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June 2021

Colorado Craft Company – June 2021 Reveal Savvy Sentiments & Lovely Legs Collections

June 29, 2021

WoW! Such versatility in these sets and so exciting to share them with you today! There are (8) eight lovely new sets in todays release! The Savvy Sentiments sets are so classic and fun with different font styles that work with whimsical, classic and graphic looks! Have a peek at all of them.

https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/bb511-big-bold-color-my-world

https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/bb512-big-bold-build-a-rainbow

https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/ss515-savvy-sentiments-old-chap-birthday

https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/ss516-savvy-sentiments-birthday-blessings

https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/ss517-savvy-sentiments-thinking-of-you

https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/ss518-savvy-sentiments-general-greetings

https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/ll519-lovely-legs-uh-oh

https://www.coloradocraftcompany.com/product-page/ll520-lovely-legs-summertime-birthday

So many choices but, chose the “General Greetings” set from the Savvy Sentiments collection!

This set has six (6) all occasion sentiments from Happy Birthday, Forever Friends, Happy Anniversary, Thank you, Precious Baby, to Always & Forever. A sentiment for every occasion!

This was a fairly quick & easy card using a Lawn Fawn stitched die to create the circle opening. Cutting a 4.25 x 4.25″ of Ballet Slipper card stock, placing it in my Misti along with my card, I positioned the Precious Baby sentiment to it fit where I wanted it. Removing the outer card, I embossed my sentiment using Versamark embossing ink and white heat embossed my greeting. Adding a little accent with the coordinating circle sentiment of “too cute” I stamped, fussy cut and mounted it on a circle die cut of pink card stock. I grabbed the cute little bunny from one of Anita Jeram’s images “Bunnies & Robin” from Colorado Craft Company. The bunny was colored using Copic Markers and a glittery tail. (Who doesn’t like a glittery tail?) Teehee. I love dimensionals and used them to “pop up” the bunny and accent greeting.

Another from Colorado Craft Company’s new release is from the “Lovely Legs” collection. Summertime Birthday is celebrating tan legs and SUMMER! The main image is a pool side scene and (8) sentiments. I had fun creating this one!

After stamping my focal image on Neenah cardstock, I masked the image and ink blended the background with Lawn Fawn inks in blues and yellow. My main image was colored with Copic Markers and highlighted with colored pencils. The beach ball is “Paper Pieced” using Lawn Fawn’s Watercolor Wishes 6×6 Petite Paper Pack in Lucky Penny, Shooting Star and Wishing Well. My sentiment is stamped on a Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle and lifted up using dimensional foam squares. Finished my card by mounting it on Lawn Fawn’s Paper Bag Card Stock.

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Lets get Hopping and leave a comment on each blog below for a chance to win one of (8) eight giveaways from Colorado Craft Company!

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Christmas

Get Cracking on Christmas! – Catherine Pooler

June 17, 2021

It’s time to GET CRACKING ON CHRISTMAS!

It’s the most WONDERFUL time of the month! Thankful to Jenn Shurkus for helping us ALL get started on our Christmas, Holiday cards BEFORE the season begins by making a few cards each month so by December we have some cards ready to go! She will be doing a LIVE tonight www.youtube.com/jennshurkus showing how she made her card. Tune in 8:00 pm EST!

Catherine Pooler is my GET CRACKING feature this month with two cards using her NICE LIST stamp and die set.

Going rogue (you know these Alaskan’s) and choosing some Non-Traditional colors for my cards! Paired up these adorable stamps with Catherine Pooler’s absolutely “FUN” papers in the “Holiday Whimsy” pattern.

I’ve always enjoyed appliqué and making things with fabric but, paper is FASTER! So, I had fun appliquéing with paper and basically stamped and fussy cut the elf slippers, socks and hats out of that gorgeous paper collection.

These Elf feet are definitely Holly Jolly!

I love these cheerful more “Retro” style cards. Quite different from my “normal” style but, so fun to change things up!

Wishing you a Holly Jolly Christmas in June and unless you are in the Southern Hemisphere hoping you have sunny days and ice cream!

Get Cracking and join in the fun by using the hashtag #GETCRACKINGONCHRISTMAS and upload to Instagram or onto Jenn’s blog at Shurkus.com

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CHEERS! HAPPY JUNE! GET CRACKING!

Birthday

Colorado Craft Company – Anita Jeram Release, Free Shipping & Giveaway

June 16, 2021

Sharing another couple images from Colorado Craft Company’s June Release of Anita Jeram illustrations! The Art Is set set has (7)seven images and one sentiment and dies to match. The Easel is left blank so you can create what you wish! Three of the smaller images are sized to fit the Easel as well!

Love the Rabbit’s cute little student bunnies! The carrot is free hand sketched and the image is colored with Copic markers, and enhanced with colored pencil. I mounted my die cut image on white card stock with dimensional foam squares and offset that on a background of 3C’s “Stripes and Dots.”

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Another set “Play Time” includes two adorable images of Anita Jeram’s little mice and 4 sentiments. One of images has 4 little mice playing with a tea set, making tea and another image of 2 little mice playing with make up.

How cute are little mice applying eyelashes to their heads?

Another Copic colored image enhanced with colored pencil and then fussy cut. After trimming out my image I mounted it on a stitched rectangle base die backed with fun foam and mounted on a card base that was covered in a stripe pattern from Lawn Fawn’s “Let it Shine” 6×6 decorative paper. The sentiment was stamped on a smaller rectangle from the same die set. Both die cuts were lightly ink blended with Lawn Fawn’s bubble gum ink.

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Birthday

Colorado Craft Company – Anita Jeram – June Reveal

June 13, 2021

Its another EXCITING whimsical reveal of Anita Jeram images by Colorado Craft Company! There are SO many cute sets in this months release you will want them ALL!

June is a glorious WEDDING MONTH and HAPPILY EVER AFTER is the perfect wedding set. I truly can’t think of a wedding stamp set I love more! Let me show you!!

This large 6×8″ set includes (11) eleven images and (6)six sentiments and matching dies. I used some of the dies for the wedding couple, flower girl and present in my peek a boo style card that gives such a fun look into the wedding festivities!

The main image is stamped onto 110# Neenah Solar White card stock 5.5 x 8.5″ (which becomes your card base) with alcohol friendly ink. After coloring the wedding party in Copic markers, I used colored pencil to lightly enhance the color, filling in all the “nooks and crannies” as Kathy at the dailymarker.com would tell you. I love enhancing my Copic Marker coloring with colored pencil, it seems like it makes the images come alive.

Then using the largest die in the Lawn Fawn Den die set, I cut the opening out of 4.25 x 5.5″ card stock making sure it lines up perfectly with the card base. Pop that up on “doubled”dimensionals (foam tape or fun foam) and you have your little party scene in the background! Stamp, color and die cut the wedding couple, present, and flower girl and back them with doubled foam tape and place on the outline of the Den cut out to make your little scene even more life like!

Here are the product links for the entire RELEASE

Just because the 3C’s Anita Jeram images are so much fun to watercolor, I did up the Happily Ever After set in watercolor. And, a word about color. Listed in the links below are some of my “Go to” Copic markers. I never know exactly which I may end up with. You don’t need a huge collection. Use what you have and add to your collection slowly 🙂 Watercolors are Daniel Smith and as with Copic Markers, add your favorite colors to your collection.

Colorado Craft Company is generously having a drawing for one of the new sets. To be included in the drawing for one set of the new stamps going to 8 individuals you will need to leave a comment on each blog. You can enter your comments until midnight eastern time on the 16th and winners will be announced by Colorado Stamp Company blog on June 17th.

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Thank you as always for all your sweet comments and for shopping my links! I do receive a small compensation when you shop my links at no extra charge to you. I’ve linked below products that I used or substitutes that may be available. In the case of dimensionals for the wedding peek a boo card, I used 2 layers of fun foam. I listed other products that will substitute.

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