Cosmopolitan Cocktail Celebration

Hi Bloggers.

Happy New Year to you all!

A bit of a two-fer for you today as I have included the card I demoed at the bottom of this post -

For the background, I stamped one of the images from the Festive Flurry Celebrations Stamp Set onto Coconut White Card several times using Jet Black Archival. I then misted quite closely with Scarlet Sunrise CS Ink Spray Mist.

I cut the largest 2 dies in the Portuguese Background Die Set into a piece of Coconut White Card. I added a Double Pierced Background Rectangle to cut them out. I misted a piece of Coconut White Card with Scarlet Sunrise Mister. I glued it to the back of my frame. I slotted die #5 back into the frame and cut. I added to my background using Woodware Foam Tape.

I matted onto a piece of Coconut White Card then Black Card and then another piece of Coconut White.

I made up a cocktail glass using the 3D Cosmopolitan Die Set. I added CS Glue and CS Crystal Chips Glitter Jewels to the top of the Acetate on the glass.

I stamped the sentiment from the Cheers to You Stamp Set using Jet Black Archival. I cut it out using the Pierced Flags Die Set, switching the 'v' of the flag to make it double-ended.

Here's the version I made on air - I had to improvise a bit as we'd sold out of the Cheers to You Stamp Set and I had made this card with Milk Card rather than Coconut White so had to stamp onto a piece of misted card. The frame is made using the Double Stitched Rectangles, the banner from the Stitched Flags, the sentiment is from Lisa's Festive Flurry Celebrations Stamp Set and I've used Marigold CS Ink Spray Mist -

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
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Happy Hour Backgound with Misters on Acetate

Hi Bloggers.

Hope you enjoyed the shows yesterday. I thought it would be appropriate to continue with the cocktail glass show samples today as it's New Year's Eve -

A cool background on this one. I started by adding some CS Glue to some Acetate. I misted it with a little water and moved the glue around using my finger. I then misted with Aqua Lagoon, Scarlet Mist and Golden Mint Misters. I scrunched up a piece of White Tissue Paper, opened it out and added it to my background, tapping it down with a piece of Kitchen Roll. I put aside to dry - this takes quite a while depending on how wet it is. Once dry, it is possible to fill in any gaps by misting the tissue paper again with misters but I didn't in this case.

I cut the Happy Hour Background into a piece of Coconut White Card. I added some of my background to the back.

I made a frame out of Coconut White Card and added it to my Happy Hour Background using CE Mounting Cushion. I matted onto a piece of Coconut White Card, Black Card and then another piece of Coconut White Card.

I cut a Cocktail Glass out of Coconut White Card. I misted the stem with CS Riviera Blue Ink Spray Mist. I cut the Cocktail Glass out of some of my Acetate Background. I trimmed away the stem and added it to my part misted Coconut White Die Cut. I cut the straw from the 3D Cosmopolitan Glass Die Set out of Coconut White Card and the rind die out of Coconut White Card misted with Golden Mint CS Mister.

I cut the celebrate sentiment from the 3D Cosmopolitan Cocktail Die Set out of Black Card. I cut a banner out of Coconut White Card using the Stitched Flags Die Set.

Hope you enjoy your New Year's Eve.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
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Cocktail Shows on Hochanda today

Hi Bloggers.

I have shows on Hochanda today at 8am, 12noon and 3pm. I hope you can join me.

Here's a card from today's shows -

For the background, I cut one of the dies from the Ecliptic Edger Die Set into a piece of Coconut White Card several times. I used this as a mask and misted through it onto another piece of Coconut White Card using Golden Mint and Scarlet Mist CS Misters, I put my mask aside to use on another project.

I made a frame out of Coconut White Card using the Double Stitched Rectangles Die Set and added it to my background using CE Mounting Cushion.  I matted onto Coconut White, then Black and another piece of Coconut White Card.

I managed to cut the 'liquid' die from the 3D Cosmopolitan Glass Die out of the waste from my background card. I cut the rest of the cocktail glass out of Coconut White Card and Heat Emboss Acetate. I cut the umbrella out of more waste background card and the straw out of Coconut White Card - both from the Cocktail Glasses Die Set. I added CS Glue around the rim of the glass and CS Crystal Chips Glitter Jewels.

I added a strawberry cut from Ruby and Brunswick Green Card (from 3D Cosmopolitan Cocktail Die Set).

I stamped the sentiment from the Cheers to You Stamp Set onto Coconut White Card using Onyx Black Versafine. I cut it out using die #2 from the Portuguese Background Die Set.

I'll show you how to put the Cocktail Glass die together during at least one of my shows today. You can also watch Sue put one together in this YouTube video -

I'm offering 10% discount on items on my website from the shows. You can find them here. Please enter COCKTAIL in the discount code box at checkout to activate your discount. Offer applies till midnight tonight or while stocks last. If you're shopping, don't forget to browse the Big Sale and Pre-Loved sections as there are lots of bargains in there!

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
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Cocktail Glasses Sneak Peek

Hi Bloggers.

I have shows on Hochanda tomorrow at 8am, 12noon and 3pm with Sue Wilson's Cocktail dies from the Necessities Collection and Background Collection.

As promised, I have a sneak peek for you today -

This is a really simple card but it's one of my favourites. When cutting the Celebrate sentiment from the 3D Cosmopolitan Cocktail Glass Die Set, I discovered that you could still read the negative - it's the same with the Party sentiment in the same die set - very clever of Sue to do that! So, these dies make perfect masks - I've done that in some of my samples. On this card, I could have cut the sentiment out of Double Sided Adhesive Sheet on card 3 times and added Polished Silk Glitter to each one. But, to be honest, the letters are very delicate and this way is much easier and you get the cut away sentiment to use onother projects.

I started with a piece of Coconut White Card that was left over from cutting out a frame using the Double Stitched Rectangles Die Set. I cut the Celebrate sentiment from the 3D Cosmopolitan Cocktail Glass Die Set out of the card 3 times as shown. I cut 3 strips of Woodware Double Sided Adhesive Sheet. I added one to the back of the top sentiment and added Sahara Gold CS Polished Silk Glitter to exposed adhesive on the front. I repeated the process with the central and bottom sentiments with Rose Copper and Silver Chrome Polished Silk Glitter respectively.

I matted onto Black Card cut using the next sized die in the Double Stitched Rectangles Die Set and then onto another piece of Coconut White Card.

I added a piece of Woodware Double Sided Adhesive Sheet to a piece of Coconut White Card. I cut a glass, a straw and an umbella from it using the Cocktail Glasses Die Set. I peeled away the other backing sheet and added Sahara Gold Polished Silk Glitter to the glass, Rose Copper Polished Silk Glitter to the straw and Silver Chrome Polished Silk Glitter to the umbrella.

Simple!

I've added photos of the samples from the shows to the Gallery Section of this blog and to my Julia Watts Crafts Facebook Page.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
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