Getting Merry With Merlot And Champagne

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Welcome to a new week of Art With Heart's Heart Of Christmas Blog Share. Are you being inspired every week to start your Christmas cards? Have you started yet? I hope so on both counts!

 This week I have a very Big Shot heavy card - not much stamping at all!

I started with a Detailed Deer die cut from a piece of Merry Merlot cardstock. I wanted to use the negative on the front of my card and decided to back it with some foil card. I'd hoped to use Copper, but realised I don't actually own any! Oops! My next choice was Champagne. For a bit of added texture, I ran the Champagne Foil cardstock through the Big Shot with the Subtle DTIEF. How gorgeous does that look?

I just want to run my fingers over it! It's amazing how such a simple thing can add so much to a card.

I used the die cut deer to finish off the inside, along with another small strip of the Subtle embossed Champagne Foil.

This week the Blog Share is being hosted from the wonderful Ros's blog. Go and check it out - you're sure to find something amazing.

Bye for now,

Tina

AWH Colour Creations: Fresh Fig

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Welcome to the new Colour Creations Blog Share. This week we are looking at Fresh Fig, one of our In Colours. It's not a colour I use often, so I really struggled with ideas for it, until I had a brain wave.

How cool are those hexagons? Can you tell what I used? Here's a hint - they are on special this week!

That's right - I used both Dimensionals and Mini Dimensionals! I simply adhered the Dimensional to some Fresh Fig cardstock and then used my snips to trim around it, peeled off the backing and stuck it in place on my card. Done! It's not my idea - I can remember seeing it years ago but I can't remember who did it.

I used the triangle stamp from Picture Perfect Birthday on the inside, mostly as I don't have a hexagon stamp. Triangles are close, aren't they? LOL

You can find the rest of this week's cards over on Catherine's blog. See you there!

Bye for now,

Tina

Springing Into Muddy Puddles

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Oh dear, the long weekend caught me out, and I'm late with this post. It's a super fun one though, so hopefully that makes up for it's tardiness. Today's card is the one I made for m youngest son, Hudson, who recently turned 11. He's a huge Peppa Pig fan, and we have been watching it lots while he's been recovering from his recent surgery.

To make the card I printed two of the same Peppa Pig scenes of the family jumping in muddy puddles - if you know Peppa Pig you know that it's something they do a lot! Here's where it gets super fun - I fussy cut the two groups pigs and popped each one up on a spring that I made. Look:

How fun is that! Hudson took one look at the card and gave it a kiss, so I guess that means that he loved it!

The inside is pretty simple. I realised after I'd packed up my printer that I should have printed something to fussy cut for the inside. Oh well! I used an offcut of the front panel that I fussy cut to cut the numbers from so that the colours matched. Waste not, want not!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #428: Just Add Colour

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Welcome to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week Rachael has given us a fresh, summery colour combination to work with.

Don't those colours just scream summer? Maybe I'm just doing a whole lotta wishful thinking!

I decided to go for a really simple, fresh card with just a touch of colour. I recently purchased the Varied Vases bundle and I wanted to play with it. I cheated a little by using Soft Suede for the flower stem/outline as I thought black might be a little too bold for the rest of the colours. I finished the three larger flowers with some tiny pearls.

It's tricky to see in the photo, but I embossed both of the white layers under the main panel. The bottom one uses the Tin Tile 3DTIEF, and the middle layer uses the Subtle 3DTIEF. It's a nice and simple way to add interest to the card without distracting from the main picture.

Because I liked the scene on the front so much I recreated it for the inside of the card. No point reinventing the wheel if I don't need to!

You can see the rest of the Design Team's cards over at the Just Add Ink blog, where you can also link up your card for this week's colour challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina

Shimmery Beautiful Baubles

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Welcome to the latest Art With Heart Blog Share for the Heart Of Christmas. This week I have a card for you using the new Detailed Baubles Thinlits from the Holiday Catalogue.

Doesn't the bauble look great against the Wood Textures DSP? A bit of a country style Christmas. I wanted the bauble to look 3D, so I punched a 2 1/4" circle and sponged it with Shaded Spruce ink, making it darker around the edges and leaving it white in the middle.

I wanted a bit more sparkle (it is Christmas after all!), so I painted the die cut with some Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint. After it was dry and the two layers were glued together, I then misted the whole thing with some of the same paint mixed with Isocol. The final touch was adding some Black Rhinestones to the die cut. And talking about sparkle - how's that new Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon? Don't make the mistake of overlooking it because it's in the Halloween section like I did!

I used a second, smaller, die cut from the Detailed Baubles Thinlits set to complete the inside.

You can find the rest of this week's cards over at Claire's blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

Flirting With Flamingo

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Welcome to the new Colour Creations Blog Share! This week we are creating with Flirty Flamingo.

Despite my blog post title, there are no flamingo on my card tonight. Instead I made a flirty card. 'What's a flirty card?', I hear you ask - to me it's a fun, light and airy card that isn't too serious. That's what I was aiming for with this card, and I think I've succeeded.

I started by snipping a piece from the gorgeous Delightfully Detailed Laser Cut DSp. It's from the big floral sheet. I took a really big breath before snipping - it's a bit scary!! I then used my sponge brayer to colour it with Flirty Flamingo ink

I paired the Flirty Flamingo with Soft Sea Foam. It's hard to see in the pic, but the large SSF layer under the flower is embossed with the Subtle 3DTIEF. The flower is then layered on a circle of Vellum, and on top are some cardstock circles with the sentiment from Happy Birthday Gorgeous.

Speaking of Happy Birthday Gorgeous - have you noticed that the larger two leaf stamps match the leaves in the Delightfully Detailed LCDSP? What a great find, as it helped to extend the smaller floral section I snipped from the DSP.

You can find the rest of this week's Flirty Flamingo cards over at Catherine's blog. I wonder if there'll be any flamingo amongst them?

Bye for now,

Tina

K For Kaleidoscope

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This week at Just Add Ink our challenge is to Just Add K. You can see the card I made for the challenge here.

Today's card is a reject card for the challenge. Don't get me wrong - I like the card - I just decided to go in a different direction.

So the "K" in this card is the technique - it's called a Kaleidoscope card and you can find instructions for making it here. Basically you create a little triangle template from acetate and use it to outline each of the 8 wedges in the card. They are then fussy cut and arranged in a circle.

This card ended up quite large - about 6 inches square. What I thought were smallish triangles turned into a big card! Those hippos were just begging to be turned into a kaleidoscope, don't you think?

To make the the strip across the bottom of the inside, I used my trimmer to cut a straight line. I lifted the blade when I ran into a hippo and dropped it back down after it. I then used my snips to fussy cut around the hippos. A little bit of extra effort, but worth it I think.

So now I'm off to think about what other DSP I have that I could use to make a Kaleidoscope card. Are you thinking about it too?

Bye for now,

Tina