copic markers and added details with polychromos colored pencils and a gel pen. The bottom of the panel was cut along the stamped image and mounted onto fun foam for added dimension. I adhered some black & white striped pattern paper to a top folding card base and then added the stamped panel on top. The Thank You Word Die was cut out of purple and black cardstock, offsetting the two to create a slight drop shadow. I also stamped a small butterfly from the Beautiful Butterflies 3 set, die cut it and some fun foam with the Coordinating Die and colored with colored pencils. The finishing touch (no card is finished without sequins, in my opinion) was a sprinkling of sequins from the Pink Diamond Mix. I also added some shimmer marker to the sentiment die cut for a little more bling.
For my second card, I wanted to create a much softer look. I have several weddings coming up this summer and thought the Wildflower Banner set would make a beautiful wedding card!! This set has eight different sentiments to place in the banner. I decided to stamp this image with clear embossing ink and heat emboss with white ink. I haven’t used my Inktense colored pencils in a while, so I pulled those out along with a water brush. I wet the part of the image that I wished to color and touched the water brush to the pencil, then the water brush to the wet part of the paper. The “So Very Happy For You” sentiment was embossed with silver embossing powder. I also mixed metallic silver ink with water and splattered it around the image. The panel was die cut with Double Stitched Rectangle Dies (Small) and matted with yellow paper, then adhered to a top-folding card base. Sequins from the Pink Diamond Mix completed the card. Now I want to make cards with all of the other sentiments…they are wonderful!!!
ALL NEW RELEASE ITEMS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE SHOP ON April 6!!!
For The Ton’s Spring 2017, Effie has released 18 new stamp designs and 14 new couture mixes! There are several gifts with purchases that you can obtain with this new release. This promotion does not apply to prior purchases. The threshold amount is calculated before taxes and shipping. This promotion will continue until April 15 at 11:59pm EST or until supplies last. Limit one incentive package per order. Incentive products will not be available for purchase in our shop until May.
Spend $75 or more: Receive a free pack of our new Guava Sparkle Couture Mix
Spend $100 or more: Receive a 2×3 Sunflower Cluster Mini Stamp (and Guava Sparkle Mix)
Spend $150 or more: Receive a 2×3 Peony Cluster Mini Stamp (and Sunflower Cluster Mini Set and Guava Sparkle Mix).
For each Release Day (1 through 4), The Ton is giving away a $25 gift certificate! So there are four $25 gift certificates up for grabs! To qualify, you must leave a comment on The Ton’s Daily Release posts. Leave a comment on each Design Team member’s blogs to increase your chances of winning.
The Ton is giving away an additional ten $10 gift certificates! Comments will be chosen from each of our design team member blogs during Days 1-4 of Release Week.
The comment period for all giveaways will close on Monday, April 10th at 11:59pm. Winners will be announced on The Ton Blog thereafter.
Be sure to head over to The Ton to see the what the rest of the design team created!!! Be sure to stop back by tomorrow for day #3!!!
Don’t forget, the April Challenge – Anything Goes is now open!!!
Thanks for joining me today!! Have a GREAT day!!!!
Both cards are gorgeous! I love the first one just a little bit more, though – the pop of colour against the black and white just does it for me! 🙂
Beautiful coloring!
Your cards are so beautiful! LOVE!!!
Normally the soft pastels would be my pic, and I do love it, but those vivid brights with that fabulous edge and background is just mesmerizing!
These cards are just beautiful – love that soft pastel watercolor card but my goodness that bold gatefold card with the gorgeously colored flowers might be my favorite. What a great way to use those great flower stamps!!
Such different cards – the first is bold and bright.
The second is more muted and soft.
Both are fantastic. think the first is my
favorite though.
thanks for sharing.
Your cards are just wonderful. Definitely 2 of my favorites. Thanks for sharing your inspiration.
Love these! Bold Copic colouring vs. soft watercolouring. Simply gorgeous.
Fantastic cards! Love both of them, especially the first one – I love the color combo and the contrast as well!
You’re cards are gorgeous. Thank you so very much for sharing them.
I love your first card. That is exactly the kind of idea that came on my mind as soon as I saw that stamp set. Great minds think alike 😉
Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards.
those white embossed flowers with the subtle colouring is very pretty.
OMG! These are so pretty! I especially love the first card. The colors really pop and the butterfly is a sweet detail 🙂
Love your border of flowers. Very pretty. TFS
Love that first card the best!
Ooooo . . . these are both soooo beautiful!!
Love the die cut edge and intense colors on the first card. Love the softness of the second. I couldn’t choose a favorite!
Beautiful cards – absolutely gorgeous coloring!
Gorgeous bright colors versus beautiful pastel colors…we’re the winners!
Very pretty colors on both of your cards.
Gorgeous cards. Love the first one with the purple and die cut. So pretty beautiful job.
Love the contrast of colour for both cards! Absolutely gorgeous.
Your cards are so pretty. ?
More pretty cards.
Love both of your cards! The first card is my favorite!
Amazing cards! You certainly achieved what you set out to do…bold and soft. I love them both.
Lovely cards. Thank you me is so elegent
I like the vibrant and soft colors of your cards. Beautiful.
The coloring is so beautiful!!!! Great job!!!
Awesome cards! This stamp set is at the top of my wish list. I love every card I’ve seen with it.
Unbelievably bright and beautiful and then soft and stunning.
I can see why the Wishful Wildflowers is a set that you want to color over and over again!! I want to use ALL THE COLORS!!! Caviar Ink is a new product for me so excited to find this. Love the use of polychromos colored pencils and a gel pen for the detail in this card. Your second card as a softer look is perfect contrast to the first. This is so sweet and innocent for more intimate occasions for sure.
Your cards are stunning. I especially love your first card because of the way your created the beautiful colors on the petals:)
Everything is absolutely stunning!
Your cards are beautiful! Love the coloring!
Beautiful cards, love the vibrant one as much as the soft colored one!
I am liking what i see of the wildflower banner stamp, might be on my never ending wish list to have in my craft room, maybe one day i will be lucky, fingers crossed. thanks for sharing your cards.
The wildflower banner card in the soft colors is beautiful! It may be that I have a bias for pastels. I love all the colors you used on the card — they all complement one another well, including the misting.
These flowers are beautiful!
Both cards are lovely, but I was especially drawn to the first! Your coloring is wonderful! I love all the details you added with your Polychromos Pencils. Aren’t they fantastic?!!