Catherine Pooler Designs:: New Inks!

Catherine Pooler Designs is rounding out the Beach Collection of Inks with four new colors, and let me tell you, they are absolutely beautiful! They compliment and fill in gaps of the Spa Collection so well. Let me introduce Serene and Sparkling Berry. They will be available Wednesday, July 14th for general release and Tuesday, July 13th for Stamp Nation Members.

I decided to showcase the two new ink colors and how they compliment with the other colors. For the first card, I've featured Serene. Serene is a lovely light, muted blue violet color. I stamped the cute birds from the Lovely Birdies in Pink Champagne, Sweet Sixteen, Serenade, and Serene onto a card base made from Ultra Smooth White Cardstock. The outlines were stamped in Royal Treatment. I then blended the same color of inks behind each bird, and added some Tranquil ink for the sky. A bit of water was added for texture and then I drew some lines for wires and added a sentiment from Thoughtful Phrases. Sugared Lavender would have been a great comparison to show as well, but I seem to have misplaced that ink pad.

My next card showcases the new Sparkling Berry ink! This color is so lovely too, it is muted red-violet color. As usual, I started with an  Ultra Smooth White Cardstock in which a strip of glittered washi tape and a black strip was placed. I stamped a sentiment from Happy Birthday Many Ways in Midnight Ink and silver heat embossed the word beautiful from the Smile, Beautiful Sentiment Stamp Set. I then stamped and die cut the flowers from Whimsical Blooms Stamp and Die Set. I used Sparkling Berry, Be Mine, Rose Petals and Pucker Up for the main flowers, Pink Champagne for the stems, and Sangria for the details.

These colors are soooooo gorgeous!

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Painted Blooms

I am still working on my classes for the Altenew Educator Certification Program. I recently finished the Beautiful Details course, and wow, I learned so much from Marika! I even pulled out my Zig Markers, I love the push that these classes have to have you look at supplies in a new light. I also do not often reach for solid stamps, but this class also showcased a technique to reinvent how to stamp with them! 

To create this card, I applied various colors from the Zig Markers to the flower and leaf images from the Bright Blossoms Stamp Set. I absolutely adore the brush stroke appearance that creates the petals. Marika taught this technique in the class and it is absolutely brilliant and one I will be using in the future with other solid stamps.

After I stamped the flowers, I hand drew/doodled stems with a fine tip black marker. I also added a thin strip of black cardstock on the bottom of the card base, another signature from Marika. I finished the card with a stamped sentiment in black from Paint A Flower: Carnations.

The end result was a one layer card with a light and airy feeling. I just adore it and I hope you do too! This class was one of my favorites of my Level 2 journey on the  Altenew Educator Certification Program.

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Heart Glow

I took a break from crafting and social media to spend some time with my family that was visiting from out of state. I did want to share this card today, and to let you know of a promotion offered by Catherine Pooler Designs in celebration of America's freedom!

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This card was fun to put together with the help of the MISTI tool. I lined up one of the lightbulbs from the Bright Days stamp set, stamping two rows in Midnight ink and then the middle row in a rainbow of colors. I die cut (with the Bright Days Dies) and popped up one of the lightbulbs-stamped in Limencello.

The panel was mounted on a card base that was colored with Limencello ink, using the direct ink to paper technique. I finished the card by stamping a sentiment from Bright Days and added a heart sticker onto the popped up light bulb.

I hope you enjoy the holiday weekend, perhaps get crafty time in as well!

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