HOC Week 15

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Welcome to Week 15 of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hops.Each week a group of Art With Heart friends put on a blog hop with lots of Christmassy inspiration. We'd love for you to do the hop each week and be inspired to get a start on your Christmas crafting.

My cards this wee are made using the Lights Aglow Suite, which includes the SDSP, dies and stamps. I thought that the May 2020 Sheetload Of Cards was a great way to show off the DSP, as the design features two different papers.

The Brightest Glow stamp set has some really lovely fonts!

Here's my group of four cards. You can see that I didn't have enough Cherry Cobbler paper of one design, so I had to choose a second. Which of the papers do you prefer? I think that they are both nice!

Thanks for joining me, but please do continue your way around our Blog Hop. The next stop along the way is my lovely farmer friend, Kathryn Ruddick.

As always, the lovely Sharon Davern is keeping us organised this week. If you run into any issues with any links, just pop on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's participants. 

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 390: Santa's Express Colours

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Thanks for joining me for a new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. We like to get inspiration from CASEing projects from the Stampin' Up! catalogues, and we hope that you do too!

This week we are asking you to CASE the colours of the Santa Express DSP. I didn't CASE a particular card in the Mini Catalogue, I literally just used some of the colours in the papers.

I started by cutting three pieces of Whisper White that were 4 x 2 3/4". I used Blending Brushes to apply the colours in pairs on the cardstock, creating an ombre effect. I used Mint Macaron with Evening Evergreen, Petal Pink with Poppy Parade, and Granny Apple Green with Shaded Spruce. Some water was splattered over the top before I used my Spruced Up Outline Dies to crop the smaller Christmas Tree shape twice from each piece. Thankfully, I remembered to put some Adhesive Sheet on the back first!

I used the leftover pieces to layer under my Whimsical Woodland 3DEF embossed card, and the cropped trees over the top. I added some Daffodil Delight stars too, and a sentiment from Christmas To Remember.

The inside of my slimline card was decorated using the outline parts of the cropped trees, more stars and another sentiment from Christmas To Remember.

We'd love for you to play along with us this week and every week! Do you have some favourite colours amongst those in the Santa Express DSP? Maybe you'd like to stretch yourself to use a less favoured colour. Either way, we'd love to see your card in our Facebook Group.

Please continue your way around our blog hop tonight before you dash off to get inky! We'd love for you to play along, but first check out Rachel Palmieri's blog for her gorgeous card using the fabulous colours of the Santa Express DSP.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 624: Just Add A Diorama

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Welcome back for a new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have an extra-fun one for you!

Kerry has challenged us to make a Diorama card. I've gone a bit OTT with mine, but that doesn't mean that you have to. A diorama is a 3D replication of a scene, but it can be as complex or as simple as you'd like - you just need the layers and a scene.

I decided to create a jungle diorama scene for my hero to come running out of. I tried to create a rolling boulder chasing him, but I just couldn't get it to work to my satisfaction. The snake will have to do! I created the frame for my card using the cutting files in this tutorial. I inked each layer in increasingly darker shades of brown and green as I went backwards with the layers. The final layer is just black.

The leaves were cropped from green cardstock using my retired Tropical Thinlits. I used darker greens at the back and lighter as I moved forwards in the layers. The rocks on the ground are stamped using my Oceanfront stamps. The hero, snake and sentiment are from the Kindred Stamps set, called Treasure Hunter. I coloured the images with my Stampin' Blends.

I'm not sure who I'll give this card to yet. While it does fold somewhat flat, it would take a custom envelope to send it. It's 5" square and 1 1/2" deep! For now, it will just go on display in my stamping room!

We'd love for you to play along this week with us at Just Add Ink. Go crazy, or go simple, or anywhere in between in creating a diorama card to share with us. Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog to see the rest of the Design Team's diorama cards, and then use the linky to add yours to the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Gorgeous Grape

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Thanks again for stopping by for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are featuring Gorgeous Grape, a bright, bubblegum shade of purple.

I chose this bright colour combo by Brian King. I think it's a bit on the Halloween side, so I had my work cut out for me to make it a little (actually, a lot!) less Halloweenish.

I think I succeeded! Any combo with green in it automatically lends itself to a floral card, so that's where I went with my inspiration. I once again used Hand-Penned Petals and the Coordinating Penned Flowers Dies.

I stamped the largest flower in full strength ink, and the next two smallest ones in stamped-off ink. It doesn't look much different, though!

I repeated the flowers on the inside, with another sentiment from Simply Fabulous to go with it.

Thanks again for stopping by, but please do continue your way around tonight's blog hop. There's lots more Gorgeous Grape inspiration to be found, starting with my lovely friend, Rachel Palmieri.

As always, the lovely Catherine Proctor keeps us in line and organised with the blog hop. If you find a problem with one of the links, just jump on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

HOC Week 14

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Welcome to Week 14 of the Heart Of Christmas Blog Hops. We are motoring ever closer to Christmas, aren't we?!

This week's group of cards was made using the first Sheetload Of Cards template, from June 2019. I deliberately chose bright, colourful papers from the Celebrate Everything Host DSP pack to go with it. I wanted a happy riot of colour, and I definitely achieved it!

For the sentiments, I used my long neglected Jingle Jingle Jingle stamp set. I split the handwritten-looking greeting across the front and inside of the card. It didn't make much sense to have the whole sentiment on it's own on the front!

Here's the group of four cards together. They will definitely bring Christmas cheer to the recipient!

That's all from me, but we'd love for you to continue your way around the hop. Just keep on going until you get back to where you started. The next stop along the way is my lovely friend, Andrea Sargent, with what I'm sure will be a wonderful card.

If you run into any problems with links, our lovely hostess Sharon Davern will set you right. Just jump on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 389: Annual Catalogue Bundle

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It's time once again for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Our challenge works by asking you to CASE different aspects of Stampin' Up!'s catalogues. CASEing is a great way to spark your creativity.

This week we are asking you to CASE a card from the Bundles Section of the Annual Catalogue. In flicking through the section, I discovered that I don't own a single bundle from the catalogue! I'm not quite sure how that happened, so I had to think extra creatively this week.

I ended up choosing this butterfly card from page 161. I really liked the white die cuts layered over the stripes of coloured cardstock. They really pop against the colour.

I recently purchased the Rugged Icons Dies, after my fellow CTCer, Rachel, posted some fabulous masculine cards using them. I thought that this card was a great opportunity to use them. After much debate I went for the mountains die - although I see pyramids every time I look at it! I'm sure they are meant to be mountains, as I don't think there are trees like that around the pyramids.

I layered some Garden Green, Daffodil Delight and Balmy Blue cardstock on some copy paper before cropping it with the largest hexagon in the Beautiful Shapes Dies. I applied some Foam Adhesive Sheet to the back of a piece of Whisper White card and cropped it with the Rugged Icons die before adhering it to the hexagon.

I used a second die cut, in Balmy Blue, to decorate the inside. The sentiments are from the stamp set that's in the Light The Candles kit.

That's all from me for now, but we'd love for you to join us in making a card for this challenge. Do you have a favourite bundle from the Annual Catalogue? Or are you like me with no bundle, but a lovely card in the section that has caught your eye to CASE? Just add a photo to our Facebook group when you've made your card.

In the meantime, please do continue your way around our blog hop. The next stop is the lovely Peta Stephen, with a gorgeous Christmas card.

 Bye for now,

Tina

World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop

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To celebrate World Card Making Day, I am participating in Kathryn's Blog Hop of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from All Around the World to share a card that I have made today (or recently). She has also challenged us to post it within a week to someone special, as we all forget sometimes to send cards that we make and they just sit in a box.

I've slightly cheated with my card, in that the recipient already has it! I was asked to make a card for a lot of people to sign that was for the conductor of a development band. She unfortunately had to step down, and we wanted to acknowledge her hard work over the years. I don't like making oversized cards, so I try to look for cards that open up to allow for many people to sign. The closed card is 6 inches square.

The design is based upon a tutorial I found on Lisa's Stamp Studio website for a Diagonal Explosion Card. Her original was 4 inches square, so I played around with the measurements to make it just that little bit bigger. The photo above shows it half way open.

And here it is, fully open. Lots of space for people to write on! I knew that the recipient was a fan of this singing bookworm and the house full of magical objects, so I was sure to include them on the card. I coloured them with my Copic markers.

It's time now to jump on over to the next hopper, Elizabeth Gross. We'd love for you to hop your way around all of the blogs tonight, so just keep on going until you get back to where you started.

Bye for now,

Tina