B|M Inspiration Team Blog Hop - Micro Pearls

March 6, 2019 Daniel West

Good morning everyone. Thank you for hopping along with the Inspiration Team today. The blogs feature the Brutus Monroe Micro Pearls. And I have a very Spring-y card for you today that also showcases this month’s Stamp and Stencil of the Month. Let’s get started!

To begin, I stamped out the Stamp of the Month image three times across the front of the panel. Then I masked off these impressions and stamped the image in between the three to fill out a complete row of tulips. I colored in the images with Copic Markers in the RV and YG families.

Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team Blog Hop - Anything B|M

February 27, 2019 Daniel West

Welcome to my post on the Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team Blog Hop. This week the team features ANYTHING we want from Brutus Monroe and I reached for my Aqua Pigments. I cannot get enough of them. The Inspiration Box from January, called Lucky You, included several images of lucky charms. One of them, the double koi stamp, symbolizes the strength of a koi to travel agains the current. I chose this stamp along with blue color scheme of Turquoise, Blue Green and Blue to create this card.

I started by dropping the three analogous colors of Aqua Pigments on my glass mat. I wet the Aqua Pigment Paper with a large paint brush across the center of the card, leaving the top and bottom of the panel dry. Aqua Pigments love water and will swim through it, but stop at the edges of the water. Then I took another dry brush and dropped Turquoise on the left, Blue Green in the middle and Blue on the right. The colors mix a little in the water. For a little more mixing I added a splotch of each color to the others.

Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team Blog Hop - February 2019 Subscriptions

February 19, 2019 Daniel West

Hey there my friends! Thanks for joining the Inspiration Team today on our weekly blog hop. We feature the Brutus Monroe Subscription items across the hop. My project comes from the Special Delivery Inspiration Box! The theme of the box is snail mail and comes with a huge stamp set of mailboxes, envelopes, and sentiments. The box includes gorgeous layering cardstock, kraft envelopes, glassine envelopes, an exclusive Plum Aqua Pigment (which I need more of or I don’t know how I’ll survive), foiling card panels, stickers, an embossing folder, ribbon, and an exclusive enamel pin with a snail mail theme! I hope you can get your hands on this box, and if not, some of the items will be in the online shop for sale separately.

Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team Blog Hop - Dies

February 13, 2019 Daniel West

Hey there!! Daniel here with a birthday card using the Happy Birthday dies from Brutus Monroe and some other exciting products including the stencil of the month for February 2019 and the Daffodil Chromaglaze.

Welcome Home Catherine Pooler February 2019 Release

February 12, 2019 Daniel West

Hey there! Great to have you stop by today! I wanted to share this card with you from the Catherine Pooler Welcome Home Release from February 2019. You can see the release here!

For this card, I used Aqua Pigments from Brutus Monroe to create a background of Violet and Blue Green. I dropped some of this liquid water color onto my glass mat and dragged some watercolor paper through it. After the paper dried, I cut it down to a circle and adhered it to a card base I made from Catherine Pooler White Cardstock.

Welcome Home Catherine Pooler February 2019 Blog Hop

February 11, 2019 Daniel West

A big hello to all my friends celebrating the Welcome Home February 2019 release from Catherine Pooler Designs by blog hopping today. Daniel West here with a few cards to highlight the whimsical designs of this beautiful collection of stamps and dies.

I have included a list of the entire hop for today below. Leave a comment on each blog! With each comment you have an entry to the drawing for $25 to shop Catherine Pooler Designs.

Surface Inks Funny Easter Card

February 6, 2019 Daniel West

Hello! Welcome to my Surface Inks Blog Hop Post for the Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team. I have a humorous Easter Card for you today based on a funny chocolate bunny meme from the web. I used the Stamp of the Month set, which includes a chocolate bunny and a marshmallow bunny to recreate the little funny post.

Cardstock Warehouse and the January 2019 My Monthly Hero Card Kit

February 4, 2019 Daniel West

I made this card using cardstock from Cardstock Warehouse! The stamps and dies are all from Hero Arts. There’s a bit of Copic coloring and some heat embossing using Brutus Monroe Alabaster Embossing Powder!

St Patrick's Day Lovely Legs Card

February 3, 2019 Daniel West

Happy St Paddy’s Day to ya! I made this card using the Lovely Legs Leprechaun Stamp Set from Colorado Craft Company. I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks to blend up the background and Gilded Embossing powder from Brutus Monroe for the heat embossed sentiment.

Easter Blessings Lovely Legs Card

February 3, 2019 Daniel West

This powerful image comes from the Lovely Legs Easter Blessings Stamp Set from Colorado Craft Company. I used Kristina Werner’s oxide blending tips for the background and Copic markers to color in the foreground. Happy Easter to all my Christian friends!

Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team Blog Hop - Shining Shimmering Splendid

January 30, 2019 Daniel West

Hi there!! Welcome to my shiny piece of the Shining Shimmering Splendid Blog Hop Today!

For the shiny part of my card, I used Brutus Monroe’s fabulous new Chroma Glazes in Daffodil and Sapphire. These glazes compare with Glitter Glazes, but without the glitter! They spread like mayo over paper and blend beautifully.

Lovely Legs Sympathy

January 28, 2019 Daniel West

Lovely Legs Sympathy Stamp Set has a moving image of a girl in the rain. I made this one using an Aqua Pigments smooshed background and embossing powder from Brutus Monroe.

Oxide Color Combo and Concord and 9th Faceted Stencil

January 26, 2019 Daniel West

Kristina Werner has started a new series on color combos that I am LOVIN’ !!! Thank you! ! I created this card using one of her featured Distress Oxide combos — Seedless Preserves, Abandoned Coral and Tattered Rose. The stencil is called Faceted by Concord & 9th.

Arteza and Concord and 9th Valentine

January 23, 2019 Daniel West

Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’m glad you’ve stopped in today!

This week Kristina Werner did a video on Youtube using Arteza Real Brush Pens to water color a floral design. This inspired me to break out my Artezas and my Concord & 9th Just Love stamp set and get to work.

I stamped the main image out on an A2 size panel of Bristol Smooth Cardstock using Midnight Ink from Catherine Pooler. This cardstock works well with Arteza Real Brush Pens because it has a very smooth, tight surface. Color takes a little more time to absorb into its fibers making this cardstock ideal for light watercoloring and intense ink blending techniques.

I colored in the image with lighter colors at first, using a fairly loose hand. I did not pay too much attention to the lines. Then I added some darker colors for shading and loose detail. I even added some drops of white enamel dots on top of some of the flowers.

I stamped the LOVE image with Midnight ink and gave the word a shadow with Arteza markers and a grey Copic marker.

Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team Blog Hop - Favorite Techniques

January 23, 2019 Daniel West

Hi Everyone!! Daniel here with a card featuring one of my favorite techniques for cardmaking — heat embossing. Today the Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team hops along to their favorite techniques using B|M subscription items.

Brutus Monroe offers sever amazing, shipping-included subscriptions that will knock your socks off. If you subscribe to any one of these clubs, you will receive an automatic 15% discount off regularly priced B|M merchandise on future purchases! Now that’s whistle-worthy! B|M has subscriptions that feature a monthly stencil, a stamp, an embossing powder, a glitter glaze and the amazing Inspiration Box!

Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team Blog Hop - ATC's

January 16, 2019 Daniel West

I just learned about Artist Trading Cards this month, actually. But I quickly came to enjoy making them. ATCs come in a wallet size 2.5 x 3.5 inch card for easy trading with other artists. I made a variety of them for this hop inspired by the Valentine theme for this season. I will give you step by step instructions for them here, with individual supplies lists. Let’s dive right in:

FOR MY LOVE

The read ATC that with the “For My Love,” sentiment came from a background I did a while back for a Christmas card with huge berries made of Nuvo Drops. I kept the extra water pigment colored panel and trimmed it down to ATC size. Then i stamped it with B|M Embossing Ink and heat embossed it with Conversation Heart embossing powder and then with Gilded embossing powder. I used a little die from Concord and 9th to add embossed hearts in a row above the sentiment.

LOVE NOTE

For my second ATC, I used the January Stencil of the Month and the Glitter Glaze of the month: Flamingo to make a stenciled heart of hearts. Then I trimmed down the heart to ATC sized cards. I foiled one of the hand written note toner sheets with Copper DecoFoil and fussy cut it around the shape of the Glitter Glaze Heart. I adhered the foiled pieces to the bottoms of the ATCs to finish them off.

For the last one I am witing about today, I used the Chocoloate Box Sfamp of the Month. I stamped the image repeatedly wth Raven ink. Then I colored it in with Surface inks and an Aqua Pogment water brush. I added some details with a whige getl pen. I finished it off with the XO image heat embossed in the white spaces using Gilded Embossing Powder.

Thank you for joining me on the Blog Hop today. You can continue the hop with the list below:

JESS

DANIEL (you are here)

Foiling a Toner Sheet You Printed

January 14, 2019 Daniel West

Charleston Lovely Legs Stamp Set for Colorado Craft Company by Daniel West

Hi there!! Did you know you can foil a toner sheet you printed yourself? Saturday morning I woke up at 4:30AM to play in my crafting workspace and decided to create a shiny gold background for the Charleston Stamp Set from Colorado Craft Company’s Lovely Legs line.

I have made the image downloadable in my shop. (Please navigate there by clicking shop in the menu of this page. I’d give you the link, but I’d like you to try out my new shop link in the menu dillybob [I'm stickler for techie language]. Let me know how easy it was for you to navigate the checkout process. You can skip the billing information area by leaving it blank and clicking continue. Please use code: IAMARTIE to take 100% off the price.)

In order to make the image foilable with DecoArt foils, you will need to print it with a laser printer—an inkjet printer will not work for this. You may take the image to an office supply store to have them print it. Make sure you print in black and at your highest quality setting.

Place your a foil transfer sheet from DecoFoil over the printed image and cover both sides of your project with parchment paper. Run it through a hot laminator. Peel off the foil from the image and you have a beautifully foiled Art Deco background to use with your Charleston Lovely Legs Stamp.

I hope you enjoyed this little tip and freebie. If you would like to purchase the Charleston Lovely Legs Stamp Set, I have included affiliate links below. When you use these links, I will receive a portion of your total purchase at no additional cost to you!

Brutus Monroe Glitter Drops Blog Hop

January 9, 2019 Daniel West

Hey everybody!! Great to have you here with me today! The B|M Inspiration Team’s blog hop this week features the Glitter Drops! So many fantastic projects to ogle over this week, don’t miss a single post!

I made a background with my Silver Glitter Drops and the Stencil of the Month for January. Check out my pics!

These step-by-step instructions will help you recreate the card. Go ahead and make it your own by switching out colors, stamps, and cardstocks!

Trim down a panel of white cardstock to 4.25 x 5.5 inches.
Roll up a piece of masking tape and stick it on the back of the panel and temporarily adhere it to your glass mat.
Tape the January Stencil of the Month over the top of the panel at an angle.
Squeeze a good amount of Silver Glitter Drops onto the panel and spread it thinly over the stencil with a spatula or tool.
Peel up the stencil and put the panel aside to dry for about 15 minutes.
Stamp the panda, speech bubble and sentiment onto to some white cardstock using Raven Detail Ink, masking the heart out of the Panda.
Fussy cut them out and pop them up onto a black belly band about 1.5 inches wide and the entire wide of the card.
Pop up the belly band with some foam tape.
Draw a little heart onto the panda with a pencil and color it in with a red marker.
Adhere the entire panel onto the front of an A2 card base.

Thanks again for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed this card. If you are inspired to use any of these products, please visit my supplies grid below and use my affiliate links to make your purchases! I will receive a small amount of the purchase price at no additional cost to you!

And please continue the hop… the links are below the grid!

JESS

DANIEL (you are here)

Catherine Pooler Designs Stamp of Approval Blog Hop Jan 2019

January 7, 2019 Daniel West

A big hello to all my friends celebrating the Adoring You Stamp of Approval release by blog hopping today. Daniel West here with a few cards to highlight the beauty and versatility of this incredible collection of goodies.

]Catherine Pooler Designs releases a Stamp of Approval collection every quarter. Past Stamp of Approval releases knocked my socks off!! The Adoring You Stamp of Approval box comes chock full of versatile, timeless and well-crafted items valued at over $100. It comes with new stamp sets put together just for this release. You will not find these sold separately for many months.

The Adoring You Stamp of Approval will have you making Valentine’s and love notes all year. All of the stamp sets coordinate to present endless opportunities for fun at your craft desk. I have a few examples to show you below and will have more over the next few days on my Instagram and Facebook accounts (so be sure to follow me there).

Catherine Pooler Designs Adoring You Stamp of Approval Card by Daniel West

For my first example, I used the 6x6 Love Note Background Stamp and the Sweet Home Wreath Stamps. On some Catherine Pooler White Cardstock, I stamped the vine wreath image using Icing on the Cake. On a piece of white cardstock, I stamped the vine wreath image using Icing on the Cake Ink. I stamped over that image with the coordinating leaf wreaths using Flirty Fuchsia Ink and Sweet Sixteen Ink. I really enjoy how Catherine Pooler Inks work together with such ease.

I used a machine to scan and cut out the image of the wreath and the sentiment. I popped them up on foam tape and mounted them on a panel I had stamped with the Love Note stamp using Sweet Sixteen ink. I added foam tape to the back of that panel, as well, and finished off the card with three fuchsia sequins.

For my second card, I felt like leaving wintry colors behind and heading for warmer climates. I went for some Tiki Torch, Samba, Suede Shoes, It's a Boy, Icing on the Cake Inks. I stamped the sentiment, Love You, using Icing on the Cake, in the bottom left of a card base. Then I covered the sentiment with Unicorn Magic embossing powder used a heat tool to melt the powder.

Then on I stamped the two love birds beak to beak using Tiki Torch ink for the background color and Samba for the detail stamp. I stamped the branch with Icing on the Cake, and the leaves with two blues: Suede Shoes and It’s a Boy inks. I ran these images through my Scan n Cut machine and set them aside.

Using an ink blending brush, I blended some Samba Ink onto the birds from the bottom up and around the edges. Then I adhered the birds and leaves onto the branch and popped them all up on foam tape.

If you want to get in on this quarter’s Stamp of Approval, you need to add your name to the waitlist now to get first notice of the sales link, as these collections sell out fast. I have a feeling this one may go even faster.

Please let me know what you think of this month’s release and my cards in particular in the comments section below. Two random winners will be chosen from commenters on the blog hop to receive $25 gift certificates from Catherine Pooler Designs. Be sure to visit Catherine’s blog for more release photos and details about the release pajama party.

I have included a supplies grid below that include affiliate links. If you use my links to make a purchase, I will dance at your wedding and you will never forget that!! Actually, I will receive a small percentage of your purchase total at no additional cost to you.

Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now go shopping and go hopping!! You’ll find the links to the rest of the hop below my supplies grid.

Daniel West (you are here)

Lea Lawson

Miriam Prantner

Ingrid Blackburn

Simon Says Stamp Card Kit January 2019 Quickie

January 4, 2019 Daniel West

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Daniel here with a quick card from the Simon Says Stamp Card Kit for January 2019. I unboxed this kit live on my YouTube channel and immediately wanted to make a card. So I did it live and unplanned on my channel. You can watch the video below.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

Cut the white cardstock from the kit in half to form two 8.5 x 5.25 pieces.
Score one of the pieces at 4.25 inches and tape it down to your glass mat with some masking tape at the score line.
Cut a wavy line out of some plain copy paper to make a hills mask for ink blending
Using an ink blending tool (I use the Picket Fence Life Changing Brushes), brush on some Tumbled Glass over your hill stencil about halfway up the front of the card base.
Repeat this step using Salty Ocean Distress Ink about two inches lower.
Stamp the large penguin on to the panel using an acrylic block and Midnight Ink from Catherine Pooler. This ink gives a solid impression on your first pass. I can’t say enough good things about it.
Stamp off the remaining in onto some plain copy paper and cut it out for a mask with some fussy cutting scissors.
Place your mask over your large stamped penguin image and stamp the small penguin image twice - once on each side of the large penguin using the same Midnight Ink.
Add a sentiment from the stamp set using Midnight Ink at the bottom right of the card.
Stamp a three of the tiny plus signs around the sentiment and voila!!! you are finished.

Thank you again for joining me today. I really appreciate it. If you’re feeling inspired by this card and would like to purchase any of the supplies I used, I have created a supplies grid below. By clicking on these links and purchasing through my links, you are keeping Del & Artie alive! :D . I will receive a small percentage of your purchase total at no additional cost to you!