Avery Elle Blog Hop

I'm so excited to be guest designing for Avery Elle this month!  Today I get to participate in a blog hop with the design team.

To celebrate the June/July Release Blog Hop, Avery Elle is giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to one random winner.  To enter to win just comment on this post.  There is no purchase necessary and you must be 18 years of age or older to enter.  This giveaway is void where prohibited.  You can also do options 2, 3, 4, 5 or all 6 of the following to increase your chances of winning. You have until midnight Sunday, July 7th to enter.  The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle Blog on Monday, July 8th .  All products are now available for purchase in the Avery Elle store.

To enter to win you can do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or all 6 of the following to increase your chances:

1. Comment on any of the design team's posts and/or here on the Avery Elle Blog
2. Follow us on Twitter and tweet the contest (we are @averyellestamps )
3. Follow us on Facebook (we are www.facebook.com/AveryElle ) and share us with your friends - make sure they tell us you sent them.
4. Follow us on Pinterest
5. Become a blog follower through Google Reader or Feedly or Blog Lovin' (comment on the Avery Elle blog if you already follow us)
6. Join our Flickr group (comment on the Avery Elle blog if you already belong)

Here's my card for the hop:

I'm using the new Papel Picado set and decided to play with my Hero Arts neon inks (pink, orange, yellow, and blue) too.

I created a double layer of banners, first stamping the banner piece on the reverse side, so you get a solid image, in pink, orange, and yellow.  Then I stamped a second layer of banners, offset, using pink, blue, and yellow....this mixes the colors, adding green, purple, and some other shades of orange to the mix.

  

I used a heat gun to make sure that the neon ink was fully dry, and then turned the banner stamp over to the right side stamping the detailed image over the second layer of borders.

A thin strip of black cardstock and sentiment from Papel Picado finish it off.

Your next stop on the hop is Nina Yang, but the full list is below in case you get turned around.  Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful holiday!

Avery Elle / Jamie
Chunyuan Wu
Miriam Prantner
Nina Yang
Heather Campbell
JJ Bolton
Donna Mikasa
Kasia Curry
Maska Vanacker

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - White Daisy and Black cardstock
Stamps:  Avery Elle - Papel Picado
Ink:  Hero Arts - Neon Pink, Orange, Yellow, and Blue; Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other:  Kuretake - Glue Pen