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Joy Clair Designs & Pink and Main are Together!

Posted by on May 5, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 18 comments

Joy Clair Designs & Pink and Main are Together!

Joy Clair Designs & Pink and Main are together to celebrate a collaboration with both design teams. This special event is full of inspiration and creativity and I am so excited to be part of it!     Mix and match products from these two amazing companies was a complete pleasure. My first card is a mix with images from the new Spring Rose Digital Stamp from Joy Clair Designs with the Together Forever Stamps from Pink and Main. Additionally, for the background I used the Basket Cover Die and for the sentiment the Together Die both...

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Birthday Slider Card

Posted by on May 2, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 0 comments

Birthday Slider Card

Hi there! Today I’m sharing a Birthday Slider Card created with the card kit # 5 from the card kits of Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps. This month the card design is the Slider Die Cut and the stamps are for birthday celebration.     Each kit includes 10 pre-scored and die cut sleeves, 10 inserts to pull up, the instructions and two rubber stamps. Back to my card, I decorated it using the Honey Hive Stencil in combination with Harmony Water Reactive Inks from Spectrum Noir.     To create the dimension and shadows, I combined...

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A Ray of Sunshine Digital Stamps

Posted by on April 29, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Digital Art, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Spellbinders, Techniques | 0 comments

A Ray of Sunshine Digital Stamps

Hello crafty friends, A Ray of Sunshine Digital Stamps from Joy Clair Designs are here! Today we are celebrating an Instagram Hop with a lot of friends. We are featuring this collection and my projects are to show you the Modern Duets Bundle I.     My projects are a combination of foiling, coloring with alcohol markers and digital coloring. Modern Duets Bundle I is a group of lineal and solid stamps that can be used in a different way. Normally, when I work with one stamp set, I create selected different images and sentiments,...

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Something New from Joy Clair Designs

Posted by on April 28, 2021 in Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works | 0 comments

Something New from Joy Clair Designs

Hi there, I just pop up to share with you something new from Joy Clair Designs. These are sneak peeks of the new digital stamps that will be live tomorrow!     Six new digital stamps will be part of the “A Ray of Sunshine Collection” and to celebrate it we are having a fabulous Instagram Hop with more than 30 participants between the design team and guest designers.     Remember, see you tomorrow with a great surprises and amazing projects!

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Romantic Mother’s Day Card

Posted by on April 23, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 0 comments

Romantic Mother’s Day Card

Hi there, I just pop up to share a romantic Mother’s Day Card featuring Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps, Peony Large and Everything You Mean, two of my favorites for this day.     I believe that mother’s day must be all days. Sometimes is necessary to make special cards to celebrate the most important woman at the house. My romantic mother’s day card is a clear card created with a watercolor technique that I have been sharing during the last days.  This time, I replaced the Harmony Water Reactive Ink by Tri-Colour...

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Susan’s Spring Flora Collection – Sweep Pea Etched Dies

Posted by on April 22, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Spellbinders | 0 comments

Susan’s Spring Flora Collection – Sweep Pea Etched Dies

Hi there, I just pop up to share another card created with the Susan’s Spring Flora Collection. This time I am featuring the Sweep Pea Etched Dies. However, this post is mostly photos for you, along with colors and supplies I used.     As I told you in my previous post, the best way before to start making this type of cards is watch the videos created by Susan Tierney-Cockburn the designer of this amazing collection. She has a complete series of videos where in a simple way show you how easy is create the different type of her...

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Slimline Floral Card

Posted by on April 21, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Digital Art, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques, Tutorials | 0 comments

Slimline Floral Card

Hi there, today I have a slimline floral card featuring the Floral Joy Digital Stamps with the Stitched Circle Plate Background Slimline Die from Joy Clair Designs.     The Floral Joy is a digital collection of flowers and sentiments that are wonderful to coloring and combine. This time I decided to keep mine in monochromatic tones each branch to have a better relation with the sentiment. I printed all onto white smooth card stock and colored with TriBlend Markers: Ice Grey Shades, Ice Grey Blend, Brown Grey Blend, Brown Grey...

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Susan’s Spring Flora Card

Posted by on April 20, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Spellbinders, Techniques, Tutorials | 0 comments

Susan’s Spring Flora Card

Hi friends, today I am up with a new Susan’s Spring Flora card using the Kerria Japonica Dies from Spellbinders. OMG, you know my passion for flowers and I am super excited to work with these dies and play with these amazing 3D flowers.     If you are thinking that these are too complicated, you are wrong. They are not. These are really simple and easy to make. These dies are marked with the amount of pieces that you need to cut to create each flower. Additionally, you can see the easy steps HERE on this video create by Susan...

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Easy watercolor background

Posted by on April 19, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Digital Art, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques, Tutorials | 0 comments

Easy watercolor background

Hello there, I just pop up to share an easy watercolor background using Harmony Water Reactive Dye Inks from Spectrum Noir.     Let’s start with the process. The first thing that you have to be clear to create this look is that you have to be patient because you need to apply color by color and let dry the paper naturally in between. I inked my mini water media mat with one color of Harmony Water Reactive Dye Ink and sprayed it with water. Then, I placed the white smooth card stock over the media mat and just press the paper...

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Perfectly CAS Mother’s Day Card

Posted by on April 14, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Joy Clair Designs, Perfectly CAS, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 2 comments

Perfectly CAS Mother’s Day Card

Hello crafty friends! The Perfectly CAS Challenge is up and today and I have a Perfectly CAS Mother’s Day Card to share with you. This month the challenge theme is wings and I selected this cute bird from the clear stamp Paper Tattoos from Joy Clair Designs .     To make my card, I pick crumb cake card stock and stamped the bird image on the center with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Then, I colored the image with a white color pencil before to add the different tones from the ColourBlend pencils from Spectrum Noir.    ...

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