Krumspring Stamps Anniversary Blog Hop (+GIVEAWAYS!)

Good morning!  I was honored to guest-design for Maria and Krumspring Stamps last spring and am so excited to be a stop on the Anniversary Blog Hop!  There are 8 new stamps sets available now and I’m using the fabulous Drinks Are On Me for my card!

We’re reaching the end of the summer here but tropical drinks are good all year long and this stamp set is perfect for making a bright and cheerful cocktail card!  I started by stamping the glasses across a piece of distress watercolor paper with versamark and then heat-embossed them with silver embossing powder.  Next I watercolored the drinks with picked raspberry, abandoned coral, squeezed lemonade, twisted citron, and peacock feathers distress ink.  I concentrated the color on the left side of each glass and then used water to blend it out to the other side of the glass resulting in a little bit of soft shading!  Next I applied spectrum noir clear sparkle to each drink and then added a layer of nuvo crystal glaze to each glass.  I set that aside to dry overnight while I worked on the rest of the card.

Next I stamped the little citrus slices, straws, and hibiscus flowers on a scrap piece of watercolor paper and heat-embossed them with the same silver embossing powder (on a side note, the orange slices appear to be heat-embossed with gold embossing powder but I think that’s just a result of slightly sloppy watercoloring…oops).  I watercolored them with distress inks, let them dry, and then fussy cut them.  The next morning I stamped the sentiments onto black cardstock and heat-embossed them with white embossing powder.  I trimmed them down to labels and adhered them to the (now dried) background panel.  Then I used a mixture of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape to add the slices, straws, and flowers to my drinks.  Finally I applied a layer of nuvo crystal glaze to the drink decorations and let them dry completely.  Once everything was dried I trimmed my panel down by an 1/8th of an inch on both sides and mounted it to a black card panel.  This wasn’t the fastest card to put together but I really love how it turned out.  All those extra applications of crystal glaze and spectrum noir clear sparkle were totally worth it! 😉

To celebrate the first anniversary of Krumspring Stamps Maria is giving away a $10 gift certificate for each stop on the hop!  Leave a comment on each stop for 16 chances to win a $10 gift certificate OR the grand prize – which is a Prize Packet containing lots of Krumspring Stamps!  The giveaway ends August 23rd at 12 pm Central European Time (7AM EST). Winners will be announced on the Krumspring Blog later that day!  Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:

• Krumspring Blog (Maria)
• Vera Rhuhay
• Michelle Short
• Amy Yang
• Tina Krauer
• Niki Bee
• Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
• Anna Kossakovskaya
• Kathy Racoosin
• Amy Lee
• Natalie Elphinstone
• Mayline Jung
• Keeway Tsao
• Amy Kolling
• Birka Reinitz
• Dana Gong

Thank you so much for visiting and have a fabulous day!  If this is your first time stopping by my blog I hope you’ll come back again soon!

Interested in the products I used?  To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!

Krumspring Stamps Drinks Are On Me Shop at: KS	Versamark Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA	Tim Holtz Abandoned Coral Mini Distress Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers Mini Distress Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry Mini Distress Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade Mini Distress Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Tim Holtz Twisted Citron Mini Distress Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Silver Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | HA	Tim Holtz 8.5″x11″ Distress Watercolor Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Fiskars Titanium No. 5 Micro Tip Scissors Shop at: SSS	Inkadinkado Embossing Magic Powder Bag Shop at: SSS
Wagner Precision Heat Gun Shop at: SSS | HA	Silver Black Velvet Brush Round 4 Shop at: SSS	Mini MISTI Precision Stamper Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Shop at: SSS	Tonic Studios Crystal Glaze Shop at: SSS	Scotch Foam Mounting Tape Shop at: SSS
Scotch ATG Adhesive Shop at: SSS