JAI 664: Just Add Colour

 Hi!

Hooray - it's Friday! It's been a busy week for me, but for Friday through to Sunday my diary is looking very blank. I'm looking forward to having some crafty time, both with paper and fabric over the weekend. What about you? Hopefully you can find time to play along with our new Just Add Ink challenge.

This week Di has suggested this gorgeous colour combo for us to play with. I adore the blue/greens, and the soft purple is a stunning colour to complement them. I decided to go with a somewhat floral card, even though Pool Party and Lost Lagoon aren't really 'leafy' colours. I think it turned out beautifully, though.

I pulled an old stamp and die set, Happy Birthday To You, off my shelf and stamped the cake image on Shimmery White paper using Stazon ink so that I could watercolour the image. I used Pool Party for the cake and the other two colours for the blooms.

The sheer Pool Party ribbon adds a lovely bit of pizzazz to the card, don't you think? It shimmers nicely, too, to go along with the Shimmery White cardstock that I've stamped and coloured.

I stamped the cake image again for the inside, just catching a portion of it on the edge of the card. It's a bit too big to stamp the whole image on the inside!

What do you see with the colours? There are so many possibilities. You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done with the colours over on the Just Add Ink blog. You can also add your card to our Linky when you're ready to enter the challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Blueberry Bushel

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Thanks for joining me for the new Colour Creations blog hop, otherwise known as Tina's 20 minute cards.Sigh, once again I found myself short of time and racing to make a card using one of my favourite ever colours, Blueberry Bushel. I was so excited to see it return in the colour refresh, as it's a really lovely blue.

I finally received my Sending Smiles bundle, so I decided that it would be my stamp set of choice this week.  As I was short on time, I decided to CASE a card by Teneale Williams using the same bundle. I pretty much CASEd exactly her card, I just changed the colours to feature Blueberry Bushel.

LOL, from this angle it looks like I've used Wink Of Stella on the flowers. I haven't, I think it's just that the stamps are new and inked a little unevenly as I didn't take the time to clean them before I stamped. I like it, though!

One more sweet little stem completed the inside of my card. I had a lot of fun with this bundle, and I can't wait to explore it some more.

Please continue your way around out blog hop tonight - there's lots more Blueberry Bushel goodness to see, starting with my lovely friend, Kate Morgan.

If at any time you find a broken link, please head to the blog of this week’s host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Cathy Proctor, and she will have the list of all participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 430: CASE A Colouring Project

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Welcome to the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. We enjoy CASEing projects from the Stampin' Up! catalogues, and we hope that you do too. They are a great source of inspiration.

This week we are asking you to CASE a project that uses a colouring technique. You could watercolour, colour with Stampin' Blends, or with pencils.

I chose to CASE these Taco Fiesta cards. I hadn't used the stamp set in a while, so that guided my choice. They are super adorable three inch square cards, perfect for tucking into a little gift.

I pretty much kept my card the same as the sample, only making a few changes. Most obvious is the use of the More Dazzle paper. It's so much fun, and I can't resist adding it to everything lately.

The other two changes were the use of White Twine instead of Linen Thread. I also used the piñata image rather than the food images. I just really love the piñata!

I stamped him again on the inside of my card. I stamped a few of the lollies and confetti images around the sentiment on the inside. It echoes the sentiment label on the front of the card - if you look closely you can see the image stamped around the sentiment.

We'd love to see which colouring project you will choose to CASE. All you need to do is make the card, snap a photo and then add it to our Facebook Group. I can't wait to see which project you choose.

Before you go running off to create, please continue your way round tonight's Blog Hop. There's lots more inspiration to be found, starting with my lovely South Aussie friend, Michelle Stradz.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Blackberry Bliss

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Welcome to the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week's colour is Blackberry Bliss - a rich purple that I quite like, but don't use often. Sometimes it's a struggle to know quite what to do with it! It was an extra struggle this week, as once again I had a very short period of time in which to make a card. I think this one took 20 minutes, but I didn't set a timer this time.

I had hoped that my new Sending Smiles stamp set and dies would arrive today, but despite being 'on board for delivery', they were a no show. Take 2 uses the Songbird Builder Punch in a very pared back design.

I'd originally only intended on having the bird and the Stylish Shapes circle, but I felt that the card was TOO plain. The punched Clouds were a great addition, and a very logical choice for a bird card.

It's hard to see the cloud that the inside birdie is perched on, but it's definitely there. I used sentiments from Days To Remember on my card. It's an easy set to overlook as just a 'calendar' set, but it has a good range of sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by, but please do continue your way around our Blog Hop tonight. The next stop is my lovely friend, Andrea Sargent, and I'm sure that she's done marvellous things with Blackberry Bliss!

If at any time you find a broken link, please head to the blog of this week’s host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Cathy Proctor, and she will have the list of all participants.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 662: Just Add A Sketch

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Welcome back to the new Just Add Ink challenge. It's such a great way to kick off the weekend! This week we have a Sketch Challenge for you, designed by Lou.

My card was a bit of an accident - I started making a card for my daughter's 18th birthday, and then realised that it fitted the sketch perfectly!

This style of card is called a Bay Window Card, as the front of it folds out to look like the shape of a bay window. Of course, you then cut a window into the front to reveal the inside of your card. My daughter recently purchased a very popular video game, and so I designed the card to look like a bit of a portal opening to the world in the game - hence the space paper and the game controller as the window.

Here's the card folded flat, to show you both how it fits the sketch, and that it can easily be sent in the post. Luckily I was just able to hand the card to Ada!

Here is the inside of the card, showing the main character of the game and the world that he is running around in, getting up to all kinds of adventures. I coloured him with my Watercolour Pencils to suit the look of the DSP better than Copics would.

And here's the back of the card, where I wrote my message to Ada. This character is one of the key characters in the game

There's lots of inspiration on how to use this sketch over on the Just Add Ink blog. The Design Team ave done a wonderful job with it. Now, we'd like to see what YOU will do with it! Just add your card to our Linky when you've made it.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Berry Burst

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Welcome to the new Colour Creations Blog Hop, where we are celebrating a colour that I was thrilled to see make a return to the colour lineup. Berry Burst was a favourite, and one that I'd kept when it retired last time. Very handy when it was announced in the latest colour refresh!

I had thought to make a floral card with Berry Burst, but when I went to look at my current stamp sets, I could not find a single floral stamp set! Luckily today was a snap sale from Stampin' Up! with 15% off of all stamp sets.

I still wanted to make a feminine card, but I had to pivot just a little. I was also thrilled that the Dazzle paper (now known as More Dazzle) was making a return in this catalogue, so my card concept was based around both it and Berry Burst.

I used my Dots & Spots Die to crop the Berry Burst card and layered it over the More Dazzle paper. An extra little scrap was used as a banner under the 'birthday' part of my sentiment. I don't want to waste any of the paper!

Another little strip was used on the inside. While I don't want to waste it, I certainly don't want to hoard it! 

My lovely friend, Sharon Davern is the next stop on tonight's Blog Hop. I wonder what Berry Burst deliciousness she will have for us?

If you run into any problems with the Hop tonight, just jump on over to the wonderful Cathy Proctor's blog. She does a marvellous job of keeping us all organised.

CTC 428: Artistic Expression Section

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Thanks for once again joining us for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. It's such a great way to finish off the week, don't you think?

This week we are asking you to CASE a project from the Artistic Expression section of the Annual Catalogue, which goes from page 94 to 119. It's a section that's jam packed with inspiration!

I chose this card from page 101. I don't have any of the products used in the catalogue sample, but I didn't let that stop me! Half the fun of CASEing is taking something and making it yours. In this case, I loved the way that part of the stamped image is cropped and popped up. I think it's such an effective look.

As I mentioned, I don't have any of the products used in the original, so I decided to use It's A Science as my stamp set. I used my Stamparatus to stamp the row of beakers I then coloured them with my Berry Burst, Lost Lagoon, Lemon Lime Twist and Blueberry Bushel Stampin' Write Markers.

The centre section was then cropped using a Layering Squares Die, matted and popped up over the rest of the row. I took the colours from the Bright & Beautiful DSP that I used on the base of my card. I masked off half of the sentiment, and just used the It's Your Birthday section for the front of the card.

I used the other half on the inside, along with a beaker left over from the front of the card. I added bubbles to this beaker, as I thought that it worked nicely with the 'overreact' part of the sentiment. I really love the puns in this stamp set!

We'd love for you to play along with us on this challenge. All you need to do is make a suitable card and add a photo to our Facebook group. It's really very easy!

If you started the Blog Hop in the Facebook group, I am the last stop tonight. If you started mid way, just keep on gong until you get back to where you started. The next stop is the lovely Julia Quinn, with a gorgeous card that you won't want to miss.

Bye for now,

Tina