bugbites...: New Release Hop

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Cat's Pajamas April New Release Hop!

Wahoo! Today is the day that The Cat's Pajama's releases their full April collection! I hope you've been inspired and encouraged by all the fun inspiration this past week as we snuck a few creative goodies in here and there. What's your favorite of the launch? I think mine has definitely got to be the SUPER bear set and the gorgeous Still Life set!

Hop over to the TCP blog to check out all inspiration from the week! Today, Alma is up sharing her fun projects too!

If you've arrived here from Christine's blog, you're on the right track. If not, enjoy the rest of the hop and circle back to see what you missed!

To create my sophisticated and elegant card, I stamped the sentiment and the florals onto a piece of cream cardstock. I then heatset the ink and colored with some lavender and pink watercolored pencils. I added some drops of water to help the colors blend and pool and then dried it with my heat gun.

Notice the stitched edge? I used the new Liner die to cut the stitching on the bottom of my card. I think it makes it just so pretty. To finish this card off, I mounted the stamped panel onto a black panel and then I attached a black satin ribbon with a pink shell heart button and tied it off with some black twine. I mounted the stamped panel onto a white card base to make the stamped panel stand out!

Thanks for hopping over to check out my project! Hop on over to Wendy's blog to see what she has to inspire you!

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

TCP New Release!

Hello there TCP fans! If you've arrived here from Lynn's blog, you're on the right track! Have you been inspired? Have you picked your favorites for this release? This release is a doozie of fabulousness isn't it!?! Amazing stuff this time right? I've included the blog hop line-up at the end of my post so if you get lost, you can come back and reset your navigational beacon. ;)

Today, I'm featuring several of the newest products in this month's release:

1. Spring Flower Duo

2. Four Seasons Duo

3. Stitched Squares and More

4. Travel Stickers

5. Spring Mix Sequins

6. Green Holo Sequins

7. Gem Wand

Kitty Cat Pack (all stamps/dies in this release at a discount)

Poochie Pack (all stamps in this release + one choice of a $12 stamp set)

To create my first card, I stamped the Eiffel Tower stamp from the Travel Stickers set onto a piece of white cardstock over and over again with pink and then with wine colored ink. I then splattered with gold ink and some metallic silver ink. Next, I diecut the Spring Flower Duo die onto a piece of white cardstock so that I could overlay it over the stamped images. After it was overlayed, I attached some ribbon and golden pearls, added a pink button and a little veneer heart.

To finish off this card, I added some sequins here and there using the new Spring Mix sequins. I love the little sequin grabber! It makes picking up and gluing itty bitty sequins so easy! As you can see below, I also added a bit of black linework around the sentiment and some random dots on the floral portion of the diecut.

My next card features one of the dies from the Four Seasons die set as well as the Chichen Itza Mexico stamp from the Travel Stickers Set. I stamped the travel sticker with opaque white ink so that it could become a bit of my background. Splattering some of the white ink onto the panel helped add some texture too.

To add layers to my card, I diecut the stitched squares and more and cut them out to allow for a fun framed element that I could use on my card. After diecutting and assembling the cruise ship image, I mounted it onto my card panel and added some of the green Holo sequins. I think these sequins have a beautiful aqua-like green hint in the colors and it reminded me of my trip to Mexico several years back.