JAI #476: Just Add Inspiration

Hi!

Welcome once again to the new challenge at Just Add Ink. This week Jo has found a cool picture for our inspiration. It reminds me so much of visiting Floriade when I lived in Canberra. Have you ever been? It's well worth the trip if you haven't! I love that after the event, the flowers are cut and delivered to hospitals and nursing homes.

Anyway, on to my card! I was mostly inspired by the colours and the floral theme. What grabs your attention?

I started with the DSP from Mosaic Mood SDSP pack. It's one of the textured pieces, so the design looks and feels like glossy tiles. Rather than the boded colours of the Inspiration Photo, I decided to go with the colours in the DSP for my flowers.

I used my Sweetly Swirled stamp set for the main panel of the card. I'd hoped that my Delicata Golden Glitz ink pad might have arrived so that I could use it to stamp the oval, but sadly it didn't. I had to make do with Soft Suede instead. I stamped a few flowers in Blushing Bride and Crushed Curry on the same card as the oval, and then a few more on some scrap Very Vanilla card, to be fussy cut and adhered over the oval. The two different leaves were also stamped in Mint Macaron and Garden Green. I finished it off with a bow in Mint Macaron twine.

I stamped in a similar manner on the inside, just omitting the oval. The sentiment is from the ever versatile Itty Bitty Birthdays.

That's all from me for tonight. You can pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog to see the rest of the Design Team's cards and to link up your own. I can't wait to see what you create with this photo as your inspiration.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #241: CASE A Layout

Hi!

Welcome to this week's CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. You may be starting here, or have come from Siobhan's blog, either way, just keep hopping until you get back to where you started.

The week the Design team are challenging you to CASE one of the card layouts from page 101 of the Annual Catalogue. There are four to choose from - which one catches your eye?

Mine was caught by the cute foxy card at the top left, in particular the stitching around the aperture. It's such a lovely design feature.

As much as I'd love one of everything in the catalogue, I don't have any of the dies or stamps used to create that card, so I had to get creative!

I recently purchased the Sweetly Swirled stamp set, and it came to mind as I was pondering how to replicate the stitching. I heat embossed the largest circular swirl using Sliver embossing powder on Basic Black cardstock. I then cut away the inner piece to make a window.

At this stage my card was looking very masculine, and so I decided to cut some cogs from Copper Foil to line the inside of the opening. I then fussy cut a muscle car from the retired Classic Garage DSP in place of the sweet foxes. I also used some Tranquil Tide DSP to layer under the Basic Black. I like how if frames the card and gives a little relief from all of the black.

I had some left over cogs in both Silver and Copper, so I used them on the inside rather than toss them. I had originally intended to used the Silver cogs on the front as an extra layer in the aperture, but it looked too fussy. Not great on a masculine card!

Which of the four cards appeals the most to you? How can you change it to make it more 'you'? I can't wait to see your card in our Facebook group.

Before you dash off to get creative, don't forget to finish the hop! Next up is the lovely Elizabeth with her sweet card.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #240: Everyday Occasions

Hi!

Welcome to this week's CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. The blog before mine belongs to my lovely friend, Judy. She creates the most stunning cards every week! This week we are CASEing cards from the Everyday Occasions section of the catalogue. It's a ginormous section, so there is plenty of inspiration for everyone.

I didn't have to flick far through the section before I found the card I wanted to CASE. Actually, it was three cards, and you can see them on page 12, which just happens to be the first page of the section.

The cards I chose were the three at the top of this photo. I really loved how the Embossing Paste was applied to the card both on top of the DSP and the card base itself.

I started by adhering the See A Silhouette DSP to the front of my Seaside Spray card base. I then used my cloud mask and some Shimmery White Embossing Paste to add the moulds to the front. I love how it sort of , but not really, looks like a window, but the clouds are on the inside!

The sentiment is from a new to me stamp set, called Sweetly Swirled. The hand written font is pretty awesome, don't you think? It was a little tricky getting the Gold Thread to sit under the banner - I had to make sure that most of it hung over the top, not the bottom. A scattering of sequins finished off the front.

I was a bit stuck on how to finish off the inside for the longest time. As you can see, I ended up sponging a few clouds in Seaside Spray around the sentiment.

You have a huge 59 pages to scan this week for inspiration for our challenge. What fun! Which card will you choose to CASE? Don't forget to add your card to our Facebook group.

In the meantime though, don't forget to finish the hop! Next up is the lovely Monique's blog.

Bye for now,

Tina