Easy Easter Egg Holders for Sweet Easter Displays

By Nancy May

Hey y’all.  I am going to share how you can create simple Easter egg holder rings that you can use to create an Easter display to match your style, your décor, etc. The sky is the limit! Let get to it!

~Nancy

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Skill: Beginner (but adaptable to more advanced learners)

Time: 30-ish minutes

Art Supplies

Imagine

• VersaFine Clair Ink Pad: Nocturn, Shady Lane, Verdant

• VersaColor Dew Drops: Magic Black, Tea Leaves

• Brilliance Dew Drop: Pearlescent Orchid

• On-Point Glue

Other

•  Simon Says Stamp – Clear Stamps – Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Hipster Bunny 

• Whimsy Stamps – Dies – Grass and Cloud Edger Dies 

• Whimsy Stamps – Supplies – Large Blender Brush

• Lavinia Stamps – Stencils – White Orbs

• Scrapbook.com – Supplies – Reverse Tweezers

Let’s Make a Thank You Card

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By Kathi Rerek

– Greetings! It’s Kathi here. In today’s tutorial, I am going to show you how to create a shimmery Thank You card using multiple Brilliance Ink colors.

Skill: Beginner to Intermediate

Time: 1.5 hours

Directions:

Step 1: 

Cut a piece of Mixed Media paper to 4” x 5.25”. Using a Sponge Dauber, apply Sky Blue Pearlescent Brilliance Ink to half of the panel. Use another Sponge Dauber to apply Orchid Pearlescent Brilliance ink to the other side. Blend the two colors of ink in the center. 

Repeat this step with a second piece of paper. Set this piece aside to be used later.

Step 2:

Spray Isopropyl Alcohol onto ink blended paper panel and let sit for a minute. The alcohol will lighten, blend, and add white speckles to the paper. Heat set.

Step 3:

Use Removable Scotch Tape to tape the background panel to the back of the Mosaic Stencil, then use an Ink Sweeper to apply Moonlight White Brilliance ink over the stencil onto panel.

Step 4:

Remove the tape and the stencil. Heat set.

Step 5: 

Use three flower dies from the Wildflowers 1 Thinlits Die Set to cut Mixed Media Paper.

Step 6: 

Use Sponge Daubers to apply Pearlescent Purple, Pearlescent Ice Blue, and Pearlescent Lavender to the flowers. Use Fantastix Brush applicators to detail the flowers with Mediterranean Blue Brilliance, Pearlescent Sky Blue Brilliance, Grape Jelly Memento inks. Color the flower stems and leaves with Pearlescent Thyme Brilliance and Cottage Ivy Memento inks.

Step 7:

Use the Belly Band and “thanks” dies to cut the extra panel of paper created in Step 1.

Step 8:

Adhere the flower die-cuts to the stenciled panel. Adhere the Belly Band die-cut over the flower stems. Adhere the “thanks” die-cut to the center ornament of the Belly Band.

Step 9:

Cut a piece of white cardstock in half. Score and fold to form an A2 card. Put a piece of scrap paper inside the card, then use a Sponge Dauber to apply Purple Brilliance ink around the edges of the front of the card. Heat set.

Step 10:
Use Tear It! Tape to adhere the image panel to the card.

Art Supplies:

Imagine:

• Brilliance:

– Pearlescent Sky Blue

– Pearlescent Orchid

– Moonlight White

– Pearlescent Purple

– Pearlescent Ice Blue

– Pearlescent Thyme

• Fantastix Brush Tip

• Memento Ink

– Grape Jelly

– Cottage Ivy

• Sponge Dauber

• Ink Sweeper

• Tear It! Tape

Other:

• Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore

• Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah

• Mosaic #54 Stencil by AALL and Create

• Wildflowers 1 Thinlits Flower Dies by Tim Holtz for Sizzix

• Belly Band Die by Frantic Stamper

• “Thanks” die: Source Unknown

• Removable Scotch Tape by 3M

• 91% Isopropyl Alchohol

• Heat Tool

• Big Shot by Sizzix

Two Watercoloring Techniques with StazOn Studio Glaze

By Katy Ingram

Hello Friends! Katy here and today I am sharing two ways to watercolor with StazOn Studio Glaze. 

In today’s video tutorial I am sharing two watercolor techniques. The first is traditional watercoloring with a watercolor brush and the second technique is the popular ink smooshing technique. Both are great ways to use StazOn Studio Glaze and I hope you hive it a try. Check out the video to see the process in action. I hope you enjoy and thanks for stopping by. 

Skill: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Time: 2 hours

Art Supplies

Imagine Products:

• Brilliance Moonlight White Ink 

• VersaFine Clair Twilight 

• VersaMark Ink

• Sheer Shimmer Spray Sparkle 

• irRESISTible Pico Embellisher Teal Zeal 

• irRESISTible Pico Embellisher Shimmer 

• 1/4 inch Tear It Tape 

• Mboss Embossing Powder White 

• StazOn Studio Glaze Claret 

• StazOn Studio Glaze Gothic Purple 

• StazOn Studio Glaze Blue Hawaii 

• StazOn Studio Glaze Midnight Blue 

• StazOn Studio Glaze Cactus Green 

Other Products Used:

• Spellbinders Arches Dies

• Ellen Hutson Mondo Sakura

• Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Flowers

• The Greetery Pretty Postmarks

• Princeton Neptune Watercolor Brushes 2/4Round

• Hot Pressed Watercolor Paper

Create A Holiday Tree Ornament Using Creative Medium, Memento and Brilliance Inks 

By Katy Ingram

Hello Friends! Katy here and for todays project I thought I would used a variety of products with some die cuts to create an ornament for the Christmas tree. 

In todays video tutorial I explain each layer of the ornament starting with the snowy background which uses the Creative Medium with a snowflake stencil, once dried I applied the Brilliance Ink in Pearlescent Orchid, Pearlescent Purple, Pearlescent Lavender and Pearlescent Sky Blue and was blown away. Check out the video for all the details on how this ornament came together. 

I hope you enjoy and thanks for stopping by. 

Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Time: 10 minutes 

Art Supplies

Imagine Products

Poinsettia

– Memento Ink Angel Pink, Love Letter, Lady Bug, Rhubarb Stalk

– Delicata Ruby Red

– Pico Embellisher-Shimmer

Greenery

– Memento Ink Bamboo Leaves, Northern Pine

– Pico Embellisher-Shimmer

Woodland Wreath

– Memento Ink Toffee Crunch, Rich Cocoa, Espresso Truffle

Back Panel

– Delicata Ruby Red

– VersaFine Clair Nocturne

Snowflake Background

– Brilliance Inks

– Creative Medium-Shimmer

On Point Glue

Tear It! Tape

Multi-Purpose Squeegee

Other Products:

Spellbinders Poinsettia Die

Spellbinders Woodland Wreath with Feathered Friends Die

Spellbinders Blizzard Stencil

The Greetery Botanicuts Pine Bough Die

Simon Says Stamp The Magic of Christmas Stamp Set

Kat Scrappiness Holiday Village Slimline Border Die

Honey Bee Stamps Simple Alpha Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn Acetate

Make a FABULOOOS Halloween Card

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By Martha Lucia Gomez –

Hello there! Todays tutorial is a quick project that you can make using your Halloween stamps and the heat embossing techniques. On this, I am combined VersaFine Clair, VersaMark and Memento Inks with our traditional Embossing Powders.

Skill Level: Beginner
Time to Complete: 30  Minutes

 

Directions:

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Step 1

Stamp a Halloween background onto your colored card stock using VersaFine Clair Nocturne. 

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Step 2:

Cover the inked area with Embossing Powder and melt it with a heat tool. On this step, you can use clear embossing powder or black embossing powder.   

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Step 3:

With an Ink Blusher or sponge apply Memento Ink Grape Jelly around the stamped background.  

TIP: You can stamp your background onto white smooth cardstock and then ink all the area with your selection of Memento Ink. 

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Step 5:

With VersaMark Ink stamp the sentiment on the center of the card and covered it with White  Embossing Powder. Melt the powder with the heat tool.

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Step 6:

Ink the center or your card using Memento Tangelo Ink.

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Step 7:

According with the stamps and colors of card stock that you used you can enhance some details using additional colors of Memento Ink. In my sample, I used purple card stock and three different colors of Memento Ink: Grape Jelly around the card, Tangelo for the Center and Paris Dusk for the corners.

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Step 8:

To embellish the card, you can use a coordinated die cut. I am using a witch die that I cut onto Silver Metallic cardstock three times. I layered pasted all the die cut images with On Point Glue to add more dimension. And as final touch, I gave an additional color to the face on the pumpkin using Memento Dual Tip Markers.

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Step 9:

Assemble your card pasting all the layers with Tear It! Tape or Crafty Foam Tape.

Art Supplies:

Imagine:

• VersaFine Clair – Nocturne

• VersaMark – Clear

• Memento – Grape Jelly, Tangelo and Paris Dusk

• Memento Dual Tip Markers

• Ink Blushers

• Tear it! Tape

• Craft Mat

Other:

  Joy Clair Designs – Spiderweb Background Clear Stamp 

  Crackerbox Stamps – Faboolous Rubber Stamp

  Die Cut Machine

  Positional Stamp Tool.

  Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam.

• Heat Tool

• Brayer

Let’s Make a Dazzling Friendship Card

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By Kathy Pisupati –

Good morning!  Kathy here, creating art for Imagine Crafts!  Today I have a new tutorial for you.   I must admit I am in LOVE with the Delicata Golden Glitz pigment ink. There are several reasons:

• The color is AMAZING!

• When I don’t feel like using gold embossing powder this works fabulous (and is less messy!).

• It works fabulous with sentiments.

• It is easy to clean up.

So today I have a project for you that uses the Delicata Golden Glitz and some beautiful Tsukineko Brilliance Dew Drops. The card didn’t start out as I planned but I am happy with the finished result. Please let me know what you think in the comments! Let’s make a card. 

Skill Level: Intermediate
Time to Complete: Two hours

Directions:

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Step 1:

You will need a top-folding card base measuring 4 1/4 x 5 1/2“. The rest of the panels we will create as we go. So, the first thing I wanted to play with was the Brilliance Dew Drops. I ink blended them all over a piece of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb card stock. I then found an embossing folder. I chose an older folder from Spellbinders. I am not sure if it is still available, but it was called the Large Medallion. I dug out my brayer, inked it up with some Delicata Golden Glitz, and rolled it over the RAISED area of the embossing folder. I put in my ink blended panel and ran it through my die-cutting machine. Here is where the plan changed. I pulled out my Gina K Designs Master Layout 2 to get the “perfect” rectangle. I taped the die to the panel. Now here is a tip when you have a panel that is loaded up with ink like mine, BEFORE you pull off the tape, heat it with your heat tool on LOW. Yeah….I didn’t do that and ripped a chunk out of the frame I was going to use. Oh well, moving right along……I used a rectangle die from GKD Master Layout 7 to cut the middle out. I WILL save this card! 

 

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Step 2:

I had a lot of gold ink on my brayer, so I inked up a Swiss Dot embossing folder and ran another piece of white card stock through my machine.

 

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Step 3:

I then rolled the excess ink on a piece of white card stock measuring 4.25” x 5.5”. Isn’t it pretty? I HAD to incorporate it!

 

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Step 4:

Cut a piece of white card stock an 1/8” larger than the focal point and with your Sponge Dauber, ink the edges of the rectangle with the Golden Glitz.

 

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Step 5:

Die-cut your sentiment and using the Golden Glitz ink, use Imagine Crafts sponge daubers to apply your ink to the sentiment. Cut a shadow from the vellum. Glue these together.  Using the Delicata Golden Glitz stamp the smaller, MY FRIEND, sentiment. Cut this sentiment to size. I also inked the edges of this sentiment.

 

 

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Step 6:

Now we can assemble the card. The focal point is glued to the gold border and then adhered to the Swiss dot panel with Imagine On Point Glue. The sentiment is also adhered to the panel with glue. The MY FRIEND strip sentiment was popped up with foam tape. Then I added foam tape to the Swiss dot panel and attached it to the background panel.

Finally, I used Imagine Tear It! Tape and attached it to the card base. I added a few gems, and the card is done!

 

 

Supplies Used:

Imagine Crafts

Delicata Golden Glitz

Brilliance Dew Drops: Pearlescent Lavender, Pearlescent Sky Blue, Orchid and Pearlescent Purple

Imagine Craft Mat

Sponge Daubers

On Point Glue

Tear-It! Tape

 

Other

Gina K Designs Master Layout 2

Gina K Designs Master Layout 7

SCT Let’s Stamp Together Kit July 2022-Sentiment

Cuttlebug Swiss Dot Embossing Folder

Crafty Meraki Gems

Brayer

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb

Paper Trimmer

Die-Cutting Machine

Foam Tape