Evelin T Designs | Baby, It's Cold Outside

Today's fun winter card features the Baby, It's Cold Outside stamp set from Evelin T Designs' latest release. I just love this big illustration of a monster sledding! I haven't been sledding in ages and the monster's excitement makes me want to go, except I'm getting old and can't tolerate the cold much anymore so maybe not. LOL

I started this card by selecting distress ink colours for my image. Then I stamped the images and sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black pigment ink and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.  I die cut the background from a retired arch die from My Favourite Things. If you're looking for something similar, I've provided an alternate in the supply links below.

I also stamped tiny snowflakes with Versamark Watermark ink before ink blending the background with three shades of blue distress ink. I watercoloured the image, dried it with my heat tool and fussy cut it. To create the shaker, I added acetate to the front panel and used foam tape to build walls to house the sequins and seed beads from Studio Katia.

I love this idea for winter cards in lieu of holiday cards or in addition to Christmas cards. No doubt, this winter will feel extra long and we can all use as much happy mail as possible! I'm tempted to make a bunch of these in different colours.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Evelin T Designs | October 2020 Release Day

Hello, friends! The Evelin T Designs Winter/Christmas Release is now LIVE in the shop! If you missed yesterday's Blog Hop, be sure to hop along for your chance to win one a $15 gift certificate and receive a gift with purchase. 

For today's card, I combined the Be Merry and Season's Greetings stamp sets. This hedgehog in a mug is my favourite image out of the entire release. It's so adorable, wedged in the mug and holding poinsettia! LOL

I stamped and heat embossed both the image and custom sentiment. Then ink blended an overlapping background by die cutting circles from masking paper. I also die cut a stitched pattern to the bottom of the panel before attaching the image to the card with glue dots and embellishing with coordinating pearls.

Here's a review of the five new stamp sets available now:

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Evelin T Designs | October 2020 Release | Day 2 + Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 2 of the Evelin T Designs Winter/Christmas Release! Today, we're having a blog hop and you can find the full hop list below. The design team is showcasing the final three stamp sets today and I'm featuring the Be Merry stamp set, which is my favourite from this release!

Believe it or not, I used the exact same ink colours and ink blended frame as I did on my Day 1 card. The ratios of each colour are different and, of course, the orientation of the card. The animals are, again, singing and playing instruments and their Christmas tree is a mushroom! I masked the three images together. What can I say? I'm a music lover and cannot resist musical critters, especially when they are this cute!

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Please note that the colouring cards are only available while stocks last. You must add the Cozy Hedgehogs Digital Stamp Kit into your eligible cart and apply coupon code COZY2020 before checking out.

As a reminder, these exclusive FREE GIFTS WITH PURCHASE are only available if you purchase through the Evelin T Designs store from Oct 28th to Nov 11th. Your eligible order must include at least one stamp from the Winter/Christmas Release.

All shop links will go live at 12:00am EST on October 28th and there will be a recap of the stamp sets on the blog. Please note that Evelin and her family have been evacuated due to the threat from the Silverado Fires. As a result, shipping of the release may be delayed and we will provide an update as soon as possible. Thank you for your support during this challenging time!

Thanks so much for hopping along with us and I'll see you again tomorrow!

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Evelin T Designs | October 2020 Release | Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of Evelin T Designs' October 2020 Release! Today, the design team is featuring Baby, It's Cold Outside and Pup-tastic Christmas. My card features one of the darling images from Pup-tastic Christmas. I just love this trio of carollers!

I stamped and heat embossed the image, sentiment and music notes with black pigment ink and clear embossing powder on watercolour cardstock. Then I watercolored the images with distress inks and you can find all of those colours listed below.

To create the background, I used a rectangle masking stencil and ink blended with distress inks. Then I used shimmer spritz to splatter the entire panel. It's super sparkly in real life and you can see some of the shimmer HERE! Neither the photos nor video do it justice. After the panel completely dried, I adhered it to a card base and added icy sparkle crystals to finish the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! See you tomorrow for our blog hop with freebies and giveaways!

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Evelin T Designs | A Halloween Story

I'm so excited to share this card with you because it turned out exactly how I had hoped it would! I had this lovely idea of a girl reading a spooky story and her interpretation of the story is brought to life in the vision above her.

I made this card by stamping images from Best Friends Fur-Ever and All Hallow's Cuteness, then creating masks for them. I used a retired Paper Smooches Quotables Die (alternates listed below) to create the separation between reality and fantasy. Then I used a My Favorite Things Cloud Stencil to sponge the background.

After the background was completed, I sprayed water droplets on the top panel and removed the masks. Then I watercoloured the images with distress inks and adhered the two panels to the card base. To add mystique, I used Studio Katia Iridescent Stars to both panels.

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Evelin T Designs | All Things Grow With Love

Happy Monday! I hope you all found some time to relax this weekend. It's definitely something we don't get enough of and today's card is here to remind you of that. I made this for a friend who's about to file for divorce. Yes, in the middle of a pandemic so most of us should count ourselves lucky that it's not us!

I'm featuring the Life is Beautiful stamp set which is filled with sweet plants, room decor and a meditating girl who's one of my most favourite Evelin T Designs images ever. I created the room setting first, stamping all the paintings and little tables of succulents. Then I watercoloured all the images with distress inks and fussy cut the two friends and popped them up on the card.

To finish, I masked off the wall and ink blended a floor and adhered some iridescent butterfly sequins to embellish the card and add some shimmer.

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VIDEO | Evelin T Designs | Floral Gift Tags

I'm so excited to bring you this video featuring the Floral Surprise and Positivi-Tea stamp sets from Evelin T Designs! I came up with this idea during release week and I wanted to play with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers which have sat unused for too long.

I started by die cutting tags from Studio Katia's Dotted Patterns Set 1 dies and stamped part of the Floral Surprise image on the bottom right hand corner of each tag, using a different part of the image on both tags to show some variation.

I also stamped three images from Positivi-Tea that would be fussy cut and popped up with large glue dots. The Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers were so easy to use and I love their vibrancy! I will definitely play with them more. To finish, I layered the bristol tags on kraft cardstock, added black hemp cord and arctic breeze pearls.

Thanks so much for watching!

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Evelin T Designs | June 2020 Release Day + Video Review!

Welcome to the Evelin T Designs June 2020 Release! Evelin has outdone herself and illustrated EIGHT new stamp sets and I can't wait to share them with you. This week, two stamp sets will be revealed each day and the design team has been busy creating loads of inspiration to share with you. Be sure to stop by the Evelin T Designs blog each day and leave comments for your chance to win one of TWO $15 gift certificates!

In addition to today's project, I'm sharing a full video review of all eight stamp sets and design team inspiration projects. You'll get a closer look at each stamp set, as well as ideas on how to use each stamp set.

Today's card features Best Friends Fur-Ever! The sweet little bookworm won me over and I love the sentiments that reference coffee, tea and cocoa. Oh, and let's talk about those lush leaves, shall we? Since I wasn't in the mood to colour when I sat down to make this card, I decided to go through my patterned paper stash and, boy, do I have a lot of 6x6 pads!

Do you remember the paper company BasicGrey? It was one of my favourites and I was so sad when they closed down in 2016. I used 10 different papers from their Barista paper pad. It's fittingly named for this card since the cute monster is drinking coffee! While you can't get these papers anymore, I've linked below to an alternate with similar colours.

I stamped each image multiple times, first on Neenah solid white cardstock so I could colour parts of the images like the bunny and girl's head with Copic markers. Then I pieced together the monster, girl's outfit and the leaves with all the different patterns. I also cut out the top piece to look like curtains, die cutting stitched lines across the top, and of course using a coveted burlap pattern for the floor.

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Evelin T Designs | June 2020 Release | Day 3

Welcome to the Evelin T Designs June 2020 Release! Evelin has outdone herself and illustrated EIGHT new stamp sets and I can't wait to share them with you. This week, two stamp sets will be revealed each day and the design team has been busy creating loads of inspiration to share with you. Be sure to stop by the Evelin T Designs blog each day and leave comments for your chance to win one of TWO $15 gift certificates!

Today's card features Under the Sea: Background and Under the Sea: Merfriends. My favourite stamp sets by Evelin are the big ones, like All Is Calm, Sneaky Kitties, Floral Surprise and now Under the Sea: Background! I love the way they cover an A2 card front, making it easy to make a card. All three Under the Sea stamp sets in this release - Narwhal, Background and Merfriends -  work well together.

I had actually coloured the merbear and wanted to include him in this scene. However, I didn't plan where I would put him and filled the empty space with the fish, jellyfish and sea turtle. (What do you think of the bear as merdusa? LOL) The original sentiment I used also didn't work with the card without the merbear so I had no choice but to add some patterned paper to the top of the card to cover it up. I die cut a stitched border across the very top. Then I chose a more appropriate sentiment for the scene.

Thanks so much for stopping by. See you again tomorrow for Release Day!

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Evelin T Designs | June 2020 Release | Day 2

Welcome to the Evelin T Designs June 2020 Release! Evelin has outdone herself and illustrated EIGHT new stamp sets and I can't wait to share them with you. This week, two stamp sets will be revealed each day and the design team has been busy creating loads of inspiration to share with you. Be sure to stop by the Evelin T Designs blog each day and leave comments for your chance to win one of TWO $15 gift certificates!

Today's card features Positive-Tea. I'm a coffee and tea lover and I go crazy for any kind of coffee or tea stamp set so this was made for me! It's jam-packed with so many beautiful images, the possibilities are endless.

I did a lot of masking for this card and I heat embossed the images, too, so it took a long time to make! It was so much fun to watercolour all of the details with distress inks. After all the colouring was done, I ink blended a 'table' and added some colour to anchor the images and create a simple background.

I love all of the unique, encouraging sentiments in this set which make them perfect for cards that will brighten anyone's day.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope to see you again tomorrow!

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