Colour Creations: Cinnamon Cider

 Hi!

It's once again time for the Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are featuring Cinnamon Cider, one of the 2020-22 In Colours. If you love it, you've got less than a year left to enjoy it! It's quite a creamy brown that's a lot lighter than other browns in the SU colour range.

I thought that I'd try it with the sort of sepia effect that I usually use Soft Suede for. I stamped my image, from Beautiful Moment, in Cinnamon Cider ink onto Shimmery White cardstock. I then used a Water Brush with minimal water in the barrel to 'colour' the image. I don't pick up ink from the inkpad with the brush, I just pull the ink in from the stamped image. It's a very subtle effect! The Shimmery cardstock has a bit of a grey cast, but against the Cider it nearly looks blue - which very much suited my design!

I cut the layers under the art panel while I was watching The Block on TV. Silly mistake, as they ended up being too narrow for the card base. Oops! To compensate, I cropped a scallop border using one of the dies from the Penned Flowers set. I like how it adds the stitched line, too. To make the card a little more cohesive, I cropped the art panel using the Stitched So Sweetly dies. The scallops and stitching match very well!

I just stamped the flowers on the inside. I only inked the grass portion of the stamp to fill in the empty space below the line of flowers. I thought it would get too muddy to stamp the whole flower image in the lower sections.

Thanks for joining me, but please do continue your way around the Blog Hop. Next up is the fabulous Michele Taylor. I always love the cards she makes!

Catherine Proctor is our Host for Colour Creations, so if you find a broken link along the way, just pop over to her blog. She'll have a list of all the participants and you'll be able to pick up the trail there!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 321: Mini Project, Masculine Twist

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's a fun challenge this week. Actually, all our challenges are fun (I think!) but this one was extra fun for me.

We are tasking you to find a project in the Mini Catalogue and give it a masculine twist. I like to really challenge myself, so I decided to look for a very feminine card to twist.

Smoochy, lipstick lips are super feminine, right?

My first thought was to replace the lips with a bow tie, and the rest of the card was built around that! The bow tie, from Handsomely Suited, was coloured with my Night Of Navy Blends and then cropped with the matching Suit & Tie Dies. My sentiment is from Sweet Strawberry, and I've just noticed that it has a mix of fonts, just like the catalogue card I am CASEing.

The DSP is from the In Good Taste pack, which carried over from the previous Annual Catalogue. I layered it on a discarded piece of Whisper White that had beens tamped with the Birch stamp and cropped with a Stitched Rectangles Die. I had made it for a different card and didn't end up using it, but it worked perfectly on this card. I tied a reef knot in my twine, instead of the bow on the original card.

My DSP offcut from the front of the card and a tie were the perfect additions to the inside of the card.

That's all from me for tonight, but your job is just beginning! We'd love to see how you turn a non-masculine card into a masculine card. All you need to do is make the card and post a photo in our Facebook group.

Don't race off too quickly, though! You will want to finish our blog hop first! Please pop on over to Peta's blog, where she has a stunner of a card made using a popular stamp set for masculine cards.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 557: Just Add Inspiration

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's an Inspiration challenge, and the photo was found by Rachael. 

I struggled a bit with this, as the wreath and mantle decorations made me think of Christmas, but there is literally nothing to do with Christmas in the photo. I zoomed into the photo and looked all around, and finally spied the coffee mug sitting off to the side. Bingo!

My coffee mug is from a Three Room Studio stamp set, called One More Chapter. I coloured it with my Soft Succulent Blends and popped it up on my circle. I cropped the circle with my Stitched Shapes Dies, and lightly sponged on some Soft Succulent ink before I removed the cardstock from the die.

My backgrounds are a nod to the different textures and colours in the photo. The main background is the Birch stamp set, in stamped off Sahara Sand, and the strip of wood grain paper is the Natural Touch Speicalty Paper that was a special a couple of months ago.

I used the mug again on the inside, uncoloured this time. The sentiments on the card are from Sweet As A Peach. I really love the font of these sentiments.

That's all from me for tonight, but please do head on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You can also enter your card in our challenge when you decide what inspires you in the photo - the layout, the colours, the textures? Something else? It's entirely your interpretation!

Bye for now,

Tina