CTC #267 Week 1: Flowers Of The Ornate Garden Suite

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Hello! Happy Easter! I hope you had a lovely day. I actually got a nice little sleep in, as the teenagers weren't up at the crack of dawn to see what the Easter Bunny brought them. I spent the rest of the day sewing a quilt top for my oldest son, Alex. He's 17 tomorrow, so I'm on a deadline. I might just make it!

Anyway, you're probably here for the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. This week we are taking our inspiration from the flowers in the new, early release suit, Ornate Garden. There are stamped flowers, die cut flowers, or flowers in the DSP. I decided that I would make a card that uses a different DSP, but a technique that you could use with the Ornate Garden DSP.

I haven't played much with the Peaceful Poppies DSP for a while. I chose the sheet that had a heap of poppies, berries and leaves that were perfect for fussy cutting. I cut a bunch for the front of my card. When looking for a vase to put them in, I couldn't go past the milk jug from Country Home. I stamped it on a scrap of Whisper White and then coloured it with my Smokey Slate Stampin' Blends.

I popped up the jug on another piece of Whisper White that I'd cropped with the largest Stitched So Sweetly Die. I then arranged the flowers and foliage, adhering some flat and popping some up.

I also fussy cut some extra bits and pieces to use on the inside of my card. I like the way that the leaves and berries curve in both directions, so cutting them for an arrangement like this was easy.

I hope my card inspires you to fussy cut some flowers from the Ornate Garden DSP and see what you can make with them. When you're done, you can upload your card into our Facebook group. I'd love to see what you do!

For now though, it's time to continue on your way around the Blog Hop. Next up is the fabulous Siobhan, with her gorgeous floral card.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #481: Just Add Inspiration

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Welcome to another Just Add Ink challenge. This week Nikki has found a fabulous Inspiration Photo to guide our creativity.

Oooh, I'd love to get a bunch of flowers like that! So pretty! The flattish brown flowers (I am soooo not a gardener, and have no idea what type they are!) reminded me of the seed pods in Country Home, so that's the stamp set I reached for to make this card.

I totally used the 'wrong' colours for the rest of the flowers, but that didn't worry me, after all, an Inspiration Photo is just a starting point!

I used DSP from the Woven Threads DSP pack, as this linen look paper reminded me of the backdrop on the Inspiration Photo. The paper is gorgeous - it looks so textural!

I stamped the flowers again on the inside, using Sahara Sand ink. The sentiment is from Seaside Notions, as is the one of th front of the card. I so love the mix of fonts in that set!

Time for me to dash, but you can hop on over to the Just Add Ink blog to see the rest of this week's Design team cards. Don't forget to add your card to the challenge gallery before the deadline.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH HOC Week 8

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Welcome to the Art With Heart team's Heart Of Christmas Blog Share. We are up to Week 8, and I am having a turn to host this week! You will find all the links to this week's gorgeous cards at the end of my post.

I decided to make my card using a non-Christmas stamp set this week. I have ummed and ahhed over the Country Home stamp set ever since it first appeared, which I think was in last year's Holiday Catalogue. I finally purchased it, and tonight's card is the first time I have inked it up.

I stamped it in Memento ink so that I could colour it with my Stampin' Blends. It took three goes to stamp it correctly, as I completely misjudged the size of the foliage stamp! Thankfully, cardstock has two sides, so I wasn't wasteful. I used Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Granny Apple Green, Poppy Parade, Grey Granite and Pool Party to colour the image. I wanted to use lots of red and green to help with the Christmas theme.

I selected a piece of DSP from the Night Before Christmas pack as my background. I think that the tile-type pattern in reds also helps to keep the card Christmassy, but also country. The main image was cropped with the largest Stitched Nested Labels Die, and the sentiment with the smallest Rectangle Stitched Die. I finished the front with a twine bow using a scrap of Mossy Meadow Linen Thread from the Magnolia Lane Ribbon bundle.

I used Crumb Cake ink to stamp the milk tin and foliage again on the inside. So that they didn't take up too much space, I stamped them off the side of the card. The sentiments I have used on the card came from Merry Christmas To All - a set with a fabulous mix of smaller and larger sentiments. I also added a scrap of DSP left from the front of the card.

That's it from me, so why not check out the rest of this week's cards? So you don't have to keep jumping back and forth, you can right click on each link and select 'open in a new tab'.

Sharon Davern

Kate Morgan

Caroline Manwaring

Diane Furniss

Vicki Boucher

Rachel Woollard

Catherine Proctor

Michelle Taylor

And for her Heart Of Christmas debut:

Andrea Sargent

Bye for now,

Tina