JAI #469: Just Add Colour

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Once again, it's time for the new Just Add Ink challenge, and this week it's a colour combo set by the lovely Di. I really love this mix of In Colours.

My first thought was that it looks quite tropical, so that's where I went with my card.

I started by pulling out my Sponge Brayers and colouring the main panel. I used Terracotta Tile on the bottom, Grapefruit Grove in the middle and Pretty Peacock on top. The two oranges blend very nicely, but the Peacock was a bit of a challenge! I had to make sure I didn't intrude too far into the Grapefruit so that it didn't take over the whole card. I think I got the balance right though.

I then cut a heap of palm fronds from my Tropical Dies and adhered them over the top. I made this card with my classes, and to save a little time we stamped the palm fronds. It's a great way to cover up any little imperfections in the brayering too!

I did stamp the fronds on the inside - I think I was very over die cutting by the time I got to the inside!

So, what do you think of our colours this week? What will you do with them? You can pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can link up your card and see the rest of the Design Team cards for this week. See you there!

Bye for now,

Tina

A Super Card For A Super Kid

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Today I have a card I made for a friend of Hudson's. His 13th Birthday party was on the weekend, and we all had a fabulous time rollerskating. A lot of 13 year old kids are into super heroes, and I hoped this particular kid was no different!

The design of this card was CASEd from my good friend Chloe Evans. She's an amazing crafter and has been doing a heap of videos lately. I always try to watch when she does her Facebook Lives, but she also has a great YouTube channel. If you like watching paper crafting videos, I do suggest you check her out! Chloe posted a few cards she'd made using the brayered strip across the card. I couldn't wait to CASE, as I adored the cards she made.

It was very easy to do - I just masked off the section I wanted to colour using sticky notes and my grid paper as a guide and then brayered Daffodil Delight ink at one end and Pacific Point at the other. I flicked some water over the top and then stamped the sentiment once it had dried. My stripe is a little wider than Chloe's, but I needed mine wider to fit my sentiment.

How cool are these stamps? They are from a retired Kindred Stamps set called You're Super. I coloured this dude with my Watercolour Pencils and Blender Pen.

Most of the inside sentiment is also from the You're Super set, but the numbers are from a Stampin' Up! set called Family Party. Have you noticed it in the catalogue? It's not one that jumps out as a must have, but it's definitely one worth adding to your collection. It covers a wide range of family members, so that you can make a birthday card for anyone of any age. Go check it out!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #240: Everyday Occasions

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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

JAI #468: Just Add C

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This week at Just Add Ink it's one of my Alphabet challenges. I really love seeing how creative you all are with these! I certainly try to think of something a little bit different to do each time. This week we have the letter C for you.

I have seen a few Changing Picture cards pop up around the internet lately, and I decided this was the perfect time to try one! I made this card for my husband's birthday. He's a big pop culture fan and so I used stamps that represent one of his favourite movie franchises. To make the Changing Picture card I searched using Google until I found a template that I could use - it wasn't hard, there are heaps online.

This franchise is set in space, and I thought this paper from the See A Silhouette pack looked quite space-ish. I coloured the woman with my Copic markers. I used the template to know exactly where to stamp her for maximum effect.

Here's a closer look so you can see the lines through the image. I change the picture, you simply pull on the tab at the top of the card. If you know the movie, and the classic line from it, you know there is only one thing it could possibly change to:

LOL! I think my husband will get a real kick out of this card! I've added a video below to show how it changes. It was playing up as I uploaded it, so hopefully it works! EDIT: I had to shrink the file to be able to upload it, and now it's tiny! Hopefully you still get the idea!

Here's the inside of the card, I used an iconic weapon from the franchise to underline the sentiment.

I think if I make this again, I would change a few things. I wouldn't be able to post this card in a regular envelope, as the tab protrudes over the top of the card. The template actually made a smaller front for the regular sized base, but I didn't realise the importance of this until it was too late. Oh well, luckily I'm handing this over in person!

So what will you make for our Just Add C challenge? It can be anything that starts with C - a theme, technique, stamp set, the limit is your imagination! Just make sure you let us know what the C is, because it can be hard to tell sometimes!

You can see what the Design Team have created over at the Just Add Ink blog. You can also link up your card there.

Bye for now,

Tina

Blueberry Peacock

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Do you ever buy a craft product just for one part of a pack? Maybe it's a set of dies that you purchased for one die, or a stamp set? This time, for me, it was one pattern in the Noble Peacock SDSP. I really loved the Blueberry Bushel paper in the pack, and bought it just for that! Although, I think once I get into Christmas card making, the Pretty Peacock sheets will be just as appealing!

I made this card as a class sample to show off the gorgeous foil DSP. I paired it with plain Black Foil, with some Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon for a touch of glitz. After I'd glued it all down I looked at it and wished I'd embossed the plain black foil with the Subtle Embossing Folder. My class ladies all went for this option, and it looked fabulous.

I cut the 'Happy' from Black Foil using the Merry Christmas Dies. I love that the 'Happy' works equally well on a birthday card as it does on a Christmas card. I layered it over some vellum that I'd cropped using a Stitched Nested Labels Die. The Classic Label Punch was the perfect choice for the 'Birthday' part of the sentiment, as it mirrors the Labels Die shape.

A little strip of the DSP finishes off the inside. I like occasionally doing a vertical strip rather than horizontal, just for something different. In this case it ties the inside layout with the front layout, so I think it was a good decision.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #239: CASE A Layout

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Welcome back to a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's been another busy week in my household, so I just squeaked into the end of the list for the blog hop, after Monique.

This week we are choosing a card from page 103 of the Annual Catalogue to CASE, but with an extra twist - we need to change the theme. So if the card you choose is a thank you card, you need to make anything but a thank you card. Easy!

I was in a bit of a rush to get my card done, so I went for the Crumb Cake card at the top of this photo. In my rush I assumed it was a new baby card, as it's in the Kid's and Babies section. What's the opposite of a new baby card? A sympathy card. I always seem to need them for my stash.

It's funny how 'I need to get a card made in a hurry' morphed into 'I'll just do some colouring with my Blends', which I can never do in a hurry! I stamped the flower from Best Birds three times, masking each one as I went. Once all three were masked I stamped the leaves over the top. They were coloured with my Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green and Daffodil Delight Blends.

The bird was then stamped and coloured using Daffodil Delight, Balmy Blue and Light Night Of Navy Blends, with Light Crumb Cake for the ground. The sentiment is from a Paper Pumpkin set I got while I was in the USA. I think it's Birds Of A Feather.

When I cut the card for the inside I was kidding myself that I'd only stamp one flower and leaf combo. As soon as I stamped the first flower I knew I had to do the whole trio - it wouldn't look right with just one. Sigh. Luckily I'm quicker at the photo editing and blog post writing than I am at making a quick card! LOL!

That's it for me for this week. Don't forget to join our Facebook group so that you can play along with our challenges each week.

In the meantime though, you're hopping off to see what Julia has made this week.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #467: Just Add A Sketch

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Lou has designed a fantastic sketch for us to use. I love a good sketch challenge!

I had a hankering to pull out some of my pop culture stamps to have a play with this sketch. After a flick through, I settled on two stamp sets that coordinate perfectly that are from two of my favourite pop culture companies, Kindred Stamps and The Ink Road Stamps.

Do you recognise the character? He spent a lot of time sipping coffee in New York with his 5 friends. The sentiment, 'how you doin'?' was a pretty iconic pick up line of his! The character is from "The One With The Friend' from Kindred, and the couch and sentiment are from "The One With All The Stamps" from The Ink Road.

I coloured the character and the couch with my Copic markers. I've been playing around a bit with darker shadow lines, and this was a great opportunity to try them out again.

The inside sentiment is also from Kindred. It's a play on the episode titles of the TV show - every single episode name started with "The One Where...", which is also why both the stamp sets have similar names! It's one of my favourite TV shows that I watched every week when it was on TV. I have the boxed set so that I can watch it all again, I just lack the time! Oh well, one day 😊

That's it from me, not it's time to hop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you can see the rest of this week's Design team cards. You can also link up your card and play along in our challenge. If you don't have a blog you can always email us your card and we can link it up for you.

Bye for now,

Tina