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Hello friends! Welcome to the Sunny Studio Stamps 5th Birthday Blog Hop! I'm thrilled to be a part of this event and to help Mendi (the owner) celebrate this very special milestone for her company! There are loads of fun things going on along with the blog hop, including some great promotions that will save you money and some amazing giveaways. You can check out all of the details below and learn more about the Slimline Christmas Card I created and am sharing with you today. 

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Once the ink was completely dry I colored the raised surface design of the leaves with an embossing marker and sprinkled it with Peeled Paint Embossing Glaze and then embossed it using a heat gun. I repeated this process for the flowers using Fired Brick Embossing Glaze and for the centers using Fossilized Amber.

Alcohol Ink Rainbow and Analogous Color Backgrounds

This first set of cards uses Alcohol Inks on Yupo paper to create the backgrounds. I made one card with a rainbow color palette and the other two with analogous colors.The stamped image on all three of these cards is from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Baroque Stamp Set. For the focal point, I die cut a butterfly from gold Metallic Kraft Stock using the Sizzix Scribbly Butterflies Thinlits Die. The sentiment is from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Tiny Text Stamp Set. It is stamped on black cardstock with embossing ink and heat set with gold embossing powder. I used this same focal point on each of the Alcohol Ink cards, but switched up the sentiment on each one.For the rainbow pattern, I applied the colors in rainbow order from top to bottom and used the Ranger Alcohol Ink Air Blower to move the inks around. I also used a tiny bit of Alcohol Ink Blending Solution.
I used the following Alcohol Inks for this card: Gumball, Sunset Orange, Sunshine Yellow, Mojito, Glacier and Purple Twilight.

Once the Alcohol Ink was dry, I rubbed the entire panel with a Ranger Anti-Static Pouch just to make sure no stray embossing powder would stick to it. I then stamped the Baroque image with embossing ink and heat set it with white embossing powder.This next card uses the analogous colors of red, orange and yellow. I used the following Alcohol Inks: Gumball, Sunset Orange and Sunshine Yellow.

I used the same stamp image, but this time I stamped it with Alcohol Lift Ink. After stamping the image, I used a paper towel to dab and lift off the ink to reveal the image. It creates a subtle effect, but adds a nice bit of interest to the background.On this final alcohol ink card, I used the analogous colors of blue, indigo and violet. The Alcohol Inks I used are: Glacier, Purple Twilight and Monsoon. The stamped image is the same one I used previously and again I used it with Alcohol Lift Ink.

Another analogous color combination that I didn't do, but that would be a great option is yellow, green and blue. Wouldn't that be gorgeous?

Distress Ink Rainbow and Analogous Color Backgrounds

Now onto the second set of cards. This time I used Distress Ink with watercolor paper, but continued with the rainbow and analogous color combinations.On these cards, I used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Baroque Stamp Set and the Glorious Garden Stamp Set. I stamped the image with embossing ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I found that Super Fine White Embossing Powder worked better in keeping the details of the Glorious Garden image as compared to regular embossing powder. With all of these, I made sure the inked background was completely dry and ran an Anti-Static Pouch over the surface before stamping and heat embossing.

For the focal point, I again die cut butterflies from gold Metallic Kraft Stock using the Sizzix Scribbly Butterflies Thinlits Die. The sentiment is from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Tiny Text Stamp Set. This time I stamped it onto white cardstock with embossing ink and heat set with white embossing powder. I then inked the white paper with Distress Ink to coordinate it with the card.On each of these cards, I used Distress Ink to create the background. For the rainbow effect, I used an Ink Blending tool to apply ink in stripes at a diagonal along a piece of watercolor paper. I then used the blending tool to blend the colors next to each other together. Next, I spritzed the paper using the Distress Sprayer, making sure to apply enough water to get the inks to create the distressed look. I did a combination of spritzing and drying with a heat tool and spritzing and dabbing dry with a paper towel to get the inks to blend and move. The Distress Ink colors I used on the rainbow background are: Festive Berries, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet.This next card uses an analogous color scheme. This time I used the following Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry, Festive Berries and Wild Honey. When applying the ink, I again used a foam blending tool, but I applied the various inks to the card in different areas, blended the colors next to each other and then used the spritz and dry methods I used on the previous card. As I mentioned earlier, I used Super Fine White Embossing Powder when I stamped and embossed the Glorious Garden Stamp.On my final card, I used Wilted Violet, Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink with the same technique as mentioned on the previous card.That's it friends! I sure hope you enjoyed learning how to create these Rainbow and Analogous Color Backgrounds using Alcohol Ink and Distress Ink. Thanks so much for stopping by and as always, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

I began by die cutting the Santa from Bristol Smooth Cardstock. I then inked each piece with Distress Ink to make it the color I wanted. I used the darker of the two colors listed below to add shadows and usually applied this to the edges of the pieces or some of the layers.

To begin, I took an 8 inch wood embroidery hoop and gave a good distressing! I used my finger to paint the wood parts of the embroidery hoop with Walnut Stain Distress Paint. Once the paint was dry, I again used my finger to paint on some Crackle Texture Paste. This I applied in random areas on the wood parts of the hoop but with the hoop pieces together. After all the crackly goodness was complete, I added some Vintage Photo Distress Crayon to bring them out. I recommend working in small sections before the crayon has time to dry and you can use either your finger or even a small stencil brush to work the crayon into the cracks.

You would normally have some sort of cloth inside of an embroidery hoop, but I decided to go with Christmas themed patterned paper instead. I used the outside of the hoop as a template to trace and then cut out a piece of chipboard. I then adhered a piece of paper from a past Christmas Paper Stash to the chipboard using Distress Collage Medium. I then trimmed off the excess and inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I then adhered this to the back side of the embroidery hoop using Collage Medium.
The final touch for this Merry Embroidery Hoop was the vintage crinkled bow. I took Hug Snug Seam Binding Ribbon and dyed it using Aged Mahogany, Vintage photo and Festive Berries Distress Stain. I sprayed the different colors of ink onto the ribbon, spritzed it with just a bit of water, wrinkled it up into a ball and then used my heat gun to dry it. Viola...beautiful vintage looking crinkled ribbon!