JAI #499: Just Add A Colour Combo

Hi!

I hope you are all staying safe and staying home - we certainly are! I thought it might mean more crafting time, but supervising the kids with their school work and being Rob's coffee lady is running me off my feet! I had a quick half hour to throw a card together for this week's Just Add Ink challenge though. Rachael has given us a soft, pretty colour combo to work with.

I'm not quite sure why, but every time I looked at the colours I immediately thought of gingham!

Thankfully each of the colour family DSP packs has this gorgeous gingham paper! I layered some Balmy Blue Gingham DSP under the rectangular die cut from the Nature's Thoughts Dies. I love the pretty stitching effect on the border of the die cut. The two layers were popped up on a Whisper White Notecard, which is smaller than a regular card base. The die cut rectangle fits perfectly!

I used my Balloon Bouquet Punch to create the Easter Eggs. All I had to do was snip off the bottom part of the balloon - the knotted bit - and turn the shapes upside down. Easy! The sentiment is from the new Timeless Tulips stamp set. The whole sentiment is not something I'd ever use, so I took my snips to the stamp and just chopped off the Happy Easter bit.

The Balloon Bouquet Punch crops two balloons each time, so I used the remaining three on the inside of my notecard. I didn't have a sentiment to put on the inside, so I just left it blank - more room for writing!

Please head on over to check out the Just Add Ink blog. You can find the links to the other Design Team cards, and you can also add your card to the challenge gallery. I can't wait to see what you do with these colours!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #258: Wrapped In Plaid

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Hello, and welcome to our second last CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop for 2019. After next week's challenge, the DT will be taking a little break until January. This week, though, we are looking at the Wrapped In Plaid suite in the Holiday Catalogue. Did you come from Siobhan's blog, or are you starting here? You know the drill - just keep going until you get to where you started!

I have a little confession to make - I really dislike plaid! There are some really gorgeous projects in the suite, but I just can't get past the plaid. So when I was looking at the cards, trying to decide which one to CASE, I had to think a bit laterally. In the end I chose this card from page 15.

The colours really appealed to me, so that's what I chose to CASE - the colour combo. The colours used in the catalogue card are Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Garden Green, Pretty Peacock, Cherry Cobbler and Gold Glimmer. I used all of these, except I swapped Very Vanilla for Whisper White, on my card, plus Blushing Bride and Balmy Blue.

I was so thrilled with how this turned out. I stamped the cake from the new Sale-A-Bration set, Happy Birthday To You, in Stazon on watercolour paper, and then coloured the image using my Aqua Painter and ink pads. I chopped a piece of Pretty Peacock Scalloped Linen Ribbon in half longways and added it to the top and bottom of my image panel. I also used some retired Gold Thread to bring in some more of the gold in the colour combo.

Speaking of gold, it's a little tricky to photograph, but the flower centres, buds and the cake plate are all coloured with Golden Glitz Delicata ink. I simply tapped the inkpad onto a clear block and then used my Aqua Painter to pick it up and paint it on, just like our regular ink.

I also used the Golden Glitz ink to stamp the cake again on the inside of my card.

Do you like the Wrapped In Plaid Suite? Luckily for me, you don't have to like it to enter our challenge, you can take your inspiration from anything in pages 12-17 of the Holiday catalogue. You can add your card to our Facebook group to enter.

Thanks for stopping by! You can continue the hop by clicking on the next button below. This will take you to Julia's blog - I'm pretty sure she falls into the 'love' category with the Wrapped In Plaid Suite!

Bye for now,

Tina

OnStage Sydney Beautiful Moments Presentation: Casual Samples

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I'm back with part two of my posts about my recent presentation in Sydney. This time I have the Casual Stamper samples that I made to show off the gorgeous Beautiful Moments stamp set, co-designed by Jacque Williams.

A Casual Stamper is one who has been stamping a little while, but may not have a lot of supplies and probably doesn't stamp more than couple of times a month, and usually for a purpose rather than just for fun/relaxation. They want to try a bit trickier techniques, but nothing too tricky!

My technique of choice for this group was colouring and blending using Watercolour Pencils and a Wink Of Stella pen. It's colouring technique I use a lot, especially in classes. It's not as difficult as regular watercolouring, and you have the bonus of pretty, sparkly cards!

Hopefully you can see the shimmer in this photo! To colour this way, you stamp your image using Memento ink. Take your pencil and colour roughly along the lines in the image, and then take your Wink Of Stella brush and use it like an Aqua Painter, pulling the colour into the open areas of your image. I use circular motions with the WOS brush.

I kept forgetting to use the sweet little butterflies in the set - I wish I'd added a few above the flowers on this card, both inside and front. Oh well - next time!

This card uses the same technique, I just used a Thick Whisper White card base and added some Highland Heather Gingham DSP under the main image.

You can see in her dress in this photo how the technique allows for a bit of shading in the image - the pencils lay darker colour and the WOS lightens it as it pulls away.

This next card is one of my favourites that I made for the presentation.

I stamped the image in Soft Suede on one of the large Magnolia Lane Notecards.

I then took my Chalk Marker and selectively coloured the image, using a quick flicking motion. On the dress, I flicked up from the waistline for the bodice, and then down for the skirt. It's such a dreamy looking card!

As always, I finished the inside with the same technique.

Thanks for stopping by again. You can find my post with my Beginner Samples here, and my Avid Samples here.

Bye for now,

Tina

Timeless Babywipe Technique

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Continuing in the theme of, 'Yay! It's carrying over!', is today's card featuring Timeless Textures. It's one of my favourite sets for adding a touch of grunge or vintage to a card.

This card was made as a class sample. We played with the babywipe technique, where you drip reinkers onto a folded wipe and then use the wipe as an inkpad. You can see that the flourish stamp has multiple colours. It's such a cool effect!

Can you see a tiny piece of DSP behind the vellum sentiment banner? It's from the colour family DSP stacks, and sadly these are retiring and not being replaced.

I really love this card - it's so soft and pretty!


Bye for now,


Tina

JAI #339: Just Add A Sketch

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Oooh, these weeks are whipping by!

It's Friday, so it's time for the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Narelle designed an awesome sketch for us to use.

There's a lot to love about this sketch - I certainly had a lot of fun playing with it.

I used a stamp set that I won in Prize Patrol at the recent On Stage event. It's called Swan Lake, and it's a lovely one to colour. In this case, I stamped with Stazon on Shimmery White cardstock and watercoloured the swan.

I used Blushing Bride on the swan, Marina Mist for the water and Soft Sky for the sky, with a smidge of Crushed Curry on the beak. The floral motif stamped on the background was coloured using my Chalk Marker.

You know me - I also had to do the inside of my card. I love this little stamp, and thought it was perfect there down in the corner. I also love the sentiment, so prefect for a heartfelt thank you card.


You can join in the fun at Just Add Ink too. Just make a card based on the sketch and link it up over on the blog. Easy!


Bye for now,


Tina

Zoo Babies in Pool Party

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Have you checked out the Retiring List yet? My go-to set for making baby cards , Zoo Babies, is on the list.

I used the Markers to Rubber technique on the giraffe to get the multicoloured image.

The stars were punched using the Confetti Stars Border punch. I also used it to decorate the inside of the card.

It's such a sweet stamp set. There are some super cute replacements in the new Annual Catalogue though!


Bye for now,


Tina

Wonderful Mother

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Today I have another Mother's Day card to show you.  This one was made for my father-in-law to give to my mother-in-law on Mother's Day.  I decided to use the colour from the latest Inkspirations Challenge: Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue and Whisper White.  It's such a gorgeous colour combination!

I used DSP from the Subtles Patterns Stack for both the card front and the scrunched scallop flower.  It's such pretty patterned paper.

A few rhinestones as a finishing touch.  The sentiment Wonderful Mother is from the Well Scripted set from the Summer Mini catalogue.  I hope it reappears in the next IB&C as it is a fantastic sentiment set.

Stamps: Well Scripted (Summer Mini)
Ink: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery
DSP/Cardstock: Subtles Patterns DSP Stack, Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Other: 1 3/4" Scallop Circle XL Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Basic Jewels Rhinestones, Certainly Celery Twill Ribbon (retired), Certainly Celery Flower Brad

Catch you later,

Tina