AWH September Bog Hop: Masculine Cards

 Hi!

Welcome to the AWH Monthly Creative Showcase. From this month forward, we will be running the Showcase as a Blog Share, rather than a Bog Hop. This means that you will find all the links to the participants over on Rachel's blog, all in one place.

For this month's Creative Showcase, we are all making Masculine Cards. Father's Day may be done and dusted for 2020, but there is always a need to celebrate the males in our lives, for reasons other than Father's Day. The littlest (and cheekiest!) male in my family is turning thirteen soon, so I decided that tonight's card would be for his birthday.

Hudson's favourite toys are his plastic bowling pins. They are always within reach, and when we go to appointments or respite he often takes a pair with him. His favourite are the blue pair, but the red and lime pairs get a fair work out too! He always has to hold two at a time - the blue pair never get mixed up, but sometimes he will mix the red and lime. I decided to use the colours of the bowling pins to create his card.

I hope you'll forgive me for using a little bit of a retired colour - Lemon Lime Twist. It was the best match to the colour of his bowling pin. Anyway, I used my Stitched Triangles Dies to cut three sizes of Equilateral Triangles in Pacific Point, Poppy Parade and Lemon Lime Twist. I also cropped a Stitched Shapes Circle and the number 13 from the Playful Alphabet Dies. I adhered some Foam Adhesive Sheet to the back of the cards tock so that the 13 would be popped up.

In fact, nearly all of the layers are popped up - luckily I don't need to post this card! Each of the triangles are popped up over the one below, with the circle adhered flat and the 13 popped up, as I mentioned before. I offset the two sets of triangles for a bit of quirkiness.

I had a third set of triangles for the inside. I got a bit Dimensionals happy, though, and popped each layer up as I did for the front. I contemplated redoing them, but decided that as I wasn't posting it, it didn't really matter. The sentiment is from the Family Party stamp set. I love that it's a heap of different names, words, numbers and phrases that can be mixed and matched to create a personalised sentiment.

That's all from me tonight. Don't forget the changed format - you now need to head on over to Rachel's Blog to find the rest of the links for this month's Creative Showcase. I can't wait to see what Masculine Cards the AWH Team have made.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #247: Holiday Catalogue Punch Project

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Welcome to this week's CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. This week we are asking you to choose a punch project from the Holiday Catalogue to CASE. Did you see Michelle's gorgeous butterflies on her blog, which is before mine in the hop?

I don't actually own any of the Holiday Catalogue punches, so my choices were a little limited! This pair of tags caught my eye, especially the repeated sentiment on the punched shapes, and so that's what I CASEd.

I started with a happy, bright colour combination of Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay and Mango Melody. The stars are from the Family Party stamp set, and the Happy is from Well Said. I stamped it in each of my colours and then cropped it with my Classic Label punch.

The punched shapes were popped up over the top of some retired Melon Mambo ribbon. I also used some retired Bermuda Bay Enamel Dots to finish off the front of the card.

The present on the inside is from the Family Party set too. I love that it's photopolymer so that the two layers are easy to line up.

That's it from me! Do you have any of the punches from the Holiday Catalogue yet? I have my eye on the tree punch, so keep on the lookout for that on my blog in the future. In the meantime, you can head on over to the CASEing The Catty Facebook group to add your card to the challenge.

Before you go, don't forget to finish the hop. Next you're off to see what the lovely Rebecca has made. She's got the tree punch that I am coveting!

Bye for now,

Tina

A Super Card For A Super Kid

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Today I have a card I made for a friend of Hudson's. His 13th Birthday party was on the weekend, and we all had a fabulous time rollerskating. A lot of 13 year old kids are into super heroes, and I hoped this particular kid was no different!

The design of this card was CASEd from my good friend Chloe Evans. She's an amazing crafter and has been doing a heap of videos lately. I always try to watch when she does her Facebook Lives, but she also has a great YouTube channel. If you like watching paper crafting videos, I do suggest you check her out! Chloe posted a few cards she'd made using the brayered strip across the card. I couldn't wait to CASE, as I adored the cards she made.

It was very easy to do - I just masked off the section I wanted to colour using sticky notes and my grid paper as a guide and then brayered Daffodil Delight ink at one end and Pacific Point at the other. I flicked some water over the top and then stamped the sentiment once it had dried. My stripe is a little wider than Chloe's, but I needed mine wider to fit my sentiment.

How cool are these stamps? They are from a retired Kindred Stamps set called You're Super. I coloured this dude with my Watercolour Pencils and Blender Pen.

Most of the inside sentiment is also from the You're Super set, but the numbers are from a Stampin' Up! set called Family Party. Have you noticed it in the catalogue? It's not one that jumps out as a must have, but it's definitely one worth adding to your collection. It covers a wide range of family members, so that you can make a birthday card for anyone of any age. Go check it out!

Bye for now,

Tina