Today is a fun day because Imagine Crafts®/Tsukineko® & Avery Elle have paired up for a blog hop! There are going to be a lot of amazing projects on the hop today showing how well Avery Elle and IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® products work together. We also have a fun giveaway, so be sure to visit all of the blogs participating.

I'm thrilled to join my fellow Artists-in-Residence for IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® as we join up with the Design Team for Avery Elle's Blog Hop. It was fun to discover Avery Elle’s Birch Wood Grain Card Stock, along with Avery Elle’s photopolymer clear stamp set, Petals & Stems.

I embossed an 80 lb. Solar White Classic Crest cover card stock with Cuttlebug’s Anna Griffin® Poppy 5”x7” embossing folder and cut it down to 4”x6”. I used the Spectrum Noir Cool Greys alcohol pen set on the embossed card stock, lightest color on top and darkest color on the bottom. I then lightly rubbed the embossed card stock with the IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dew Drop Dye Ink in Pear Tart. It was then adhered to the blank base card from Strathmore.


Using the Spectrum Noir alcohol ink pen in the lightest of the Cool Greys set, I colored a swatch of the white Avery Elle Wood Grain Card Stock to bring out the grain texture. Using the large and smaller matching blossom images from the Avery Elle Petals & Stems stamp set, I inked those with IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento Dye Ink in Lady Bug and Love Letter, and embossed with IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Embossing Powder in Clear on the die-cut card stock. I then took 2 pens from the Spectrum Noir alcohol Pinks pen set and colored over the stamped images, blending the colors to avoid a defined line where the colors change. I also used a Sakura® Glaze Pen in black for the centers of the flowers.

The embossed card stock was cut using the Spellbinders® Nestabilities™ Labels Twenty Six die set.

Using a ribbon remnant from May Arts, I attached the ribbon to the base card about 1/3 down from the top and taped the ends on the back side. Using the darkest gray alcohol marker from Spectrum Noir, I edged the die cut. I wanted gray pearls; I only had yellow pearls in my stash. I used the gray alcohol marker and colored the yellow pearls.

I used foam mounting tape to adhere the die cut to the card base. I tied a small ribbon bow to place on the upper left corner of the die cut label. Using corner and flourish peel-offs from Magenta in pink, I finished off the card.

by Debbie Gaetz, Artist-in-Residence for
IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko®

Click on the links below to visit everyone's blog and see what they've created using products from IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® and Avery Elle. To be eligible for a prize, you must leave a comment on one or more of the blogs you visit; winning names will be randomly drawn from the folks who have left a comment.

Avery Elle / Jamie
Chunyuan Wu
Nina Yang
Heather Campbell
JJ Bolton
Donna Mikasa
Kasia Curry
Linda Lucas (Lovely Linda)   

Eric Ericson     

Taylor Usry   
AJ Otto  

Renee Zarate   

Tenia Renee Nelson  

Kazuko Kocho  

Emily Lanham     

Debbie Gaetz     

Maureen Cronin     

Jennifer Ingle     

Naghma Husain     

John Creighton Petersen

Now it is time for our giveaway! Leave a comment below and/or on any of the posts in the hop to be entered to win. We will be selecting two random winners. One will win a $50 Avery Elle gift certificate and the other will win $50 worth of IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® product! You have until June 14th to comment for a chance to win! The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle blog on Monday, June 17th.

Thanks for hopping with us!

SUPPLIES USED:

• Avery Elle Photopolymer Clear Stamp Set, Petals & Stems
• Avery Elle Birch Wood Grain Card Stock in White
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento Dye Ink in Lady Bug and Love Letter
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento Dew Drop™ Fade Resistant Dye Ink in Pear Tart
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Embossing Powder in Clear
• Spectrum Noir Cool Greys Alcohol Pen Set:  IG4; IG6; IG10
• Spectrum Noir Pinks Alcohol Pen Set:  PL1; PP5; DR3
• Spellbinders'® Nestabilities™ Labels Twenty Six Die Set
• Cuttlebug Anna Griffin Embossing Folder -- Poppy
• Sakura Glaze Pen in Black
• Ribbon (name unknown) from May Arts
• Mark Richards Pearls Perles in Yellow (3mm)
• Magenta Peel Offs
• Strathmore Blank Card in white with deckled edge
• Neenah Classic Crest Cover Stock (80 lb.) in Solar White