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MONDAY IN THE SLOW LANE

Hello and thank you for popping by. I am always so grateful to each of you who take some time to see what I have been creating.

I had hoped to post today’s project a little earlier in the day but I’ve been a bit slow today. The good news is that I have also made two more projects and will have them scheduled to share tomorrow and Wednesday.

Today, I’m sharing ‘hugs’.

I stamped the large floral and ‘hugs’ image onto shimmery White cardstock using StazOn Jet Black ink. This allowed me to use Water Painters to colour the image with Blushing Bride, Garden Green, Pear Pizzazz and Pumpkin Pie. once the ink was dry, I used the Detailed Trio Punch to create the corner features of the image layer.

Using the corresponding die from the Layering Hugs Dies to cut out the White Vellum layer that was positioned over the water coloured image. This made the colouring look even lighter. The die cut layer is not as large as the stamped image, so the water colouring is able to spill out from behind the vellum. I used the small, single floral image on the card insert and envelope before using the Pear Pizzazz and Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write Markers™. Last, but not least, I tied a bow some of the using the Pale Papaya Open Weave Ribbon.

I had thought about adding some Pale Papaya 2021-2023 In Colour Jewels but I only had two left – and, you all know that I’m an uneven number type of crafter. I will definitely need to order some more of these very, very soon.

What do you think? Who would you send a ‘hugs’ card to?

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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HAPPY 100th COLOUR INKSPIRATION

Hello and thank you so much for popping by today.

Today is all about celebrating Colour INKspiration’s 100th challenge. I have only been participating in these colour challenges for a short period of time and recently enjoyed looking back over all 100 challenges. Thank you to Bronwyn Eastley and the CI team for providing all of these colour combinations to inspire our creativity, since January 11, 2017 . You can see all 100 colour combinations just by clicking on the #100 image.

This the colour combination for #CI100.

May be an image of flower and text that says '#100 kATON COLOUR SPIRATION CHALLENGES Gorgeous Grape Magenta Madness Bermuda BermudaBay Bay'

Here is the card I created.

I used the zig zag die from the new Basic Borders Dies to cut a number of coloured strips of cardstock. Once cut, I then adhered them to a piece of Basic White cardstock. This was then embossed using the new Pretty Flowers Embossing Folder. The embossed cardstock was then trimmed down to be used as a card front layer.

Using a greeting from the Create With Friends Stamp Set, the ‘celebrate’ was stamped three times – once each each in the three challenge colours. ‘Celebrate’ was the perfect greeting to choose for this 100th challenge celebration. The greetings were cut using one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies before being stacked and a small hole punched, to accommodate a brad from the Round & Square Brads. The greetings were fanned out and secured using a Mini Glue Dot on each layer. The layered greeting was then popped up onto the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

A strip of the embossed coloured cardstock was added to the card insert and some die offcuts were added to the card front.

The final touch was to add some 2020-2022 In Colour Square Gems to the card front. I really like that so many of the different dies are stitched, making them so easy to coordinate.

This is such a wonderfully vibrant colour combination and a perfect way to celebrate 100 Colour INKspiration challenges.

Happy stamping … and many more challenges to keep us inspired.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECT #GDP294

Hello to each of you who have taken the time to pop by today. Thank you – I am grateful that you have. If you ever have any questions about my projects, please just ask.

I am posting my Global Design Project design early this week (woohoo – how’s that for being organised!)

Last week was a colour challenge and, for the first time, my card was chosen as one of the winning projects. I was so delighted when I saw the GDP post.

This week is a sketch challenge:

For today’s project I have continued to focus on the You’re a Peach Suite, as well as the Tailor Made Tags Dies.

I started by using the second largest of the angled tag dies to cut out spaces in a piece of the You’re a Peach Designer Series Paper because I wanted to create a negative space to correlate with the angled features of the sketch challenge. This layer was then popped up onto a Calypso Coral cardbase using Foam Adhesive Strips.

Then I cut two more, smaller tags – one in Balmy Blue and one in the striped DSP. The Balmy Blue tag was embossed using one of the Greenery Embossing Folders. Each tag had a die cut reinforcement in Calypso Coral added. Then small lengths of Whisper White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon and Basic White Baker’s Twine, from the Essentials Pack, were tied through the tag opening. The sentiment, from the Sweet as a Peach Stamp Set, was stamped using Calypso Coral onto Basic White cardstock before being trimmed down. Finally, I added some 2021-2023 In Colour Jewels onto the card front. I used the Soft Succulent jewels that appear to be a blue/green on the paper.

I used the smallest of the angled tag dies to cut pieces of DSP and cardstock to layer and adhere to the card insert and front of the envelope.

I am so pleased with the way this card looks. Participating in blog hops and challenges is a great way to create in ways I would not normally choose myself. It’s always good to move out of your comfort zone, from time to time, and keep things new and fresh.

What do you think? Is this the type of card you would have made using this sketch challenge?

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00