JAI 586: Just Add Summer

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Hooray! Welcome back to the Just Add Ink challenges for 2022!! Did you miss us over our Summer break? I hope you're keen and raring to go!

As always, we start the year with a blog hop, and this year the theme is Summer, with the bright and happy inspiration photo as an additional prompt. The lovely Tristan was the stop before mine.

I loved the rainbow of colour in the Inspiration photo, so that's what I went with in my card. The dies are a long-retired SU set, called Rainbow Builder Framelits. I popped them up on a Stitched Rectangles die cut and then used my Manly Moments stamp set for the sentiment. You may know that stamp set as being from the For The Guys Card Kit, but I got it when I was in the USA, and it was the Manly Moments Paper Pumpkin kit.

It's sunny in Summer, right? So I couldn't resist adding a sun to my card. It's from Uniquely Creative, called Stitched Sun Die.

The DSP I've used on the front and inside of my card is the Host pack, Pattern Party. It definitely suits the rainbow of colour theme!

Next up in our Blog Hop is another lovely friend, Denita, with her deliciously summery card!

Once you've finished our blog hop, please do enter our challenge! We'd love to see what you do with our Summer challenge. Just add your card to our Linky over at the Just Add Ink Blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Night Of Navy

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Here we are again for a new Colour Creations Blog Hop. This time it's Night Of Navy's turn! It's a lovely, deep blue from the Neutrals colour family. I decided to pair it with the new Butterflies & Flowers Layering Decorative Masks.

I quite like how this flowery mask takes on the appearance of lace once the ink has been applied. I used my Blending Brushes and created the ombre effect with the Night Of Navy ink.

I was very excited that the White Glittered Organdy Ribbon was carrying over from the just-finished Mini Catalogue. It's the ribbon I reach for most often in my craft room!

I did a little more ink blending/masking on the inside. I learned my lesson from last time and cleaned the mask between uses. I got a few random ink smudges in places that I didn't want them last time! I used sentiments from Peaceful Moments to complete my card. It could either be a wedding or engagement card - I think the lacy background suits those purposes.

Please do continue your way around our blog hop tonight by jumping on over to my lovely friend Rachel Palmieri's blog. You won't be disappointed!

If you run into any issues your first stop should be Catherine Proctor's blog. She's the best at keeping us all sorted!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 351: CASE The SAB Catalogue

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Welcome to another week of the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. Have you had time to have a good look at your new Catalogues yet? I hope so! They are live now to customers, with plenty of gorgeous new products.

Our focus this week for our challenge, is the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. It may be small, at 20 pages, but there's still plenty of inspiration to be found.

I loved this card from page 17. I liked the layering and the DSP and the textures. Funnily enough though, in the end my card looks nothing like it!

I used the new In The Moment stamp set as my focal image, colouring it with a variety of Stampin' Blends. I took inspiration for my colours from the Expressions In Ink SDSP, that forms the background of my card.

In an attempt to replicate the layered leaves on the original card, I die cut some of the leaves from the Sunflower Dies in Gold Foil and layered them underneath the main banner.

I stamped the same image again on the inside. I deliberately left the inside sentiment-free, as it makes the card more flexible. The 'relax your way' sentiment (from A Good Man) on the front could apply in a few different scenarios, don't you think?

Our weekly challenge is run through our Facebook page, so all you need to enter is a Facebook account and a photo of your card. A blog is not essential. We'd love to see what inspires you from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue.

Now it's time to continue your way around our blog hop. The next cab off the rank is my friend, Julia. She made a gorgeous scrapbook page for last week's challenge - I wonder what she'll make this time?

Bye for now,

Tina

Freshly Made Sketches 517

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EDIT: how exciting! My card was chosen by Linda to be a Princess! Thank you!

I've once again found myself with time to play along with Freshly Made Sketches. I've been watching the Ashes Test Cricket and crafting along at the same time. What fun!

I took a few days to ponder in how to interpret this sketch and decided that a slimline card with butterflies was the go.

I don't often make slimline cards, but I think this occasion called for it. It's a great way to fit a heap of big images without them getting too crowded. The butterflies are from the retired Butterfly Bijou DSP and the sentiment is from Timeless Tulips.

I stamped a row of splatters using a stamp from Sweet Ice Cream. You can't really see much of them after the butterflies were added over the top, but I still like the little peeps here and there.

You can see them a little more on the inside, though. The inside sentiment is from Peaceful Moments. The card is going to someone near and dear to me who just tested positive to Covid, so I used a 'gushier' sentiment on the inside than I would usually use.

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Mossy Meadow

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Thanks for joining me as the Colour Creations Blog Hops return for 2022. We've got another four months of Blog Hops to go before we reach the end of the series. This week it's Mossy Meadow's turn to shine. It's a dark, forrest green that's a part of the Neutrals colour family. It's not a colour I use a lot of, but I do like the place that it has in the colour line-up.

I purchased the Inspiring Canopy Dies late last year, but had yet to use them. I thought that this was a great opportunity. I also saw a card made using them by the SU Artisan, Melanie Joyner, that I decided to CASE. Her card was in pinks and square, so I had to make a few changes to suit my purpose.

To get the canopy part of the trees, I coloured a half sheet of Watercolour paper with Mossy Meadow ink. I made sure that the colour went on very unevenly so that the end result had plenty of variation in shades. When dry, I cropped as many of the leaf dies as I could fit from the paper.

I'd trimmed the right-most tree from the die cut, so that I would have room for my sentiment on the front. It was easy to make use of it for the inside of the card, with some of the extra leaf die cuts. I haven't made this card with anyone in mind, but it never hurts to add Sympathy cards to your stash for when you do need them.

The next stop on tonight's Blog Hop is my friend, Rachel Woollard. She's bound to have something fabulous for us to see!

If you run into any problems along the way, with broken links or similar, please jump on over to Catherine Proctor's blog. She has a comprehensive list of all who are participating this week.

Bye for now,

Tina

Freshly Made Sketches 516

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You've probably worked out by now that I love my pop culture stamps. I'm getting quite a collection!! One company that I like, Ink Road Stamps, just started a monthly challenge in their FB group, with the first theme being Movies. To make the challenge a little easier on myself, I went searching for a sketch challenge to go with it. I've known of Freshly Made Sketches for a while, but never played along. Today was the day!

This is their current sketch challenge, which will close in less than a day. Oops, better get my skates on! I chose my Pretty Bizarre stamp set, by Ink Road Stamps, to go with it.

I started with the silhouette stamp, which I stamped on my Stamparatus. I had to stamp a few times to get a full, solid black image. He's just fussy cut, which I really shouldn't do late at night! I really love this sentiment, too. It cracks me up every time! I love how the silhouette is framed by the two Stitched Triangles die cuts - such a cool effect.

The stencil that I used is Burst Layering Stencil, by Tim Holtz. Lucky Clover Distress Oxide was the ink I used, and stencilled onto Shaded Spruce cardstock.

I used a couple more stamps from Pretty Bizarre on the inside. I struggle a bit with needing to put a 'happy birthday' stamp somewhere on a birthday card, but then I usually end up writing happy birthday anyway, so maybe the stamp is a little redundant? I shall have to ponder some more!

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 350: CASE The Mini Catalogue Cover

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Welcome back to the CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hops for 2022! The Crew have had a short break, but now we are back and raring to go! 

With a new Mini Catalogue due to go live to customers in the next day or so, we are challenging you to CASE the cover of the catalogue. There are lots of ways you could do this - the theme, the colours, the layout, the techniques - your imagination can go wild!

I chose to make a tulip card for my CASE. I pulled out my trusty Timeless Tulips stamp set and my Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green and So Saffron inks and off I went! I really liked the colouring of the tulips on the cover, but I chose to replicate this in the inked strip behind my blooms. I just masked off the area and used my Blending Brushes to apply the ink.

I also liked the thin black frame around the main elements in the cover photo. Rather than mess around with a ruler, I chose to hand-draw mine. I deliberately make the lines a little wobbly so that it's a design choice,  rather than attempting straight lines and messing it up.

One more tulip, with a bit of ink blending, on the inside and I was done! I quite like this colour combo - it's very soft and pretty.

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Please continue your way around our blog hop to see all of the gorgeous inspiration we have for you. The next hopper is my wonderful friend Judy - I really can't wait to see what she's made, as she's a super-star with floral cards!

Bye for now,

Tina