A Princess Card

Hi!

Today I have a card for you that uses a lot of retired product.  I had to share it anyway as it's so very cute!  On Sunday we attended the birthday of a very gorgeous 4 year old who is mad on a certain movie - you know, the one that most 4 year olds are obsessed with and sing endlessly.  Thank heavens my children were too old for that movie!

Have you worked out the movie yet? If not I guess you'll just have to let it go...

The princess dress was based on this one, I made a few minor changes to suit the products I had. Once I'd put the dress together I spritzed it with a mix of Isocol and Champange Mist Shimmer Paint (sadly retired) to give it a bit of shimmer.  Hopefully you can see it in the picture.

The only snow flake stamp I have is the one from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set.  I think it works beautifully on this card.

Happy Birthday Jasmin, I hope you had a great day!

Bye for now,

Tina

Embellished Ornaments in Crumb Cake

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Are you loving the products in the new Holiday Catalogue? I'm especially loving the Embellished Ornaments stamp set and coordinating Delicate Ornaments Thinlits.  Today's card is a CASE of a gorgeous card I saw online that used the bundle.  You can see the original card here.

I made a few changes to Amy's card - Crumb Cake instead of Tip Top Taupe, Baker's Twine instead of ribbon and a different embossing folder.  I also used a stamped panel behind the ornament rather than vellum.

I quite like the look of the stamped panel as it ties in nicely with the design on the stamped ornament. I think my Crumb Cake inkpad needs reinking though!

It's funny how Amy and I ended up with similar insides.  I didn't actually see her inside until I went searching for her blog post to link. I'd only seen the front of her card online and taken a screen capture on my phone. Great minds think alike!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #282: Just Add Inspiration

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It's school holidays here and I've had a lovely week home with my children.  The older two got a bit of a taste of freedom/independence on Wednesday when I allowed them to walk to our local library on their own.  It's about a 10 minute walk along a main road so I was hoping it was fairly low risk.  Three and a half hours later they returned, happy after an afternoon spent playing Lego and Minecraft and browsing the bookshelves. One relieved mummy here!

Anyway, on with today's Just Add Ink challenge.  This week Narelle has put together a gorgeous inspiration photo board for you.

Isn't it fabulous? There's so much you could do with these pictures!

I decided to go with the pot of flowers sitting on top of the books on the chair in the right side picture. I stamped the leaves from Sprinkles of Life first so that I'd get a few leaves sticking out the sides of the flowers.  A few tiny pearls complete the flowers.

The background DSP is one of the Silver sheets from the Neutrals Stack.  Did you know that instead of Whisper White and Very Vanilla the Neutrals Stack has Silver and Gold?  Such a great idea!

I had a few extra flowers left over from the front of the card so I added them to the inside to finish it off.  I hate waste!

The rest of the Design Team have come up with some fabulous cards for this week's challenge.  You can see them over on the Just Add Ink blog. We hope you can join in the fun this week.

Bye for now,

Tina

Sheltering Tree

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Today's card was made using the photopolymer stamp set, Sheltering Tree.  My stamping ladies had asked for some inspiration using the set. I don't own it, so one of my ladies was kind enough to loan it to me. My first step was to use Google Images to search for a little inspiration myself.

I wanted to go for something CAS and when I saw this card and this card I decided to combine elements from both to create my card.  I cut a mask from a card front sized piece of copy paper using a square framelit and then laid it over the top of my card so I could sponge Soft Sky ink onto the card base through the mask. The tree and leaves were then stamped through the mask using Tip Top Taupe and Mint Macaron inks.

Finally, the mask was removed to stamp the sentiment. Done!

I stamped the tree the same way on the inside, minus the sponging.  It still looked a little bare so I added a row of flowers before stamping the sentiment above them.

Bye for now,

Tina

Lighthearted Leaves Birthday Card

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When I first saw the new Holiday Catalogue the Lighthearted Leaves stamp set caught my eye.  Not so much for the sentiments (although I love the believe one!), but for the leave stamps themselves.  Today's card was one of the first I made when I received the set.

I've paired the stamp set with some other Holiday Catalogue items, such as the Merry Moments DSP Stack and the Woodland TIEF.

I made this card as a class sample.  My ladies had a bit of fun with the card, and a few played with the layout.  Some centered the squares or the circle, some centered both. Some switched the sentiment and made a Christmas card.  They all looked great!

Which stamp sets from the Holiday Catalogue caught your eye?

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #281: Just Add Colour

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This week at Just Add Ink we have a colour challenge with a difference: YOU get to choose the colours you use! The very tricky Di came up with this challenge, and gave us a limit: you can only use THREE colours. Which three will you choose?

I decided to go with one of my favourite colours, which is blue. This card is Hudson's 8th Birthday card.  We gave him a water play table and a few little rubber duckies to go in it, so I ran with that for his card.

You can see that my two other colours are yellow (Daffodil Delight) and orange (Tangelo Twist).  The blues I used are Marina Mist and Soft Sky.  There's a bit of Basic Black and Whisper White in the card, but technically they aren't colours, so I think I'm ok!

To make the duckie I just googled 'duck punch art Stampin' Up!', clicked on Images and just went from there.  He's a bit of a cutie!  I made the water by just punching along the edge of the cardstock with my smallest circle punch.

Which three colours will you choose for your card? Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog to see the gorgeous combos the other girls have selected.

Bye for now,

Tina

The Cardmaker's Children

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Do you know the saying about the cobbler's children? "The cobbler's children have no shoes". Sigh. I think the proverb could be applied to my house sometimes - the cardmaker's children have no cards. I often get so busy making cards for classes and other people that my own family tend to get neglected.  Today's cards are ones I made recently for Alex and Ada for their birthdays, which are in April and July respectively.  I know, parent of the year! To make matters worse, I showed them their cards and then told them they couldn't have them until I'd photographed them for blogging.  I think they are used to it by now!

Ada's card was made with the Hey Girl stamp set.  I would have been in big trouble if I'd used any other stamp set! I coloured it with my Blendabilities and then did a quick watercolour wash over the background, being very careful to NOT touch the Momento ink with my Aqua Painter.

Alex's card was CASEd from a fellow Demonstrator, Tracey Humphries.  I can't find a blog to link to though.  I saw her card in a closed demonstrator group. It's fantastically easy though - just the star within a heap of circles!  Awesome boy card.

EDIT: Tracey has a Facebook page here.

Having admitted being VERY late with my  two oldest children's cards, I will say that I was MUCH faster with Hudson's.  He turned 8 on Sunday and I made his card yesterday.  You'll have to wait until Friday to see it though, it's my Just Add Ink card for the upcoming challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina