I am absolutely busting with joy today! I've had the great privilege to work with new die cuts by Karen Burniston and images by Darkroom Door stamps. My favorite thing is combining stamping with die cuts! The dies I chose to work with are super fun and interactive, so I decided to break out of my grungy norm and do some bright and happy projects. I hope you like them. This post is power packed, so grab a cuppa, then make sure to see the list of other bloggers joining the hop at the bottom of this post. Both Darkroom Door and Karen Burniston will be giving away a prize packs, with winners randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received by Sunday, June 29th, 2019. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop post to enter! For my Twist Panel Pop-Up card I knew I wanted to use the small birds from the Garden Birds stamp set to decorate my pop-up panels. Rather than cutting apart the stamps, I embossed the entire sheet in white. This was super easy and gave me a "coloring sheet" of birds to work with. I tapped a Distress Ink rainbow onto my mat then used my water reservoir brush to watercolor the images. I had an absolute BLAST coloring these cuties! (The trick is to extend the color beyond the image for easier cutting.) Of course, I had a ton of ink left on my mat, so I decided to dip the pop-up panels into the inks to make a fun background for my birdies. I still had ink left, so I dipped some other scraps and then embossed some Fine Flowers Vol. 2 images onto those. This card is bursting with color and fun when you open it! Twist Panel Pop-Up Die Set Garden Birds Stamp Set Fine Flowers Volume 2 Stamp Set I also got to work with the Tag Pop-Up Die Set. I decided to use Distress Oxides to switch it up a little and show both techniques. I knew I wanted to use the Friendship Flowers stamp set to do a resist of some sort. I die cut my pop-up panels from watercolor paper and embossed the flowers in white. (See how I positioned the flowers so that the stems extended the perimeter of the panel?) I used a rainbow of Distress Oxide colors. Tapping the pads on my mat, then spritzing with water and dipping the panel into the pooled ink. I did one color at a time and dried between colors. Oxides work really well this way. Last I stamped around the white embossing in colored inks for more variation. I embossed the sentiment and floral collage from Botanical Script in black and colored the image with Oxides. I repeated the dipping process with the other die cut elements to complete the tag book. These are so much prettier in person! I will do some videos on Instagram (@sewpaperpaint) so you get the full effect. :) Tag Book Pop-Up Die Set Friendship Flowers Stamp Set Botanical Script Stamp Set Huge thanks to Karen and Rachel for making this hop a reality.! Make sure to visit these other incredible designers along the hop: Both Darkroom Door and Karen Burniston will be giving away a prize packs, with winners randomly chosen from ALL of the blog hop comments received by Sunday, June 29th, 2018. Lots of chances to win some goodies, so just leave a comment on this post or any other blog hop post to enter! Darkroom Door / Rachel Greig Karen Burniston & Tanya Kostynuk Belinda Spencer Summer Hills-Painter Teresa Abajo Karen Aicken Anneke De Clerck Frances Byrne Godelieve Tijskens Shelly Hickox Anna-Karin Evaldsson Mary Prasad Robyn Wood Fran Sabad Connie Mercer Kelly Booth Autumn Clark >>>> YOU ARE HERE :) Helen Cryer Kymona Tracey