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The Ton 2016 Fall Release Blog Hop

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Hello, everyone! Welcome to The Ton 2016 Fall Release Blog Hop!

The Ton has 23 new stamps for their Fall 2016 Release (18 clear stamps, 5 rubber cling) There are two new gifts with purchases for this release! For all purchases of $75 (before taxes and shipping), Effie will include our new Hazelnut Kisses Couture Mix with your order. For all purchases over $100 (before taxes and shipping), Effie will include the Hazelnut Kisses mix and a mini 2×3 Christmas Poinsettia set in your order! This promotion does not apply to prior purchases and is only available until October 3 or until supplies last.

Hazelnut Kisses Couture Mix and Christmas Poinsettia, 2×3 Incentive Stamp

All new release products (stamps, gilding, and coordinating dies) are available now! 

We’ve shown you the fabulous new products during the past 4 days. As a grand finale of our 2016 Fall Release week, we are having a blog hop with incredible guests!

The order of the hop is as follows:

 

Make sure to leave comments to all of the blog hop participants for giveaways!

Giveaway Details:

Four $25 gift certificates will be given away to random commenters on all the hop participant blogs. The comment period will close on Thursday, September 29th at 11:59pm. Winners will be announced thereafter.

Now, without further ado, let me introduce you the 2 cards I’ve created! 

For this card, I used 3 new stamp sets – Born Classy, Plus One, and Holiday Confetti. I adore this beautiful couple! It’s so fun to dress them like paper dolls! If you remember the card I created for day 2 of the release week, I gave this gal a Greek goddess look! She wore a white dress with beautiful gold trimmed chiffon chiton. This time, she’s wearing a sexy black dress with gold sparkles. The handsome guy is wearing a black tuxedo with gold trims that matches his beautiful date! Don’t you think this couple is dressed perfectly for a formal New Year party?  🙂

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  • I started the card by stamping the lady image from our new Born Classy stamp set and the man image from Plus One stamp set. I stamped both images on smooth white cardstock in our Copic friendly Caviar Hybrid ink. I colored both images with various Copic markers.
  • For the lady image, I stamped the sparkle dress layer with embossing ink and heat embossed in gold. I drew in lines and dots with gold gel pen on the man image to add some interest. I fussy cut both images.
  • On a smooth white cardstock, I stamped the confetti image from our new Holiday Confetti stamp set on 2 corners with embossing ink and heat embossed in gold. I trimmed the sides down slightly narrower than 4″
  • I adhered our beautiful Gold Burnished Foil tape on the A2 black card base so it would peek through between the card base and the main panel.
  • I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in gold on a strip of a black cardstock.
  • I adhered the main panel then the couple image. I adhered the sentiment strip with foam tape.
  • I finished the card by adding some Matte Gold sequins.

 

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This second card was designed around the sentiment, “mistletoe kisses and joyful holiday wishes”. Mistletoe and pine cones are “hung” on gold threads, waiting for sweet couples to stop by for kisses. 🙂

The sentiment is from our new Mistletoe Kisses stamp set, and I mix-matched various images from the Holiday Cones, Outline Holiday Cones, Fresh Cut Poinsettias, and Outline Fresh Cut Poinsettias stamp set.

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  • First I planned where to stamp different images on the card and prepared masks accordingly.
  • I stamped various images from the Holiday Cones, Outline Holiday Cones, Fresh Cut Poinsettias, and Outline Fresh Cut Poinsettias stamp set, using masking technique to achieve some dimensions. All images are stamped with our Warm Hazelnut dye ink for no-line coloring.
  • I colored all images and the background with various Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens (blended with clear water) and let it dry completely. Then I added some details on the images with the Prismacolor color pencils. I also stamped a detail layer on the poinsettia image and heat embossed with gold glitter embossing powder.
  • I drew in gold threads with gold gel pen. I also added some highlights on the berries with the same gel pen.
  • I trimmed the panel down to 4″x5.5″, wiped the embossing ink around the panel, and heat embossed with gold sparkle embossing powder.
  • I stamped the sentiment from our newMistletoe Kisses stamp set on a strip of vellum with the embossing ink and heat embossed in gold. I wrapped the sentiment strip around the panel and adhered it on the back. I also adhered black fun foam trimmed slightly smaller than the panel.
  • On the A2 card base, I adhered strips of our Gold Adhesive Glitter paper on the vertical sides and adhered the main panel on top.
  • I made some bows with gold thread and glued them on the pine cones and added bit of glitter glue on the bow.
  • I finished the card by adding some sequins from our new Elf Stockings Couture Mix as well as our Matte Gold & Glass Slippers sequins.

 

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That’s all from me for today and don’t forget to comment on every stop for maximum giveaway entries! Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my cards as well as all of the beautiful projects from our team and the guests!

Your next stop is super talented Lydia Fiedler!

Have a blessed day, everyone!

Hugs,

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The Ton 2016 Fall Release Day 2

~ HandmadebyJLY ~ 60 Comments

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Welcome to The Ton 2016 Fall Release day 2!!!

The Ton has 23 new stamps for their Fall 2016 Release (18 clear stamps, 5 rubber cling) There are two new gifts with purchases for this release! For all purchases of $75 (before taxes and shipping), Effie will include our new Hazelnut Kisses Couture Mix with your order. For all purchases over $100 (before taxes and shipping), Effie will include the Hazelnut Kisses mix and a mini 2×3 Christmas Poinsettia set in your order! This promotion does not apply to prior purchases and is only available until October 3 or until supplies last.

Hazelnut Kisses Couture Mix and Christmas Poinsettia, 2×3 Incentive Stamp

For today, we are revealing 6 new stamps sets – Folk Art Florals Background, Plus One, Born Classy, City Girls: Retail Therapy, Grand Stairway, and Dept Store! These stamp sets are so different and unique, and I am super excited to present to you couple of my cards using some of these sets!

 

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Plus One

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Born Classy

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City Girls: Retail Therapy

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Grand Stairway

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Dept. Store

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Santa’s Sneezes Couture Mix

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All new products (stamps, dies and couture mixes) will be available in the shop on Monday, September 26 at 7am (EST).

 

Here is my first card! I used our new Born Classy and Grand Stairway stamp set. I truly enjoyed creating this card! Born Classy set is so versatile, you could use different accessories to achieve different looks with the lady image! Creating this card totally reminded me of dressing paper dolls when I was a little girl! 🙂 And the Grand Stairway creates such an elegant and fun background or main image for any occasions, colored or not.

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  • I started the card by stamping the classy lady and her luxury bag image from our new Born Classy stamp set on a smooth white cardstock using our Caviar Hybrid ink, which is Copic friendly ink. I colored the image with various Copic markers and fussy cut. The coordinating dies will be available at the shop on Monday!
  • Then I stamped one of the accessories (the chiton layer) from the set on the vellum with embossing ink and heat embossed in gold. I adhered Stick-It sheet on the back of the image and fussy cut.
  • I stamped our new Grand Stairway stamp on a smooth white cardstock with embossing ink and heat embossed in gold. I stamped the sentiment of the top right corner and trimmed the panel down tiny bit smaller than the standard A2 size.
  • I adhered our beautiful Gold Burnished Foil tape on the edges of a top folding A2 size white card base, and adhered the Grand Stairway image on top.
  • I adhered the classy lady image and the chiton layer on top.
  • I finished the card by adding some accents with gold gel pen and some Night and Matte Gold sequins.

 

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Moving on to the second card!

I just insanely love the stamp sets I used on this card! I’m sure many of us love shopping, and could totally relate to these stamp sets! I used City Girls: Retail Therapy and Dept. Store stamp set for this fun card!

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  • I started the card by stamping the girl image and the tiny adorable dog image from our new City Girls: Retail Therapy stamp set on a smooth white cardstock using our Copic friendly Caviar Ink. I colored both images with various of Copic markers, added some accents with white and gold gel pens, and fussy cut.
  • I stamped the Dept Store image on a smooth white cardstock with our Smoky Quarts ink, to create the background. I trimmed the panel down to 4″x5.5″
  • I cut couple of strips of our beautiful Glossy Fine Transparent Adhesive Glitter paper and adhered them to vertical sides of a top folding A2 size white card base.
  • I adhered the girl and the dog image on the card base using the foam tape. I created a “leash” with a thin twine (I colored the twine in pink with the Copic marker) and adhered it between the 2 images.
  • I stamped the sentiment (I love this sentiment!) with embossing ink and heat embossed in white. I trimmed it down and added some dots on the sides with white gel pen. I adhered the sentiment on the card base with the foam tape.
  • I finished the card by adding some My Tutu, Glass Slippers, and Fairy Pink Sparkling Clear sequins. I also added some sparkle on some of the shopping bags and boxes using the Clear Wink of Stella pen.

 

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That’s all from me for today! I hope you enjoyed the cards and please come back tomorrow for day 3 of our New Release Week!

 

DAILY RELEASE GIVEAWAYS: Leave a comment on The Ton blog on each day of Release Week (1-4) for a chance to win one of four $25 gift codes to the shop.

There are additional $10 gift code giveaways that you can also win by leaving comments on the Design Team member blogs on each day of Release Week. So there are an additional 7 gift codes up for grabs!

The comment period for the Daily Release and DT Giveaways will close on Thursday, September 29 at 11:59 PM. Winners will be chosen at random and announced thereafter.

Be sure to stop by The Ton blog to see the rest of the projects design team has created. And come join us on Tuesday  for a fabulous blog hop featuring our design team members and special guests! 

Here is the list of our blogs:

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

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