Blog Hop - Imagine Crafts and Magenta: Merry Christmas

 

 Welcome to a week of fantastic collaboration between IMAGINE Crafts and Magenta Rubber Stamps! Both companies are excited to share with you their products, from the latest inks from IMAGINE Crafts to the newest Fall and Holiday stamp releases from Magenta.    

I'm starting with two of my favorite Magenta stamps from the new release, along with some fabulous IMAGINE Crafts products, one of which I'm over the moon excited about...but more about that in a minute. First, here's my card:

To start with, I stamped the Magenta Snowy Evergreens and Multilingual Christmas sentiments onto watercolor paper, with Versamark Ink, and embossed with IMAGINE Crafts Sparkle Embossing powder.  In real life, this gives the snowy trees and the sentiment a beautiful sparkle.  Three colors of Memento blue inks were then sponged on, using Tsukineko Ink blushers sponges.  The hills were added by sponging around Magenta's Masks, which are ideal to create snowy drifts.  

This is my favorite part: The snow was added using the new Irresistible Pico Embellisher in Wedding Dress (white).  The snowflakes are dimensional bumps that really add to the beauty of the snowy scene.  The Wedding Dress color of the Pico Embellisher is brand new, and is a must have for winter scenes!  With the easy to use dispenser on the Pico Embellisher, it was simple to just randomly dot snowflakes all over the scene.  Last, I matted the watercolor panel on blue mirracard, and then onto a white card base.  

I love, love this card, and I think it will be my Christmas card this year.  The languages in this multilingual sentiment are English, French, Icelandic (yes! in my heart, Iceland), Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, and Russian.

Give this technique a try...it was quick and pretty easy to do.  I've listed all the supplies I used.  Now, please enjoy the rest of the blog hop by clicking on the links below.   Leave me a comment to let me know what you think of my card, and to be eligible for a fabulous prize.

Magenta products used:

07.883.K  Multilingual Christmas

0690.L  Snowy Evergreens

TM-40 Masks

IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko products used:

Memento Dye Ink: Blue Danube; Nautical Blue; Paris Dusk

Versamark Ink

Inkblushers

IMAGINE Crafts Sparkle Embossing Powder EB-000-006

Irresistible Pico Embellisher, Wedding Dress IW-000-910

Other:

140 # Strathmore Cold Press watercolor paper

Blue Mirracard

   

Prizes galore for participating in the Blog Hop this week!

IMAGINE Crafts and Magenta are offering a total of three different prizes this week as part of this Blog Hop. These prizes include IMAGINE Crafts' irRESISTible Texture Spray, irRESISTible Pico Embellisher, Delicata Shimmery Silver and Golden Glitz AND some of the newest releases from Magenta. Take a moment to visit the other featured artists' blogs listed below and leave a comment on their posts by midnight PST September 21st.  Three winners will be randomly selected from three different blogs from the seven days of the Hop, with one commenter from each blog draw as the winner. 
 

 Presenting the other featured projects for today:

Kazuko Kocho

 

Sylvia Blum

 

Agnieszka Bellaide

 

Josée Gingras

 

Bianca van Noort

 

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