BOLD ONE LAYER CARD | CATHERINE POOLER DESIGNS

This color combo is very new to me and I think I didn't use these colors on my card before, I guess so!! This card was inspired by one of the cards I made a while ago. You can check that card HERE. All the products I used to make this are from Catherine Pooler Designs Stamp of Approval Naturally Inspired Collection. 

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CARD PROJECT DETAILS

I started by inking up and stamping the solid feather stamp from Birds of a Feather Stamp Set  with Tiki Torch, All That Jazz and Tutti Frutti inks by Catherine Pooler Designs.

These are such gorgeous colors and I think these would be great for both boys and girls. 

Then I inked up the bold BEST sentiment from Simply the Best stamp set in Midnignt ink and stamped over the previously stamped image followed by the Friend stamp. I love that crisp, clear and clean impression which always comes with Catherine Pooler inks when stamped!

I also added splashes of black paint to enhance the beauty of the design. I hope you like it and I also made a video for you, enjoy! :D

What do you do when you are bored?

What do you do when you are bored? Well.. I love making pretty simple things when I am bored like be it a simple stamped pattern, be it a simple doodle or just anything simple! I really enjoy myself being simple. 

Last few days was really gloomy and I really don't have any energy or mojo to do anything creative. We were in grief and was very sad because of the demise of my dad. It's been a year already and I still feel that the incident happened yesterday. I badly badly miss him. Things were alright when he was here :(

Going to cemetery, visiting my dad's grave and his first memorial service all pushed me into great grief and that grief lead me to a kind of depression and that depression lead me to boredom and lack of energy. I do not know how to explain but those who faced and went through all this will definitely understand my situation.

To kill that boredom and get back to my daily routine, I started making cards with simple designs! And also I doodled a little, I will show you the full project in the next post. 

I used the products from Catherine Pooler Desings - Stamp of Approval - The Perfect Reason Collection.

I started by stamping the pattern on white card stocks in Sweet Sixteen and Pixie Dust Inks and Tiara and Tiki Torch Inks. For creating the pattern I used Circle and Floral stamps from The Perfect Reason Stamp Set and sentiment is from You Did It stamp set.

I stapled the sentiment strips for some interest and embellished the cards with sequins. I hope you like the cards, please do not hesitate to do simple things once in a while or when you are bored like me. Making simple things is the best medicine for depression. Keep doing! Good Luck <3

Overlap Stamping Technique | Catherine Pooler Designs

Hello everyone! Today I have a very simple, fun and easy stamping technique called Overlap Stamping. Overlap Stamping Technique is nothing but layering of images. This is such a fun and easy technique, you don't need to mask your images at all. You can simply go with the flow! The good thing about this technique is when the colors overlap each other they automatically create another beautiful color. Such a wonderful and stress free technique :)

For my today's project, I used Yay Stripes and Butterfly Notes stamp sets from Catherine Pooler Designs. This Butterfly Notes is a part of Stamp Of Approval Lovely Notes Collection. If you know me, I like using bright and happy colors on my projects but this time I went with pastel shades.

The inks I used - It's a Girl, Sweet Sixteen, Bellini, Melon Ice, Mint To Be and Midnight Inks. All these gorgeous and lovely inks are from Catherine Pooler Designs.

I started by stamping the butterfly on a smaller panel with the inks mentioned above in a random and overlapped manner. I cleaned my stamp with a cloth in each intervals.

I love how the images overlap and creates another beautiful color. Once the stamping part was done I went ahead and added splatters of black paint with a thin paint brush. I love doing this and I strongly believe that these splatters add so much interest to the card!

Onto the main card panel I stamped the striped line from Yay Stripes stamp set in Midnight Ink. Finally I added the smaller panel over the main card base with foam tape. :)

I've also filmed a video for you where I've shared everything in detail. I hope you like it! Thank you so much for visiting. See you soon :)

Smile | SOA Naturally Inspired Collection

I've been into water color mode lately and I must say I am very much obsessed with it and enjoying every bit of it. I have a very few water color mediums, among them Distress Inks are one of my favourites! :) By the way the stamps I'm using today are from the latest release of Stamp of Approval - Naturally Inspired Collection

How to achieve water color look with Solid Stamps:

There are two ways to achieve this look

1.  Ink up the solid image, spritz some water and stamp onto the paper. This is one of the easiest ways to achieve water color look instantly. 

2.  Second way -  Smoosh the ink pad onto the acrylic block, pick the ink up with a wet paint brush, apply the pigment onto the stamp, huff a little and then stamp!

I applied the second technique here. I applied Festive Berries and Peeled Paint Distress Inks on one of the flowers from the Wild Flowers Stamp Set and stamped it onto the paper. I love how this card turned out. So beautiful! :) 

Once the water color image was dry I added tiny splatters of black paint and stamped the sentiment from Medallion Mix Up stamp set. I added Star Dust stickles onto the berries (you can see it in first and second pics). I hope you like it. Thanks for visiting. :)

Stamp of Approval - Naturally Inspired Collection Blog Hop - DAY TWO

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Day Two of Stamp of Approval Naturally Inspired Collection Blog Hops. If you have arrived here from Chrissie Tobas blog then you are right on track. And your next stop would be Kristie Goulet. We, the design team have a loads of inspirations so please stop on all the spots and leave comments for a chance to win the entire collection. If you miss the hop kindly start again from HERE.

A little about Stamp of Approval or SOA:  Stamp of Approval is a hand picked, exclusive collection of products that were designed just for the box that releases quarterly. This box is full of stamping goodness and they sell out really quickly. So be sure to subscribe to the Wait List so you will be emailed when the collection goes on sale on June 7th.

Please head on over to Catherine Pooler’s website (the founder of Stamp of Approval) to sign up on the Waiting List, this is the best way to make sure you get YOUR Stamp of Approval box. Wait List members will be notified first through email when the box goes up for sale one hour before the collection is released to the general public! So make sure you sign up for the Waiting List so that you don’t miss out on your Stamp of Approval box!

The theme of our collection is NATURALLY INSPIRED so I am naturally inspired by Nature. I love beautiful and colorful leaves, flowers and birds. And I went with the water color technique! :)

image source from google images

I made several cards with this beautiful collection but today I will be showing you two cards and in the next coming days I will show you more! I will try to make more and more cards with this collection :)

This card features Birds of a Feather and Medallion Mix-up stamp sets.

inks used - rockin' red and midnight

I inked up the beautiful feather and spritzed some water and stamped repeatedly on the card base. Stamped the message on a die-cut circle and wrapped and tied a simple knot with white twine.

This card features Wild Garden, Simply the Best stamp sets and the Best Die.

inks used - melon ice, garden party, sweet sixteen, pixie dust and midnight

I applied the same technique for this one also as mentioned in the above card. Die-cut the word best and sponged the ink at the bottom and adhered it onto the card base. Also stamped the sentiment beneath the die-cut as well.

Make sure to leave a comment on each blog because Catherine is giving away one of the Naturally Inspired Stamp of Approval collections for EACH day of the hops.   That is 3 boxes!  The more times you comment, the more chances you will have of to win! (If the winner has already purchased a box, they will be refunded!)

You've got until Thursday at 9:00AM EST to get those comments in. The winner will be announced on Catherine Pooler's blog!  Good luck and happy hopping!

BLOG HOP LIST

Catherine Pooler 

Chrissie Tobas 

Deepti Stephens  (you are here)

Kristie Goulet 

Justine Hovey 

Jill Hawkins 

Kimberly Wiener 

Spring Fling Release Blog Hop

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Spring Fling Release Blog Hop. If you have arrived from Melissa's blog then you are right on track and your next stop would be Lydia's blog. If you miss any spot kindly start from HERE.

This Spring Fling Collection Bundle is all about launching EIGHT new inks in pastel shades by Catherine Pooler Designs. Catherine launched Five colors in November, 2016 and the next colors in January, 2017. You can learn about these inks HERE.

This Spring Fling Release also consists of the following products

• 8 inks (Bellini, Garden Party, It’s a Boy, It’s a Girl, Melon Ice, Mint to Be, Pixie Dust, and Sweet Sixteen)
• Dotted Circles Dies
• Circle Dies (sized to coordinate with Catherine’s circle stamp sets)
• Spot On Sentiments Dies
• Simply Stated Stamp Set
• Beautiful You Stamp Set
• Modern Damask Stamp Set

The new release is available now (click HERE to shop)

Today we are celebrating the release with a blog hop. Myself and all the lovely team members created some beautiful cards for you. So be sure to stop by on all the spots for a chance to win these yummy inks.

I've already created a few cards with The Spring Fling Collection, you can check my previous posts HERE and HERE.

CARD #1

So I am here today with three cards for you. The first card features the new inks - Pixie Dust, It's a Boy, Melon Ice, Bellini, It's a Girl and Mint to be. And this card also features the brand new dies and stamp set - Circle Dies and Simply Stated Stamp Set.

I ran the Circle dies through the Big Shot Express Machine and colored them with the colors mentioned above. Next I die-cut the circle out of white card stock and colored the inside portion of the main card base with Mint to be Ink and adhered the rainbow as shown above.

Finally stamped the sentiment on a strip of white card stock from Simply Stated stamp set with Midnight ink. As my filler stamp I used a bird (stamped him twice with Midnight ink to achieve that grey color) from Wonderful Wreath - SOA Lovely Notes Collection. And that finishes my first card! 

CARD #2

For my second card, I took a white card stock slightly smaller than the main card base and stamped the pretty flowers and leaves from Lovely Flowers - SOA Lovely Notes Collection in It's a Girl, Mint to be, Melon Ice and Sweet Sixteen.

Next I placed 'congrats' from Spot On Dies and ran it through the Big Shot Express Machine. I die-cut congrats twice and adhere all three together to form a chipboard like embellishment. Next I adhered it on to card stock, you can actually see the how the word just pops out of the card stock. Finally I adhered the sequins here and there to finish my card design.

CARD #3

Here is my third card and this card features New Inks - It's a Girl and Melon Ice, New Dies - Circle Dies and New stamp set - Simply Stated.

I die-cut the circles out of white card stock, cut it into half, water colored them with It's a Girl and Melon Ice inks and turned them into beautiful watermelons. Yes you can absolutely water color the images with Catherine Pooler Inks. I drew a few seeds with a black permanent marker.

I adhered all the melons randomly on an A2 top folding card. I stamped the sentiment from Simply Stated stamp set on a piece of Vellum card stock with Midnight Ink and adhered it onto the card base. Lastly I finished the card off with a few clear sequins. 

I hope you like my cards and I hope you got inspired. :)

Here is the flip through catalog of The Spring Fling Bundle Collection. Enjoy! :)

BLOG HOP

Hop on and be sure to leave comments on all the spots for a chance to win this yummy goodness. Catherine Pooler will randomly choose 3 winners from all the blog hop comments to win a set of ink (or a gift certificate equivalent if you already purchased). All the entries will close at 24th, Monday noon!

Catherine Pooler 

Lisa Harrolle 

Kristie Goulet

Laurel Beard 

Maureen Merritt

Taheerah Atchia

Ingrid Blackburn

Chrissie Tobas

Melissa Miller

Deepti Stephens  (you're here)

Lydia Evans (your next stop)

Heather North

Thank you so much for stopping by. Take care and I will see you next time :)

Catherine Pooler's New Inks

Hello everyone! Today I am here showcasing the new inks from Catherine Pooler Designs and this collection is called Spring Fling Bundle. In November Catherine Pooler introduced Five colors and they all came in the Foundations Box.

 In January, CP introduced the next Eight colors and she named the collection as Party Collection and soon will be named as Life of Party (You can buy them as bundle or you can buy them separately). This Party Collection has got some really vibrant and Yummy Colors. I think CP inks are the best in the world. They are so vibrant and crisp and perfect for any type of technique. You can stamp, water color, ink blend and what not you can try any technique you want :)

You can check my Foundations Box and Catherine Pooler's Ink Party Collection.

Now she is coming with another Eight new colors and I know you'll love them for sure! These inks are lighter value, but still saturated, pure colors making color coordination a snap! And she named this collection as Spring Fling Bundle. :)

All week CP will be sharing a new photo on Facebook along with a written clue. Leave your guess as to what the color is and tune in the next morning for a Facebook Live where she’ll reveal the new color to you! Till now she has revealed Bellini, Garden Party, Sweet Sixteen, It's a girl, Pixie Dust and It's a boy. And in the next coming days she will be revealing last Two colors so just keep an eye on her Facebook Page! ;)

So today, I am here with three simple cards with the same design but used different colors. For the first card I used _____ ? (participate in Guess Game) For the second one I used Bellini which is a nice Peachy tone. 

I stamped the lovely flower and sentiment from Simply Stated Stamp set with Versamark Ink and heat embossed it with Gold Embossing Powder. I ink blended the background with Bellini Ink and added splatters of water for some texture. 

I did the same on this card also. I used Sweet Sixteen Ink for the background and used Silver embossing powder.

I hope you're loving these colors and I will be up tomorrow with another post. For more details please visit catherinepooler.com 

Along with the inks she also introduced a few beautiful products. Do check HERE. All these products will be available in the store on April 20th.

Thank you! :)