Colour Creations: Shaded Spruce

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Welcome back to my blog for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are featuring Shaded Spruce, a relative new-comer to the SU colour range. Hopefully it survives the upcoming colour refresh, as it's a green that I like.

I thought that this colour combo from Brian King was a little unusual, it's certainly not colours that I would think to put together. It screamed 'floral' to me, so that's what I did.

It's been a while since I've played with Hand-Penned Petals, so it was a good choice for my card. I layered the stamped and die cut image over a large Stylish Shapes circle.

The Whisper White background was run through my Big Shot with my Stitched Greenery die. I think it works perfectly with the flowers. The sentiment is from Simply Fabulous, cropped with another Stylish Shapes die. I finished off the front with a few retired Iridescent Sequins.

I repeated a lot of the front elements on the inside of my card. It's just as easy to stamp two flowers as it is to stamp one, and it makes such a difference to the insides of cards.

Thanks again for joining me, but please continue your way around our blog hop tonight. The next stop in the hop is my lovely friend, Michele Taylor. I can't wait to see what she's made.

The extra-lovely Catherine Proctor is our wonderful host tonight, so if you run into any issues with links, just jump on over to her blog where she'll have a list of all of tonight's participants to help get you back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 404: Country Floral Lane Suite

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Thanks for stopping by on your way around the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's a great way to finish the weekend, don't you think?

This week we are asking you to CASE a project from the Country Floral Lane Suite pages of the new Mini Catalogue. The projects are all a bit lovey-dovey for me, so I decided to make a birthday card instead.

My eye was caught by this card on page 8. I really loved the strips of DSP, the ribbon that has been cut in half, and the layering under the sentiment. I included all of these things in my card, but in very different ways.

I started by cutting some strips of Country Gingham DSP and cropping the edges of most of the pieces with the border die from the Penned Flowers Dies. These were layered over a Thick Whisper White card base. Shhh, I snuck in a little bit of retired Mint Macaron Glimmer Paper to finish it off.

I cropped some Balmy Blue paper from the Subtles Stack using the outline flower die in the Penned Flowers, topped it with some White Glittered Organdy Ribbon, which I'd cut in half. The butterfly over the top has one layer cut from the Mint Macaron Glimmer paper, and the second from Layering Designs Vellum. A few scattered pearls finished off the front.

I used my Simply Fabulous stamp set for sentiments throughout the card. The butterfly was cropped using my Brilliant Wings Dies from some left over DSP from the front. I don't like to waste any scraps!

All you need to do to play along with us is make your project and add a photo to our Facebook group. It's that easy!

Before you go, please do continue your way around our blog hop for plenty more Country Floral Lane Suite inspiration. The next stop is the lovely Monique Fielder.

Bye for now,

Tina

HOC Week 21

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Welcome back to the 21st, and second last, week of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hops. I'm still a little in disbelief that Christmas is so close, but at least I have more than enough cards ready to write on and send out. If only I was so organised with my Christmas shopping!

This week's Sheetload Of Cards template is from January 2020. I was looking for a super quick and easy sketch for tonight's cards. I had two half hour windows today in which to get them made, and I was successful in my aims. 

I was really pleased with this inside of my cards. I liked just the antlers as a hint of what was stamped on the front of the card. Usually I'd stamp the whole penguin, but just a tease is nice, too.

I was going for a snowy look to the card. Hopefully the paper on the bottom, from the Celebrate Everything Host DSP, looks like snowy hills for the penguins to frolic amongst. Either way, it's a super-cute set of cards.

Thanks again for joining me, and I hop to see you again next week for the final blog hop. In the meantime though, there's plenty more inspiration to be seen on tonight's blog hop, so please jump on over to Christine Blain's blog, where she's no doubt made a gorgeous card for us to see.

As always, the lovely Sharon Davern has done a wonderful job of keeping all of the HOC hoppers organised. If you run into any issues with links, please jump on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's participants with the correct links.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Gorgeous Grape

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Thanks again for stopping by for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are featuring Gorgeous Grape, a bright, bubblegum shade of purple.

I chose this bright colour combo by Brian King. I think it's a bit on the Halloween side, so I had my work cut out for me to make it a little (actually, a lot!) less Halloweenish.

I think I succeeded! Any combo with green in it automatically lends itself to a floral card, so that's where I went with my inspiration. I once again used Hand-Penned Petals and the Coordinating Penned Flowers Dies.

I stamped the largest flower in full strength ink, and the next two smallest ones in stamped-off ink. It doesn't look much different, though!

I repeated the flowers on the inside, with another sentiment from Simply Fabulous to go with it.

Thanks again for stopping by, but please do continue your way around tonight's blog hop. There's lots more Gorgeous Grape inspiration to be found, starting with my lovely friend, Rachel Palmieri.

As always, the lovely Catherine Proctor keeps us in line and organised with the blog hop. If you find a problem with one of the links, just jump on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Sweet Sorbet

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Hooray for a new Colour Creations Blog Hop! This week we are looking at another new In Colour - Sweet Sorbet. It's a lovely, deep pink that is definitely growing on me.

Once again I looked to Brian King for a stunning colour combo. I love the mix of pinks, and the addition of Crumb Cake is perfection. I think this is my favourite combo of the four In Colour gift card sets that I have made so far.

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Here is the group together. Aren't they pretty and feminine? I thought that the die from Penned Flowers would be perfect for my Silver Foil accent piece.

Thanks for joining me, but please do continue your way around our blog hop tonight. There's plenty more Sweet Sorbet inspiration to be found, starting with Amie McIlroy.

As ever, the lovely Catherine Proctor keeps us all organised and the blog hop ticking over. If you do happen to find a broken link, just jump on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 353: CASE The SAB Catalogue

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Thanks for once again joining me for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. This week we are asking you to CASE a project from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue.

After a bit of a flick though the catalogue, I settled upon this daffodil card from page 5. I really loved the fancy border top and bottom and the layering in the card.

Apart from the Basic Borders Dies, I don't actually own any of the products used to create the catalogue card, so I had to think about suitable substitutes.

I thought that the Hand-Penned Petals set was a good substitute, although it works better on a landscape card.

I used the Host DSP, Pattern Party on my card. The striped piece was coloured with Gorgeous Grape ink using a Blending Brush.

I used one of the DP offcuts on the inside of my card. After I'd glued it down I did think that I probably should have coloured it purple, too. Oh well!

Our challenge is run in our Facebook group. After you've finished hopping and you've made your card, jump on over to the group where you can upload a photo of your card. Get it in before next Sunday evening to be in the running. Can't wait to see what you make!

The next stop on our Blog Hop tonight is the lovely Julia Quinn. You certainly don't want to miss out on the gorgeousness to be found on her blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

Heart Of Christmas Week 20

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Welcome back once again to another Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop. It's Week 20 of a 22 week series. All of the Christmas inspiration so far has been fabulous, and I'm sure that the final three weeks will be no different. Let's get to it!

I have very much enjoyed playing with the Heartwarming Hugs DSP for the past two years. I love that the paper uses Christmassy colours, but fun, non-Christmassy patterns. I've paired the paper with the March 2021 Sheetload Of Cards template and my Penned Flowers Dies were used to cut the scalloped layer.

I used my favourite Christmas sentiment stamp set, Christmas To Remember, for both the front and inside of my card. I really like that it has a saying that's specific to friends, and I've used this stamp a lot this year.

As always, here's my group of four. It's been miserably cold and rainy here in Adelaide, so I had to dash outside to grab my photos in between showers of rain. It was too wet to lay them on the grass as I usually do. I can't believe that I'm wearing flannelette pyjamas and that it's snowing in parts of Australia in November - it's nearly summer!!

Well, that's all from me for this week, but I hope that you'll continue your way around our hop by jumping over to my friend, and fellow South Aussie, Andrea. I hope she's staying warm and dry!!

It's my turn to host this week's Blog Hop, so please pop back here if you run into any troubles. Here's the full list of tonight's hoppers:

Andrea Sargent

Michele Taylor

Kate Morgan

Caroline Manwaring

Christine Blain

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Woollard

Rosa Leyden

Theresa Gerrard

Judy May

Sharon Davern

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 332: CASE Your Favourite AC Suite

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Thanks for once again joining me for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. As the name suggests, we are all about CASEing the Catty, and challenge you to join us!

This week we are asking you to CASE a project that uses your favourite Suite of products from the Annual Catalogue. You'll find a list of all of the Suites, and their catalogue page number, on page 3 of the catalogue. I decided to use products from the Hand-Penned Suite, but I chose to CASE the card from the Suite that is in the Bundles Section of the catalogue, on page 159.

I really loved the colours in this card, and the mix of stamped images and die cuts.

As you can see, I changed very little about the card. I coloured my main image with Stampin' Blends, rather than watercolouring, as in the sample. I had another time-poor week, and even waiting for the watercolouring to dry would have taken too long!

I also really liked the way the original artist drew over the lines in the Pattern Party DSP with her Dark So Saffron Stampin' Blend. I did the same.

I had a few extra die cuts, and a scrap of the DSP left, so they came in handy for decorating the inside of my card. I didn't want to make a congrats card, so I used sentiments from Blossoms In Bloom to make it a birthday card instead.

We'd love for you to join us in our challenge to CASE our favourite AC Suite. What's your's? You don't need to own everything from the suite to join in - just adapt your card to suit what you have! When you've made your card, just add it to our Facebook group.

Next on our Blog Hop tonight is my birthday twin (and fellow South Aussie), Michelle! It's our special day today, and we were lucky enough to have a warm, sunny, 'summer is on the way' day to celebrate.

Bye for now,

Tina