Dimensional Snowflake

Merry Christmas Eve! Today I have square card featuring  a multi dimensional snowflake!
Wishing all of you a Very Merry Christmas tomorrow --- may your day be happy and blessed!

Supplies used on this card:

Circular Grid Embossing Folder (Anna Griffin - Cuttlebug)

Dimensional Snowflake Die (Spellbinders)

Pearl

I'd love to see what you've been creating, so stop by the current link party and showoff any creation that includes a product or two from one of the companies carried in the Cropstop store.

May Link Party - #39

It's time for another challenge here on the Cropstop blog! Today I'm sharing a different kind of "spring" card created with Inka Gold metallic rub.  I realize that Inka Gold isn't a new product, and I'm late to the party (as usual). However, since a lot of the mixed media supplies are "new" to me, I'm having a lot of fun discovering their uses and playing with them in my projects.

 Here's how I put this shimmery card together:

• To begin with, I painted a piece of white card stock with Clear Gesso (you'll read more about my new-found love of this next week!!)
• I thinned some Graphite Inka Gold with water and, using a small paintbrush, I added this over the gesso layer
• Once dry, I embossed it with the Victoria embossing folder from Cuttlebug
• I then rubbed Platinum Inka Gold over the embossed part of the card
• The butterfly is a die cut from the Anna Griffin (Cuttlebug) set Butterfly Trio
• I rubbed a just bit of  Platinum Inka Gold over it to give it some sparkle and shine
• I also added strip of white pearls down the center for extra dimension
• For my sentiment, I die cut a saying from the Phrases Set One (Spellbinders) set four times and glued them one on top of the other
• The top layer also features  Platinum Inka Gold and makes the sentiment softer than a the stark white it was

The photo below gives you a better idea of the shimmer Inka Gold adds to your creations! 

Now it’s your turn to share the projects you’ve been working on! As always our link party is "Anything Goes" with these few simple rules:

1. Create ANY new project using a product or two from one of the companies CropStop carries in the store. (It’s ok if you didn’t buy it from us, and also fine if it’s a product we don’t currently have it in stock as long as it’s from one of the companies we carry!)
2. Please, no back-linking old projects
3. Limit 5 entries per challenge
4. Link your project here, link back to this post, and mention the CropStop Challenge in your post.

We’ll choose one random Winner who will receive a prize from the CropStop Store! (100 or more links = two winners and two prizes!) Thanks so much for linking up with us, we look forward to seeing all your great entries this month. Grab our badge and help us spread the word that CropStop is a great place to play along!

OPTIONAL TWIST FOR MAY:

If you use INKA GOLD on the project you link up this month, I'll enter your name twice (for each project linked) in the random draw!

Crayon Resist

Welcome back to the Cropstop blog! After experiencing quite a few problems on our other blog platform (culminating in being locked out completely!) we've decided to move back to Blogspot and resume were we left off.
Monday we will resume our monthly link party and this Friday we will resume our guest designer posts! 

Today I'm sharing a spring themed card with you. Here's how I put my bright and cheery card together:

• I started by embossing a piece of white card stock with the Christmas Quilt Embossing Folder (Couture Creations)
• While the card stock was still in the folder, I rubbed over the raised part with a pink crayon (Note: keeping the card stock in the embossing folder provides stability and keeps the design from being crushed)
• After it was covered to my liking, I removed it from the folder and covered it in Wilted Violet Distress Stain (Tim Holtz) and heat set it with my embossing gun

• I matted my top layer on pink card stock and tied a natural colored burlap string bow around it before adhering it to my card front with my ATG gun
• Next I die cut the largest cage from the Open Studio Gilded Birds set (Memory Box) and glued that to the left side of the card
• After coloring some pretty (Graciellie) flowers I added tiny white pearls to the centers 
• The large butterfly comes from the Anna Griffin die set, Butterfly Trio and is die cut from core'dinations card stock and colored with Seedless Preserves Distress Stain (Tim Holtz)
•  Inside I added an image from the All Things Are Possible stamp set (Heartfelt Creations) stamped in Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide and lightly shaded with Prismacolor pencils

Be sure to come back Monday and link up your projects that use products from the companies Cropstop carries in their store for a chance to win a great prize! Hope to see you there!!