Colour Creations: Blackberry Bliss

 Hi!

Welcome back to this week's Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are focussed on Blackberry Bliss. It's a gorgeous, deep purple that has a tendency to get messy. Many times I have come away from a stamping session with the colour, only to have Blackberry Bliss stained fingers! It's the only colour that it seems to happen with, though.

I had the idea to do some crisp, white daisies with a Blackberry Bliss background. The DSP is from the Dandy Garden pack. I knew I wanted to wrap the ribbon around the piece, so I adhered it to some Blackberry Bliss cardstock before cropping it with the scalloped Basic Borders Die. This just gives the card some strength to hold the ribbon in place.

The daisies are three layers each of Whisper White card, sponged with Blackberry ink in the middle, and with a centre of Basic Black card dotted with a white gel pen. The leaves are from the Pierced Blooms Dies, and the sentiment from Pretty Perennials.

All the same supplies and techniques were used on the inside of my card. I had planned to use the DSP offcut from the front, but it looked a little strange so I just trimmed the edge straight. Much better!

That's all from me for this week's Colour Creations, but please do continue your way around the Blog Hop. The next blog to visit is Theresa Gerrard's. Blogger has not been playing nice lately, so if you get an error message when you click though to Theresa's blog, just click on her 'Home' button, which should take you to her post.

Bye for now,

Tina

If you find a broken link, or get lost, here are the links of all participants:

Michele Taylor

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern

Ros Davidson

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Palmieri

Andrea Sargent

Diane Furniss

Tina Gillespie

Theresa Gerrard

Christine Blain

Caroline Manwaring

Rosa Leyden

Vicki Boucher

March Creative Showcase

 Hi!

Welcome to March's Creative Showcase. This time around, we are all basing our creations on a sketch designed by Rachel.

I quite like this sketch - how about you? I pulled out some Dandy Garden DSP to see how it would work with the layout. I think it works very well!

I started by adhering two pieces of the DSP to a card front sized piece of Whisper White card. I then cropped it with the second largest Stitched Rectangles Die and layered it on another piece of Whisper White card.

The dragonflies were punched from another sheet of the DSP, and popped up on Dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment in Misty Moonlight ink and cropped it with a die from Ornate Layers.

I used the left over piece of DSP from the front of my card to frame the writing panel on the inside. Waste not, want not! One final dragonfly and I was done!

You can find the rest of the links for this month's Showcase over on Rachel's blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #300: CASE Any Mini Catalogue Project

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the newest CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. This week Bec has set the challenge for us to CASE any project from the new January-June Mini Catalogue. There's over 90 pages of delightful inspiration to choose from!

Have you guessed yet? Yep, I started my flicking from the back of the catalogue 😂. It wasn't long until I found this beauty on page 88.

I loved the way the card layered two patterns - DSP and a stamped DSP layer. A also adored the layering around  the sentiment and the focal bloom. I think it's a hydrangea? LOL, I am soooo not a gardener! I don't have any of the products used in the catalogue card, so I had to get inventive.

I had some Dandy Garden bits and pieces floating around on my desk, so I decided that they would work nicely for this card. I used two pieces of the DSP for my background, layered on a Calypso Coral card base. I changed the layers from the original by making them smaller and gluing each one at an angle.

The Coral dragonfly was punched from another piece of the DSP, I layered him over a piece of Seaside Spray cardstock that I'd stamped the sentiment on in Misty Moonlight ink. I punched the piece using my Banners Pick A Punch, which I was excited to see was a carry over product. Yay! A length of white ribbon from the Flowers For Every Season combo pack, some more Calypso card and a circle of Vellum completed the front of the card.

I finished off the inside with another strip of DSP to match the front. It's one of my favourite pieces from the DSP pack. The sentiment is from Seaside Notions, as is the one on the front. 

That's all from me for tonight, but now it's your turn to get creative! Make your card and upload it into our Facebook group to be in the running!

Before you dash off, though, please do finish our Blog Hop! Next up is the wonderful Rose! I wonder which card she's CASEd tonight?

Bye for now,

Tina