JAI #484: Just Add Colour

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It's the end of another busy week, but that means it's time for both the weekend and the new Just Add Ink challenge. Yay! This week Rachael has given us a sweet, soft colour combo to work with.

I don't know about you, but those colours scream 'baby card' to me. Ok, well maybe whisper so that we don't wake the baby! LOL!

I took the opportunity to use a new stamp set, called Witty-cisms. I was lucky enough to receive this stamp set in the bundle of goodies I got to present at OnStage recently. It's a cute little set with lots of funny images and sentiments. The text and image are actually one stamp, so I used a lot of masking to stamp the pram three times in Smokey Slate, and then just the text for the fourth square.

I stamped the images on Shimmery White cardstock so that I could watercolour the prams. The Shimmery paper copes with water much better than regular Whisper White card. The little hearts were cropped using the little heart die from the Well Written dies.

The congratulations sentiment is also from a new stamp set, called Peaceful Moments. The hearts I used on the inside are also a stamp, from the new Music From The Heart stamp set, which was also in my goodie bundle from OnStage. I just over a month they will be available for purchase.

Time for me to finish up, but you can head on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can see the rest of this week's Design team cards. You can also enter your card into our challenge by linking up your blog post.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH Blog Hop: Boxes and Gift Bags

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The Art With Heart Team are back with another inspirational Blog Hop. This month we are featuring Gift Bags and Boxes, just in time for the Christmas gift giving season. The bags and boxes featured are all made using current Stampin’ Up! products and any of our wonderful team members are happy to help you with the supplies you will need to reproduce these beautiful projects.

It took me a while to work out what I was going to do for this Hop - for the longest time I had 'Boxes and Gift Tags' in my head, not Gift Bags. Oops! Back to the drawing board!

I ended up making this cute little gift box from one of the Old Olive Scalloped Notecards. Have you noticed them in the Annual Catalogue? I hadn't, until recently. For the very low price of $14.00, you receive 20 cards and 20 envelopes, 5 each of Balmy Blue, Old Olive, Light Pink and Terracotta Tile. I like making something unexpected from our products, and this fit the bill nicely!

I love how the scalloped edge of the Note Card gives a cute little finish to the opening of the box. It really feels like cheating to use these to make a box!

I used some Night Before Christmas DSP on the top of the box. I couldn't resist adding some Wink Of Stella to the Pine Tree shape, although it's hard to photograph. I love that this paper makes the tree look decorated without any extra effort on my behalf!

Here's some instructions on how I made the box:

I cropped 1 1/2cm from the straight edge of the card. I then scored at 1cm all the way around the edges, as well as another score line 1cm from the pre-scored line in the card, on the side of the scalloped edge. Did that make sense? The extra line is basically under the l and e of Gillespie in my watermark. I then snipped the corners as shown, and folded and glued the straight edged side of the card to form a box. To close it, the side flaps fold into the box, and the scalloped edge stays outside of the box. You might be able to see that I trimmed a tiny bit off the side flaps to make them easier to fold into the box.

You can see that the box is very thin, but it would be perfect for a gift card or voucher, or maybe even cash. The box could be made to be deeper, but you would lose width and length.

That's all from me for this month's Blog Hop, now it's time to jump on over to Kate Morgan's blog to continue the hop.

If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:

Rachel Palmieri

Sharon Davern

Rebecca Jacovou

Kathryn Ruddick

Catherine Proctor

Vicki Boucher

Andrea Sargent

Sujatha Harding

Rachel Woollard

Tina Gillespie

Kate Morgan

Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 15

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Hello, and welcome to the second last Heart Of Christmas Blog Share for 2019. I've really enjoyed doing these blog shares again, as it's a great way to increase my stash of Christmas cards. And I get lots of inspiration from my Art With Heart team members. Winning!

This week's card was an attempt to use more of my Christmas DSP before Christmas. I selected paper from the Night Before Christmas pack. I love the 6 inch packs, as you get a bigger variety of papers than the 12 inch packs, but you end up with a lot more smaller pieces. I made sure I used as much of the sheet as I could on this card, starting with a full card front sized piece of the baubles paper. I think this is one of my favourite patterns from the pack.

I chose Poppy Parade card to complement the DSP, and used my Ornate Frames dies to cut a frame for my sentiment, which is from the Hostess set, Greatest Part Of Christmas. I really love that font! And yay for the dies carrying over to the new Mini Catalogue!

The inside is where I used the rest of the sheet of DSP. I just cut it in half lengthways and adhered it to the base, before cutting a piece of Whisper White card to fit in between, overlapping slightly. And there's that cute font again! I quite like how this inside looks, so I think I'll be doing it again with my 6 inch papers.

The lovely Michelle is hosting the Heart Of Christmas tonight, so please pop on over to her blog to see the rest of this week's cards.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #256: Annual Catalogue With A Holiday Twist

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Welcome to this week's CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. They are such a nice way to end the weekend, don't you think? The blog before mine was the lovely Shannon's - are you coming from there or starting here? Either way, just keep going until you get back to where you started.

This week our challenge is to choose a card from the Annual Catalogue to CASE, but to give it a Holiday Catalogue Twist.  After opening the Annual Catalogue at a few random pages, I decided to stop on this card from page 158.

The banner, and the layers underneath, was what caught my eye. I think it's because it reminds me a little of some of the new stuff about to come out. However, the challenge is to use Holiday Catalogue products, so I pulled out my trusty So Many Stars bundle.

I started by creating the banner. It's just the retired Labeller Alphabet stamped and then cropped using the Classic Label punch. I then folded it over a length of Whisper White Baker's Twine, adhered the two sides with a glue dot, and snipped the back to match the front.

The large starry swirl piece was made slightly larger by snipping it in half under the Copper star and pushing the ends out. I like that you can see much more of it this way.

I had a few stars left from the swirly die cut on the front, so they were put to good use framing the sentiment from the Greatest Part Of Christmas stamp set. I love that font, as it nearly looks hand written.

Don't forget to add your card to our Facebook group once you have made it. You don't need a blog or fancy photography, so it's super easy to join in.

In the meantime though, please do continue the hop! Next up is Rebecca with a very peaceful card.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #483: Just Choose Two

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Yay for Friday and the end of the week. Have you been staying cool here in Australia? Adelaide had an awful day on Wednesday, but thankfully only one day before the temps dropped again. It's won't be long before they are high regularly though! Hopefully my air conditioner is fixed before that happens!

This week at Just Add Ink, Di has challenged us to add two to our cards - you can choose stars, spots or sparkles, as long as you choose at least two of them. I chose spots and sparkles.

You probably don't recognise this stamps, and that's because they are new ones! I was invited by Stampin' Up! to present a new stamp set at the recent OnStage event in Sydney, and I received the gorgeous Beautiful Moments, designed by NZ Demo, Jacque Williams. The flowers and butterflies are three of the 'minor' images in the set, and the sentiment is from it also. You'll be seeing a lot more of it on my blog in the future!

I stamped the flower repeatedly across the cardstock, and then added a few of each of the two butterflies in the set. They were coloured using my Dark Mint Macaron, Dark Highland Heather, and Light Pumpkin Pie Blends. I used a piece of some old SAB Glimmer Paper in Mint Macaron to frame the flowers and butterflies.

I repeated the stamping and colouring on the inside, except that I varied the heights of the flower stamp. The less uniform stamping makes it look more natural, don't you think?

That's all from me for now, why not pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can see the rest of this week's Design team cards. Which two (or three!) will you choose for our challenge - stars, spots or sparkles?

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 14

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 Hello, and welcome to the new Heart Of Christmas Blog Share by the Art With Heart Team. This week I was a little time poor for a few reasons, so I decided to CASE myself, using a class card kit that I had spare. As my good friend Rachel says, sometimes you need to work smarter, not harder!

I only made two small changes to the front of the card - on the original I stacked the 'merry' by cutting three in Whisper White and one in Solver foil, and then gluing them together in a stack before gluing them to my card. For today's card, I only used the Silver Foil 'merry'.

 

The second change was to use my Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink to stamp the tin stars on the card base - on my original I used Coastal Cabana to match the cardstock. 

My final change, on the inside, was also a small one. I stamped some of the small stars again in the Delicata ink underneath the red and white star.

This week the lovely Sharon Davern is hosting the Heart Of Christmas, so please pop on over to her blog, where you can find the rest of this week's links.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #255: Night Before Christmas DSP

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Welcome once again to the newest CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. I'm just back from Sydney, where I joined my Stampin' Up! Demo friends for a day of fun, stamping and training and two new catalogues! I have so much news to share, but for now it's on with the Blog Hop! Have you come here from Siobhan's blog, or are you starting here? Either way, just keep going until you get back to where you started.

This week we are CASEing the Night Before Christmas DSP, and a layout from page 24 of the Holiday Catalogue. My eye was immediately caught by this silhouette card:

Isn't it gorgeous? I loved the sponged background and the silhouette of Santa and his sleigh, dashing across the snowy sky.

I started my background by brayering a layer of Balmy Blue ink on Whisper White cardstock. I then used my Sponge Dauber to add a layer of Pretty Peacock ink. I've found that the darker ink blends better when it's applied over a lighter ink, verses directly to the cardstock. I finished the background by splattering both water and some Frost White Shimmer Paint over the sponged areas. Hopefully it looks like a snowy sky! The ground was just hand cut from a piece of Glimmer Paper

I heat embossed the sentiment from So Many Stars in Silver Embossing Powder on a piece of Pretty Peacock cardstock. I wanted the banner to be there, but not glaring, which is why I chose Pretty Peacock card rather than something that would stand out more. I finished it off with a Whisper White twine bow and a small piece of Glimmer Paper peeking out from underneath.

I used the offcut of Glimmer Paper from the front of the card to create another snowy hill on the inside. I brayered more Pretty Peacock ink onto a scrap of Whisper White card, and then splattered it with water before punching with the Pine Tree punch. A little brayered Balmy Blue ink along the bottom, and the inside was done!

After the hop, you can join in the fun in our Facebook group, where you can add your card to the group for this week's challenge. Can't wait to see you there!

It's time now to hop on over to the next stop in the hop, the very lovely Monique!

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 13

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I can't believe how quickly Wednesday has rolled around again! I'm very time poor this week, but I still wanted to play along with the Art With Heart team's Heart Of Christmas Blog Share. My card was quick to throw together, using all sorts of bit and pieces I found on my craft desk!

I started with the Stitched Rectangles, which were left over from this Elfie card I made recently. I cut some Night Before Christmas DSP to fit inside each rectangle, and then popped the shapes up on Dimensionals.

The 'Merry' was cropped from Red Foil, but in hindsight I probably should have forgone the foil and cut it from something darker. It doesn't stand out as much as I'd like, but it's glued down now!

I had a strip of the biscuit DSP left over from a different card, so I put it to use on the inside of the card. Done!

This week the blog share is hosted by my wonderful friend, Judy May. I'm very much looking forward to seeing her, and my other demo friends, in Sydney this weekend for Stampin' Up!'s OnStage event. Keep an eye out early next week for all the news!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #254: CASE A Layout

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The end of another weekend is sad, but also happy, as it means it's time for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Have you arrived here from Peta's blog, or are you just starting here? Either way, you can see all of this week's Design Team cards by hopping around until you get back to where you started.

This week we are CASEing a layout from page 22 of the Holiday Catalogue. I took one look at the page and decided I'd CASE the page layout itself!

I started by using my Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut my window openings. I couldn't get it to work with three different sized rectangles, so I ended up making the two smaller windows the same size. The images from Elfie fit the openings well, so it was an easy choice to use them.

After stamping them in the appropriate place, I coloured the images with my Blends. I used Call Me Clover, Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake and Ivory. I also used some Glimmer Crystal effects on the trims of the elf hats and jackets. I decided to make the Santa's Workshop window a shaker element. I had a scrap of Window Sheet that fit perfectly, so it was a very serendipitous decision!

I finished off the inside with another of the elves - he's so cute peeping out from the stocking!

You can enter our challenges every week by uploading a photo of your card to our Facebook group. No blog or fancy editing required!

Time to be on your way to the next blog in our hop, which belongs to the lovely Siobhan.

Bye for now,

Tina