JAI #443: Just Choose Two

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Welcome back to our new Just Add Ink challenge.This week Jan has asked us to Just Choose Two.

We have the choice of two of: embossing paste, colouring or sequins. I didn't feel like getting messy this week, so I went for colouring and sequins.

This is a bit different from my usual style, but I do like how it turned out. My first attempt at a background for the gift went into the bin, but the second time was the charm. I pulled out my heat embossing equipment to emboss the sentiment. I like the soft look of the white text on pink cardstock, don't you? It's layered over some of the new Flax ribbon from the Occasions Catalogue, which is soooo much nicer than it looks!

To create the background, I simply sponged some Petal Pink ink to a size just a little bigger than the gift. I then stamped the confetti/sprinkles stamp from Birthday Cheer over the top, stamping off once first to soften the colour. Everything else was just layered over the top and finished with some iridescent sequins.

I followed a similar process on the inside underneath the cupcake. The cake and gift were both coloured with my blends. I used the Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather, Petal Pink and Real Red combos. I really love the bold colours sitting on top of the softer pink. What do you think?

Why not head on over to the Just Add Ink, where you can see the cards the rest of the design team have made for this week's challenge? You won't be disappointed!

Bye for now,

Tina

Pacific Point To The Rescue

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You should know what Tuesday night means by now - Colour Creations time! This week the team are looking at Pacific Point, a lovely mid blue that's been part of the colour line up for a long time now. And why not, as it's a great blue.

You can see I had a lot of fun this week with my Tailored Tag punch. It's such a great shape, and I wanted to make a tessellated card with the punched shapes. I started by layering them on a piece of Whisper White, but it didn't look right. I switched to Night Of Navy, and bingo!

As I laid the shapes out, I got to thinking that it looked a little like armour plating, possibly a bit scaly, like a certain watery superhero that's in the cinema's right now. It's the wrong colour, but hopefully you see what I saw.

I added the Navy strip to the top to give it a bit of a utility belt feel to go along with the scaly armour. What do you think? A bit superhero-ish? I hope so! I started with the Whisper White punched shape and adhered it to the navy base before adding the Pacific Point punches around it. The hardest part was getting the gaps even, but I think I did a pretty good job!

I couldn't resist adding another row of the punches on the inside. It really finishes off the card, don't you think?

That's it from me, so why don't you pop on over to Catherine's blog, where you can see the rest of this week's Pacific Point cards? It's definitely worth a look!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #214: Sale-A-Bration

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Sigh, the end of the weekend is always a little sad, but not anymore, as it's also when the CASEing the Catty blog hop happens! This week you may have come to me from Lauren's blog, or you may have started here. Does't matter, just keep hopping until you've visited everyone.

This week we are CASEing from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. This card, with it's stunning colouring, caught my eye.

Isn't it gorgeous? I don't have that stamp set, nor any stamp set to replicate the card, so I had to think a bit laterally this week. The card uses the Spotlight Technique, where you cut away part of the image and just colour that part, so that's where I went with my card.

I've been wanting to colour this sheet of the Botanical Butterfly DSP since I first saw it, but found it very overwhelming to start - it's such busy paper! This was the perfect way to do it. After cutting my front piece, I used the Stitched Shapes Circle die to crop a section and then sat with my Blends to colour.

I didn't bother with shading using the Blends, it's just straight colouring. I ended up with quite a pile of markers after I'd finished! I then cropped another circle in Balmy Blue and popped up the two circles on Dimensionals. The sentiment banner is a nod to the original card.

I trimmed a small part of the DSP for the inside, and just decided to colour a couple of flowers rather than attempt the Spotlight Technique on such a small strip of paper!

Are you going to play along this week? I hope so! You can join in the fun over at our Facebook group, where you can add your card for the challenge.

But first, you need to hop on over to the next blog, which belongs to the wonderful Kathryn Mangelsdorf.

Bye for now,

Tina

Jai #442: Just Add A Sketch

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It's time for the new Just Add Ink challenge! This week Kim has designed a sketch to kick of our creativity!

I really love this sketch, and the Design Team have done some fabulous things with it, so clearly they love it too! What comes to your mind when you see it? The elegant curls to the side made me think of a wedding card, so that's what I decided to make.

I wanted to go really subtle with the curls, so I cut them from Soft Sea Foam Cardstock, which is the same as the layer underneath, which was embossed with the Subtle 3DTIEF. The little flourishes were from the new Well Written Framelits dies. Aren't they pretty? I wanted to add a little splash of colour, so I used some of the Petal Promenade DSP on the card. The gorgeous rose paper is perfect for a wedding card, as it looks just like a bouquet of roses.

How much fun I this stamp set? It's a new purchase from Ink Road Stamps, and it's called 'As You Wish' and is full of quotes and fun images inspired by the movie The Princess Bride. In case you're not familiar, the priest doing the wedding ceremony in the movie has a speech impediment and can't pronounce the letter r. Now I just need to find a bride and groom who love the movie so I can give them this card!

On the inside I used one of my favourite sets for sentiments - Beautiful Bouquet. There wasn't another quote in the As You Wish set that would work on the inside, so I thought a simple congratulations would be best. Oh, and more of that gorgeous DSP!

The Just Add Ink team have had a lot of fun with this week's sketch. You can see all the cards, and then link up your own over at the blog. See you there!

Bye for now,

Tina

Glad Wrapped Olive

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Welcome to the new Colour Creations Blog Share. But first - how did back to school day go? Or have your kids got another day off? My oldest two went back today, high school for the first time for Ada. They had a great day. Unfortunately we are still waiting on paperwork to allow Hudson to return to school, but I'm hopeful it will be later this week.

On to today's card. I used an old, but new to me, technique on this card. I host a monthly ATC swap and wanted to try out the technique before I used it, just in case it turned out to be trickier than I thought. Thankfully, it was very easy!

The technique is called the Glad Wrap Technique, or if you're in the US it might be the Saran Wrap Technique. You basically take a scrunched up piece of soft plastic, ink it up and pounce it all over your cardstock to create a textured look. You can use just one colour, as I have, or several different colours. It's very retro - it reminds me of the finish people used to apply to painted walls. I can't recall what it was called! For my card I used Old Olive ink on a piece of Soft Sea Foam cardstock.

Here's a closer look - doesn't it look soooo textured? I still feel surprised when I run my fingers over it and it's smooth!

The stamped image is a new Hostess set from the Occasions Catalogue called Just Because. It's grout some great floral images that are fabulous for colouring. I used my Old Olive and Crumb Cake Blends to colour this image.

I made a small test piece of my Glad Wrap technique and so rather than waste it, I used it on the inside of the card. I also used a small strip of the same Wood Textures DSP that I used on the front. No inside sentiment yet - I'll stamp something when I know what I'm going to use this card for.

As ever, this week's cards can be found over on Catherine's blog. There's always such a wonderful variety of cards made using the focus colour. I love checking out the cards each week.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #213: Floral Romance

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Welcome back to CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge and Blog Hop.

Being a blog hop, all the blogs are linked in a loop, so you just keep hopping until you get back to where you started. The blog before mine was the lovely Elizabeth Gross. You may have started here, there, or anywhere on the hop - it really doesn't matter - but do make sure you see everyone's creations as they are always fabulous.

This week we are CASEing the Floral Romance section of the Occasions Catalogue. I'd sort of skipped over that section when I first looked at the catalogue, as I'm not big on Valentines and I don't make a lot of wedding cards. I realised what I was missing when I was made to look for this challenge. So many gorgeous things!

For the challenge, I settled on this pretty gift box. I don't have any of the product, but that's not really the point of CASEing. You don't have to copy exactly! Having said that, I did copy fairly closely, but I used alternate products.

My first thought when looking at this box was that I don't have the die used on the background. A quick flick through my Annual Catalogue reminded me that there was a similar piece in the Delightfully Detailed SDSP. I layered it over the top of some of the soft pink paper in the Petal Promenade DSP and then mounted it on some Smokey Slate cardstock that I'd run through the Big Shot with the Subtle 3DTIEF.

The main floral panel is also from the Petal Promenade DSP, cropped with a Stitched Oval Framelit. The leaves were cut using the Flourish Thinlits leaf from Mint Macaron and Soft Sea Foam cardstock. I love how the soft grey, pink and green work together!

I used a second piece of the Delightfully Detailed SDSP to create the border piece along the side of the inside. Silly me used the Very Vanilla side rather than the Whisper White side. Oh well, most people wouldn't even notice that! The hearts, like the vellum heart on the front, are cropped using the Support Ribbon dies.

Now you're off to Peta Stephen's blog so that you can continue your way around the Blog Hop.

Don't forget to join us in our Facebook group. It's where you can see what everyone has made for the challenge, and you can add your card to the group to join in the challenge too.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #441: Just Add Inspiration

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Yay for a new Just Add Ink challenge! This week Jo has found this gorgeous Inspiration Photo for our challenge. I'm hungry just looking at it!

Those cupcakes look very yummy, but I think I'd have to scrape half of the icing off! My kids would be more than happy to eat it for me, I think.

I've looked past the colours this week, and decided to give my new Birthday Cheer bundle a run.

As soon as I saw the Edgelits in the Occasions Catalogue, I knew I wanted to try an Easel card using them. I love how they pop off of the top of the page as an outline, but when you close the card they are filled in.

The Broadway Bound SDSP is a great pair for the bundle. I really love this metallic confetti paper.

The little heart on the inside has come from the cupcake on the right. It is just the right size to keep the easel card open, and is a cute addition to the inside of the card, don't you think?

The rest of this week's yummy cards can be found over at the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card for the challenge. Can't wait to see what you whip up (LOL!) using the picture as inspiration.

Bye for now,

Tina