Kathy Salido ~ Guest Designer

Hello all you Jaded Blossom Fans!!

It has been such a blast being a guest designer for 

Jaded Blossom this month.  I am so sad that it has 

come to an end.  Today I am sharing my final project.

So for my final project, I wanted to use

the Jaded Blossom Roses Stamp.

I have been wanting to try watercoloring, 

 so I tried coloring up a couple of these beautiful Roses

I stamped the roses and leaves

onto watercolor cardstock using Versamark.

I used sparkle embossing powder and my heat gun.

Then I colored them in using  my

Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers and a waterbrush.

As I was coloring the roses in, I thought, what Sentiment

will I use??  Well a friend from church recently lost

her son, so I thought I would make her a sympathy card

I used Simply Blessings 

I heat embossed the sentiment with White Embossing Powder.

I finished my card with a little twine and some sequins.

I also used Card Mat Dies for the background piece

and sentiment label.

I have really enjoyed reading all your wonderful

comments and want to thank Candace and Michelle

for having me as a guest designer!!

Happy Holidays

Hello Friends!

I have a super quick post to share with you today.

I created this card using the My Favorite Things

Snowflake Flurry and Hand Lettered Holiday stamps.

I first stamped my images using Versamark Ink,

then I heat embossed using Holographic Embossing Powder from Ranger.

I watercolored the background using Distress Inks

in Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers.

The background paper is My Favorite Things Fresh Squeezed Chevron paper.

I finished it off with some glitter tulle and a few sequins.

This photos don;t capture it, but the snowflakes

and sentiment are really sparkly :)

Thanks and enjoy your weekend!!

CDD Novemeber Stamp Release - Day 2

 Welcome to our ninth Craftin Desert Diva's stamp release blog hop!! We're super excited to share with you in full the CDD November release stamps. For this 2 day hop the CDD DT are being joined by the Too Cute by Jessica DT to share some awesome Christmas projects for you.  There are five new stamps that are being released today in the CDD Shop and are available now for purchase.

**All stamps with images have a FREE SVG(digital cut file)**
This makes it so easy, you just cut out the image and then stamp on it. The SVG cut file will be in the CDD Gallery for you to download or after purchase just send  an email to craftindesertdivas@gmail.com to claim your SVG cut for the stamp set you purchased. Tara has also added images and sizes for the SVGs in the CDD Shop.

So without further ado here are the latest stamp sets:

 

 

They are all now available for purchase HERE

Here are the SVG cut file for each stamp...

  

 

These SVG outlines are in the CDD Gallery or email craftindesertdivas@gmail.com after your stamp purchase to request them.

 

Here are this release specials for you:
 

1. Use Code: NOV to receive 20% off your entire order. Sale ends Dec. 5 Midnight MST.

2.  4x6 Freebie is for $30 minimum purchase (before tax & shipping) in the CDD Shop.  

Offer ends Dec. 5 

Today you can get this freebie pattern by following and commenting on ALL the blogs in today's hop. After you have done this you can email craftindesertdivas@gmail.com or send Tara a message on FB to claim your pattern.

 

What would be a blog hop without some more prizes??

Hop Prizes:

1. CDD giving away 1 stamp a day.

2.Too Cute by Jessica - $25 gift card (reg. priced patterns)

 

And now on to my creations....
 

First up, I have a cute gift for the baker in your life!!

I used TAG IT to create my tag.

I tell you I love this stamp and SVG set!!

I created to outside offset layers.

The cute little baking utensils are from

the free TCBJ pattern given away

during yesterday's hop.

The sentiment is from

BAKED WITH LOVE

For my second project,
I made to cards the same
just using different colors schemes.
I used a sketch from Mojo Monday.
I used TAG IT and HAPPY CELEBRATIONS
for the sentiment on both of these
and the sweet Santa is from the New Gotta Have It
NOVEMBER FREEBIE !!

For this one, I used Doodlebug's Santa's Express Line

 

And this one uses Doodlebug's Frosty Friends Line.

I used Spectrum Noir Markers to color my Santas

So hop, hop, hop on over to JANIS

 

Come join us here on Facebook:

CDD Gallery - We'd love you to share your projects using the CDD stamps.

Blogs on the hop:

CDD- http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/
Kathy- http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/
Janis- http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/
Leah- http://leahschaeffer.blogspot.com/
Tina- http://thescrappinrabbit.blogspot.com/
Whitney- http://www.theprincessandthepaper.blogspot.com/
Shelly- http://mypaperlove.blogspot.com/
Nicole- http://teachdanz.blogspot.com/
Lori- http://got2bcrafting.blogspot.com/
Sukie- http://scrappindhilly.blogspot.com/
Karen-  http://craftedwithlovebykaren.blogspot.com/
Mary-  http://www.scrappintoday.blogspot.com/
TCBJ- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Too-Cute-by-Jessica/196421370434846

Thanks so much for joining us today!!



Card Creating Tuesday - Use Heat Embossing

Today is

For today's project, we could use the

provided sketch, or use heat embossing.

I chose to use heat embossing for my card today.

I used the following supplies:

Celebrate with Flourish Cricut Cartridge

Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art Cartridge

Al La Mode Embossing Powders

Corrdinations Cardstock

PP is from Papercraft

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

My Craft Spot Crinkle Ribbon

Glitter Cardstock

Glimmer Mist

Close to My Heart "Easter Eggs" Stamp Set

Versamark Dazzle Ink Pad

I started off by stamping several different

Easter Eggs from the CTMH stamp set.

I love this set because it has about 12 different

stamps with different patterned eggs.

I stamped them all on white cardstock.

I then applied embossing powder in several pastel colors.

I used my heat gun to heat up the embossing powder.

Next, I sprtized each of the eggs with

Glimmer Mist in the coordinating color to

the embossing powder.  I cut each of the eggs out.

I cut the easter basket and all it's layers from

Celebrate with Flourish at 4.5"

I used a basket weave Cuttlebug folder on the basket.

I cut the eggs down to size so they would fit in the basket.

The sentiment was cut from

Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art at 2".

Thanks for visiting today and please make sure

to stop by My Cricut Craft Room

to see what the rest of the team has created today

25 Days of December - Day 14 ORNAMENTS

Welcome to Erica's Craft Room 25 Days of Christmas,

with 25 Cricut projects  day.  Don't forget to stop by

Erica's blog to see 24 more projects today....

and every day in December.

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Today's theme was to use an Ornament!

Here is my project....

My project was to use embossing powders:

 Whew, we are at Day 14, only 10 days left until Christmas!!  For today's card, once again, I used Art Philosophy!!  Surprise, Surprise!!  I am not going to apologize for using this cartridge over and over, it is my favorite!!!  The card base was cut at 10.49" W x 5.6" H.  I pasted a piece of DCWV Christmas Glitter Stack paper behind the ornament that was cut using the card feature.  The strip of paper on the left side is also from the same sheet of paper.  The cardbase is made from Coordinations Cardstock in Scarlett.  I embossed with a Cuttlebug Ornament folder.  The sentiment is from My Craft Spot "Merry Christmas" stamp set.  I embossed the sentiment with embossing powder from A La Mode.  To finish off my card, I added some tinsel string and some Diamond Stickles.

Make sure to come back tomorrow!!

Happy Crafting!!