JAI 750: Just Add Colour

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Thanks for joining me for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have a colour challenge for you, suggested to us by Lou.

Isn't it lovely and fresh? The three In Colours pair so beautifully with Basic Black. I remembered that I had a pack of DSP in my stash that had B&W designs on one side, and colour on the other - Pattern Party DSP.

I do love a good B&W stripe! I added it to the Pretty In Pink card base. The cute little stamp that I've used in the background is from the Light The Candles card kit. I added a small Rhinestone to the centres of each for a little added pizzazz.

The main sentiment is from Happy Little Things. It's a fun two step stamp set with a lot of words and phrases to mix and match. Yay for not having to colour in the sentiment! And doesn't the Summer Splash ribbon pop against the stripes?

Speaking of stripes, I had a little offcut, so it was put to good use in the inside of the card.

We'd love to see what you do with these colours. You can see what the rest of the Design Team have made over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also link up your card to our challenge gallery when you're ready.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Daffodil Delight

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Welcome to my blog for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week it's Daffodil Delight's turn to shine - and shine it does! It's a lovely, bright, sunny yellow. It's a feature colour in the Light The Candles Kit, so that's what I decided to use for my card.

You might think, if you're familiar with the kit, that the striped paper isn't a part of the kit. It is! It's the envelope paper. The inside of the envelopes had gorgeous coordinating paper that sometimes likes to come out and play on the card, rather than be hidden away in the envelope. Today, I set it free, LOL!

The rest of the card was made up as per the kit. The sparkly paper behind the cake cut out is spectacular! What a shame that it was an overcast day today - the camera didn't really capture the gorgeous sparkle.

The inside of my card features another strip of paper from the envelope. You know me - I don't waste anything! 

Please keep on hopping around all of the blogs tonight. There's a lot more Daffodil Delight inspiration to be seen, starting with my lovely friend, Dianne Furniss.

If you run into any problems with the links, please head on over to Cathy Proctor's blog. She does a fabulous job each week keeping us all organised.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Coastal Cabana

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Welcome to the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week it's Coastal Cabana's time to shine! I really love this blue-green, as I think it's a fun, versatile colour.

I pulled out my Light The Candles Kit, as Coastal Cabana is one of the featured colours. I went rogue though, just using the pieces from the kit to make a card rather than make one of the set cards. I was very inspired by a card made by Helen Read of All Things Stampy.

I love how the coloured stripes (which are meant to sit behind the laser cut candle paper) are glittery. It made stamping on them a bit of a challenge, but I think that the effort is worth it. I used my Night Of Navy ink pad instead of the Stazon ink that Helen used, as I didn't want to introduce yet another colour to the card.

There was a small strip of the spotty background paper left to use to decorate the inside of the card. The paper is actually the card base in the kit, but by cutting it in half and adding it to another card base, you can get two cards instead of one. Thrifty!

That's all from me for tonight, but as always, there is plenty more Coastal Cabana gorgeousness to be seen. The next stop in the Blog Hop is my fabulous friend, Ros Davidson, who loves bright colours so is sure to have made something wonderful with Coastal Cabana.

Speaking of fabulous, our host tonight is the fabulous Cathy Proctor. If you run into issues with links, just pop on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's hoppers to help get you back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Lemon Lolly

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Thanks for once again joining me for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are still working our way through the new core colours - this week we are featuring Lemon Lolly. It's a lovely, soft, pure lemon yellow, as the name suggests! It's a much clearer colour than previous pale yellows that we've had in the colour range.

I struggled a bit with thinking about what to do with Lemon Lolly, but then I remembered that I owned the Songbird punch. The yellow and blue birds are quite cute, I think! The background paper is from the  Bright & Beautiful DSP pack. I just cut my selected piece to card front size and then trimmed 1 1/2 inches from one side. I flipped the paper to the other side, added a piece of Misty Moonlight card down the length as a border and then adhered both pieces of DSP to the card front. A piece of White Twine finishes off the front.

The sentiments on my card are from the Light The Candles Kit - it's easy to forget about kit stamp sets when you are creating, but they are a great source of images and sentiments. The Lemon Lolly ink is much easier to read in real life! The photos don't do a great job of picking it up.

I made a third bird for the inside of my card, and nested him on a strip of DSP and cardstock left over from the front of the card.

That's all from me for tonight, but please do continue making your way around all of the blogs tonight. There's lots more Lemon Lolly gorgeousness to be seen! The next stop is my lovely friend, Rachel Palmieri. I wonder what she's done with Lemon Lolly?

If you happen to come across a broken link on tonight's hop, please jump on over to Cathy Proctor's blog. She will have a list of all of tonight's participants to help get you back on track again.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Night Of Navy

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Welcome back to the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at Night Of Navy, a deep blue from the Neutrals Colour Family. 

Brian King has quite a few colour combos that feature Night Of Navy, so it was tricky to narrow the choices down to just one! I decided on this bright combo though, mostly because I haven't played much with Parakeet Party yet.

I started by stamping the Rays Of Light stamp in Parakeet Party on Whisper White card and then cropping it with the largest Stitched Rectangles Die. I matted it on Night Of Navy cardstock before popping it all onto a retired Silver Foil card base.

I was struggling with how to add Poppy Parade to the card, so I decided to add the circles, cropped with the Stylish Shapes Dies, under the focal butterfly (from Butterfly Brilliance) and sentiment. A few red sequins adds to the spotty red theme!

A second butterfly, stamped in Night Of Navy, was the obvious choice for the inside of my card. I used a sentiment from the Light The Candles Card Kit stamp set to go with it. I also used the same stamp set on the front of the card. Don't overlook kit stamp sets - they are sometimes the exact sentiment that you need!

That's all from me this time around, but please do keep jumping around our Blog Hop until you get back to where you started. The next blog belongs to my fabulous friend, Kate Morgan. You won't want to miss her card!

As ever, if you get off track or find a broken link, jump on over to the wonderful Catherine Proctor's blog. You'll find a list of all of tonight's participants there to help you on your way again.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 389: Annual Catalogue Bundle

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It's time once again for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Our challenge works by asking you to CASE different aspects of Stampin' Up!'s catalogues. CASEing is a great way to spark your creativity.

This week we are asking you to CASE a card from the Bundles Section of the Annual Catalogue. In flicking through the section, I discovered that I don't own a single bundle from the catalogue! I'm not quite sure how that happened, so I had to think extra creatively this week.

I ended up choosing this butterfly card from page 161. I really liked the white die cuts layered over the stripes of coloured cardstock. They really pop against the colour.

I recently purchased the Rugged Icons Dies, after my fellow CTCer, Rachel, posted some fabulous masculine cards using them. I thought that this card was a great opportunity to use them. After much debate I went for the mountains die - although I see pyramids every time I look at it! I'm sure they are meant to be mountains, as I don't think there are trees like that around the pyramids.

I layered some Garden Green, Daffodil Delight and Balmy Blue cardstock on some copy paper before cropping it with the largest hexagon in the Beautiful Shapes Dies. I applied some Foam Adhesive Sheet to the back of a piece of Whisper White card and cropped it with the Rugged Icons die before adhering it to the hexagon.

I used a second die cut, in Balmy Blue, to decorate the inside. The sentiments are from the stamp set that's in the Light The Candles kit.

That's all from me for now, but we'd love for you to join us in making a card for this challenge. Do you have a favourite bundle from the Annual Catalogue? Or are you like me with no bundle, but a lovely card in the section that has caught your eye to CASE? Just add a photo to our Facebook group when you've made your card.

In the meantime, please do continue your way around our blog hop. The next stop is the lovely Peta Stephen, with a gorgeous Christmas card.

 Bye for now,

Tina

Bron's Birthday Blog Hop - July

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I'm once again blog hoping with a bunch of crafty friends to celebrate Bron Eastley's 60th Birthday. This month, Bron has asked us to CASE a project from the 60's pages of the Annual Catalogue. I only got to page 61 before I found this fun card to CASE.

I loved the big, bold sentiment with the rays streaming out from behind it. It's tricky to see the rays, as they are white embossed on vellum, but they are there!

I started my card with a background paper from the Abstract Beauty pack. I thought that the little shapes looked like confetti, so worked well on a birthday card. The vellum layer over the top has been inked with some Lucky Clover Distress Oxide ink using my Altenew Warp Speed Stencil.

The sentiment is from the Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Amazing Phrasing. I think I'm going to get a lot of use out of this one! I stamped it in Night Of Navy ink, fussy cut it and then popped it up over the vellum with Dimensionals. I used liquid glue behind the Dimensionals to adhere the vellum to the DSP behind it.

There was a tiny scrap of DSP left from the front of the card, so I used it on the inside. I also thought that a little more of the WarpSpeed stencil was called for. The sentiment is from the Light The Candles kit.

Another thanks for joining me, but please do continue your way around the Blog Hop tonight. There's lots more inspiration to be found. Just keep hopping around until you get back to the blog where you started. The next hopper tonight is my lovely friend Nikki Spencer.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Tahitian Tide

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It's time once again for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are looking at the last of the new In Colours, Tahitian Tide. It's a very bright blue that I think fits nicely into the colour range.

Brian King once again provided a lovely colour combo featuring Tahitian Tide. I wanted a colour scheme that would work for a set of cards aimed at children, and I think this fits the bill. I paired the five Sheetload Of Cards templates with the Penguin Place bundle. This bundle isn't currently available, but it will return in the upcoming Mini Catalogue. I kept with the Silver Foil feature by using my retired Balloon Punch to crop the foil.

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Here's my Tahitian Tide cards all together. Aren't they a bright, happy bunch?

In case you're interested, here's the whole group of cards. To recap - I've made the same five cards using each of the five new In Colours to create a gift set for someone special. Now I just need to make a box to put them all in!

That's all from for for tonight, but please do continue your way around our blog hop. There's plenty more Tahitian Tide yumminess to be seen, starting off with my lovely friend, Sharon Davern. She's usually got a pretty awesome fancy fold for us.

Another lovely friend is Cathy Proctor - and she's the one who will get you back on track if you find a broken link. Just pop on over to her blog, where she has a list of all participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 605: Just Add Inspiration

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Woo Hoo! Friday once again, which means that it's Just Add Ink time! This week we have a gorgeous Inspiration Photo as the basis of our challenge, which was suggested by Kim.

Hmm, what do you see in this photo? I straight away thought of the Expressions In Ink SDSP and Waves Of The Ocean DSP. Both have now retired, but I thought that I could use the different colours and papers to make an abstract version of the scene.

I was quite please with how it turned out! I used the stitched rectangle die in the Ornate Layers dies to crop the papers - the top three are the Expressions papers, and the lower three are from the Waves pack. I tried to match up with the Inspiration Photo, but wasn't strict with placement.

The mermaid is from an Ink Road stamp set, she's Inked Girl Samantha. I quickly coloured her with Stampin' Blends in colours taken from the DSP packs. The Gold Foil 'dream' die cut is from a long-retired set, called Chase Your Dreams Framelits.

A left over strip of DSP and a sentiment from Light The Candles finished off the inside. 

I can't wait to see what you make from the Inspiration Photo. The Design team have had a lot of fun with it. You can see their cards over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card in our challenge. See you there!

Bye for now,

Tina