Stampin' In Alaska

Welcome to the September New Release blog hop featuring Graciellie Design .  The design team is sharing lots of fabulous inspiration featuring several new digital sets that are available now for purchase at Graciellie Design Digital Shop . I chose to work with the lovely #blessed digital set. I began my card by copying two files of the fuchsia image and sentiment into a Word document. One of the images was sized slightly larger than the first.  I then printed two copies onto Stampin' Up! Whisper White card stock and colored the image was Copic markers. Colored blooms from the second copy were fussy cut and adhered with foam tape to the first copy for added dimension. Sequins and paint splatters were added to finish the clean and simple design. The finished image panel was layered onto Neenah Classic Crest Black and Magenta BASIS #80 card stock from Paper Temptress . Really lovely weight and fabulous quality papers....

Good morning! Bugaboo hosts a tutorial on the Catch The Bug Challenge blog on the last Wednesday of the month. This month I get to share an easy project with you! Do It Yourself Enamel Dots I really like the look of the enamel dots that have been so popular recently. With limited craft stores in my area  it was fabulous to find to a way to make my own enamel dots. I started with a small package of Pony Beads and Perlerbeads. I did a quick Google search and found several instructional videos.  The instruction I found for the perlerbeads recommended using a 275 degree oven for 30 - 35 minutes. They seemed to melt very easily for me. I started by lining a small aluminum cookie sheet with parchment paper and spaced the beads out to allow for spread  while melting. After the beads have melted to the desired size let them cool. I used a plastic Pampered Chef scrapper to gently scrape  them off of the parchmen...