CTC #264 Week 1: A Masculine Twist

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Waa hoo! It's Sunday evening, so that means it's CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop time! Have you arrived here from Sandra's blog? Or are you starting here? Either way, just keep on hopping until you get back to where you started. Too easy!

This fortnight we start a new challenge, and it's giving any January-June Mini Catalogue project a masculine twist. Yay! I like making masculine cards!

After a short perusal of the catalogue - I only got to page 12 - I found this cute card with the hearts behind the sentiment panel. I loved the simplicity of this card, so I kept the same layout for my card, I just switched for masculine elements.

I started with a piece of Golden Honey DSP. I thought the black and gold stripes were perfect for a bold, masculine card. I mounted it on a slightly larger piece go Basic Black for stability and then popped it up on my Basic Black card base using Black Dimensionals. I looooove black Dimensionals!

I cut a heap of gears/cogs from Gold Foil paper and adhered them flat to my DSP. The Tailored Tag punched shape was popped up over the top using - you guessed it - black Dimensionals 😂 I also used a few of the circle pieces left over from the cogs to decorate both the sentiment label and the DSP.

I used a left over strip of the DSP and some Gold Foil to finish off the inside. The sentiments, both front and inside, are from Seaside Notions. I love the typewriter-ish font for masculine cards.

Our challenges are Facebook based, so all you need to do is join the group, if you're not there already, and then upload a photo of your card for each challenge to the group. Too easy!

Before you go check out the Facebook group, don't forget to finish the hop! Please sail on over to the lovely Peta's blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #494: Just Add Colour

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Thanks for joining me for a new week of Just Add Ink. This week Di has given us a soft, beautiful palette to work with.

Aren't they pretty? They immediately spoke 'baby card' to me, but with no babies on my horizon, and a distinct lack of time this week, I went super quick and simple, and made what could be a masculine card.

I copied the idea of the stripes from another demo, who had used her Stampin' Blends to colour the white stripes on her Golden Honey DSP. She used a rather bold colour combo, but I think this one works well too. I used my Dark Petal Pink and Soft Sea Foam marker, with my Light Smokey Slate. It was very quick and easy to colour each stripe.

Because I was aiming for a masculine look, I kept the sentiment simple. I loved this big greeting from Bloom and Grow. The non-fussy font filled the Stitched So Sweetly die cut perfectly. To give it a little more oomph, I cut a Stitched Rectangle in Soft Sea Foam and snipped it to just show in the corners of the main shape. A subtle effect, but I quite like it!

The inside is just another scrap of the Golden Honey DSP coloured to match the front. The sentiment comes from Music From The Heart.

The Design Team have created some gorgeous cards this week using these colours, so please do pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog to see their work. You can also link up your card made using the colours. Where do they take you?

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #262 Week 2: CASE The Koala Sketch

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Thanks for joining me from Julia's blog, or are you starting here? Either way, please do continue on with the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop until you've visited all of our blogs. You'll find the link to the next blog at the end of my post.

For this round, we are challenging you to CASE the layout of this cute Birthday Bonanza card. Here's the sketch we are using as the basis of our cards.

I decided to use a technique, called stamped block background, to create the rectangle elements on my card.

The technique uses a clear block, and inkpad and a spritzer. I gently pressed the clear block into my Coastal Cabana ink pad, misted it lightly with the spritzer, and then 'stamped' it onto my cardstock. I started with the middle rectangle, and then repeated the process to stamp the two outside rectangles. The stamping part can get a little messy, which adds to the look. To make it a bit more messy, I used my Aqua Painter to flick some more Coastal Cabana ink over the card front.

Once it was dry, I stamped the poppy outlines over the rectangles, making sure I went out of the lines. I then used my Bermuda Bay Stampin' Write Marker to add a rough outline to each rectangle, skipping over the poppies. A strip of Golden Honey SDSP, a few sequins, a sentiment from Label Me Bold, and another poppy/leaf cluster finished off the front of the card. After I finished I realised it's a very Port Power looking card! I don't follow the football, so it was very unintentional.

I used the larger poppy outline again for the inside. This time I used the coordinating filler stamp, stamped off, to colour the flower.

Our challenge is run through our Facebook Group, so you can pop on over there to upload your card. Tis is the second week of this challenge, so you only have a week left to get your card made and uploaded to the group.

For now though, please hop on over to see what Peta and Marvi have been getting up to!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #262 Week 1: CASE The Koala Card Sketch

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After two weeks of CASEing the Sale-A-Bration catalogue, the CASEing The Catty Crew have a new challenge for you. This fortnight we are CASEing the layout of this cute Birthday Bonanza card from page 34 of the January-July Mini Catalogue. Did you buzz on over from Peta's blog? Keep on buzzing through my post!

To make things nice and easy for you, the lovely Siobhan has simplified the card into this sketch.

I decided to flip the sketch onto it's side, and use my Nested Stitched Dies instead of the rectangles in the sketch.

The hexalong shapes made me think of bees, so it was a natural jump to pull out my Golden Honey DSP. The bees were fussy cut from one of the sheets and then popped up on each of the hexalongs.

I used my retired (sob!) Golden Glitz Delicata ink to stamp the birthday sentiment from Label Me Bold. A few black sequins filled in the empty space on the hexalongs. It's s nice, subtle way to fill the space.

I couldn't bear to waste this large bee that was on the edge of the DSP, and therefore not a whole bee. Now he can fly again on the inside of my card, LOL.

Don't forget that this week is Week One of the new challenge, which means you have two weeks to make your card and get it posted into our Facebook Group.

Michelle was feeling a bit tropical this week - it must have been the heat! Anyway, pop on over to her blog next to see her fab card.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH January Blog Hop: Sale-A-Bration

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Welcome to the first Art With Heart Blog Hop for 2020. This month we are featuring cards using the amazing products you can earn for free during our Sale-A-Bration promotion. Until the 31^st of March, for every $90 you spend on Stampin’ Up! products, you will earn free products from our Sale-A-Bration brochure. Just ask me if you'd like to know more!

I recently earned the gorgeous Golden Honey Specialty DSP, and so that's what I'm using on tonight's card. I'm not big on bees, but there are enough non-bee papers to make it worth getting for me. The DSP is specialty paper because one side of each sheet contains gold foil elements.

As much as I'm not into bees, I couldn't resist adding a couple of the gold foil bees to the front of my card. They were very easy to fussy cut from the DSP. I popped them up (using Black Dimensionals - yay!) over a piece of black and gold DSP. It's meant to be a honeycomb look, but I'm already trying to work out if I can get it to look like a circuit board on a future card. LOL.

The SDSP features black, gold and white, but I wanted to add some colour. After experimenting with Blends and Stampin' Write Markers, I ended up using my Watercolour Pencils. The bottom third of each flower/petal was coloured with Rich Razzleberry, and the top third with Flirty Flamingo. I then used my Wink Of Stella (what else!?!) to blend the colours into the middle third. The pop of colour is quite nice, I think!

I used a Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Happy Birthday To You, for the sentiments on my card. I also used a left over strip of my coloured flower DSP to finish the inside of the card. There wasn't a flower at the left of the strip, which looked a little boring, so I fussy cut a tiny gold bee and glued him over the leaves.

That's all from me tonight, so now you're off to visit my lovely friend, Rachel Palmieri to see what wonderful creation she's made using her SAB goodies. I can't wait!

If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:

Rebecca Jacovou

Vicki Boucher

Tina Gillespie

Rachel Palmieri

Kimberly Hern

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern

Rachel Woollard

Ros Davidson

Christina Barnes

Sujatha Harding

Andrea Sargent

Catherine Proctor

Michelle Taylor

Bye for now,

Tina