Lawnscaping challenge #106: New technique

Happy Monday!!

Are you ready for a new Lawnscaping challenge? You're going to have fun with this one because we're challenging you to try a new technique!

I struggled a lot about how technique I was going to use because when I see something new that I'm interested on it, I usually try it asap so... what to do? I surfed a bit on the Internet and found this fun technique using watercolors and white pigment ink to create bokeh backgrounds. I love bokeh so I wanted to try it out!

Mine didn't turned as pretty as the one in the video but it's really pretty in person! I added some embossing paste with glitter and sequins for a magical festive background.



Then I die cut the Lawn Fawn balloons and sprayed with a glittery spray, then I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to have a pair of glossy balloons :) The whole card ended up being very sparkly, glittery and glosy lol!!



As you can see I used a new technique but also a bunch of old ones. Maybe you haven't tried any of these yet, so it's your chance to give them a try and win a price from our sponsor, Lawn Fawn!

Thank you so much for stopping by, have a nice day!!

Supply list:
- Lawn Fawn stamps: Birthday Tags
- Lawn Fawn dies: Balloons
- Watercolors
- Avery Elle inks: White
- Hero Arts inks: Bubblegum
- Embossing paste
- Versamark ink
- Embossing powder: Clear, Glitter
- Sheer Shimmer Spritz: Sparkle
- Avery Elle clear sequins
- Kesi'art stars stencil: Nuit Étoilée

So happy for you - Avery Elle

Hello again!

This is my second post today, if you're here to see my projects for the Lawn Fawn Inspiration week using Beep Boop Birthday, click here or just scroll down :)

Today I'm playing with some of the new Avery Elle stamps and dies from the June release: Simply Said Happy. They're the newest addition to the Simply Said line, with a big word die and a little stamp set of coordinating words:

    

I have a lot of fun playing with them and I created a colorful celebration card. I hope you like it!

Don't forget to visit the Avery Elle blog to see a really sweet card by Caryn!

Supply list:
- Avery Elle stamps: Simply Said Happy, Balloons, Party Animal
- Avery Elle dies: Simply Said Happy, Balloons, Party Animal
- Avery Elle inks
- Thread
- Scrap papers

June Avery Elle release Blog Hop

Hi there!
Today I have a special post for you, it's June Avery Elle release Blog Hop!! So that means a lot of inspiration projects using the new stuff and giveaways ;)

To celebrate our Summer 2014 Release Blog Hop, Avery Elle is giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to one random winner.  To enter to win just comment on this post.  There is no purchase necessary and you must be 18 years of age or older to enter.  This giveaway is void where prohibited.  You can also do options 2, 3, 4, 5 or all 6 of the following to increase your chances of winning. You have until midnight Sunday, June 8th to enter.  The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle Blog on Monday, June 9th .  All products are available for purchase in the Avery Elle store right now.

To enter to win you can do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or all 6 of the following to increase your chances:

1. Comment on any of the design team's posts and/or here on the Avery Elle Blog
2. Follow us on Twitter and tweet the contest (we are @averyellestamps )
3. Follow us on Facebook (we are www.facebook.com/AveryElle ) and share us with your friends - make sure they tell us you sent them.
4. Follow us on Pinterest
5. Become a blog follower through email (comment on the Avery Elle blog if you already follow us)
6. Join our Flickr group (comment on the Avery Elle blog if you already belong)

I'm featuring a super cool set and coordinating dies, Balloons that is perfect por super quick Birthday cards or everyday colorful and happy cards, I loooove it! So I made 3 birthday cards with it, and that's perfect because I'm always needing more birthday cards :)

The first one is a quick one, I used the biggest ballons and instead of inking them, I applied the ink with a daubber so I could color them with more than one ink to create a gradient of color :)

For the second card I took the smallest ballons and created a card full of balloons, I stamped a birthday sentiment but I think I'll repeat this simply design for an everyday card with a sentiment like "you make me happy"

A closer look to the gold embossing sentiment

My third card is a shaker (yes! I couldn't resist making one!) so I used the dies for this one and tried to create a little boy birthday card going for greens and soft blues :)

Here's a closer look of the shakers:

I hope you like them and felt inspired to create some cards using balloons hehe! To continue hopping or if you want to start it from the beggining here's the complete list of participants:

Avery Elle / Jamie
Chunyuan Wu
Caryn Davies
Heather Campbell
JJ Bolton
Yainea
Kasia Curry
Maska Vanacker 

Thank you so much for stopping by, have a great day!!

Supply list:

Card one:

- Avery Elle stamps: Balloons

- Avery Elle dies: Red & Goldie (heart), Dotted Elle-ments

- Avery Elle inks

- Wink of Stella pen

Card two:

- Avery Elle stamps: Balloons, Party Animal, Cake & Candles

- Avery Elle inks

- Washi tape

- Versamark ink & Gold embossing powder

- Distress ink: Antique Linnen

Card three:

- Avery Elle stamps: Balloons, Sending you

- Avery Elle dies: Balloons, Count on it

- Avery Elle sequins

- Twine

- Acetate

- Paper from various collections (ask me if you need to know and I'll search!)