Welcome to Waffle Flower August 2019 Release Blog Hop! This release focuses on using stamps & dies to organize your ink and paper supplies and document your favorite color combos. And of course you will also get to see more of floral and cutesy images.

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First of all, we got Bouquet Builder 5 with another gorgeous bouquet from Karla Jodoin this month.  To start with my card, I colored the images with copic markers from Bouquet Builder 5 Stamp set and cut with the Matching dies. 

To prepare my background, I grabbed the Big Dots Die and ran it through my cutting machine with adding a rubber mat in between to make impression of the patterns instead of cutting through the paper.

I attached the colored images to my background, and heat embossed my sentiment “Happy Anniversary” from Iris You Stamp set with white embossing powder over black card stock paper.  I added the sentiment onto the background with some sparkling clear sequins surrounding my bouquet.

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Now this Make Wave stamp below with a cute mermaid mouse from Liz Mytinge is a gem! It is a 2×3 sized stamp set. It has really low price point but still enough to create your scene easily.

To make this card, I first ink blended onto a piece of watercolor paper using Tim Holtz Distress oxide ink in Tumbled Glass and Wilted Violet. I splattered some water droplets to create cool effect to mimic the bubbles. Then I cute the white frame part using Cloudscape Panel Die and partially removed clouds portion. I laid the frame over my inked background using foam tape.

I colored images from Make Wave Stamp set with copic markers and hand fussy cut them. I attached them onto my background and stamped the sentiment. I finished my card by adding some sparkling clear sequins.

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JJ Bolton always designs fun dies. She designed this Big Dot Die this month for a bold and graphic look.

For those two cards I made were simple and quick. They are perfect to make for a few within short amount of time as friendly gifts.

I first ink blended an A2 sized watercolor paper using Tim Holtz Distress oxide ink in Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron and Salty Ocean. Then I cut it with Big Dots Die. I separate the die cuts into to parts. I attached the positive part over the white woodgrain cardstock paper and stamped the sentiment “THANKS” from Big Dots Sentiment Stamp set. Then I attached the negative part of die cuts onto another piece of white woodgrain cardstock paper. I white embossed the sentiment “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” also from Big Dots Sentiment Stamp set onto black cardstock paper and cut to rectangle shape to fit into the center part.

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I nearly use Tim Holtz Distress inks for all my handmade cards. So it is so thankful that Waffle Flower came up with lots of color swatches stamps and dies. I made 3 tags of my favorite ink blending color combo to start my color swatching journey.

I first die cut my tag using Color Combos Tag Die out of white card stock papers. Then I blended all my selected colors onto another piece of card stock paper and die cut to the shapes I desired with Color Combo Die. I attached them into the tags and marked the name of colors.

Hop With US!

Waffle Flower

Cathy Zielske

Laura Bassen

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Amy Rysavy

Renee Day

Alexandra Stapleton

JJ Bolton

Channin Pelletier

Rebecca Keppel

Keeway Tsao

Alix Davis

Kelli Cool

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Welcome to Waffle Flower  July 2019 Release Blog Hop! I hope everyone had a great time on the 4th of July. I am here wanting to introduce a series of great new products from Waffle Flower to add more fun into your life. It’s Holiday long weekend. What do you plan on doing for this nice holiday rest?

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I always enjoy Kamo’s cutesy illustrations. She wowed me this time again with Bonjour Stamp set. If you love scenes in France, this set is perfect for you!

To begin with my card, I stamped images from Bonjour Stamp set and die cut with the Matching dies. Then I colored them with copic markers and set aside for later use.

I ink blended my background with Tim Holtz Distress oxide ink ink Cracked Pistachio and Tumbled Glass onto a piece of A2 sized watercolor paper, Then I used Horizontal Stripes Die to cut them into pieces. I assemble them onto another piece of A2 sized card stock paper using Foam tapes and glue to create background dimensions. At last, I adhered my selected colored images onto my background to finish this card.

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Our cute mice, illustrated by Liz Mytinger, are back for a day on the beach in Fun in Sun . It is almost like a dream for scene builder card maker. You got all elements of summer in this stamp set. Definitely a Must Have!

I colored my images from Fun in Sun Stamp set and die cut with the Matching Dies. Then I colored them with copic markers and set aside for later use.

I prepped my background using Tim Holtz Distress oxide ink in Gathered Twigs for the bottom part of A2 sized card stock paper. Then I splattered Tumbled Glass distress oxide ink water mixture to the upper part of background. Once everything was dry, I used copic markers to create dots in the brown part to mimic sands. I arranged all colored images onto my ground and stamped the sentiment “Have Fun In the Sun” to end my second card.

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Bouquet Builder 4 ,  illustrated by Oana Befort, features large, modern, flowers that you can mix and match to create your own bouquet.

This time, I chose to fall back to a simple and almost one layer card.  I stamped the images from Bouquet Builder 4 Stamp Set and Die cut with the Matching Dies.Then I colored them with copic markers and set aside for later use.

I grabbed Neeah dessert storm card stock paper and made it into a vertical folded card base. I splattered white paint over the front panel to create some interests. I adhered all selected images onto this prepped background with multi medium matte. I stamped the sentiment “HELLO” from Peony Notes Stamp set (released from last month) and I hand cut it with scissors. In the end, I attached this sentiment onto the lower right corner of my card.

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Here comes the last card of today’s inspirations. We have this stunning Zinnia illustrated by Karla Jodoin with gorgeous details.

First of all, I ink blended the A2 sized watercolor paper with Tim Holtz Distress oxide ink in Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed. Then I cut my overlay panel using Micro Grid Panel 1 Die out of white card stock paper. I attached the die cut over the inked background to create my dimension-ed panel.

Now I copic colored the images from Zinnia Stamp set and die cut them with the Matching Dies. I arranged them on the card panel with multi medium matte and foam tapes. I stamped the sentiment “Thank you” from Peony Dreams Stamp set  and I hand cut it with scissors. I attached it between my two Zinnia flowers with foam tape.

Hop With Us!

Waffle Flower  
 Amy Rysavy

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Emily Midgett

Nichol Spohr

Channin Pelletier

Rebecca Keppel

Keeway Tsao

Alix Davis

Kelli Cool

JJ Bolton

Promotions:

• To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave a comment on this blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 7/8/19 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts in this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower blog on 7/9/19.