JAI 637: Just Add A Sketch

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Hello, there! It's Friday, which means that it's time for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's a sketch challenge, designed by me.

I've been doing a lot of hand quilting for the past 6 months or so, and the triangles in the sketch made me wonder if I could translate some of my new skills with fabric to paper using the gorgeous Lovely Linen DSP. It's a lot like quilting fabric, so I was pretty sure I'd be able to make something awesome.

I was right! I used my Stitched Triangles Dies to fussy cut the paper, and then adhered it to a Night Of Navy base. I always love the new patterns that this process creates.

I couldn't bear to cover any of the card front up with something to represent the circle part of the design, but then I realised that the square cross that's formed in the middle of the card works for the circle element. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted's Bedtime Story stamp set.

I'm not yet sure who will get this card, or for what occasion, so I've chosen not to stamp on the inside of my card for now. A strip of the DSP will do for now!

We'd love for you to play along with us this week at Just Add Ink. I'd especially love to see what you do with my sketch! You can see what the rest of the Design team have done with it over on the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card for the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 635: Just Add Inspiration

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Thanks for joining me for the final Just Add Ink challenge for 2022. Hasn't it been a fabulous year of challenges? To wrap uo the year we have one final Inspiration Challenge, suggested to us by Nikki.

Don't the rich purple and gold decorations look amazing against that lush tree? My eye was caught by the two faceted purple baubles, so I attempted to recreate the look on a Christmas gift tag.

I started by inking some cardstock with Fresh Freesia, Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss ink, blengins from light to dark across the card. I then cropped the card using my Stitched Triangles Dies. Using the Inspiration Photo as a guide, I laid out the triangles and adhered them to the tag base I'd created.

I used my Vegas Gold Shimmer Paint to splatter the front, and then added some leaves and a sentiment stamped using the Lave, Santa Tag kit stamp set. I couldn't resist adding a few loops of some Gold Thread.

To create my tag base, I took a piece of Whisper White card, folded it in half and cropped it with a Circle Die, ensuring that the die hung over the fold so that the two circles remained joined. A bit more stamping, and I was done!

This challenge will run for a fortnight and is a just for fun challenge over the Christmas/New Year Break. As always, you can link up your project over on the Just Add Ink blog - we'd love to see what you create using the photo for inspiration.

We'll be back in early January with a fun blog hop to kick off another year of Just Add Ink fun.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 598: Just Add Colour

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Thanks goodness for Friday's, hey! I've had a busy week and I'm looking forward to a more relaxed weekend - how about you? Why not start it off by joining in with our new challenge at Just Add Ink?

Chantell has chosen this gorgeous colour palette to play with. It's definitely a combo on the more masculine side of the scale, don't you think? I was in the mood for quick and easy, so I went for a bit of a modern, graphic feel to my card.

I'm a bit sad that the Stitched Triangles Dies are retiring - I don't feel like I've used them anywhere near enough. They are a great basic set to have, and I will certainly be keeping hold of them. I used one of the middle sized isosceles triangles to crop a triangle from each of the challenge colours. I pretty much then just dropped them onto my Whisper White card base to see how they fell. After a little nudging, I settled on the above arrangement.

The sentiment is from Biggest Wish, which is carrying over to the new Annual Catalogue -yay!! The little cluster of crosses is also from the stamp set, but often overlooked. It's a great little gap filler!

The second stamp set that I used is Label Me Bold. I liked the look of it layered over the top of the large Biggest Wish stamps.

That's all from me for tonight, but your part in the challenge is just beginning. Jump on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You can also link up your card for our Colour Combo challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Freshly Made Sketches 516

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You've probably worked out by now that I love my pop culture stamps. I'm getting quite a collection!! One company that I like, Ink Road Stamps, just started a monthly challenge in their FB group, with the first theme being Movies. To make the challenge a little easier on myself, I went searching for a sketch challenge to go with it. I've known of Freshly Made Sketches for a while, but never played along. Today was the day!

This is their current sketch challenge, which will close in less than a day. Oops, better get my skates on! I chose my Pretty Bizarre stamp set, by Ink Road Stamps, to go with it.

I started with the silhouette stamp, which I stamped on my Stamparatus. I had to stamp a few times to get a full, solid black image. He's just fussy cut, which I really shouldn't do late at night! I really love this sentiment, too. It cracks me up every time! I love how the silhouette is framed by the two Stitched Triangles die cuts - such a cool effect.

The stencil that I used is Burst Layering Stencil, by Tim Holtz. Lucky Clover Distress Oxide was the ink I used, and stencilled onto Shaded Spruce cardstock.

I used a couple more stamps from Pretty Bizarre on the inside. I struggle a bit with needing to put a 'happy birthday' stamp somewhere on a birthday card, but then I usually end up writing happy birthday anyway, so maybe the stamp is a little redundant? I shall have to ponder some more!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 330: CASE The SAB Catalogue

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Thanks for joining me on a Sunday night for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Such a crazy week in Australia, with lockdowns starting, stopping and continuing. If you're currently locked down, I hope you're doing OK.

This week we are asking you to CASE any project from the new August-September Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. It's the first time having two Sale-A-Brations in a year, so just a bit exciting! Have you chosen your favourite items yet? I find myself liking the Peaceful Prints DSP, despite not liking plaid at all! I chose this Christmas card, from page 9.

I switched it up a bit, mostly by making it a regular sized top fold card, rather than a slimline card.

I don't have the punch for the deer, so this image from the DSP was fussy cut for my card. It's no too tricky of a shape to cut by hand, thankfully! The sentiment is from Christmas To Remember, my favourite sentiment-only set from the current Mini Catalogue. I fussy cut around it, too.

The Garden Green DSP is from the Peaceful Prints pack, but the textural-looking pieces are from In Good Taste. They are cropped with one of my Stitched Triangles Dies. To help keep them straight as I adhered them to my card, I scored a few lines below where I wanted the triangles. It's a nice subtle feature, that is a big help!

I used one of the offcuts from the front, and another Garden Green triangle, to decorate the inside. You know me - I hate to waste any useable pieces!

That's all from me for tonight's Blog Hop. Please join us, and play along with the challenge. Is there a project in the catalogue that shot one of the products in it to the top of your must-have list? This is a great chance to have a go at making it! Just add a photo of your card to our Facebook group when you're done.

Next up in tonight's blog hop is my fellow South Australian, and birthday twin, Michelle. Her card is soooo cute - you will not want to miss it!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 326: Step It Up

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Thanks for joining me on a cold, wet Sunday evening for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. I ca't think of a better thing to to on such an evening, except to maybe craft! Although, I think I'll have an early night tonight, as I stayed up very late (for me!) watching Ash Barty at Wimbledon.

This week we are asking you to choose a project from the Annual Catalogue and Step It Up - basically, make it fancier! This may mean more layers, more products used, or more details on the project.

I chose this Birthday Chick card from page 6. It's already pretty fancy, but I thought that I could still step it up a little.

I started the card with the Pattern Party DSP. I randomly coloured some of the dots with my Stampin' Blends markers. I then cropped it with my Stitched Rectangles Dies. I also coloured the chicken with my Blends - adding extra colour is a great way of stepping up a project.

These banners from the Stitched Triangles Dies are a fun way to step up the card, don't you think?

On the inside of my card I used the offcut DSP from the front as a border. Another banner, and Blends-coloured chicken, and I was done!

To join in with our challenge, it's very easy - just join our Facebook group and upload a picture of your card with a little explanation of which card you've CASEd. I can't wait to see which one you choose!

For now, though, it's time to pop on over to Michelle's blog so that you can continue your way around our blog hop.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 308: CASE The Sand And Sea Colours

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Welcome back for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Although it doesn't really feel like a Sunday, as it's a long weekend here in South Australia. This week we are asking you to CASE the colours of the Sand & Sea DSP. There's six different colours in the papers, so plenty to choose from.

I'm very definitely a blue girl, so after my attempt using the pinks went into the bin, I went with my strengths and used the non-pink colours.

It's been a while since I played with my Stitched Triangles Dies, so I pulled them out for a play for this card. I cut a heap of Equilateral triangles from Seaside Spray, So Saffron and Sahara Sand and then just laid them on my Whisper White card front until I was happy with the positioning.

It was actually a lot of fun trying to find a pleasing arrangement. Once I was happy, I glued it all down. The sentiments over the top are from Pretty Perennials. The first part (sending lots of) actually covers a bit of a gap in the triangles that I could not make work. LOL, if you can't fix it, cover it up!

I had quite a few left over triangles, so they were put to use on the inside of the card. The sentiment on the inside is from the Joy To The World Paper Pumpkin kit, with the word 'Christmas' masked off and replaced with 'Birthday' from Pretty Perennials.

Our weekly challenge is run through our Facebook group, which means that to join in the fun all you need to do is post a photo of your card in our group. You don't need a blog, just. Facebook account.

Before you dash off to create, please do finish our blog hop - there's plenty of inspiration to be found. Next up is the lovely Rebecca, who did a much better job of getting the pinks to work than I did!

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Just Jade

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Welcome back to this week's Colour Creations Showcase. This week we are highlighting one of the newest In Colours - Just Jade. It's what I'd call a dusky green, and is a shade that I really like. Despite that, I haven't used it much, yet. After this week's showcase, I may find myself reaching for it a little more!

I started by using my Stitched Triangles dies to cut a heap of isosceles triangles from Just Jade cardstock. I then threw them into my Subtle 3DEF and ran it though my Big Shot. I didn't want the embossing to go in the same direction on each triangle, although it seems that in trying to be random, two have ended up the same! Oh well.

I cut some tree trunks from Brushed Metallic foil, and also the word 'peace' from my Joy Dies. The stars are from the swirly die in the Stitched Stars set. All this was layered over the top of a Whisper White layer, embossed with the Dainty Diamonds 3DEF. I like how the pattern could be stars twinkling in the background.

I repeated the trees on the inside, just on a much smaller scale, and the finished off with a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas.

As is usual for our Colour Creations Showcase, the list of all participants is over on the lovely Catherine's blog. Please do pop on over to see what everyone has made.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH September Bog Hop: Masculine Cards

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Welcome to the AWH Monthly Creative Showcase. From this month forward, we will be running the Showcase as a Blog Share, rather than a Bog Hop. This means that you will find all the links to the participants over on Rachel's blog, all in one place.

For this month's Creative Showcase, we are all making Masculine Cards. Father's Day may be done and dusted for 2020, but there is always a need to celebrate the males in our lives, for reasons other than Father's Day. The littlest (and cheekiest!) male in my family is turning thirteen soon, so I decided that tonight's card would be for his birthday.

Hudson's favourite toys are his plastic bowling pins. They are always within reach, and when we go to appointments or respite he often takes a pair with him. His favourite are the blue pair, but the red and lime pairs get a fair work out too! He always has to hold two at a time - the blue pair never get mixed up, but sometimes he will mix the red and lime. I decided to use the colours of the bowling pins to create his card.

I hope you'll forgive me for using a little bit of a retired colour - Lemon Lime Twist. It was the best match to the colour of his bowling pin. Anyway, I used my Stitched Triangles Dies to cut three sizes of Equilateral Triangles in Pacific Point, Poppy Parade and Lemon Lime Twist. I also cropped a Stitched Shapes Circle and the number 13 from the Playful Alphabet Dies. I adhered some Foam Adhesive Sheet to the back of the cards tock so that the 13 would be popped up.

In fact, nearly all of the layers are popped up - luckily I don't need to post this card! Each of the triangles are popped up over the one below, with the circle adhered flat and the 13 popped up, as I mentioned before. I offset the two sets of triangles for a bit of quirkiness.

I had a third set of triangles for the inside. I got a bit Dimensionals happy, though, and popped each layer up as I did for the front. I contemplated redoing them, but decided that as I wasn't posting it, it didn't really matter. The sentiment is from the Family Party stamp set. I love that it's a heap of different names, words, numbers and phrases that can be mixed and matched to create a personalised sentiment.

That's all from me tonight. Don't forget the changed format - you now need to head on over to Rachel's Blog to find the rest of the links for this month's Creative Showcase. I can't wait to see what Masculine Cards the AWH Team have made.

Bye for now,

Tina