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Tuesday 18 June 2019

Getting Shirty With Terracotta

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Hello and welcome back for the new Colour Creations Blog Share. It's time for Terracotta Tile this week, which as the name suggests, is a lovely reddish brown. As much as I like it, I struggled for inspiration this week, until I was folding the washing. While we were in New Zealand, Rob purchased a t-shirt for himself, and as I was folding it I realised it was pretty close to Terracotta Tile in colour.


I loved how the Maori design at the bottom looks hand drawn, and fades out as it gets higher up the t-shirt. I ran out of time to attempt to recreate the look using stamps, so in the end I went with dies.

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I die cut the Stained Glass dies out of Black Foil, and then a couple of more times out of Terracotta Tile. Layered together they give the window some extra dimension, without the need for cutting Dimensionals into teeny tiny pieces!

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I'm not completely thrilled with how I translated the t-shirt to a card, so I will probably revisit sometime in the two years that Terracotta Tile will be in our range. I love the look of the thin black lines on the earthy colour, so I think it will look great, I just have to think bit harder!

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Thanks for looking at my Terracotta Tile card. Don't forget to pop on over to Catherine's blog, where you can find the links for the rest of this week's cards.

Bye for now,

Tina

7 comments:

  1. Tina what a great tip to get dimension using layers rather than dimensionals. Your card ius very dramatic and striking. Thank you for hopping along on the colour creations tonight xx

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  2. I like it Tina, it makes you want to know what is behind the window, I think this is because of the depth you have given it. great idea.

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  3. Love your card Tina. I love how you come up with such unique ideas for cards based on your surroundings or one small element.

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  4. The black is stunning against the Terracotta, and I love the way you have added some dimension.

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  5. I love the way you interpreted your inspiration piece Tina.

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  6. Love that black foil using the die cuts, wow, it really pops especially with the Terracotta layers underneath it, wonderful!

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  7. Gorgeous card Tina, I love the Black Foil with the Stained Glass Die.

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