Hello everyone! I super super happy to be joining you today as part of a hop showcasing the brand new Shine Bright Kit from Erin Lee Creative. I used to design for Erin and love her designs from the gothic and edgy, to the 80s retro vibes to the beautiful rainbows – and of course, always adore her wonderful cardstocks.
The hop is taking place on INSTAGRAM so head on over there to catch all the hop stops and details on how to win the prizes on the hop! I’m giving you some more details on how I created the cards I’m featuring on my stop in case you had questions!
The main kit is priced at $75 and you get a lot of bang for your buck including gorgeous stamp sets with that wonderful font, three fabulous dies including a layering font sentiment, rainbow with clouds, and a set of clouds and suns. You also get three stencils, which i’m featuring in my cards today, and it all comes in a fabulous holographic little packet. ELC is also offering some add ons – the A2 Rainbow Rays die ($10) and the Slimline Rainbow Rays die ($19.99). There is also the Be The Light stamp set available too! Be sure to head on over to the links here to check them out.
For my first card I used the stencil which has a sun burst and a scattering of hearts. I placed it over a panel of white cardstock and using my blender brushes, I blended out a bright yellow ink, a pink ink (which blends with the yellow to create orange) and then a red slightly in the centre. I lifted off the stencil, and then replaced it, this time manouvering the little group of hearts to overlap the sun.
Using a palette knife, I smoothed over some bright gold glitter embossing paste over the hearts, then lifted up the stencil and repeated it a couple more times, being careful not to smush the paste already applied. I then set it aside to dry and washed the stencil.
When dry, I stamped this gorgeous sentiment from one of the stamp sets in the kit in Altenew Obsidian Pigment ink directly over the top, trimmed the panel to 4 x 5.25″ and adhered to a black A1 panel, then a white notecard. I also added some highlights to the sun with a white gel pen for faux-shine!
My next card features the beautiful sunburst stencils in the kit. These are two stencils that feature a similar sunburst pattern, but can be placed over the top of each other to ‘fill in’ the space between the first. For my first layer, I used the same inks as before, starting with pink ink at the base, and fading out up the rays on a panel of white card stock. I then overlapped about a third of the way up with the bright yellow which creates a corally peachy color, and faded out to bright yellow towards the top.
Using the second stencil layer I applied iridescent glitter embossing paste and then set it aside to dry (clean that stencil!)
I used the fabulous ‘No Bad Days’ sentiment layered die included in the kit. I die cut the bottom layer from vellum, and then the top layer three times from white cardstock, and once from ELC’s Black Gloss cardstock (Erin tells me it’s coming back in stock soon and is getting a glossy white sister!! Woo! I’ve been hoarding this stuff). I adhered all of the layers together with liquid glue and then mounted the sentiment onto the now dry card panel with foam squares. I trimmed it down and adhered it a black panel of cardstock and onto a white note card as before.
Now be sure to head on over to my instagram to check out the full hop!
Jenny x
