The Ton's 3rd Anniversary Release - Day 1

Hello and welcome to The Ton's 3rd Anniversary Release Day 1!!!

For The Ton's 3rd Anniversary Release, Effie has released 23 new stamp designs, coordinating dies, two word plate dies and 9 new couture mixes!

Today we are so excited to introduce you 10 clear stamp sets inclusive two clear stamps which you can get with purchases (s. below for further information), two bold word plate dies and three new couture Mixes. 

Effie has designed a new layering floral stamp set. This time it's Fresh Cut Daisies! A Coordinating Outlines set for the Fresh Cut Daisies is also available. There is a large version of one of the daisy images as a separate stamp set, Large Florals: Daisy. Coming Up Daisies is a cluster of some pretty daisies. For some wintery greetings we have the Winter Cardinal set. Using Buildable Woodgrain you can create your own woodgrain design. How unique is that?! Riotous Wildflowers is a background stamp filled with gorgeous floral image outlines. It's great for some relaxing coloring! Seriously Amazing is a sentiment set in a big and bold font. Along with the gorgeous stamps Effie releases two word plate dies this time : Bold General Greeting Word Plate Dies and Bold Amazing Greeting Word Plate Dies. I'm pretty sure you'll love the Word Plate Dies!!! The coordinating dies for the stamp sets will be available as well. 

Daisy Duet and Peony Notes Bundle (A+B+C) are gifts with purchases for 3rd Anniversary Release. They are not mini stamps. Daisy Duet is a 4 x 6" stamp with two big daisies. With the three stamps (6 x 8") of Peony Notes Bundle you can create a beautiful layered floral cluster image. 

And today's Couture Mix is Pink Blossoms, Lilac Blossoms and Mint Sugar. 

- Gift with Purchases * -

• Spend $125 or more: Receive a 4x6 Daisy Duet set
• Spend $250 or more: Receive our Peony Notes Bundle [A+B+C] (and a Daisy Duet set).

-Incentive products are available for purchase separately-

  *This promotion does not apply to prior purchases. The threshold amount is calculated before taxes and shipping. This promotion will continue until January 28, 2018 at 11:59pm EST or until supplies last. Limit one incentive package per order. No coupon code needed. All incentive products will be added to qualified orders automatically (They will not show up in your cart but will be added to orders as we pack them). 

**There must be at least one new release stamp in your order to qualify for these GWPs. 

***If you placed an order for our Smooched or XOXO Mini set in the last few weeks, we will combine that order amount to your new order for a total qualifying threshold amount.  Please include your original order number (the order that included Smooched or XOXO Mini) in the notes of your new order.

 ALL NEW RELEASE ITEMS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE SHOP ON January 18 (DAY 3) !

I have five cards to share with you today! Lots to say and many pics:)! So let's get starated! 

The first card is featuring Riotous Wildflowers and Bold Amazing Greeting Word Plate Dies. 

I stamped Riotous Wildflowers on a Bristol smooth panel in a light ink and colored it using Arteza brush pens. I've been experimenting with various color combinations recently and here I tried purple and teal together. I added yellow on the flower centers and lightly on the background too. Once done with coloring I cut the sentiment using Bold Amazing Greeting Word Plate Dies from the colored panel and from some purple fun foam. I added thin teal glitter tape on the top and bottom of the cardbase and adheared the panel onto it. I then mounted the sentiment raised on top of the purple foam die cuts. 

To add some shine I covered the die cut sentiment with shimmer Pico embellisher and scattered fine glitter on it before it dried. Some clear Dew Drops were my finishing touch.

Next is a card made with Coming Up Daisies and Buildable Woodgrain.

To create my own woodgrain pattern I stamped the elements of the Buildable Woodgrain set in Warm Hazelnut and Found Topaz. The daisies of  Coming Up Daisies were stamped in Caviar hybrid ink and colored using Copic markers. I coated the daisies with WOS clear glitter pen and added shine on the flower centers using clear glitter glaze pen and yellow glaze pen. I cut the right side of the panel along the outline of the image. 
I stamped the sentiment from Large Florals: Daisy in Noir on the woodgrain panel and clear heat embossed it. I then glued the panel on the cardbase and foam mounted the floral panel on it. 
To finish off I scattered some sequins from Pink Blossoms and Lilac Blossoms Couture Mix. These sparkling sequins are so pretty! 

My third card for today is featuring  Large Florals: Daisy set. It is actually a layering stamp but I used the third layer as my guide and watercolored the gorgeous daisy flower. 

To start off I stamped the third layer of the daisy in Soft Orchid and the second layer of the leaves in Soft Garden on a watercolor paper and watercolored the image. I added some golden dots on the flower center using gold Pico embellisher. The sentiment is from Peony Notes set, which is one of our gift with purchase items. Peony Notes bundle includes various sentiments in big scripty font and I love them! I trimmed down the panel and mounted it flat on a white cardbase. The finishing touch on this card were some sequins from Pink Blossoms and Glass Slippers. 

As we're in the midway of the winter this Winter Cardinal set could be a great addition to create some winter greeting cards. 

This pretty cardinal is a design, Effie once hand carved. The delicate branch pattern in the cardinal image makes it so unique. To start off I stamped the bird in Lipstick Red and added some darker shade by dabbing Pink Derby on some area on the stamp using a finger dauber. I stamped the wing and tail partial stamp in Spiced Chai, the area between eye and beak in Noir.  I colored his legs using brown sharpie pen and the eye with a black glaze pen and a white gel pen. I then clear heat embossed the whole bird again. After I masked the cardinal I gold heat embossed the branch. I added watercolor wash on the background in payne's gray and gold. Once it was dry I stamped the sentiment from Winter Cardinal set in Noir and clear heat embossed it. I trimmed down the panel slightly and mounted it on a dark red cardbase on the border of which I adhered thin strip of Adhesive Foil Paper Gold. To finish off I added Medallion Gold sequins.

The last card for today is showing Riotous Wildflowers again, in red, navy and silver! I love this stamp. There is also coordinating dies for the floral clusters of this!!! How awesome is that! 

I started by heat embossing the image in silver on a Bristol smooth panel. I then colored the flowers using Color Burst powders. I quite saturated the flowers with the pigments to have the intense colors.
For the silver leaves I used pearl colors by Fine Tec.

The sentiment is from Peony Notes. I stamped it in True Navy on a white cardstock and clear heat embossed it. As I didn't want to cover the beautiful florals I fussy cut the sentiment. To add some more interest I added a silver strip made using Adhesive Glitter Paper Glossy Fine Silver and a thin navy strip underneath the sentiment. I finished off the card by adding some clear Dew Drops.

DAILY RELEASE GIVEAWAYS

For each Release Day (1 through 3), The Ton is giving away a stamp set of choice from the new release! So there are three stamps up for grabs! To qualify, you must leave a comment on The Ton's Daily Release posts. Leave a comment on each Design Team member's blogs to increase your chances of winning. The comment period will close on January 28, 5pm EST. Winners will be announced thereafter on The Ton’s blog.

THE TON CHALLENGE

The Ton's January Challenge is a cue word challenge! CHEERS is the theme! Play along and get a chance to win a $50 spree to The Ton’s shop!

(Gift certificates only apply to The Ton stamps, dies, ink, gilding and embossing powder.)

That's it from me today! Hope you enjoyed the Day 1 of The Ton's 3rd Anniversary Release! 
Don't forget to check out the gorgeous inspirations on my fellow DT members blogs, if you didn't do it yet! 

• The Ton
• Brenda
• Vera
• Anna
• Mayline
• Laura Jane
• Jenny
• TaeEun <-- It's me
• Eunji
• Olga
• Lisa

Thank you so much for stopping by today!
See you tomorrow!
Hugs,
TaeEun

The Flower Challenge #16 - Spotlight Stamping Reminder

Hello everyone!!! Hope you are having a wonderful time in the first month of 2018! 

It's already midway of January! And time for a reminder project at The Flower Challenge. 

We are having a challenge of Spotlight Stamping. And this is my reminder card using that technique.

I started by heat embossing the Peony Crush background stamp by The Ton on a Bristol Smooth paper in Liquid Platinum. I then cut the area I want to color using a Double Stitched Square die (The Ton) and colored it with Color Burst powders. I added some silver watercolor for the background.

I adhered the heat embossed panel on the cardbase, added a strip of teal glitter tape horizontally on the middle of the panel and foam mounted the colored square panel onto the card. the sentiment from Kaisercraft was gold heat embossed on some vellum, fussy cut and added on the card.

That was a quick one with a beautiful result imho :) !
Please stop by The Flower Challenge blog for more inspiration! Hope you play along!

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Hugs,
TaeEun

Seize the Birthday - No Topping

Hello again! 

I'm popping in to share a birthday card with you! The first challenge of the year at Seize the Birthday is now live. And we have no toppings option this time around! It's good for warming up, right :) ?

No Topping

My card is featuring Bouquet Rose Fussy Cut stamp set, one of EunJi's digital stamps. 

I printed the image on a mixed media paper and colored it using Inktense colored pencils. I colored the darkest tone first and blended it out using a damp brush. After done with coloring I cut the panel, along the outline of the image on the right side and foam mounted it on the red cardbase. The sentiment from Summer Blooms set by The Ton was gold heat embossed on some vellum. I cut the vellum in a banner and glued it onto the card. To finish off I added a yellow rhinestone on the sentiment banner. 

That's it from me! Hope you'll play along!

Please stop by Seize the Birthday blog for more inspiration from my team mates and our new surprise party guest Kristie Goulet! I'm sure you all already know her blog full of her gorgeous creations, Kreative Kristie!

Thank you for looking!
Hugs,
TaeEun

The Flower Challenge #16 - Spotlight Stamping

Hello all! Hope you're having a wonderful week so far! 

Today I have two cards to share with you. 

The January Challenge at The Flower Challenge is all about Spotlight Stamping! I've made two cards in the same layout using Wishful Rose by The Ton. 

On the first card the rose was watercolored and for the second card I used alcohol ink to color the rose. 

To start off I heat embossed Wishful Rose in Liquid Platinum on Oatmeal cardstock (WPlus9) and again on some white cardstock. I then watercolored the rose on the white cardstock and adhered the panel on the cardbase. I cut out a circle from the Oatmeal cardstock using a Double Stitched Circle die and foam mounted it onto the card. The sentiment is from Celebration Rose Cluster (The Ton). I finished off the card by adding three clear Dew Drops (The Ton) onto the rose.

My second card is a shaker card. This is a CAS(E) of my own card.

I heat embossed the  Wishful Rose on a clear acetate sheet in Liquid Platinum and colored it with Purple Twilight, Pool, Aqua and Citrus alcohol ink. Before assembling the shaker card I blended the cardbase in Broken China and Peacock Feather to create the background. I filled the shaker window with some iridescent sequins. The sentiment was white heat embossed on a strip of purple cardstock and foam mounted on the card.

One more pic of both cards together :)....

I had so much fun to try this interesting technique again! Hope you'll give it a try too!
Now please hop over to  The Flower Challenge blog. My teammates have created some pretty projects for you!

Thank you so much for stopping by!!!
Have a happy day!
TaeEun

The Ton January Challenge - CHEERS

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

Wishing you all a year even better than the best!!! 

My first post in 2018 is for The Ton January Challenge! Our cue word for January 2018 is CHEERS! 

I've created a New Year's shaker card using Country Rose Cluster set. I was thinking of the New Year on the other side of the earth! I imagine the New Year in the south hemisphere like this :)! - Firework in the sky over a field filled with roses! 

To start off I heat embossed  Country Rose Cluster two times on Bristol smooth paper using Rose Gold embossing powder and watercolored them. I used coral and pink to color the roses and purple and turquoise to color the leaves. I cut the images using coordinating die and set them aside. To create the background I blended an A2 panel in Peach Blossom, Iris Blooms, Crystal Pewter and Smoky Quartz and added white splatters. After the background panel was completely dry, I heat embossed the fireworks from Pyrotechnics in Rose Gold  and Silver glitter EP. I masked the border area so that the fireworks are only inside of the frame. The frame was cut using Double Stitched Rectangle dies from a white cardstock on which I adhered transparent Adhesive Glitter paper. I heat embossed the sentiment from Born Classy in Rose Gold on the clear acetate sheet and adhered it under the frame.

I then started assembling the shaker card. I used sequins from New Year, Violet Sprinkle and Disco Spring Couture Mix as shaker elements. I then placed the Country Rose Cluster on the window as shown in the picture and finished off the card.

Hope you will play along! Your project should show a Ton product as the main focal point. Stop by The Ton Challenge blog for challenge details and more inspiration! There is as always a $50 gift certificate to The Ton shop to win!

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Have a happy day!

TaeEun