Echoes of Kindness

Hi!

Last night I celebrated getting my craft space back by making 2 cards. We have been having some renovations and on Friday our new lounge room was finally finished. I spent yesterday setting up my craft table in a corner of the new room.

One of the cards I made was for the latest challenge at Just Add Ink. This week it is a colour challenge:


I was a bit nervous about these colours - the pink and purple together????? Hmmm...

Here's what I came up with:


I was quite pleased with this in the end! I thought the colours came together beautifully.

Stamps: Echoes of Kindness
Ink: Soft Suede, Rose Red, Stazon
Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Elegant Eggplant
Other: Circle Cutter, Blender Pen, Sponge Dauber, Stamp Positioner

Catch you later,

Tina

Echoes Of Kindness Birthday Card

Hi!

I thought I'd share a card I made for a friend's birthday. I used the opportunity to try out the last two techniques I learned in the Marker Club run by Sue Maddex, my upline. I'm a bit sorry to say that I've only just got around to trying out last months tutorial at the same time as this months. It's been a busy month!

Anyway, here's the card:



Last month's tutorial was using heat embossing on vellum and markers to create a stained glass look. In this case there were a few stray marks from the embossing powder, so to hide them I decided to mount the vellum behind the Old Olive panel. I stamped the same image on the Old Olive and then very carefully cut around it using a scalpel to create a window slightly larger then the image. The vellum is mounted on Whisper White card stock to help it stand out.

This month's tutorial is using markers to colour ribbon. For this card I used my Lovely Lilac marker to colour some Whisper White Taffeta ribbon. It's a nice finishing touch. Remember too that Lovely Lilac is one of the colours being farewelled at the end of August, so stock up now if it's a favourite!

Stamps: Echoes of Kindness
Card stock: Lovely Lilac, Old Olive, Whisper White, vellum
Ink: Lovely Lilac, Old Olive
Other: Black Embossing Powder, Blender Pens, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Old Olive 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Scalpel, Dimensionals

Catch you later,

Tina

Echoes Of Kindness for a sick friend

Hi!

A very good friend's husband had surgery this week, so I wanted to make a get well soon card for him. I wanted to use Echoes Of Kindness, and this week's sketch over at Card Patterns suited it perfectly.



See what I mean? The long panel was perfect for the flower image I wanted to use.



It was also a chance to do some water colouring, which I haven't done for a while. I've been playing with my blender pens a lot lately, but it was nice to get back to water colouring.

Card stock/Paper: So Saffron Patterns DSP, Ballet Blue, Watercolour Paper
Stamps: Echoes Of Kindness (level 2 hostess)
Ink: Ballet Blue, Garden Green, Black Stazon
Other: Chit Chat Rub Ons, Very Vanilla 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon

The Chit Chat Rub Ons are a fantastic buy. For $19.95 you get over 160 sentiments in both Chocolate Chip and Whisper White. Hurry though - they are in the Summer Mini Catalogue which ends at the end of the month. There's no guarantee they'll be available after that!

Catch you later,

Tina