Light a Fire!

Hello there inky friends!  Today I have a super fun project to share with you!  I'm joining my fellow Joy Clair designers AND the My Sweet Petunia designers in a blog hop collaboration!  If you've arrived to my blog from Maureen's blog, you're on the right track.  If not, I've attached the crumb trail so you can hop along!

Ilina Crouse

Martha Lucia Gomez

Jeanne Streiff

LeeAnn McKinney

Maureen Wong

Kerry Urbatch

Lydia Fiedler

Lori Kobular

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Donna Idlet

Ceal Pritchett

Lindsay Adreon

Dina Kowal

Helen Gullett

Giovana Smith

Jessica Pascarella

Stephanie Severin

Steph Ackerman

Amanda Woodruff

My Sweet Petunia

Please join us on the hop by visiting and commenting on each blog along the way.  As you visit our blogs, remember to leave some love.

**My Sweet Petunia will be selecting one winner to receive their choice of an Original or Mini MISTI (Now PATENTED!  WOO HOO!) .  You can view the winner announcement on their WINNER POST HERE on April 14.

**Joy Clair will be selecting TWO winners to receive $25.00 Gift Certificate to the Joy Clair Store!  They will be announced on the Joy Clair Blog on April 12.

Now let's get on with the show ha ha...

This card was created using the super-fun Ignite set from Joy Clair.  I love the sketchy lettering in the sentiments and it's great for bible journaling, planner stamping, scrapbooking and cardmaking.  I love how versatile it is and that it can be used to create both feminine and masculine creations!

I positioned the big flame onto the lower edge of the paper and layed the lid of the MISTI on top.  I stamped it three times...Once with YELLOW ink, then with ORANGE and finally with RED ink (along the outer edges). Next, I aligned the sentiment and inked it up with BLACK ink.  The MISTI allowed for perfectly positioned stamping and alignment of the images and allowed me to overstamp the image/sentiment several times without fear of misalignement.

Take a peek at the inking...Just a bit of color along the edges, the texture of the ink pad peeking through.  YUM!  

After that was complete, I arranged the other flames into a pleasing format and stamped again with the same colors.  I finished up the stamping with one final inking of the edges with black to tie in with the sentiment.  

I attached this inked panel to some brown cardstock then attached it with foam squares to a kraft front that was painted with orange, yellow and red watercolor lines to mimic the sentiment "sketchiness".  I also added a bit of graph paper and some sparkle/glaze to the card.  This panel was glued to a white card base.  

I want to thank Ilyana and her team at My Sweet Petunia for providing such a fabulous product and for allowing me to join the fun today!  I appreciate your generosity and kindness and look forward to playing with my MISTI in many, many more inky adventures!  

CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING AWARDED YOUR PATENT!!! WOOP WOOP!!!

Now join me in heading on over to the fabulous Lydia's blog to see what amazing project she has to share!  

Plan on it! Joy Clair February Challenge: Shades of Red

Hello there stampers!  Today I'm joining many of my fellow Joy Clair Design Team (and hopefully YOU) in kicking off February's Joy Clair Monthly Challenge.  I decided to go double duty and prep one of my planners with this FIERY FEBRUARY divider page of LUUUUVVVE.  Hee hee hee.  

During 2017, Joy Clair will offer a monthly challenge that we hope will inspire your creative muse and help you get inky!  

As with any challenge, there are a few rules.  Please read our rules and follow them to be considered in the monthly drawing for a winner.  

RULES:

Create a project using a Joy Clair stamp (set) and use the inspiration image for the challenge.  You can use any of the stamps in the Joy Clair Collection HERE.  What?  You don't have any Joy Clair stamp sets yet?  We'll what are you waiting for?  SHOP AWAY!  Shipping is super fast and you'll get your order in no time at all!  

What can I create?  ANy type of project is accepted.  Make sure to include at least one Joy Clair stamp in your design.  Make sure to identify it in your description too!  

Where do I share my creation?  Post your project on either your personal blog, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, Facebook (set to public) or any online gallery.  You MUST link your posting back to the Joy Clair blog challenge post.  **Add a direct link to your project using the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post.  

Can I use older projects that I love?  While we love to see your favorite old picks, it's important that you share a brand-spankin' new project.  Please don't backlink an old project to our challenges.  Start FRESH!  

How many projects can I share with Joy Clair visitors?  You can share an unlimited amount of projects as long as they are NEW and relate to our challenge theme.   

This month, we're going all out with RED!  Take a peek at our inspiration photo snagged from design-seeds.com.  

Aren't the colors just sweet?  I love them.  I took these colors to heart when I created my fiery scene using the yummy set called IGNITE!  It's a perfect set for planners, cards, scrapbooks and bible journals, don't you think?  

Initially, I wanted to create a fiery card using the "Set a Fire" sentiment.  I gathered some cream acrylic paint and added a bit of reinkers to mix some custom fiery colors.  After that, I spritzed some water in the pan to thin the paint out.  Brushing the paint on was next, it was a pretty fast process.  

After the paint was dry, I stamped some of the flames using black Versafine ink.  I embossed (messy style) using some black embossing powder.  As you can see, Messy style is just that and ends up all over-even in my paint pan!  Not to worry, it makes the paint have a yummy texture and I love it!  :)

Next, I cut out a piece of Graph paper and started stamping and coloring it to my liking.  I also added my personalized "February" scripty writing along the edge.  The "Set A Fire" panel was cut out, dipped and sprinkled with gold and clear embossing powder and assembled onto the graph paper panel.

Here's a little zoomed-in peek at the flames added to the bottom of the fire.  I love how the messy embossing turned out!  Yes, the flames were fussy cut...I do love fussy cutting!  Adding some washi tape (Target last year) and mounting the panel onto some red (hole punched) cardstock finished it off.
Now I'm ready for what February has to throw at me!

Oh wait!!!  It's not to be forgotten!  I created a little planner clip using one of the flame images.  Isn't it cute???  It's nice and glossy-shiny as I used clear embossing powder and a little gold EP extra-thick on top!  It's the perfect little finishing touch that makes my February READY TO GO!  

Thanks for popping over to see my fun creation.  I hope you find some time this month to join us in this challenge.  Remember, all you have to do is create something yummy with a RED theme and Joy Clair image then stop over to the Joy Clair blog post HERE.  You can add your link below or add it directly right on the JC Blog.  We can't wait to see what you've got!

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