Burst of Colors

Hey Friends! Whimsy Stamps and Shimmerz Paints are teaming up for a fun hop on Instagram  filled with awesome inspiration and prizes! Shimmerz Paints is offering a $25 gift certificate to their store to one lucky winner, and Whimsy Stamps also has a $25 prize to their store.  The hop  will be open until  midnight EST on Saturday, December 19th to enter to win. Winners will be announced on both companies' accounts the week of December 21st. To enter you can go to  @shimmerzpaints   @whimsystamps  as well as to my insta account  @iriswiechmann  where you will find the full hop list and instructions. Here are the two projects I made for the hop: First up is a Christmas card using the Whimsy Lily Flower die set to make the poinsettia. I also used the Jolly Holly stencil and the Christmas Branches Die set. I combined the Whimsy products with the following Shimmerz products:  Shimmerz Mint To BE, Shimmerz Bubble Gum Blast, Sh...

Hey Crafty Friends! I have so much fun playing with my radiant liquid watercolors lately. These fun ostriches from Whimsy's NEW Hey Ostrich set (newest release) are my latest watercolor victims...haha. There is a list of colors used further below. Their faces are just too funny makes me smile every time I look at them. I combined them with the NEW Slimline Swiss Dots die . I'm in love with that die. I knew these two new products would make an awesome combination.  I went for gray and pink as my main colors. To add some interest to the plain gray cardstock I added sprinkles of white (Dr. Ph. Martins Bleed Proof White), pink (Distress Oxide Spray Spun Sugar) and shimmer (Liquid Fairy Dust). I also made the largest dot in the middle a shaker and filled it with lots of matching sequins, Sprinkletz and Sparkletz. Here is a list of the Liquid Radiant Watercolors (Dr. Ph. Martins) I used: Moss Rose Amber Yellow Ice Blue Saddle Brown Sepia Black Bleed Proof White Whimsy products use...