Hi there! It's Riikka here today to share a sparkling creation with you! It's a dark but glimmering cover with mixed media touches. 
You all know that the theme this month is the Sparkles and Christmas? I went just with the first one. My original idea was to incorporate the two but then I get carried away with my idea of the glitter paste and how marvelous that would look on top of black and... well, you can see the result. Not so much "Christmassy", yes? Although the glitter I used in the background is called "Stroke of Midnight" so maybe this cover is my interpretation of the winter night sky during Christmas? 

I keep telling that I'm not a glitter person as such, but who am I kidding?! A bit of glitter and shine fits to most projects and like I wrote in the beginning, pairing it with black usually does the trick. A black surface makes the colors sing and lets the glimmer sparkle even more. It's all got to do with contrasts - a dark shadow lets t…

Today I have two Christmas cards to share, using some beautiful embossing powders and glitters from WOW.

I love cards where the sentiment takes centre stage. I have a fun sentiment set from Hello Bluebird called 'Tis the Season', so decided to create some embossed backgrounds for the sentiments to go on.

I stamped the C&9th Plaid background stamp onto white card with the WOW embossing ink. I then embossed it with Metallic Gold Rich Super Fine embossing powder, using the fabulous new dual heat embossing tool.

To add the plaid lines, I used a beautiful embossing glitter called Vintage Candy Cane, perfect for Christmas projects.

I created a second panel, using Metallic Silver embossing powder and Pacific Wave embossing glitter.
I trimmed the panels down to be 2.5 inches high, added a thin black card strip at the top, then adhered them each to the bottom of a white card base. You should be able to get two cards from each embossed panel.

I stamped the large sentiment at the top …

I'm not really sure what happened, only a few weeks ago it felt like Summer, but I find myself in November and forced to think of Christmas projects already!!  There's nothing like being caught out!

At the end of this month I'll be taking part in a Christmas market so I need quick makes which are easy to do in numbers. I made a start on a design which worked for Christmas cards or tags.

For my background I thought it would be easier to keep to one colour, so I used a Distress Ink blended over the background and two different stamps over the top (a script stamp and trees) again stamped with the same ink.

With this background totally dry, I again used the tree stamp but this time used the Embossing pad so I could use Cloud 9 Embossing powder.



To add to my card front, I stamped a deer and the word Joy using Hot Gossip and Metallic Platinum.


The die cut stars were also given the Cloud 9 treatment.

I think it's going to work well on the tags. Are you going into Christmas m…

We are super excited to have Caroline join us in the month of  November where she will bring to you an amazing array of mixed media / off the page artwork.
We originally found Caroline over on Instagram and spotted this beautiful seahorse mixed media project.

Please make her feel welcome as you are in for a treat with her designs. We have already gotten to have a sneak peak and OH MY! Love !!!!



Hello! I’m Caroline, a southern girl born in Alabama, raised in Tennessee, but with Australian citizenship. (Thanks, Mom!) I dabbled in scrapbooking in 2002, but lost interest a year or so later. I never really considered myself a crafty person, until the spring of 2016, when I went online to look for a tutorial for making paper flowers. I ended up falling down the YouTube rabbit hole, first learning quilling, then art journaling, mixed media and card making. My favorite things to make are off-the-page mixed media projects, but I do enjoy making cards for friends and family as well. I’m always …

Hi all, Jo here and welcome to todays blog post where I make my own full panel of glitter cardstock. 
I also played with Pink & Main Butterfly cover die which I have die cutted the whole panel.
To start the process I pressed the Ultra Slow Drying Embossing Ink directly on the white cardstock coating the whole panel.
I then generously poured the Cloud 9 embossing glitter all over the panel which I then heat set it with the NEW Embossing Tool. 


Put your hands up if you have purchased this heat tool yet?  The Design Team are having an absolutely fun time with it and can not express who much we love it. 
Once I have heat set the embosing glitter I place the cover die directly on top and die cut te panel.  Let me tell you this panel cut like butter dtraight through the glitter. You can see in my process video that it also came out really easy out of the cover die. 

I then placed the sentiment in the MISTI tool and lined this up with the rectangle die cut. I used a sof grey tone ink wh…