Lost Lagoon On The Open Sea

Hi!


Today I have a card for you that uses some of my most favourite retiring products. The very top of that list would be the World Map background stamp and the Lost Lagoon In Colour. Sigh. It's always a bittersweet time when favourites retire.

This card was actually a bit of a CASE of one of my own cards from nearly a year ago. You can see the original card here. You can see I've stayed with the World Map/Gorgeous Grunge combo for the background, but this time I've stamped some images from The Open Sea over the top.

I think the sentiment from Butterfly Basics works so well with the card. It reminds me of an old fashioned script, rather like you'd find in a Captain's Log!

I'll be featuring cards with retiring products for the next few weeks - I have plenty in my 'To Blog' folder and I want to show them off before it's too late!


Bye for now,


Tina

Zoo Babies in Pool Party

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Have you checked out the Retiring List yet? My go-to set for making baby cards , Zoo Babies, is on the list.

I used the Markers to Rubber technique on the giraffe to get the multicoloured image.

The stars were punched using the Confetti Stars Border punch. I also used it to decorate the inside of the card.

It's such a sweet stamp set. There are some super cute replacements in the new Annual Catalogue though!


Bye for now,


Tina

JAI #309: Just Add Inspiration

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Oops! Where did that week go? I'll blame it on school holidays. Ada is away on a Young Carers camp and Alex is doing a 4 day Jamie Oliver Ministry Of Food cooking course and I'm just all out of whack! It's been a bit strange with just Hudson and me home during the day.

But let's get into the Just Add Ink fun for this week. Jodene has given us this gorgeous Inspiration picture for our inspiration.

Can't you just imagine snuggling under that throw on a cold winter day? And the colours are just divine!

I started by choosing my colours. I went with Watermelon Wonder, Blushing Bride and Pool Party. I then used them with an Aqua Painter to create the chevron pattern on some watercolour paper. I was watching the final of MKR as I was painting the background, so it's probably a bit uneven as the excitement levels changed!

Once I finished the background I was a little stumped! I didn't want to stamp a sentiment on the watercolour paper as the texture in the paper can make getting a clear image tricky. I ended up using my Hello You Thinlits with some Watermelon Wonder cardstock. I used a few teeny tiny pieces of Dimensionals to pop it up off the background.

I cheated a little on the inside. I wanted to use more of the chevrons, but this time I decided to use the stamp from Work Of Art and my markers. The sentiments are from Endless Thanks.


The Just Add Ink Design Team has interpreted the inspiration picture in so many fabulous ways. You can see their cards over at the Just Add Ink blog. What inspires you?


Bye for now,


Tina

JAI #308: Just Add M

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I nearly forgot to submit my Just Add Ink Challenge project this week. Oops! School holidays have a way of making the days run away - I nearly always seem to lose track of where we are up to. I guess that's the point of holidays though!

This week it's my challenge at Just Add Ink, and I am challenging you to Just Add M to your projects. It can be anything to do with M - a colour, theme, stamp set, anything! I have incorporated a few M's into my project, as I'm Memory Keeping using the Moments Like These PL Collection, which includes Metallic accents.

Ada, my daughter, won a Jamberry party in a raffle recently, so we held it on Tuesday night. She got to invite several of her friends, and so did I! The girls has a blast applying their wraps and then painting the rest of their nails with polish. Can you imagine how giggly it got with 4 very excited 10 year old girls? It was such a fun night!

Sigh, my title card didn't quite work the way I'd hoped. The circle in the middle has a little heart, but chopping it down the middle has made it look a bit funny. Oh well! The Metallic Gold stickers I used for the title were from the Moments Like These Accessory Kit.


What M's will you use in your project? There's so much you could use! Melon Mambo, Mother's Day, Made With Love stamp set, markers, masking..... the possibilities are endless! See you over at Just Add Ink.


Bye for now,


Tina

World Traveler on a Beautiful Ride

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It's been a big few days for Stampin' Up demonstrators and customers - the 2016 Retiring List is out! Have you checked it out yet? There are always a few big shocks about what appears on the list, but it's tempered a little by knowing that there is some awesome new stuff just around the corner when the new Annual Catalogue comes out.

Today's card is made with nearly all Retiring products. It was made a few weeks ago, when I had no idea what was going or staying, so just a big coincidence.

So. What's retiring off this card? A Beautiful Ride stamp set (sob!), The Open Sea stamp set (sob!), World Traveler TIEF (big sob!) and the Candy Dots (half sob here, as they are being replaced with something new!)

All the colours I used are remaining though - Crumb Cake, Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango and Very Vanilla. Yes, that's right, no colour shake up this year, apart from the usual change of In Colours.

There are a few other sob-worthy mentions on the Retiring List. Two of my most used items are going - Decorative Dots TIEF and Sassy Salutations stamp set. But as I said, there's plenty to be excited about in the new Catalogue so I'm sure I won't be sad for too long!

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI #307: Just Add Colour

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Waa Hoo!  Not only is it Friday, and therefore Just Add Ink challenge day - it's also the last day of school for Term 1! It's been a long few weeks watching a lot of my interstate friends enjoying their holidays on FB, but now it's our turn!

This week Nikki has set a colour challenge, and it's fabulous!  I'm a real fan of yellow paired with gray, so thisd one was right up my alley!

Here's what I came up with using the colours.

I quite like the way that the sunburst and stars lok like a firework going off in the background. I stamped the sunburst from Kinda Eclectic, but stamped it off first so that the Delightful Dijon wouldn't dominate the card too much. The stars, from Perpetual Birthday Calendar, were stamped in Smokey Slate over the top.

The 'happy' fromt eh Hello You thinlits makes for a bold sentiment over the top of everything else.

What will you do with the colours this week? Can't wait to see what you create. Don't forget to link up at Just Add Ink.

Bye for now,

Tina

Happy 13th Birthday Alex!

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This time 13 years ago I was cuddling a tiny little newborn. I can't believe that 13 years have passed since then. Alex has grown into such a handsome young man who has achieved a lot.

A special birthday requires a special card, and this is what I made for him.

One of Alex's passions is space and astronomy, so it was a bit of a no-brainer to use the constellation paper from the Going Places DSP Stack.

I also used the Large Numbers bundle to create the main panel. I know I say it all the time, but it's such a great bundle!

Happy 13th Birthday Alex!

Bye for now,

Tina