Thursday, August 9, 2012

SP & Company August Blog Hop!

Welcome to the SP & Company Monthly Blog Hop!!!
This month's color is Yellow! After you're done hopping around today, make sure you play along with this month's Yellow challenge (click here for details) for a chance to win some amazing SP and Company prizes!

Have you ever wanted to be a Guest Designer on the SP & Company Design Team? Well, this month is your chance to show us what you've got! Play along with our Yellow Challenge and link up your project.  We will pick a Guest Designer that will work with us for an ENTIRE month! For specific details, check out Sami's blog and Good Luck!!!

Now, onto my cards!

The new release this month is called Poppy Field Summer.  It is beautiful!!!


I stamped the image in VersaMark and then heat embossed it with clear powder.  I went it with a sponge and added some distress ink to create a sunset look, and added some white ink towards the bottom.  I also distressed the edges and inked them, too!

A few close ups:





I have another card, too!!!



This time, I chose to heat emboss Poppy Field Summer in yellow and I stamped Wooden It Be Nice in the background.  I also stamped the sentiment onto some vellum and wrapped it around the front.  I used my heat gun to help it dry a little faster so it wouldn't smear!



Make sure you check out the SP Blog to see what Samantha did with the new stamps! And don't forget to hop around to each Design Team Member's blog - there are brand new projects with the stamps that came out TODAY to inspire you!














Stamps: SP & Company
Papers: Recollections
Ink: Ranger Distress Inks, Memento (black), VersaMark
Embossing Powder: ZING

17 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards!!! Loving the yellow!

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  2. Beautiful cards Chrissie!!! The backround on the first one is wonerful. And I love the embossing on the second Excellent job!!

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  3. Both very different cards, Chrissie, and love your techniques for each one. I always forget the embossing and sponging method. Vellum allows your sentiment to pop and still allow your color & design to show through. Great job!

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  4. Great cards. Love the inked and embossed looks.

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  5. Such pretty cards! Love how we can do so many different techniques with this set! :)
    -Kelli

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  6. Awesome use of colored e.r. effect - that vellum sentiment - I love it!!

    ps - thanks again for the fix! :)

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  7. Beautiful cards! The second is my favorite. So clean and simple.

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  8. Beautiful! I especially like how you made the sunset background.

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  9. Wow, what a cool technique on the first one. I'm going to look at it again....

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  10. I love the simplicity of your second card.

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  11. Totally gorgeous in every way~

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  12. All beautiful! I especially like the sunset one...

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  13. Beautiful cards. The sunset card is amazing!

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  14. Both cards are beautiful. love the effect with the versamark. But my fav eone is the heat embossed one...

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Thank you so much for commenting!!! :)