AWH Blog Hop: New Catalogue

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Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing creative products using supplies from the upcoming 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue. If you would like a copy of the brand new Annual Catalogue, contact any of the girls on the blog hop and we will get in touch with you.

New catalogue time is always an exciting time for devotees of Stampin' Up!, and this year's catalogue is no exception. I found it very difficult to narrow down what I was going to play with, and in the end went for one of the very first products I got my hands on - Mosaic Mood SDSP.

I used two different sheets from the pack to create my background. It's a fairly classic layout - top third on one pattern, bottom tow thirds in another, with a solid strip between them to break them up. In this case I've used some Mint Macaron ribbon. I love the patterns in this paper, and can't wait to play some more with them.

The humming bird was fussy cut from a third sheet of DSP. What you can't see in the photo is what makes this pack a Specialty pack. The catalogue calls it 'shiny accents', but it's like an actual mosaic. The design is raised and very textural. So pretty - just like running your fingers over real tiles.

I stamped the inside with the humming bird from the retiring stamp set, Humming Along. It's a great tie in with the DSP, so if you love the paper, I'd grab the stamp set before it's too late!

Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented, Ros Davidson.     

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

Christina Barnes
Rachel Woollard
Tina Gillespie
Ros Davidson
Vicki Boucher
Rebecca Jacovou
Claire Daly
Catherine Proctor
Rachel Palmieri
Kimberly Hern
Kate Morgan

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH February Blog Hop: Sale-A-Bration

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Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing creative projects using products available for FREE when you make a minimum purchase during Sale-A-Bration. For every $90 (AUD) you spend before postage, you can choose FREE products from the brochure.

• If you spend $90, you get one free level 1 product.
• If you spend $180, you get one free level 2 product, OR, you can choose two level 1 items.• If you spend $270, you have the option to choose three level 1 items or one level 1 item and one level 2 items.  

The Sale-A-Bration promotion is current now until March 31st. Be sure to request your copy of the brochure today if you don’t already have one. Sale-A-Bration is also a great time to join our fabulous team - just ask any of the girls on the blog hop for more details!

   

Let's get straight into it! I made a card using quite a few Sale-A-Bration items, from both the first and second release brochures. I started with a Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheet, as I haven't really played much with them. You can earn them from the first release brochure, in a pack with Grapefruit Grove Foil sheets.

Sitting on the top of my desk was the new Country Floral DTIEF, so I thought, why not? The Foil looks amazing embossed in the floral design. It's so hard to capture in a photograph, as the light bounces off it everywhere! On my base card and a few scraps of Whisper White, I also stamped some leaves from the second release Painted Seasons bundle. The stamp set comes in a bundle with a gorgeous DSP pack, and it can be yours free with a spend of $180.

How cute is that little flower? You can see that the shape of it mimics some of the flowers in the Country Floral DTIEF. I've actually used a combination of a wooden flower from the Butterfly Elements (first release) and a retired flower punch. I can't recall the name of the set, but it came with a heart and a star, possibly even a circle in the punch pack. The punch is nearly the same shape as the wooden flower! I used a Sharpie to colour the wood and then glued the punched Lovely Lipstick Foil flower on top. Finally, I added a Basic Black Faceted Dot to finish it off.

I had a left over scrap of the embossed foil so, after stamping some more leaves, I added it to the inside. You know me - waste not, want not!

That's it for me - did you keep track of how many Sale-A-Bration items I used?

Now you're off to see what the lovely Ros Davidson has created.

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

Sue MadexTina GillespieRos Davidson Kathryn MangelsdorfRachel WoollardRebecca JacovouCaroline ManwaringClaire DalyKate MorganJudy MayCatherine Proctor

Bye for now,

Tina

PS: The answer was four Sale-A-Bration products 😉

AWH Colour Creations: Fresh Fig

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Welcome to the new Colour Creations Blog Share. This week we are looking at Fresh Fig, one of our In Colours. It's not a colour I use often, so I really struggled with ideas for it, until I had a brain wave.

How cool are those hexagons? Can you tell what I used? Here's a hint - they are on special this week!

That's right - I used both Dimensionals and Mini Dimensionals! I simply adhered the Dimensional to some Fresh Fig cardstock and then used my snips to trim around it, peeled off the backing and stuck it in place on my card. Done! It's not my idea - I can remember seeing it years ago but I can't remember who did it.

I used the triangle stamp from Picture Perfect Birthday on the inside, mostly as I don't have a hexagon stamp. Triangles are close, aren't they? LOL

You can find the rest of this week's cards over on Catherine's blog. See you there!

Bye for now,

Tina

Springing Into Muddy Puddles

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Oh dear, the long weekend caught me out, and I'm late with this post. It's a super fun one though, so hopefully that makes up for it's tardiness. Today's card is the one I made for m youngest son, Hudson, who recently turned 11. He's a huge Peppa Pig fan, and we have been watching it lots while he's been recovering from his recent surgery.

To make the card I printed two of the same Peppa Pig scenes of the family jumping in muddy puddles - if you know Peppa Pig you know that it's something they do a lot! Here's where it gets super fun - I fussy cut the two groups pigs and popped each one up on a spring that I made. Look:

How fun is that! Hudson took one look at the card and gave it a kiss, so I guess that means that he loved it!

The inside is pretty simple. I realised after I'd packed up my printer that I should have printed something to fussy cut for the inside. Oh well! I used an offcut of the front panel that I fussy cut to cut the numbers from so that the colours matched. Waste not, want not!

Bye for now,

Tina

A Sunburst In Winter

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It's been a dreary few weeks of winter here in Adelaide, so I decided to give a Sunburst card a go as a way of trying to bring some summer into my heart. I went looking for some instructions on how to make the card and found an awesome tutorial on my friend, Di Barnes' blog. You can view her instructions here. She's such a clever cookie for working out the correct way to cut the DSP, and a sweetheart for sharing.

After reading Di's tips on the selection of paper and patterns for this type of card, I decided to go with DSP from the Best Route pack. It's great for this, as there aren't too many pieces where the direction in the pattern matters too much - only the bikes really.

It took me a long time to work out the mix of colours and shapes for the sentiment panel. Nothing worked to make it pop from the background until I added the Basic Black circle at the back.

As Di did, I used some of the left over pieces to create the panel for the inside of the card. I still have a lot of offcuts left over, so I think I will make a larger version of this panel to go on the front of a card - stay tuned for that!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #419: Just Add A Twist

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I've survived the first week back at school, but barely! They kids are always a little cranky in the first week - I think it's the shock of having to get up early again. No more lazy sleep ins every day!

Luckily, I have the new Just Add Ink challenge to look forward to every Friday! This week Kelly has challenged us to Just Add A Twist by using a product in a way that it's not usually intended to be used. Hmmm, thinking caps on for this one!

Really, it's not that tricky when you think about it. At the most basic level you could apply some ink to any non-stamp surface and stamp with it. See, not so hard! I'm sure you can think of something vastly more exciting than that though!

I decided to complete this challenge by using one of my masks as a stamp. I took the cloud mask from the Pattern Party Decorative Masks pack, repeatedly pressed my Balmy Blue inkpad onto the mask and then pressed a piece of Whisper White cardstock to the inked mask. As you can see, it leaves behind a blue sky and white clouds rather than blue could on a white sky if I'd used the mask as intended. Isn't it a cool effect?

Don't you love the textured look this technique gives? If you wanted a smoother look you could spritz the mask a little after adding the ink and before pressing the cardstock to it. Or maybe brayering the ink on would smooth it? Time to experiment!

All it took to finish the card was some stamped strings and punched balloons in Granny Apple Green, Gorgeous Grape, Mango Melody and Daffodil Delight. Such a happy card!

No blue skies on the inside - just a lone balloon carried over from the front.

So do you have your thinking cap on? You're bound to find plenty of inspiration when you check out the rest of the Design team cards at the Just Add Ink blog. These ladies know how to think out of the square!

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH Blog Hop: In Colours

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Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring an “In Colour” theme. Check out the new 2018 - 2020 In Colours and let's not forget the current 2017 - 2019 In Colours, or the outgoing 2016 - 2018 set. If you would like a copy of the 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue, contact any of the girls on the blog hop and we will get in touch with you.

I decided to do a bit of a colour sampler with the three sets of In Colours and to achieve this, I ended up making 4 cards for tonight's hop. I started by grouping the In Colours by colour rather than by year group.

The first card showcases the oranges/corals. From bottom to top the colours are Flirty Flamingo, Grapefruit Grove and then Peekaboo Peach. I was inspired to make this card after I saw this card by Kristin Kortonick. I used her idea, but ended up slanting the spread of squares more to the right than she did.

I kept the inside fairly simple, as I was really over cutting tiny squares by the time I got to the inside!

Next, I moved onto the pinks. As I said, I was over cutting squares, so I decided to do something a little different, but still similar, on this card.

The colours on this card are, from the bottom, Fresh Fig, Berry Burst, Sweet Sugarplum and Powder Pink. I simply cut strips of cardstock that were 1/2" thick and adhered them to the card base in varying lengths. The first and last strip are just over half the width of the rest - I needed to do this so that I cold have three strips of each colour.

I had some off cuts after finishing the front, so I kept them to using on the inside. Waste not, want not! The card was inspired by a demonstrator called Karen Cate. She shared a card that used thin strips of card as a way of using up her scraps. Unfortunately she doesn't have a blog, so I can't link to her card.

Next was the greens! There were five colours in this group (the biggest), so I decided to stamp the colours instead of using cardstock. From bottom to top they are Tranquil Tide, Call Me Clover, Emerald Envy, Lemon Lime Twist and Pineapple Punch. I decided to sneak the Pineapple Punch into this card, as Lemon Lime Twist provides a lovely 'bridge' between green and yellow.

I reminded myself the hard way while making this card that it's always best to stamp from lightest colour to darkest. Even when you think your stamp may be clean, maybe it's not quite clean!  Oops.

Last comes the blues. I cheated a little on this card, as there are only two blues in the three groups of In Colours. To make up for it I added an extra two from the list of retiring colours. So from bottom to top I used Blueberry Bushel, Dapper Denim, Marina Mist and Soft Sky.

So there you have it, I managed to fit all but one of the 15 In Colours on my cards. Can you think which one I missed? For the life of me, I could not make it 'fit' into any of the colour groups I used on my cards.

Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented, Rebecca.

If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

Ros Davidson

Caroline Manwaring

Sharon Davern

Claire Daly

Tina Gillespie

Rebecca Jacovou

Kate Morgan

Alisha Watson

Rachel Palmieri

Catherine Proctor

Monika O’Neill

Bye for now,

Tina

Farewell Sweet Sugarplum

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I think that of all of the colours about to retire, Sweet Sugarplum would have to be one of my favourites. It's a gorgeous, dusky pink that works beautifully with a range of other colours.

This card is a CASE of this card made by Dawn Olchefske. I liked it a lot, so I didn't really change much. It's teamed with Soft Sky (also retiring), Very Vanilla and Silver.

I left off the sentiment, as I preferred it without. I also stamped the starry swirl on the base card for a little extra something.

The swirl was also stamped on the inside, but this time in Soft Sky. It's a great backdrop for the sentiment. I love the way it follows the slant of the swirl!

I have a second card for you today, also using Sweet Sugarplum. This time I've used it to colour some Embossing Paste.

It's such a fun trick, to be able to colour the paste.

The flower was watercolored using a mix of Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive.

Will you miss Sweet Sugarplum? Is it a colour you've used a lot over the past two years?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #397: Just Add H

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Ooops! I'm a bit late with my Just Add Ink post today. Not sure what went wrong, but better late than never! This week we have one of my Alphabet challenges.

You can add anything that's 'H' related to your card - it could be a colour, a theme, a stamp set or even a technique. Just make sure you specify what your H is in your post.

My H this week is houses on a housewarming card. I really love the In The City Hostess stamp set, but don't really use it much. I thought it was perfect for this challenge.

I used my Stamparatus to stamp the houses and trees, but everything else was free hand. There's no way I could have got the spacing so uniform without it. Can you see that I also stamped some suns and clouds on the Daffodil Delight base of the card? It looked a little plain without them.

I alos made a little scene on the inside of the card. It's a bit strange stamping the clouds blue, but I think it would look even stranger to leave them as just an outline. What do you think?

You can join in the fun over at the Just Add Ink blog. Don't have a blog? Just email your cards and we can put them on our special challenge entries blog. You could also use a photo hosting site, just as long as your post is public so that we can see it.

Bye for now,

Tina

CASEing The Catty #160

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EDIT: I was so excited to be awarded the Crew Pick for this card! Thanks to the CTC Crew!

Often when the school year kicks into full gear I have way less free time on my hands. So over the summer break I try to enter a few challenges. Today's card is for CASEing The Catty Challenge #160, which is to CASE a card from pages 4-9 of the new Occasions Catalogue. I also had two team members celebrating their first anniversaries with Stamping' Up!, so I thought I'd kill two birds by using the challenge as a launch point for making them a card each.

The card that caught my eye was the card on the left on page 7 - the front of the roller coaster card. I don't have that bundle, it was more the layout of the card that inspired me. I also had a few panels of card that I'd used embossing paste with the could stencil on that were laying around on my desk ready to use. Bonus!

I loved the layering of ribbons on the front, so I did the same on this card. I have a bad habit of buying the sequin trim and not using it as it's too pretty to cut into. Sound familiar? This was a great time to bust it open, as I wanted these cards to be special for my team girls. I also blinged up the die cut sentiment by running my Wink Of Stella pen over the top. Instant shimmer!

Thanks for checking in with my blog. I'm off to look for some other challenges to participate in before the summer holidays are over and life turns crazy again!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #390: Just Add A Sketch

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This week we have our second last challenge for the year. It feels so weird saying that- just a minute ago it was February!

This time round at Just Add Ink, Narelle has designed this really cool sketch for us to work with.

I think it's fab - chock a block full of ways to interpret.

I'm sure I said in a previous post that I'd had no intention of buying the Painted Harvest stamp set. Somehow, it found it's way to me and I've enjoyed playing with it. I hate it when I'm wrong!! LOL!  I certainly didn't come up with this cutie-pie hedgehog, but he sure was fun to stamp.

The circular panel involved masking and stamping and sponging, and more masking and stamping and sponging, but the end effect was well worth it

So worth it that I decided to give him a little friend on the inside. Hahaha, that sounds a bit like he's in jail. Oops! This little friend (accidentally) has a darker face than the hedgehog on the front. Serves me right for having too many open ink pads on my craft desk!

I hope you find time in your no doubt busy December to play along with us this week. Hopefully the sketch and the cards the Design Team have created are great inspiration for those last minute Christmas cards! You can see the ret of the cards over at the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card.

Bye for now,

Tina