Colour Creations: Mango Melody

 Hi!

Thanks for joining me again for the new Colour Creations Creative Showcase. It's Mango Melody's turn to shine! It's a lovely orange that sits in the Brights Colour Family. I must say, it's overtaken Pumpkin Pie as my favourite orange.

I started with the Mango card base, sponging Mango ink through a mask to create the bubbles to fit in with my cocktail theme - I was hoping it would look like the bubbles in a fizzy drink. I realised later that it's a retired SU mask, but there's a similar one that is current that would work just as well. I sponged in an ombre pattern, so that it faded away towards the top.

I die cut three of the 'cocktails' words from the Love You More Than Dies and stacked them to get some dimension on the Stitched Nested Label Die cut. I curved the word as I adhered it to the label, just for something different! The cocktail image and stamped text is from the coordinating stamp set, Nothing's Better Than.

I added more bubbles on the inside to tie it in with the front, also fading them out as they go up the page, but much more quickly than on the front. The sentiment here is from Itty Bitty Birthdays, and I think it works perfectly with the cocktails theme!

That's all from me tonight, please pop on over to Catherine's blog for the rest of this week's Mango Melody cards.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #293: CASE A Card From Page 36

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I'm back with you this week for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. I had to miss last week, as my littlest boy had a few medical challenges. He's all good now though.

This week we are asking you to CASE a card from page 36 of the August - December Mini Catalogue. It features the Snowflake Splendor Suite of products. As pretty as they are, I don't have any of this suite, so I had to think a little bit out of the box.

I ended up choosing this card from the bottom left of the page to CASE, simply because of the ink blending. I do love an ombre background!

I had a piece of Whisper White card in my stash that had been embossed with the Winter Snow Embossing Folder when I had a stamping day with a friend recently. I used a blending brush to apply some Flirty Flamingo ink so that it was darker at the bottom and faded to white at the top. The original card has the fade going sideways, but I much prefer this way!

The 'joy' stamp and die is from the Peace & Joy bundle, but the wreath underneath is from the New Paper Pumpkin kit, Joy To The World. They work so perfectly together! I layered it over a piece of Silver Foil and Coastal Cabana cardstock, both cut into banners using my Banners Pick A Punch.

The inside sentiment is also from the Joy To The World kit. I really love the neat, handwritten style font. And it works perfectly side by side with Peace & Joy - you will be seeing a lot more of it on my blog!

There are five different cards and a cute little tin that you can choose from to CASE. Which one catches your eye? You can participate in our challenge by posting a photo of your project to our Facebook group.

In the meantime though, please do continue with the Blog Hop. Technically, I'm the last stop, but if you started in the middle you can hop on through to Monique's blog. Her card is so cute, you won't want to miss it!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #530: Just Add Stamps, Ink, Paper

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Hooray for Friday and the new Just Add Ink challenge! My two boys have pupil free days today, so it's nearly like having a long weekend. Poor Ada still has to go to school though - I might have to find a treat for her to have after school.

This week we are going back to basics! Rochelle has challenged us to just use stamps, ink and paper - no ribbon, embellishments, embossing or die cuts! I decided to use my Nothing's Better Than stamp set, mostly because it hasn't seen ink in far too long!

I can't seem to use this set without reaching for retro colours. Today I've used Flirty Flamingo with Coastal Cabana and a tiny hint of Mango Melody. Such a fun colour combo!

Seriously, who couldn't do with a cocktail right now? With ever-changing rules around COVID, trying to plan Christmas, kids finishing school (one completely) and a couple of medical issues - adulting sure is hard! 

I really love the way that the filler stamp for the cocktail glass has the ice cubes built into it - no need to stamp them over the top, or emboss them for the white lines. I fussy cut the image out, even though there's a die. That would be cheating for the purposes of this challenge though!

I stamped the Samp cocktail on the inside - why change a good thing when you're on to a winner? LOL! The sentiment was made by using individual words from two different sentiments. Such a bonus of stamping with photopolymer stamps! It's a much quicker and easier process than with rubber stamps.

That's all from me for now, please do head on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you will find the rest of this week's Design Team cards, and you can also link up your card for the challenge. Remember, just stamps, ink and paper!

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Magenta Madness

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Thanks for joining me for the new Colour Creations Creative Showcase. I nearly didn't make it in time for this week (it was a super crazy weekend), but thankfully I was just able to squeak in. The colour of the day is Magenta Madness, another of our new In Colours. It's a quite neon pink colour - definitely a bold choice!

I had these Silver Foil pieces left over from another card that I recently made. I'd used an Adhesive Sheet on the back, which kept all of the pieces in their correct place. I simply applied some Press'n'Seal to the front of the foil, flipped it over and removed the backing of the Adhesive Sheet and the flipped it again to adhere to the Magenta Madness card base. All I had to do then was (very carefully!) peel back the Press'n'Seal, making sure that the foil stayed in place on the card base.

I then used the same Many Layered Blossoms die to cut the Basic Black outline and adhere it over the top. I really love the drama of the colours. The sentiment, from the coordinating Blossoms In Bloom stamp set, was heat embossed in white on a strip of Basic Black, finished off with a few Magenta Madness Enamel Dots.

I had one sweet little bloom left for the inside. I'd already discarded the little silver pieces from the centre of the blossom, so I used my Light Magenta Madness Stampin' Blend to colour the inner sections.

That's all from me for tonight, now it's time to pop on over to Catherine's blog, where you will find the rest of this week's Magenta Madness links.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #529: Just Add Colour

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Welcome back to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have a fabulous colour combo for you, suggested by Kelly.

I never would have thought of pairing Misty Moonlight with Magenta Madness, but I think it's a lovely combo now that I've tried it. And with my favourite metallic, it's just spectacular!

I started with one of the retired Silver Foil card bases and added a piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock that I'd cropped with the largest of the Stitched Rectangles Dies. I realised after I'd glued it down that I'd also planned to emboss it with the Subtle 3DEF. Oops!

The flower layers were cut from Magenta Madness and Silver Foil using the Many Layered Blossoms Dies. Thank goodness for the adhesive sheets especially the the foil layer! I popped up the whole piece over the Moonlight layer. It took a lot of Dimensionals, but it's worth it so that it doesn't sag. The sentiment is from the coordinating stamp set, Blossoms In Blooms, cropped using another Stitched Rectangle Die.

The inside was made with off cuts from the front! I had a spare corner in the sheets of Magneta and Foil, so I popped one of the single flowers in the space, to be die cut at the same time as the main flowers. It looked a little bare sitting straight over the Whisper White card, so I ended up stamping the flower in Misty Moonlight underneath. The Misty Moonlight frame around the writing panel is just the off cut from the front piece, with an extra Whisper White die cut in the middle.

That's all from me for now, so it's time to pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design team cards. You can also add your card to our challenge linky. I can't wait to see what you make using this week's colours.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Just Jade

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Welcome back to this week's Colour Creations Showcase. This week we are highlighting one of the newest In Colours - Just Jade. It's what I'd call a dusky green, and is a shade that I really like. Despite that, I haven't used it much, yet. After this week's showcase, I may find myself reaching for it a little more!

I started by using my Stitched Triangles dies to cut a heap of isosceles triangles from Just Jade cardstock. I then threw them into my Subtle 3DEF and ran it though my Big Shot. I didn't want the embossing to go in the same direction on each triangle, although it seems that in trying to be random, two have ended up the same! Oh well.

I cut some tree trunks from Brushed Metallic foil, and also the word 'peace' from my Joy Dies. The stars are from the swirly die in the Stitched Stars set. All this was layered over the top of a Whisper White layer, embossed with the Dainty Diamonds 3DEF. I like how the pattern could be stars twinkling in the background.

I repeated the trees on the inside, just on a much smaller scale, and the finished off with a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas.

As is usual for our Colour Creations Showcase, the list of all participants is over on the lovely Catherine's blog. Please do pop on over to see what everyone has made.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC #291: CASE A Mini Catalogue Bundle Card

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Thank you for joining me for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. This week we are asking you to CASE a project from pages 71-75 of the August-December Mini Catalogue, which just happen to be the pages that show all of the available bundles in the catalogue.

That gives you a whopping 30 different projects to choose from! I was a bit tempted to go back and have another go at the Have A Hoot card, which I CASEd a couple of weeks ago. In the end, I opted to try something new, and chose the Snowflake Wishes card on page 73.

I don't have this bundle (which I think is even better for imaginative CASEing!), but I loved the way that the front of the card was split, with the banner dividing the two sections. The designer also used Gold Foil on the card.

My Heartwarming Hugs DSP has been feeing a little unloved lately, so I pulled it out and selected two of the more subtle patterns. The Real Red went at the bottom, as it was the heavier of the two patterns. I added a thin strip of Red Foil to separate the two DSPs.

Instead of a banner for my sentiment, I opted to use all three layers of the 'bright' Joy Dies. I started with Pear Pizzazz, then Whisper White, and finally some more Red Foil (yay for adhesive sheets!). They were popped up over the join in the DSPs, and then some holly leaves from Peace & Joy were arranged around them. I had some left over foil with adhesive on the back, so I punched some small circles from the foil and used them for the holly berries.

I like the look of the holly, so I repeated it on the inside, to accompany the sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas. I quite like this card, I may have to try it with some other DSP packs. I think it would look great with the Brightly Gleaming DSP, too.

To enter our challenge - and we'd really love to see what you make - just join our Facebook group and add your picture to the group. You don't need a blog or any fancy camera or software, just snap a photos with your phone and post it in the group. 

Before you dash off to get creating, please do finish the Blog Hop. Next up is the lovely Peta, and her wondercat, Marvi. We all love seeing his adventures each week!

Bye for now,

Tina