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Imagine That: I’ll Be Missing You

In The Studio

And I will!

Today on the Imagine blog I’ve got another interactive card–this time a shaker card–that uses both our color challenge as well as the new Dewlet dies as stencil and shaker window. Make sure to check out the video to see the whole process.

This card has another layer to it, though: it’s my final project as an Imagine Artist in Residence! It’s been a fabulous three years on the team and while I’ll miss them all terribly, I chose not to apply for the 2019 team (their’s or anyone else’s) so that I can spend more time on my own projects.

I hope you’ll follow along here on the blog, my instagram page, and–most of all–my YouTube channel to see what I have planned for the upcoming year. I’ll be announcing my personal challenge right after Christmas and I’d be thrilled to have you participate, too!

Stay tuned for more and have a creative day!

 

A Thank You for All Seasons with So Suzy Stamps

In The Studio

Hi there! Imagine is teaming up with So Suzy Stamps for a blog hop and I’m absolutely in love with the stamps I chose! Make sure you read all the way to the end for how to enter the giveaway!

They’re sold individually, but when I saw the Goddess of… seasonal stamps I couldn’t NOT get all four because I had to do at least one project with the full set of these sleek, stylized ladies in their seasonal splendor.

So today’s project is a 5-panel card, using all four stamps, and since each has their own color combo there are a LOT of products used in this project. Because of that, I’ve opted to list the products for each panel separately to keep the list from getting completely overwhelmed.

Basic Ingredients:

Cardstock – 12″ White (cut into two 5.5″ tall strips and scored at 4.25″ and 8.5″–the remaining 3.5″ sections of each are overlapped to create the center panel; accordion fold)
Hot Press Watercolor Paper – 5 panels, approx. 3 1/2″ x 4 5/8″ panels (I stamped first, trimmed after, hence the approximate)
Acrylic Blocks
VersaMark Ink
Embossing Powder – White
Darice – Heat Tool
Plastic Plates
Water
Paint brushes
Tear It! Tape

Winter

So Suzy Stamps – Goddess of Winter Stamp
All-Purpose Ink – Platinum
Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray – Paris Dusk, Bahama Blue, Summer Sky
Memento Markers – Teal Zeal, Summer Sky
Cardstock – Navy Blue

Spring

So Suzy Stamp – Goddess of Spring
All-Purpose Ink – Spring Green, Vegas Gold
Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray – New Sprout, Cantaloupe
Memento Markers – Bamboo Leaves, Pear Tart
Cardstock – Hunter Green

Summer

So Suzy Stamps – Goddess of Summer
All-Purpose Ink – Lemon Yellow, Vegas Gold
Walnut Ink – Willow
Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray – Cantaloupe
Memento Markers – Dandelion
Fabrico Markers – Lemon Yellow
Cardstock – Dark Yellow

Fall

So Suzy Stamps – Goddess of Autumn
All-Purpose Ink – Vegas Gold
Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray – Rhubarb Stalk, Rich Cocoa, Desert Sand, Potter’s Clay
Memento Markers – Potter’s Clay, Tangelo
Cardstock – Burgundy

Sentiment

Memento Markers – Elderberry, Lulu Lavender
Cardstock – Deep Purple

Now, as per the usual with hops like these, there are giveaways going on from the two sponsor companies. In order to be entered into the drawing for the $25 gift certificates from Imagine and Crackerbox/Suzy Stamps you’ll need to leave a comment on **each** post in the hop for the day. If you do both days, you have double the chances.

Today (Wednesday’s) links:

Vicky Briggs 10/18 https://crackerboxpalacestamping.blogspot.com/2018/10/crackerbox-and-suzy-stamp-hop-with.html
Elina Stromberg 10/18 https://www.artsandcraftswithlove.com/2018/10/cute-as-kitten-imagine-and-so-suzy.html
Donna Idlet 10/18 https://myblogidlet.blogspot.com/2018/10/crackerbox-suzy-with-imagine-blog-hop.html
Iris Rodriguez 10/18 http://www.whimsytouches.com/2018/10/so-suzy-hop.html
Terri Burson 10/18 https://wavingmywand.blogspot.com/2018/10/blog-hop-with-crackerbox-suzy-stamps.html
Jennifer Vanderbeek 10/18 https://scrapsoflife.com/a-thank-you-for-all-seasons-with-so-suzy-stamps  <<You Are Here>>
Cornelia Wenokor 10/18 https://fun-stamping.blogspot.com/2018/10/blog-hop-with-imagine-crafts-and.html
Jowilna Nolte 10/18
Olesya Andreyeva 10/18 https://as-if-by-magic-ivy.blogspot.com/2018/10/imagine-inks-and-crackerbox-stamps.html
Kassy Tousignant 10/18 https://wordpress.com/post/kassysparlour.com/362

& don’t forget our host blogs: Imagine & Crackerbox/Suzy Stamps

Thursday’s Links:

Lindsay Andreon 10/19
Kyriakos Pachadiroglou 10/19 https://thecraftsworld.com/tcw/autumn-card/
Teresa DeWitt 10/19 https://www.whimsicalcardstudio.com/2018/10/elegant-stenciling-collaboration-with.html
Nadine Carlier 10/19 https://myscrapnstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/crackerbox-so-suzy-stamps-with-imagine.html
Tracy McLennon 10/19 https://scrappychickblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/crackerbox-suzy-stamps-creates-with-imagine-inks
Roni Johnson 10/19 https://inkstainswithroni.blogspot.com/2018/10/imagine-so-suzy-crackerbox-stamps-blog.html
Giada Rigamonti 10/19 https://giadaelesuenuvole.blogspot.com/2018/10/imagine-crackerbox-so-suzy-stamps-blog.html
Steph Ackerman 10/19 https://stephaniescraps.blogspot.com/2018/10/happy-haunting-blog-hop.html
Martha Lucia Gomez 10/19 https://wp.me/p5TnaH-6gF
Melissa Andrew 10/19 https://melissamade2.blogspot.com/2018/10/imagine-and-so-suzy-crackerbox-blog-hop.html

& our hosts: Imagine & Crackerbox/Suzy Stamps

Imagine That: Interstellar Greetings

In The Studio

So it’s really tough for me to think about this project without thinking about the following, so let’s just get it out of the way:

via GIPHY

So how did we get here? Imagine’s color of the month was Pebble Grey, and I was noodling around a few ideas concentrating on shadows and monochrome, etc. Until the moment I made a note in my planner where I just wrote “greys” and suddenly I couldn’t think of anything beyond aliens.

I had so much fun with this project, even when I screwed something up (but then fixed!) and I love my little aliens. They might have to become a digital stamp set once I get the Halloween set released.

At any rate, make sure you head over to the Imagine blog to check out the video on how this card gets put together.

Imagine That: Trumpet Flowers Card

In The Studio

One of our prompts this month over on the Imagine blog is the color Sangria. I love a good, deep red–there’s lots you can do with the color. While the holidays are coming up, and I had another project that scooted into that territory, I wanted to do something more general for this prompt.

I’d recently seen a picture of trumpet flowers and for whatever reason that gut stuck in my head and I was desperate enough to try my hand at carving my own stamp just so I could create the card I saw in my head.

I’m actually really pleased at how it turned out, and if you’d like to see the carving process I’ve posted it over on my own YouTube channel: Stamptember: Carving a detailed flower cluster stamp! It was a good 4 hours or more of work, spread out over three nights, but totally worth it!

After putting in so much effort into carving the stamp and then coloring the image, I didn’t feel like the card needed at lot of extra bits added to it. Does this count as a CAS (clean and simple) card? Maybe?

At any rate, make sure to head over to the Imagine blog to check out the video of how the finished card came to be.

And if you’d like to make your own version of the card but aren’t quite into carving your own stamps, I made a digital stamp set from the finished image–complete with separated elements as well as the finished arrangement–and put it up over in the Crafty Branch Etsy shop. I’d love to see what you come up with!

While I was add it, as a thank you for reading this far, I took those digital elements and made a wreath image you can download now for free! Make sure you tag @scrapsoflife and @thecraftybranch on Instagram when you make something with it!

Download it by clicking this link: TCB_JLV_TrumpetFlowerFreebie