Another One Sheet Wonder Card

Hi!

I've been showing you some One Sheet Wonder cards lately, and today I have another for you.  This one used only a smallish square of the OSW, so it's a great design for using up those smaller left over pieces.

The large flower in the OSW piece that I wanted to feature was stamped in Crushed Curry and Tangerine Tango, so these were the colours I chose to use on my card.

I punched a hole in the front strip and layered it on top of the OSW piece with Dimensionals.  A little strip of white down the side helped to separate the Crushed Curry from the Tangerine Tango.  I punched it with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch and just left the cute little scallops peeking out.

So that's the last of my OSW cards. I hope I have inspired you to give it a go!

Bye for now,

Tina

Curvy Bordering Blooms

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Have you noticed that Stampin' Up! have introduced Photopolymer stamps in the new Catalogues? They are a fabulous new stamping option.  You may have tried photopolymer stamps before and been unimpressed with the results, but you won't be unimpressed with our new range.  They have been specifically designed to work with our inks, so you can wave goodbye to splotchy, patchy stamped images. Yay!

Another great advantage of the photopolymer stamps is that they are flexible and can be bent into different shapes.  On this card I bent the floral border stamp into a curve to wrap around the Thanks sentiment.  I think it looks great, and was certainly a 'wow' amongst the ladies who made this card with me.

We stamped the image in Momento ink and coloured the image with Blendabilities.  One thing to be careful of when you bend the stamp is to make sure it doesn't buckle, as it means you will probably end up with ink on the buckle which will transfer to your cardstock.

On the inside I reverted the stamp back to it's original, straight form.  Which way do you like the stamp? Bent or straight?

Bye for now,

Tina

Layouts 65 and 66

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Apologies for the late posting of my layouts this weekend, the sunshiny weather has continued over the weekend, so we have been out riding bikes and enjoying the sunshine.  It's been a fabulous weekend!  So here they are now, better late than never, and with new layouts being planned in my head for the photos I took of us this weekend!

On our last night on Paris I took a few photos of our hotel room.  I'd booked it online and took a bit of a gamble that it was going to be OK.  It was actually better than OK!  We were given a room that was better than we'd booked (and paid for) so we were thrilled.  I'd done a lot of research before booking a room and had discovered that many rooms were absolutely tiny.  Some only had fold down beds - no thanks! It was still what you'd call a small room in Australia, but more than adequate for our needs.

When I booked the website said that the hotel had a laundry service, which was a huge bonus, but when I asked about it I was told to use the laundromat down the 'rue'.  That was an adventure in itself, as none of the instructions were in English and my French was clearly inadequate!  We eventually worked it all out, only to be accosted by a drunk, English speaking French man who was desperate to visit Australia and wanted to know all about it.  He kept asking us to tell him a joke!  It was such a strange experience, but very funny.

Sadly they next day we had to catch the Metro back to the airport.  We had all of our luggage with us and got a few dirty looks from the other travellers as we took up a lot of room.  It was a pretty uneventful trip back to Singapore except that we were unable to get much sleep and so we were very haggard by the time we touched down.  Our bodies were telling us it was the middle of the night, but it was morning in Singapore.  We found a couple of banana lounge type things and managed to get a few hours sleep, although it was hard to get much rest when we had to keep one eye on our carry on luggage.  Still, it was all an adventure!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #229: Just Add Inspiration

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It's been a lovely weather week here in Adelaide with temperatures around 22 degrees for the week.  It's been lovely, but I can't quite believe that I'm wearing shorts in Winter! I find that the warmer, sunnier weather makes me happier, which ties in nicely with the inspiration challenge this week at Just Add Ink.  If you don't feel happy looking at the inspiration picture that we have for you this week, then it's probably still cold where you are!

Isn't it fabulous? I decided to run with the colours and the sweet theme for my card.

Can you believe that I didn't own the Cupcake Punch until very recently?  I purchased it when it was a Weekly Deal and got myself an absolute bargain.

I pretty much purchased the Remembering Your Birthday stamp set just for this sentiment.  It's a fabulous one for girly birthday cards.

I just had to add another sparkly topped cupcake inside to fit the theme!

I hope you can find time to play along with us this week.  If it's been cold and miserable where you are it might be a great way to lift your spirits.  Why don't you pop on over to Just Add Ink to see what else the Design Team have come up with.  Remember, as it's the last challenge of the month the Top Pick gets a Guest Designer spot for September's final challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Another One Sheet Wonder Card

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I'm still on the One Sheet Wonder cards I talked about in my last post. This one was made as a class sample.  It's the same concept, but a different OSW using different colours.  I took the colours from the new Flowerpot DSP.

I also used the new photopolymer Project Life stamp set called Remember This.  It's a fabulous set for Project Life scrapping, but I love this celebrate sentiment for birthday cards.  The little sparkles are very pretty.

I love the look of tying a button around some ribbon using twine.  It's a lovely way to add a button to a card.

As you can see, I used a small scrap of the OSW on the inside of the card.  It's a great way to tie in the inside and outside.

Bye for now,

Tina

Happy Blooming Birthday

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A long time ago, before I started stamping, One Sheet Wonders were all the rage.  They died out around the time I discovered stamping, but now they are back, baby! lol

Stampin' Up!'s new photopolymer stamp set Flower Patch makes creating a One Sheet Wonder (OSW) a breeze! So what is a OSW I hear you ask? It's basically a whole sheet of cardstock that you stamp in one go and then cut up to make lots of cards.  You are essentially creating your own Designer Series Paper.  You can find cutting templates online, just google "One Sheet Wonder templates" and I'm sure you'll find heaps.

Once you've selected your stamp set the hardest part is choosing your colours.  I cheat a little and take colours from my favourite DSP packs.  In the case of this card I took the colours from the last Sale-A-Bration DSP called Sweet Sorbet.  Because the stamp set has lots of layered flowers I then chose a second colour to coordinate.  For example, Crisp Cantaloupe is one of the Sweet Sorbet DSP colours that I chose to use on the biggest flower.  I then selected Strawberry Slush as a darker shade to use as the second layer on the flower.  Easy!

In this middle of the card I have paired Pool Party with Lost Lagoon.  Oooh, a pool party in a lost lagoon sounds like fun! lol

This card was a class sample, and I knew that some of my ladies weren't keen on the Happy Blooming Birthday sentiment, so I also made a card using the Happy Birthday stamp from Sassy Salutations.  I like them both, but I've just noticed that I didn't put any rhinestones on the second card. Oops!

Bye for now,

Tina

Layouts 63 and 64

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I'm nearing the end of my Paris album pages - only a few more weeks to go now!  Today I have some of the last pages from Paris itself.  The first is from Sainte Etienne Du Mont which was a gorgeous church next to the Pantheon that we went into on a whim.  So glad we did!

It is a church devoted to Saint Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris.  It has this huge, carved staircase that lead up to the place where the choir sang. I can't recall the correct name!

It really was a magnificent church, and apparently has featured in a few movies.

These next pages are a heap of random photos of food related things that we took during our time in Paris.  We were quite grossed out by the 'Hummer' which looked like a cross between a hamburger and steak sandwich, but it had 4 layers of meat and cheese in between 5 layers of bread.  Heart attack on a plate!  Rob found Orangina, which was like a fizzy orange juice.  We also tried some Macarons, which were huge, sweet and delicious.  One was more than enough though!

This page showed some of the restaurants we ate at.  Le Moncey was a regular breakfast venue for us, where we ate croissants, juice and hot chocolate each morning.  Real, fresh croissants are devine, and sadly I have yet to find any back home that are as good.  Ours are too bready. Probably a good thing, or I'd be the size of a house!

Bye for now,

Tina