Stampendous! and Tombow USA Blog Hop!

 Hi Everyone! I hope you are having fun so far! You probably came from Lyn's Blog, but if you stumbled across my blog go to the Stampendous! Blog to START!

Today I have 3 cards and 2 techniques for you! This first card is a shaker card and I will explain this one below!

But first, I wanted to share a different coloring technique. Pointillism, which is basically coloring with dots. 

 I used different sizes and different tones of green Tombow Dual Brush Pens. My lightest color was 133 Chartreuse, which I used in most of the Cling Create A Christmas Set tree stamp. But instead of coloring with strokes like I normally do I made more dots. You don't really notice the dots unless you look closely. The effect of pointillism is that the eye blends the colors and that is why you don't really see the yellow, because is one of the colors that makes green.

 I used the Create A Christmas Die Cut to cut out the white garland and to glue it I used the Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue. I also used Dot Sparklers Class A Peel Stickers in Hologram Red. I used the Tombow Foam Tape to give dimension to the circle and the tree die cut.

 The second one is a shaker card! Everyone makes them different, but this is how I made this one!

95% of the time my cards are 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. That means my mat is 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches and the accent paper base (or in this case the only paper I used) is 4 x 5 1/4. I tried to place the tree die from the Create A Christmas Die Cut Set  as centered as my eyes let me. I kept the die in place with a thin washi tape that is not very strong. You don't want it to ruin your paper.

 Then I used this rectangle for the bottom. You have two options for a bottom in this set, the other can also be used as a gift.

 I used the Fuse Tool to make the first square. I took a piece from a 12x12 page protector and made a rectangle a hair smaller than the base paper. Remember to leave one side open. Then fill it with sparkly goodness! It's my favorite part, it makes me feel like a paper wizard or a paper chemist. LOL

 Inside the pocket I used Stampendous! Shaved Ice, Christmas Micro Glitter Kit, and sequins. To concentrate all the goodness I made a line outside the tree with the Tombow Mono Twin Permanent Marker and used the Fuse Tool in those areas.

 The Tombow Xtreme Permanent Adhesive is the absolute best to glue the plastic sleeve!

 The mat of my card is silver, which you can't tell much on the photo because it reflects back whatever is in from of it, so on the back of the tree I used white cardstock a hair smaller than the patterned paper. The patterned papers and the round sequins I used are from the Oh Deer Collection from Fancy Pants Designs.

I hope you enjoyed these cards! I had so much making them! Don't forget to hop tomorrow too!

There are 2 prize packages that include:

*Tombow Recycled Color Pencils 24 pack tin

*A roll of Tombow Foam Tape

*A Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle

*Your choice from Stampendous Create Fall, Create Christmas, Create Winter or Create a Poinsettia Cling Stamp set and Matching Dies

To win:

·        * Have a US Mailing Address

·        * “Like” TombowUSA on Facebook and Stampendous on Facebook

·       *  Follow @tombowusa and @stampendous on Instagram

·        * Follow @tombowusa and @Stampendous

·        * Follow Tombow USA and Stampendous on Pinterest

·        * Comment on all the blog posts from both teams all week. Including our pre-game posts Mon-Thurs and our Weekend hop Fri-Sun.

·         We’ll give you until Tuesday, September 22 to get all those great comments in, then we’ll choose 2 winners on Sept 23.

Friday
Stampendous Blog 
Kristine Reynolds 
Lyn Bernatovich 

Jennie Garcia <<YOU ARE HERE
Jamie Martin 
Laura Drahozal 

Beth Watson
Amy Hurley-Purdie 
Lea Fritts 
Tenia Nelson 
Tombow Blog

 YOUR NEXT STOP IS JAMIE!