Colour Creations: Calypso Coral

 Hi!

Welcome back to my blog for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week it's Calypso Coral's turn. Like Cajun Craze, it's a colour that isn't a favourite of mine, but I do think that it has a valuable place in the colour range.

Brian King has paired it with two of our newer In Colours, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. Isn't it a gorgeous combo? I decided to pull out an older set of dies and play with some watercolouring, as July is Watercolouring month.

I started by washing some Calypso Coral ink over a piece of Watercolour Paper. Once it dried, I cropped some of the solid poppy die from the Poppy Moments Dies. I repeated the process with Soft Succulent and the solid leaf die. The outline dies were used to crop the same colour cardstock, with Basic Black for the centres of the flowers.

I used a gorgeous piece of Lovely Linen DSP for the background. It features both of the greens with Basic White. I had the three Stitched Rectangle frames floating around on my desk, so added them to the card on a whim. I think it provides a nice base for the flowers to sit on, rather than floating in space.

I used the offcut DSP from the front to frame the inside of the card. The sentiments on my card are from Peaceful Moments, another old favourite. It's easy to forget about the oldies with the excitement of new stuff!

Please continue your way around our Calypso Coral blog hop by jumping on over to Theresa Gerrard's blog. You won't want to miss her gorgeous card.

If there are broken or missing links, the lady in the know is Catherine Proctor. Pop over to her blog, where you'l find a list of all of tonight's participants and you can get yourself back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Grey Granite

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me once again for the new Colour Creations Showcase. This week (I lose track of the week number) we are looking at Gray Granite. I want to say grey, but SU has said it's gray - it must be one of those colour/color, mum/mom things! Either way, it's a lovely soft grey that is a fabulous neutral.

I was all set to make a masculine card with Gray Granite, but somehow it morphed into a very feminine card!

I really love the soft grey paired with Whisper White, and so I didn't even consider using anything else this week. I've seen houses painted in this combo, and I absolutely adore it. I started with the split panel under the daisy. It was noted last week that my Granny Apple Green card didn't use an embossing folder, so I have made sure I used on this week. Subtle is fabulous for either masculine or feminine cards. I embossed the whole panel and then cut it into four pieces, adhering each to a Whisper White layer. You will have to trust me on the four pieces - one is hidden under the daisy.

The daisy has six layers- three of each of the two different punched shapes. I much prefer the fuller look. The petals are slightly curved up, and I've finished it off with some Silver Glimmer Paper. The leaves were cut using the Poppy Moments Dies. I flipped one over and cut from the back side of the Glimmer Paper so that it would curve in the other direction. This suited my layout a little better. A sentiment from Well Said finished off the front.

I couldn't decide on a sentiment to go on the inside, so I have left it blank for now. I can easily add one (or not) when I decide to use the card. I had one last die cut leaf, so that will do for decoration for now.

The lovely Catherine is once again hosting the Colour Creations Creative Showcase. Pop on over to her blog to find the rest of this week's Gray Granite links.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Coastal Cabana

Hi!

It's time once again for this week's Colour Creations Showcase. This week we are up to Coastal Cabana, the second of the Brights in the alphabetical order list of colours. It's a colour that I love, so I was excited to see it pop up in the list.

I recently participated in an ATC swap, where we used the Faux Mother Of Pearl technique. I quite enjoyed doing my ATC, and thought that Coastal Cabana was the perfect colour for the technique. Basically, you use scrunched up plastic wrap to 'pounce' Frost White Shimmer Paint over your cardstock and then, once dry, use a Sponge Brayer to apply your chosen ink over the top. You can see the gorgeous shimmer better in the next photo.

The poppy was cropped from Whisper White card using the Poppy Moments Dies. To colour the solid layer I laid the outline die over the top and watercoloured each of the petals individually. I coloured quickly and didn't try to be too neat as I like the messy look.

On the inside I used a trick learned from my wonderful friend, Judy May. I deliberately made my Faux Mother Of Pearl Panel larger than I needed for the front so that I could use the offcuts on the inside. I made sure that when I cut the piece for the front I cut it from the centre of the panel. I then just inset a second piece of Whisper White, cut with the same sized Stitched Rectangle Die, for the inside of my card. A smaller poppy finishes it off nicely.

That's all from me tonight. The lovely Catherine is once again hosting the Showcase, so you can find the links for the rest of our Coastal Cabana cards over on her blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #266 Week 2: Easter Cards

Hi!

Thanks for joining me for the second week of our CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. I don't know about where you are, but it was a wet, miserable weekend in Adelaide - perfect for crafting!

Once again, we are making Easter cards based on the sketch below.

I went way more literal this week than last week!

I started by making the daisy, and everything else flowed from that. I cut three daisies of each size from Whisper White cardstock and then glued the three layers together. I used my sponge dauber and some Rococo Rose ink to lightly sponge around the edges of the petals before adhering the small daisy to the larger one. The centre of the flower is just a 1/2" circle, sponged as well.

The leaves are actually from the Poppy Moments Dies. I don't know if they are accurate daisy leaves, but they are good enough for me! I cut them in Soft Sea Foam, to match the card base.

I used a left over strip of Rococo Rose gingham DSP on the inside, alongside the sentiment from Peaceful Moments.

I hope you are staying home and staying safe. I certainly am! The kids are on school holidays now, which should mean more crafting time for me. If it means more crafting time for you too, why not join in our challenge? You just need to join our Facebook group.

That's it from me, so now you're off to see the sweet Easter cards that my lovely friend, Rachel has made.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #493: Just Choose Two

Hi!

Welcome back to a new Just Add Ink challenge! This week Patrice has challenged us to Just Add Two to our creations. Which two? Any of these two:

Now, for some reason I became a little fixated on having felt on my card. I'm not quite sure why - maybe because, of the three, it's the one that I was least likely to have. Nothing like making it hard for myself! LOL! I was sure I had a felt Christmas ornament that SU retired a long time ago *somewhere* in my craft room. I never found it, but I did find some cheap sheets of felt in the kid's craft stash.

I trimmed some green felt and attached it to a piece of Shaded Spruce cardstock with TomBow glue. Before it dried, I ran it through my Big Shot with the Layered Leaves 3D Embossing Folder. I was quite impressed with how well it held the embossed design!

To finish the card, I layered a piece of vellum embossed with the Brick & Mortar 3D Embossing folder with some of the Poppy Moments leaves and a Large Daisy. The second of my Two items is a button, the centre of the daisy. I used a Medium Classy Designer Button, which retired a while ago, and coloured it with my dark Pineapple Punch Stampin' Blend to change the colour from vanilla to yellow.

The inside was finished off with a So Saffron daisy and a sentiment from Varied Vases.

So which two will you choose? You can check out what the Design Team chose over at the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your Just Choose Two card.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #260 Week 1: January July Mini Catalogue

Hi!

Welcome to the first CASEing the Catty Blog Hop for 2020! I can't believe we are writing 2020 already! The blog before mine is the fabulous Angela's, but we are all linked in a circle, so just keep going until you get back to where you started.

This week we are CASEing projects from the new January-June Mini Catalogue. This year we are trying something new - each challenge will run for two weeks, not one. We will still have a blog hop each week, so there will be double the inspiration for each challenge. Yay!

I liked the layout and die cut elements on this card from page 19. I chose to use the new Under My Umbrella stamp set though. It's a cute line art set, perfect for colouring.

How sweet are the boots and umbrella? I coloured the images with my Stamping' Blends, in Seaside Spray, Rococo Rose, Purple Posy, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake and Call Me Clover. I had a lot of fun practicing to get a rounded look on the boots and umbrella. Do you think I succeeded?

The background was created with a die from the Poppy Moments Dies. I like that it cuts windows in the shape of a bunch of poppies in the card. I backed it with some Seaside Spray DSP from the In Colour pack. The label and tag dies are from the Painted Labels and Ornate Frames Dies. A few sequins finished off the front.

The inside sentiment is from the new Peaceful Moments stamp set, with another spray of flowers from Under My Umbrella. They are such cute flowers!

As I said earlier, you now have two weeks to enter our challenges. You do this by taking a photo of your completed card an uploading to our Facebook group, telling us which challenge you are entering.

That's all from me for now, next up is the lovely Judy.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #487: Just Add A Sketch

Hi!

Hello, and welcome to the final Just Add Ink challenge of 2019! This will be a non-competitive challenge, running through until the start of January. So what have we got for you? A sketch challenge, designed by the wonderful  Jackie!

I've been looking forward to this sketch for a while now - I think it's fabulous, and great for a wide range of themes. I toyed for a while with doing a dinosaur card, but in the end I reached for my new Poppy Moments Dies.

The poppy dies have three layers - the solid base, the outline and the centre. I cut the base in Vellum, the outline in Poppy Parade and the centre in Basic Black. I like the translucent look of the vellum - a little more interesting than stark white in this case! I accidentally got the circle elements of the sketch the wrong way around. Ooops! That's what I love about a sketch though - it's open to interpretation, as long as you can still see the original in the card.

I couldn't resist adding the little scallop border piece onto the card, from the new Painted Labels Dies. It's so sweet, but in Basic Black it's a little dramatic too! I think I will be using it lots. The sentiment is from a new Sale-A-Bration set, Happy Birthday To You. I added a couple of leaves to the card, cut from vellum and Mossy Meadow cardstock.

I used another leaf and the smaller poppy on the inside. The large poppy is beautiful, but a little big for the inside! The sentiment is also from Happy Birthday To You. I love the scripty font!

Thanks for joining me for another year of Just Add Ink challenges. I love being a part of the JAI team, and I look forward to more crafty fun with them in 2020. I hope you can join in our challenges, we love seeing what everyone makes for them.

That's all for me on my blog for 2019. I'll be back in early 2020 after a short break with my family. Have a wonderful Christmas and a fabulous New Year. I hope Santa brings you some new crafty goodies to play with!

Bye for now,

Tina