VIDEO: CASE Me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton

Howdy friends!

I'm coming to you today with one of my absolute favorite types of holiday posts - the CASE Me a Christmas Card series with Michelle Lupton. 

If you haven't seen this before, what she does is invite a series of guests to do a mutual CASE - I pick a card of hers, and she picks a card of mine and we use those as our inspiration. 

I always prepare for my CASE by scrolling through Michelle's Instagram account - it's beautiful. 

This year, something caught my eye as a theme in her account - and that is that she is a master of using analogous color. As I tend to gravitate towards complementary color combos, this intrigued me - because her cards have this really beautiful harmony!

So I selected one of her combos that she uses frequently for holiday cards - and that's blue and green - an analogous color combo I don't use that often - so that's a fun challenge for me!

I chose the fun two piece tree tag die and ink blended them separately with reactive inks - blue, purple, green and a blue green. I lengthened the tag as well with a die cutting trick you will see in my video. I used glitter paper and an alcohol marker to finish the scene. 

When you look at this with a little collage I made of the inspiration pieces - I think you'll see how skilled she is in this part of the color wheel in every conceivable medium.

Here is a list of her inspiration cards included in the collage:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxYBfDigqy3/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BrOKbsDH-Qg/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcaZFkmAhkZ/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIDvHUZASr2/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHxp9zwALOu/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BF3MAUBkvOY/

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6PMEJQJLgr/

You can click here to see Michelle's CASE - we will be seeing this together! You can watch my video here at 3 PM Central!:

Enjoy - loveyameanitbye!

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Shine Bright + Giveaway

Happy kit day friends!! Even though I'm in my spooky season, the crafting world has some holidaying to do, so this month's kit is all about Christmas!

I wanted to do a bright and happy card to start today off with - whatever the opposite of two hurricanes is - I want that.

So I grabbed this fun Mondrian style Christmas stencil and just three colors of ink, and I taped off stripes and ink blended - letting the overlapping areas create the rainbow effect.

The sentiment is this month's clear set - and it has matching dies - but I didn't use the die here - I wanted a clean one layer creation.

Here's what the full kit looks like - and LOOK at that die cut washi! That's what was in my sneak peek Saturday - it's so beautiful and looks so pretty on kraft cardstock.

Speaking of kraft cardstock - I wanted to use the background cling from the kit in a tone on tone here for the tag images from the kit - and I used primary colors in the background of these as well.

Here's that stunning washi card again. I just love these images.

To be entered in the giveaway today - leave me a comment, and then head over to the full inspiration hop here!

Stay tuned tomorrow when I will have a video using the kit for my collab with Michelle Lupton on her CASE Me a Christmas Card Series. You can sign up for the video premiere here: 

You can also see the full release there! Enjoy!!!

Loveyameanitbye.

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Warm Washi & A Countdown!

Is it just me, or did September drag on? Maybe it's because we have two moons now! I'm not joking - our moon got lonely and picked up a friend.

Anyhow - I'm happy to see October and of COURSE the Card Kit!!! I have a bunch of cards and a video this month, so be sure and come back here on Monday - but today I'm giving you a little sneak of one of the extras - a stunning scripty sentiment and die set. 

But don't sleep on the STUNNING washi die cuts you are going to see! I put mine on kraft because it's such a warm image and I wanted to keep that warmth. I also added the new clay peppermints around the sentiment. Tip - to align these - put your card lined up on your sticky mat grid. Then line up a ruler along one of the grid lines and pop the mints on! Even round shapes are easy this way! I thought this cabin looked like a gingerbread house!

Want to see more inspiration? Head HERE to see the other team cards - and then come back on Monday!

LYMIB

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