JAI 620: Just Add Inspiration

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Welcome back to the new Just Add Ink challenge. This week we have an Inspiration photo, suggested to us by Nikki.

Isn't it fabulous? For some reason, I didn't see flowers, I thought of fireflies in a jar. The moody background made me think of a forest at night, full of magic and adventure.

I started my card by inking my background. I used So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Bermuda Bay and Night Of Navy to get the graduation I was after. I then chopped into the base - 1 1/4 inches from each side, to create the base for a Spanner Panel fold card. The trees were added to the front, and allowed to overhang the cuts. The curved ground pieces were added to hide the bottom of the trees, and to connect the two edge pieces.

The front piece folds back to revel the next part. Before I adhered all the trees, I inked the now-revealed outer parts of the card inside to match the card front. This way you still get a complete scene when the first part of the card is lifted. The ground is continuous across these three sections. The deer was a clip art silhouette that I printed and fussy cut. I wanted her to look like she's leading the way into the forest and adventure.

Finally, the inside of the card. I allowed the trees to overlap into the writing panel to soften the hard lines of the inking. I was quite pleased with how this turned out!

That's all from me for now, but please head on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design team cards. You'll also be able to link up your card for our challenge there. What do you see in our Inspiration Photo? Your imagination is your limit!

Bye for now,

Tina

Colour Creations: Evening Evergreen

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Thanks for joining me for the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. It's Evening Evergreen's turn to shine. I nearly wrote that it was one of the new In Colours, but I'm a year too late - it's actually an 'old' In Colour that will retire mid-next year. It's a lovely grey-green that I quite like.

Brian King has paired Evening Evergreen with Crumb Cake and Blushing Bride. I like the mix of a Neutral and soft pink with the deeper green.

I began my card with a Evening Evergreen base, and a layer of Brick & Mortar Embossed Crumb Cake over the top. A strip of Evening Evergreen DSP and White Baker's Twine proved a lovely anchor point for the Stylish Shapes die-cut circle.

My Plentiful Plants stamp set was a great choice for the focal stamping. I stamped one set of leaves onto the circle, and stamped and die cut two more sets to go in the Blushing Bride pot. I looked to Forever Fern for the sentiment, which fits perfectly into the Stylish Shapes banner.

My choice for the inside sentiment is a little controversial - I know some people don't like it, as one word is grammatically incorrect, not that I'm naming names! I created the pot plant in the same way as the one on the front of my card.

Well, that's all from me with Evening Evergreen, but please do keep jumping your way around our blog hop, as there's plenty more to see. Just keep on going until you get back to your starting point. The next stop along the way is the very lovely Kate Morgan.

We are kept organised each week by the very capable, and delightful, Catherine Proctor. If you get stuck, just jump on over to her blog, where you'll find a list of all of tonight's participants to help get you back on track.

Bye for now,

Tina

HOC Week 10

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Monday night is Heart Of Christmas night in this neck of the woods! I hope you've been hopping with us for the previous 9 weeks to see a lot of fabulous Christmas inspiration. So many wonderful Christmas cards and tags have been made by the HOC hoppers.

I've made a group of mini slimline cards this week, using the September 2022 Sheetload Of Cards template. It's a sweet little sized card, sound 6" x 3", which fits nicely into a regular envelope. I've decorated mine with the Celebrate Everything Host DSP. I love the bright, cheerful papers.

The writing space is very small, as the card base is approximately 4" x 3". I chose a smaller sentiment from Brightest Glow so that I didn't take up too much writing space.

Here's my usual group of four cards. I used the Spruced Outlines Dies to crop some Poppy Parade cardstock. They frame the Brightest Glow sentiment perfectly!

That's all from me for tonight, but please do continue hopping your way around all of our blogs. There's lots more Christmassy gorgeousness to be seen, starting with my lovely friend, Kate Morgan.

As she does every week, the fabulous Sharon Davern is keeping the HOC hoppers super organised. If you run into an issue with any links, pop on over to her blog, where she'll have a list of all of tonight's blogs.

Bye for now,

Tina

FMS 551

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EDIT: How exciting, my card was chosen as a Princess of Clean!

Just a quick post today with my entry for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I've made a magical card this week!

The paper is from a couple of Echo Park Witches & Wizards packs. I thought that the shelves of books were a great choice for the three lines in the sketch. I've made the sketch a smaller component of the card, just for something different.

The stamped images are from one of the very first Kindred Stamps sets that I purchased, called Wizard Friends. It's long-retired now, but still has a treasured spot in my collection. I coloured her with my Copics. Hopefully you can see the swirl of stars that is very lightly stamped behind her.

I've stamped the same starry swirl behind the word 'Magical' on the inside of my card. I can hear a magical swishing sound every time I look at it, LOL! Of course, I added another shelf of books to the inside. I think that the Witch on the front of my card would agree with more books, not less.

Bye for now,

Tina

CTC 385: CASE A Glitter Project

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Thanks for stopping by for the new CASEing The Catty Sunday Challenge Blog Hop. I hope you've had a wonderful day - it's Father's Day here in Australia, and my husband had a good day, starting with home made Eggs Benedict for breakfast. Funny story - in my house it's called Eggs Banana, as when the kids were younger they couldn't get the hang of Benedict, so banana it has been ever since! Rest assured, no bananas are actually used in the making!

This week we are asking you to CASE a Glitter Project from either catalogue. They are sprinkled here and there through both the Annual and Mini, so there's lots to choose from.

Have you noticed the Glitter Washi in the Mini Catalogue? I decided to CASE a project that uses it, and this card on page 56 fit the bill. I liked how strips of the washi were used behind the sentiment panel on the card.

I'm not big on Halloween, so I decided to make a birthday card, starting with the fireworks paper from the Celebrate Everything Host DSP pack. I used my Highland Heather, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie markers to add colour to the fireworks. These are the colours of the washi. I added some Daffodil Delight to the fireworks with stars in the middle.

I added a few extra strips of the washi than in the sample - I wanted a nice, thick base for my sentiment from Amazing Phrasing to sit on.

I added more strips of the washi to the inside of my card. You can never have too much glitter!

If you'd like to play along with our challenge, and we hope that you do, all you need to do is make a suitable card and add a photo to our Facebook group. It's that easy!

The next stop on our blog hop is actually the first stop, if you started in our Facebook group with Julia Quinn. She's made a gorgeous, glittery card for your viewing pleasure.

Bye for now,

Tina

Bron's Birthday Blog Hop - September

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Thanks for joining me for the sixth and final Birthday Blog Hop, held in honour of our lovely friend, Bronwyn Eastley, turning 60. She's currently on a tropical holiday celebrating, and so that's the theme for the final hop - Tropical Holiday.

I pulled some old favourites out of my retired products stash for my card. The paper is from the Tropical Oasis DSP, and the sentiments are from the Pretty Perennials stamp set.

What about the pineapple, I hear you ask! I had planned it to be a little different - I found a layered SVG file and was going to make an awesome layered pineapple, but my Scan'n'Cut had other ideas. It did not like how intricate the final layer was, so in the end I just printed the jpg of the file instead. It still makes an awesome background - perfect for the Tropical Holiday theme!

I had a solid pineapple that I'd made when messing around with the svg, so I just added a little ink and it was a great embellishment for the inside of the card. It was too small for the front, but just perfect for the inside.

Time now to jump on over to the next blog in the hop, which belongs to Monica Formosa. She's the very clever gal who designed the Next button for the hop.

Bye for now,

Tina

JAI 619: Just Add Masculine

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Hooray for the ned of the week and the new Just Add Ink challenge. It's been a long week for me, I've been home with Hudson, who has been unwell (again). He loves his cuddles with Mum when he's feeling poorly, which doesn't leave me much time to do anything. Oh well, it's all waiting for me once he's better!

Just in time for Father's Day on Sunday, Tristan has challenged us to make masculine cards. I had a quick moment while Hudson was distracted with a new Wiggles DVD to whip up a quick and easy card for the kids to give Rob for Father's Day.

Hehe, I love this stamp set and die bundle so much - it's really fun! It's from Concord & 9th, and is called Love You More Than. There's a whole lot of options to choose from for the more than bit, but this time I chose French Fries. We all know that most kids love French Fries!

The die has three layers - two fries layers and the box they are in. I added a heart, just for Father's Day. I layered the die cut fries over a masked, inked circle. I inked it with Balmy Blue ink, and faded it out as I got to the top of the circle.

Hehe, I love the inside sentiment, too. I added three die cut hearts, one for each of the kids!

That's it for me for this week's challenge, but your job is just beginning. Pop on over to the Just Add Ink blog, where you'll find the rest of this week's Design Team cards. You'll also find our linky, where you can add your masculine card to our challenge.

Bye for now,

Tina