The Ton Sunflower Pop Up Dies Release

Hi peeps. Welcome to The Ton release day. Today we're only releasing one set of dies, but it is such a cool set. Introducing Sunflower Pop Up dies.

I always love pop up cards. I think they're fun and when I saw the sneak peek of this dies, I got so excited. 

For the front of my card I start with the background panel, which I create using the Quilted A2 Coverplate die. Adhere the panel to cad base. Next I stamp, die cut the sunflower pieces from an older set from The Ton collection called Fresh Cut Sunflowers.  Arrange and adhere to the card base.

Next, the fun part. The pop up mechanism. Now, it looks a bit complicated, but it really isn't. I simply watch and follow the direction on the instruction video HERE. I got it done with the first try. Just a simple learning curve.

 

The pic above shown how it looks like when the card open 90 degree. Now, in my opinion, it doesn works better when you use less thicker cardstock. Otherwise it gets too bulky. And, instead of using colored cardstock, for y card, I chose to use white cardstock and inked the flowers and the leaves using The Ton Lemon Drop, Vanilla Frosted Cupcake, Soft Garden and Bright Fern ink. I feel like I get more depth of colors this way.

So, what do you think? Fun right? Now, my teammates have created more inspiration using this die set. Please check out their wonderful creations. Thank you all so much for stopping by here and I hope you love this die set as much as I do. Happy Thursday!

The Ton
Tae Eun
Anna
Vera <-- you are here
Olga
Brenda

SugarPea Designs Winter Release Day

Yay, today is the day. Are you ready for a sweet release from SugarPea? Have you made your list? You’ve been waiting all week to bring home these new goodies and TODAY at 2 PM EST will be your chance to be one of the FIRST to get to play with all of the NEW and amazing paper crafting goodness. But while we wait for those hours to tick by we have a little more to share with you today.

You’ll find links below to help you navigate if you happened to have missed any of SugarPea Sweet Peek Week Introductions.
CLICK HERE for Day 1
CLICK HERE for Day 2
CLICK HERE for Day 3
CLICK HERE for Day 4

For my card today, I am again showcasing the pretty Friendship Blooms set and this time I am pairing it with Gradient Stripes stencil and Hello die. There's just something about clean and simple card with pops of colors that I just love. Like this card, plenty of white space, yet, it's still fun in my opinion.

Now, what's on your wish list from this release? Curious mind wants to know. I love the Swan sets personally, cause guess what.... I love SugarPea critters. Although, I do love this Gradient Stripes stencil as well. Hey, you can definitely choose more than 1 favorites. :)

Would you like to win a $50 Gift Voucher to our store? Leave a comment below and on SugarPea Blog for your chance to win. TWO lucky commenters will be randomly selected from the Sweet Peek Week comments to win a $50 Gift Voucher! Winners will be announced on SugarPea Blog: Monday, January 25th.

My teammates has some amazing and creative inspiration to showcase the new products. You can visit each of their blogs below for details on their projects. And while you’re there be sure to leave a sweet comment for them, giving you an extra entry to win! I hope you enjoy today's sneak peek. Happy Fri-yay!

Amy Kolling
Jennifer Timko
Linda van Wely
Tatiana Trafimovich
Tricia Barber

SugarPea Designs Sweet Peek Day 4

Hi peeps and welcome to Day 4 and the final day of our Winter Product Release introductions.

All of the NEW products we have been introducing to you this week will be available for purchase starting tomorrow, Friday, January 22nd at 2 PM EST in the SPD Store.

You’ll find links below to help you navigate if you happened to have missed any of SugarPea Sweet Peek Week Introductions.
CLICK HERE for Day 1
CLICK HERE for Day 2
CLICK HERE for Day 3

 

One more day to our release. Today I am playing with Let's Stay In Bed set. This is a super cozy set. For the bed spread I used the Gradient Stripes Stencil to create the pattern. This set has this sleepy kitty and just like my puppies that sleep with us on our bed, I imagine this kitty love to enjoy the same luxury. :)

Would you like to win a $50 Gift Voucher to our store? Leave a comment below and on SugarPea Blog for your chance to win. TWO lucky commenters will be randomly selected from the Sweet Peek Week comments to win a $50 Gift Voucher! Winners will be announced on SugarPea Blog: Monday, January 25th.

My teammates has some amazing and creative inspiration to showcase the new products. You can visit each of their blogs below for details on their projects. And while you’re there be sure to leave a sweet comment for them, giving you an extra entry to win! I hope you enjoy today's sneak peek. Happy hump day!

Amy Kolling
Jennifer Timko
Linda van Wely
Tatiana Trafimovich
Tricia Barber

SugarPea Designs Sweet Peek Day 3

Hi peeps and welcome to Day 3 of SugarPea Designs Winter Product Release!

All of the NEW products we have been introducing to you this week will be available for purchase starting Friday, January 22nd at 2 PM EST in the SPD Store.

You’ll find links below to help you navigate if you happened to have missed any of our Sweet Peek Week Introductions.
CLICK HERE for Day 1
CLICK HERE for Day 2

For today, I am showcasing the Floral Geo Cover Plate that I used to create embossed look background. Then, without removing the cover plate, I blended various pink inks. Hey, if I can use the cover plate as embosser and stencil, why not. Great way to get more out of your dies. Next, I stamped the image from Friendship Blooms set, die cut and color. Arrange on the card. Seriously, this is a pretty quick card.I complete this card in less than 30 minutes. I love the soft colors on this card. :)

 

Would you like to win a $50 Gift Voucher to our store? Leave a comment below and on SugarPea Blog for your chance to win. TWO lucky commenters will be randomly selected from the Sweet Peek Week comments to win a $50 Gift Voucher! Winners will be announced on SugarPea Blog: Monday, January 25th.

The SugarPea team has some amazing and creative inspiration to showcase the new products. You can visit each of my teammates’ blogs below for details on their projects. And while you’re there be sure to leave a sweet comment for them, giving you an extra entry to win! I hope you enjoy today's sneak peek. Happy hump day!

Amy Kolling
Jennifer Timko
Linda van Wely
Tatiana Trafimovich
Tricia Barber

SugarPea Designs Sweet Peek Day 2

 Hi everyone. Welcome to day 2 of SugarPea Designs sweet peek week. I am excited to share my project for today's sneak peek as it brings me down memory lane.

As a child of the 80s, this Vintage Telephone dies totally reminds me of hours of time spent chatting with my friends. Kind of funny to think that back in those days I can talk for hours on the phone and now, I prefer face to face meeting than talking on the phone.

To make this card more fun, I add rainbow color chevron using the new Chevron Cover Plate. You know what my favorite thing about this phone? It's the number from the Call Me stamp set. The number fit perfectly inside the rotary part of the die cut phone. It's all about the little details for me. Here's a peek of the Call Me set since I only use the number from this set.

Would you like to win a $50 Gift Voucher to our store? Leave a comment below and on SugarPea Blog for your chance to win. TWO lucky commenters will be randomly selected from the Sweet Peek Week comments to win a $50 Gift Voucher! Winners will be announced on SugarPea Blog: Monday, January 25th.

The SugarPea team has some amazing and creative inspiration to showcase the new products. You can visit each of my teammates’ blogs below for details on their projects. And while you’re there be sure to leave a sweet comment for them, giving you an extra entry to win! I hope you enjoy today's sneak peek and come back tomorrow for more fun sets. Have a blessed week everyone.

Amy Kolling
Jennifer Timko
Linda van Wely
Tatiana Trafimovich
Tricia Barber

SugarPea Designs Sweet Peek Day 1

Hi peeps! Welcome to SugarPea Designs Sweet Peek Week!!

We have quite plenty of fun & cute sets for this release that I am excited to share with you. All of the products that we will be introducing this week will be available for purchase starting this Friday, January 22nd at 2PM EST in the SPD Store.

For today, I am showcasing Sweet Swans & Swan Love. This set capture what I love of SugarPea collection. They always have something sweet & simply adorable. This set is proof. I used  the squares from Card Front Element Builder III to ground the swans and fill it with some ink blending before adding the swans & the duckling. I think this card would be perfect for my niece. What do you think of this set? Sweet & cute, right?

Would you like to win a $50 Gift Voucher to our store? Leave a comment on SugarPea Blog for your chance to win. TWO lucky commenters will be randomly selected from the Sweet Peek Week comments to win a $50 Gift Voucher! Winners will be announced on SugarPea blog: Monday, January 25th.

The SugarPea team has some amazing and creative inspiration to showcase the new products. You can visit each of my teammates’ blogs below for details on their projects. And while you’re there be sure to leave a sweet comment for them, giving you an extra entry to win! I hope you enjoy today's sneak peek and come back tomorrow for more fun sets. Have a blessed week everyone.

Amy Kolling
Jennifer Timko
Linda van Wely
Tatiana Trafimovich
Tricia Barber

The Ton 6th Anniversary Release Hop

Hi all. Happy new year. I can't  believe that I haven't been blogging since October 2020. Gosh, my blog really got quite neglected. So sorry about that. I do still make cards regularly, but I just been posting them more on my Instagram account.

Well, I am glad to be back on blog land as we celebrating The Ton 6th anniversary. For this celebration. The Ton is releasing 7 new stamp/dies and 4 new standalone dies. I am excited for this release & really looking forward for more creativity in 2021.

Without further delay, let's get on with the card, shall we?

For my card, I am showcasing the fun Ditsy Bits set. And, I have to say, the Quilted Coverplate A2 die is a set that surprise me. At first, I thought it just standard quilted design, till I actually use it. It cuts little hearts instead of just dots or stitch impression. I don't know about you, but these little hearts gets me.  I was like, oooh, look at that, pretty!

To make the hearts stand out a bit more, I back the light blue cardstock with dark teal cardstock, as you can see on the pic above. For the flowers, I stamped them with Hollywood Star, Soft Garnet, Cosmopolitan Pink and Soft Garden. Once stamped, I die cut them using the coordinating Ditsy Bits die. Arrange on the card and finish by adding sentiment.

For my next card, I am using the gorgeous Radiant Roses Standalone Layering Dies.

I just love the layers on  this rose set. It's beautiful and I just love playing with this. I can see more roses cards coming. I always enjoy playing with what I consider classic, timeless set. This set definitely fall  under this category & I love, love this set. maybe because I associated it with my mom's favorite flower. 

I die cut all the pieces from watercolor cardstock and color each layers deeper. To ground the flowers, i add a scallop frame, that I die cut using the 2nd largest frame from Scalloped A2 Nested dies. Arrange flower & leaves, then add sentiment using the new Ribbon General set stamped with Peach Blossom & Coralline and die cut it with coordinating dies.

There you go, 2 fun cards too start my 2021 blog post. ;) 

GIVEAWAY

Fun stuff! We have a little giveaway for this anniversary release. One winner will be randomly chosen from the comments on the blog hop and will be announced on The Ton's Blog on Friday, January 22. The winner will be able to choose a stamp from our 6th Anniversary Release. This giveaway is open to everyone. 

Want some more inspirations? Please check out what The Ton team has created for this release and remember, for every comment, it counts toward entering the giveaway. Thank you for stopping by here and I hope may this year brings us good health, peace and blessings. Cheers...

The Ton
Tae-Eun Yoo
Vera Wirianta Yates <-- you are here
Anna Kutcenkoa
Olga Matyushevskaya

Brenda Novel Noelke

The Ton Winter Die Flash Release

 Hi all and welcome to The Ton Winter Flash Die release. Today The Ton is releasing 4 new standalone dies that I think are just perfect to celebrate the cooler weather.

For my card, I am showcasing the Holiday Coffee Dies.

To start, I die cut the background using Grid A2 Coverplate die. Then I die cut all the coffee cup elements. My favorite is the snowflake die & embossed sleeve. It added such fun details. Before putting them together, I ink blended the cup with Soft Garden, Cali Blue, Hollywood Star & Coral Cavern. Adhere the cups to the card base with foam adhesive.

Next, for the sentiment I used Easy Expressions Holiday set and finished the card by adding some Blue Ice Couture sequins mix.

This card actually come together pretty quick and I know my coffee loving friend would love this card. My teammates has created some more fun inspiration for this release. Please check out their blogs for more ideas. Thank you all for stopping by here and my your weekend starts off wonderfully. Cheers...

The Ton
Tae Eun
Brenda

The Ton October Release

 Hi all and welcome  to The Ton holiday release. The Ton is releasing 14 New Standalone Dies and 2 New Stamps and Coordinating Dies. And, I am honestly super excited for this release as so many of the sets allowed me to create clean & simple cards that I just loved.

Let's get on with it right away. For my 1st card, I am showcasing the pretty & fun Holiday Border dies. 

The cool thing about this die sets, you can re-arrange the borders to your heart desire. You want the snowflakes border on top? Then place that border on top. No likey? Switch it around. In my opinion, tis is just brilliant. It's the simple thing for me. I love having that option.

I started by watercoloring a panel of watercolor cardstock, let dry and then run it through my Gemini. Tips, to keep the border dies from moving, I taped my Gemini plastic, magnet & spacer together to keep them flat and also taped the dies together with washi tape. You could also use blue tape.

Once that done, trim and adhere the panela nd the pieces to card base. Finished by adding some sequins mixes and die cut the word joy using Modern Alphas Updated.

For my next card, I blended Soft Garden, Bright Fern & Bright Emerald ink on a piece of cardstock and then die cut it with Pine Tree Dies. Instead of just making 1 card, I decided to use each tree separately to make several cards. Hey, any excuse to get the Christmas card stash growing quickly, I'll use it. Hah! :) I sprayed the tree with white ink and also added some dew drops.

To ground my scene, I die cut the scallop frame using Scalloped Nested A2 Dies. Then I simply arrange the tree and the deer. Oh yes, the deer is from Deer Coverplate Die (another favorite from this release!).

Sentiment from an older Holiday Ornaments set. I used the other trees die cut for the card below.

And, last but not least, this card I made using the Holiday Border dies, Deer Coverplate dies & Bold Alphas Lower Dies

Well peeps, I think this is quite a record for me to share this many cards in one day. There are a lot more inspiration from my teammates. Please check out their blogs for more fun inspiration and thank you all so much for stopping by here. Have a blessed week everyone. 

The Ton
Vera <-- you are here
Tae Eun
Olga
Brenda

Honey Bee Stamps Autumn Afternoon Release Blog Hop

 

Hi peeps! Welcome to day 1 of Honey Bee Stamps Autumn Afternoon blog hop. I am super excited for this release as here are so many gorgeous and fun sets to share.

One of my favorite from this release is the gorgeous Harvest Bloom designed by my dear friend, Emily Midgett.

Here on my 1st card, I went with bright colors. I stamped and heat embossed the image and then watercolor them. Trim the panel and adhere to card base. For sentiment, I die cut the word hugs from Simple Sentiments Eyelet three times and layered them. Finished by stamping and heat embossing the word Sending You from Kisses set.

I also want to share a couple of the cards for this release that I have shared on Instagram. I've been sharing more cards there then on the blog. You can find me on Instagram HERE.

You can see how much I love the Harvest Blooms since I made a card for the sneak peek and for the hop.

This card below was so much fun to make. I combine 5  sets from this release on this card. I used Slimline Sentiments Blanket dies, Little Red Wagon dies, Nuts About You stamp & dies set, Itty Bitty Leaves dies & Let’s Hang Out stamp & dies set. Yay, me! Hah.... Sorry, I have to pat myself on the back, since it's very rare where I used so many sets in 1 card.

GIVEAWAY!!! A new release party is not complete without giveaway, right? We are offering a $25 Gift Card for each day as a giveaway. You must hop & comment to be entered to win. 

Here's a complete list of today's hop participants:
Honey Bee Stamp
Jessica Frost Ballas
Bobby Lemanksi
Jenny Hall
Brenda Noelke
Mindy Eggen
Julianne Foyil
Ilda Dias
Vera Yates <-- you are here
Kelly Martin

Thank you for joining our hop. Hope you enjoy all the inspirations and thank you for all your support for Honey Bee. Have a blessed day all.