September 2017 Essentials by Ellen Release Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome! If you've arrived here from Brandi's blog, you're in the right place. 

I'm super excited to be guest designing for Ellen Hutson featuring the brand new Bear Ware 2 stamp set by Julie Ebersole. To celebrate the release, I made couple of fun gift tags and cards to share with you today.

I made three gift tags. With just one stamp set, I was able to create mini fall, Halloween, and Christmas scenes. How awesome is that! I stamped and colored the images from Bear Ware 2 with Copic markers and cut them out with their coordinating dies. 

Please Note: For the tree in the fall themed gift tag, I made the tree a little shorter by covering the bottom lines with White Gelly Roll pen and redrawing a new line with Copic Liner. The leaves included in the set are solid stamps, so I used dye inks to stamp them and went over it with Copic markers.

To create the tags, I die-cut Bristol cardstock with the new Concertina Tags. I distressed the tags and the circle reinforcer with different colored Distress Oxides inks. Once they dried, I stamped matching sentiments with Versafine Black ink. For the Christmas tag, I stamped little snowflakes included in the set with Versamark ink, and heat set white embossing powder.

To finish, I adhered the reinforcer with glue, and mounted the images with foam adhesives for a little dimension. 

For the two cards, I used Bear Ware 2 and another Essentials by Ellen clear stamps, All Inside by Julie Ebersole. These two sets coordinate really well together, and help to create some fun scenes. I made Halloween and Christmas cards using the two sets together. 

For both cards, I stamped and colored the images using Copic markers. I cut them out with their coordinating dies. For the bear on the Halloween card, I drew in a shirt to go with his mask. I was going for a robber look. 

The backgrounds on both cards were inked with Distress Oxides on Bristol cardstock. I added splatters of water for a distressed look.  For the Halloween card, I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink on black cardstock, and set white embossing powder with a heat gun. Then, I trimmed it down and adhered it to the front panel with foam adhesive. 

For the Christmas card, I stamped the snowflakes and the sentiment with Versamark ink. Then, I set white embossing powder with a heat gun. The sentiment "A Very Merry Christmas To You" is from the new No Peeking stamp set by Brandi Kincaid. I also added splatters of white acrylic paint with a brush to create more snow.  

To finish, I adhered the images to both front panels, and mounted it to a top folding card base. 

Take a look at the awesome new products I used in my projects: 

 Next up is the fabulous Carly Tee.  Thanks for stopping by, and have fun hopping!

Julie Ebersole

Brandi Kincaid

Amy Yang

Carly Tee Minner

Lisa Spangler

Audrey Tokach

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September 2017 Essentials by Ellen Release Blog Hop