Colour Creations: Poppy Parade

 Hi!

Welcome to Poppy Parade week of the Colour Creations Blog Hop. It's a bright, happy red that is my most used red. I was a bit time poor this week, and I had visions of doing a quick and simple card. Sigh. I should have known that it would end up a bit more complicated than I expected!

Hehe, I decided to go with a pun to suit the Trusty Toolbox DSP. I used my Mini Alphabet Dies to cut the sentiment, and thanks to the doubled up letters on the die, I cut all that I needed in one pass through my Big Shot. Yay! The drill DSP was roughly cut, adhered to a piece of Thick Whisper White card and then fussy cut once dry. As I was popping it up over the Everyday Details die cut, the extra layer of cardstock helps to prevent sagging.

I was tempted to go with another pun on the inside, but I restrained myself. The Happy Birthday sentiment, from Level Complete, will have to do!

That's all from me this week, but please do keep making your way around all of tonight's blogs. The next stop is my lovely friend, Rachel Palmieri. I'm sure that she'll have something fabulous for us to see.

If you come across any broken links in tonight's blog hop, please jump on over to our wonderful hostess, Cathy Proctor's blog. She will have a list of all tonight's participants to help get you back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 456: SAB Catalogue

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Thanks for joining me for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. This week we have returned to the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue for inspiration.

It's a little catalogue, but it's jam packed with fabulous projects for you to CASE.

I picked this cute Jungle Pals card from page 12. I loved the three strips that are all the same, but different.

I just received an order with some new products, so I was keen to play with them. The birds on the Flight & Airy DSP worked perfectly on my modified version of the sketch. I cut a smaller version of the strips and layered them om some Whisper White card, popped up over a Boho Blue Layered Flowers embossed card base.

I glued a pice of the bird DSP on some Whisper White cardstock, and then fussy cut to once dry. It was then popped up over the strips of DSP. The sentiment is from More Wishes, and was cropped with a Nested Essentials Die.

Some more birds were used to finish off the inside of the card. Aren't they pretty!

We'd love for you to play along with us by CASEing a card from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue and uploading a picture to our Facebook group. We'd love to see what you make.

Please continue making your way around our Blog Hop. The next stop is the lovely Peta Stephen, who has created a gorgeous card - you won't want to miss it.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 673: Just Choose Two

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's a Choose Two challenge, suggested to us by Jan. I always love seeing the mix of elements in the Choose Two challenges. Sometimes it's really hard to choose just two!

My card was guided by one of my other creative pastimes - music. I play Bass Clarinet in a concert band, and we recently played a concert for a huge audience of people who live in a lifestyle village. They were such a fantastic audience. Anyway, one of the charts we played was a medley of songs from a particular band, and it got stuck in my head - especially after seeing this week's challenge elements.

Can you guess which band I'm referring to? Haha, yes, The Doors. So my two elements are Doors and flowers. I had a play on Canva to create the lyric/sentiment panel. I tried to get the purples to match the gorgeous Favoured Flowers DSP, but sadly my Canva skills aren't that great. Or maybe it's just because I was using the free version, LOL!

Apart from the playing around on Canva, this was a fast and easy card that came together quite quickly in the end. I didn't stamp an inside sentiment, as I have no idea who will get this card, and for which occasion. I'll stamp it, or maybe just write on it, when I work that out!

Is your mind swirling with ideas? I hope so! Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards for your inspiration. You'll also find our Linky, where you can add your card to the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 669: Just Add Colour

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Welcome to another Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's a Colour Challenge, suggested to us by Annie.

While I'm not usually a fan of Mossy Meadow, I really love it in this combination with Misty Moonlight and Crumb Cake. A very earthy combo that called to me to play along. I hope it calls to you, too!

I started with the background DSP, which is from the retired Sale-A-Bration Sunshine & Rainbows pack. It's a lovely print with a textured look, a step or two up from just plain cardstock.

I recently purchased the Nested Essentials Dies, so I put them to work on this card. I used the smallest banner to crop two pieces of Whisper White card to act as the strip under the elongated hexies. With the banner pieces turned in to be under the rest, you still get the benefit of the fancy edge on your card. The white layer between the two elongated hexies was just hand cut to act as a matt.

My sentiments on both the front and inside of the card were stamped and die cut using the Uniquely Creative Sweet Sentiment stamps and dies. They are such a fabulous bundle for mixing and matching.

We'd love for you to play along with our colour combo this week. Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. Then add your card to our challenge using the Linky at the end of the post. I can't wait to see what you make.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 664: Just Add Colour

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Hooray - it's Friday! It's been a busy week for me, but for Friday through to Sunday my diary is looking very blank. I'm looking forward to having some crafty time, both with paper and fabric over the weekend. What about you? Hopefully you can find time to play along with our new Just Add Ink challenge.

This week Di has suggested this gorgeous colour combo for us to play with. I adore the blue/greens, and the soft purple is a stunning colour to complement them. I decided to go with a somewhat floral card, even though Pool Party and Lost Lagoon aren't really 'leafy' colours. I think it turned out beautifully, though.

I pulled an old stamp and die set, Happy Birthday To You, off my shelf and stamped the cake image on Shimmery White paper using Stazon ink so that I could watercolour the image. I used Pool Party for the cake and the other two colours for the blooms.

The sheer Pool Party ribbon adds a lovely bit of pizzazz to the card, don't you think? It shimmers nicely, too, to go along with the Shimmery White cardstock that I've stamped and coloured.

I stamped the cake image again for the inside, just catching a portion of it on the edge of the card. It's a bit too big to stamp the whole image on the inside!

What do you see with the colours? There are so many possibilities. You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done with the colours over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also add your card to our Linky when you're ready to enter the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Real Red

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Thanks for joining me for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week it's Real Red's turn to shine.

I chose this gorgeous colour combo from Brian King for my card tonight. As I put on my shoes this morning, I realised why. My red sandals go nicely with my Coastal Cabana coloured toenails! LOL!

I CASEd this layout from a card I saw on Mary Fish's blog, made by Jennifer Roque of Stamp Camp With Jen. The three strips of DSP are the same, but she used flowers where I used the owls. Speaking of owls, let's not mention that I forgot that they retired yesterday! Oops!

I coloured the owl from Adorable Owls using my Stampin' Blends. You may have noticed that I snuck a little Mango Melody in for the beak and feet. Unavoidable, really! The bow and party hat came from the two other owls, I just fussy cut them so that I could use them on this owl.

Another owl was used for the inside. He looks little nervous to me, don't you think?

That's all from me for this week's Blog Hop. Please jump on over to the lovely Fiona Ryan's blog. I'm sure she's got something wonderful for you to see.

And, as always, if you run into any issues with links, please head on over to the wonderful Cathy Proctor's blog. She will have a list of all of tonight's participants to help you get back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 407: SAB Catalogue

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Welcome to the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Isn't it a great way to finish off the weekend?

This week we are back to CASEing from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. There's only a couple of weeks left to get your freebies from the catalogue, so don't delay!

My eye was caught by this card on page 9 of the catalogue (ignore the graphic that says page 8!), I liked the fussy cut flowers over the rainy DSP and the black twine bow. I once again decided to use Favoured Flowers DSP on my card, and adjusted my design accordingly.

The grouping of flowers that I fussy cut seemed to be upside down when I had them at the bottom of the panel, so I flipped the panel to put them at the top. Much better!

I really love the geometric designs on the flip side of the floral papers. This layout is a great way to feature them - either as a subtle background, or a bolder edge around a panel.

Some scrap DSP and another fussy cut cluster of flowers finished off the inside. Once again, the flowers looked better at the top. I like to shake things up every now and then!

We'd love for you to play along with us this week, by CASEing a project from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. Just add a photo to our Facebook group and you're done!

Next up on our hop tonight is my lovely friend, Judy May, with what I'm sure will be a gorgeous card. You won't want to miss it!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 406: Love and Valentine's

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Welcome back to my blog for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we are asking you to CASE a love or Valentine's project from any of the three current catalogues.

There's a lot of projects to choose from, especially in the Mini Catalogue. I found this card towards the back of the Mini on page 74. It shows some of the carry over items from the pervious Mini Catalogue.

I really liked the grouping of three houses with the layering underneath. I don't really make love cards, so I decided to make a birthday card instead.

I recently received some of the Sale-A-Bration Favoured Flowers DSP, and decided to use some of the flowers instead of the houses. I roughly cut the flowers and then glued them to Basic Black cardstock before fussy cutting. LOL, I just realised that I've left off the circular layer. Oops! 

The layers of flowers and DSP were adhered over some Blackberry Bliss cardstock, dry embossed with the Brick & Mortar 3DEF. The position of the leaves on the larger flower didn't suit my design, so I snipped them off and repositioned them. The DSP makes this easy, as there is a deep shadow in the design that makes it easy to snip the leaves without leaving evidence of them around the edge of the flower. I hope that makes sense!

I used a partial flower from the edge of the DSP on the inside of my card. The sentiments are from Simply Fabulous, one of my favourite stamp sets for sentiments.

We'd love for you to play along with our Love themed challenge. You don't actually need to make a love card, just use one as the basis for your card, as I have done. When you've made it, just add a photo to our Facebook Group.

For now though, please do continue your way around our blog hop. There's lots more love inspiration to see, starting with my lovely friend, Rachel Palmieri. Her card is gorgeous!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 405: Sale-A-Bration Sketch

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Welcome back for our regular CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Do you enjoy CASEing from the Stampin' Up! catalogues? Then we are the challenge for you!

This week we are asking you to CASE the card on page 5 of the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue, using it as a sketch.

Here's a closer look at the sketch. I like the strong horizontal lines - do you? I decided to flip the sketch somewhat. Instead of coloured strips on top of a white base, I went for white strips over DSP.

The DSP I've chosen is the new Dandy Designs DSP, which is one of the rewards in the SAB Catalogue. I love the mix of Balmy Blue and Coastal Cabana on this paper. Such soothing colours!

I die cut the white piece using a Stitched Rectangle Die, embossed it using the retired Tasteful Textile 3DEF, and then cropped it into four strips. It's one less than is in the sketch, but my tired brain couldn't work out how to get 5 equal strips from a 4" length! (Haha, obviously my brain was VERY tired - the sketch only has 4 stripes!) The ribbon was created by colouring some White Seam Binding with my Dark Pool Party Stampin' Blend. A very handy trick when you don't have the right colour ribbon!

The two sentiment stamps from Biggest Wish said exactly what I needed them to say. Don't you love that?

We'd love for you to play along with us this week. All you need to do is make a card using the sketch for inspiration, take a photo and add it to our Facebook group. No blog necessary!

Speaking of blogs, the next stop on our Sale-A-Bration Sketch blog hop is my lovely South Australian friend, Michelle Stradz. She's used one of my favourite stamp sets from the new Mini Catalogue.

Bye for now,

Tina