AWH BLog Hop: Easter

Hi!

Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing creative projects with an Easter theme. Do you make Easter cards or gifts? I usually don't, but I decided to join in the Blog Hop anyway!

Don’t forget, Sale-A-Bration ends on March 31st! There is still time to earn free product with purchase or even join our Stampin’ Up! team. Ask any of the girls on the hop for more details.

I was a bit short for time this week, so I turned to a kit for inspiration. The Incredible Like You kit turned out to be fabulous for this hop. I chose the wreath card, but ended up chopping it up and making two cards. So much for time poor!

This card uses the front of the kit card with the Granny Apple Green Glimmer paper peeking out from behind the wreath laser cut piece. Under that is part of the kit card base, cropped with the largest Rectangle Stitched Die. I originally cropped the front of the card, not realising that the back go the card was also printed. The front has a subtle wash effect and I didn't want to cover it with the wreath, so I ended up cropping the back and using it instead.

The word Easter was stamped using the Brushwork Alphabet stamp set, as I don't have any current stamp sets with an easter sentiment. I layered the Story Label Punch over a flower and foliage from the Painted Seasons Stamp set. You may notice there are two flowers, but I said 'a flower'. That's because I snipped one in half, as I'd already cleaned and put away the stamp before I realised I wanted a second flower for the front. A quick snip and it was problem solved!

I don't have Easter suitable inside sentiments, so I left the inside of this card blank, apart from some more Painted Seasons leaves and a flower.

So now I had one finished card and a cropped Rectangle Stitched panel, so I decided t make a second Easter card, using the other pieces of the kit card that I didn't use on the first card.

I wanted to keep the front of this card a bit more simple so that you can see the wash effect on the Granny Apple Green piece. It's subtle, but very nice! This time I used my Labeler Alphabet stamp set to make the front sentiment. The label, Twine and Grapefruit Grove striped circle were all parts from the kit, I just added a few Wooden Elements Butterflies.

The label has a silver border, so I decided to make the butterflies silver too. I simply took a silver Sharpie and coloured the wood. Done! It's a matte silver, but it looks really nice in real life.

I'll probably send this card to my mum, so I added the 'with love' to the inside. Now I just have to remember to send it!

Well, that's it from me, now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented, Vicki Boucher.

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

Catherine Proctor 
Caroline Manwaring 
Sue Madex
Kate Morgan
Ros Davidson
Kathryn Mangelsdorf
Rachel Palmieri
Rebecca Jacovou
Judy May
Rachel Woollard 
Christina Barnes
Tina Gillespie 
Vicki Boucher 

Bye for now,

Tina

Scrappy Saturday: Colour Theory

Hi!

While you've been looking at the catalogue, did you notice that Stampin' Up! now has it's own line of pocket scrapbooking products? It's called Memories And More, and I think it was a fabulous move by SU. The company is well known for coordinating products, and Memories and More allow a greater range of coordination than before.

On to my pages. This was my first layout completed with the new Colour Theory Collection. Many of the cards have a seasonal theme in this collection, and they are designed to coordinate with the Colourful Theory suite of products (page 146). I have selected some of the more generic cards for my layout though.

I've put together a quick double page of a trip to Melbourne that my daughter, her bestie and her mum, and myself took last August to see Matilda The Musical.

We had a full weekend in Melbourne, seeing the sights. It was the girl's first time in a plane, and they were lucky enough to get to sit in the cockpit after we landed.

I wanted to keep the layout symmetrical, but I was struggling to find a suitable card to put in the top left pocket on this page. Thankfully I'd saved my ticket, and as it contained similar blues to the Colour Theory cards, I decided to chop it and use it in the pocket.

I'm looking forward to scrapping more with this range, and also the other three packs. What about you?

Bye for now,

Tina

Summer Christmas Cards

Hi!


I really love Christmas - it's such a fabulous time of year! There's a lot to do to get ready for the big day, but once it's all done the best part is sitting back and relaxing with family, laughing and enjoying being together. One of my favourite things about Christmas, though, is that it's summer! Lots of that relaxing happens around the pool with a cool drink in hand and kids playing and splashing in the water.


I was recently introduced to Paperless Post, who were looking for bloggers to design their ideal Christmas card for a summertime Christmas celebration. Summery Christmas cards aren't something I do often, so I was excited to give this a go! I ended up having so much fun that I created three different cards.


The first stamp set I reached for had to be Day At The Beach - is there any other more perfect stamp set for this task? I was a little stuck for summery Christmas sentiments, so I  asked a group of f ellow demonstrators and they helped me out for the first two cards.

LOL, I really loved this first one - Let It Snow.... Elsewhere. So apt for Australia! I sponged this card, using sticky notes to mask off the horizon and the shoreline. Can you see the 'foamy' sea on the shoreline? I stamped over the top of the sponging with Whisper White craft ink and the little splatter stamp from Swirly Bird. I quite like the effect!

I used the Labeler Alphabet stamp set to create my custom sentiments for this card.

One of my other demonstrator friends helped me with the sentiment for this one - I love the play on words! I'm really loving the cards you see around that are a wreath of flowers and foliage around a sentiment. I decided to use that concept, but to replace the flowers with summery images.

I once again used an alphabet stamp set to create the custom sentiments. They come in so handy! This card was quite large (5 1/8 inch square) so I was able to use the slightly larger Brushwork Alphabet stamp set.

I think this last card might be my favourite of the three. It's a smaller, notecard sized card, and I love how the red sunglasses take centre stage.

I've never used a hashtag in my life, but I just had to include one on this card.

Here are the three cards together.  All so different, but all use the Day At The Beach stamp set to create summery Christmas cards.


Thanks so much to  Paperless Post for having such a great idea - I had a blast doing it!


Bye for now,


Tina