Hi everybody and welcome to a new challenge at TIME OUT. Our last challenge of Xmas cards was so amazing, the Gallery looks so beautiful! Thank you to everyone who entered, your making it harder and harder to choose our winners!!!
For this challenge we are asking you to CASE (copy and share everyone) this amazing card by Karen who's blog is Snippets.
I'm sure you will have seen Karen's cards around Blogland. She's an incredible card designer and her blog is filled with so much inspiration. Its wonderful to have a chance to be inspired by one of her cards!!
With CASEing Karen's card, its totally up to you how your inspired with your creation. You might go with the same colours, use stencils, use the design, the choices are endless.
We also have a Guest Designer for this challenge, Jen from I Create. She is an absolute whizz with sketches and colour combos, so I really encourage you to visit her blog!!!
I was inspired by the layout of Karen's card and decided to try out a new technique:
Last week I watched a video by Jennifer McGuire called 'Monochromatic Stamp Layering'. She showed how you could stamp on coloured card stock with a similar colour ink and then do stamp layering in white pigment ink. She also used a white gel pen to add more highlights.
I do have some layering stamp sets but I wanted to use this snowflake stamp. I stamped it using Hero Arts 'Tide Pool' on some Simon Says Stamp 'Audrey Blue' card stock. I then used a white gel pen to add highlights. I die-cut the sentiment from white card stock and glued over the snowflake and then adhered the panel to a card base. I really like how this turned out and will definitely do this again. Thank you Jennifer McGuire!!!
The snowflake stamp (from 'Lovely Snowflake' set) and sentiment die are from CAS-ual Fridays.
You have two weeks to enter your projects in the TIME OUT challenge. And please check out the blog for some amazing inspiration from the rest of the Design Team. Looking forward to seeing you in the Gallery!
Take care
Shona
Welcome to another Wednesday and a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps. We have the most fabulous photo to inspire you this week and it couldn't have come at a better time:
My Xmas card stash is still very small, so this is a great chance to add to it. And the photo is so beautiful, the Gallery will be full of Xmas cheer this week!
Our Sponsor for this challenge is Happy Little Stampers and they are giving the winner of this challenge a $15 gift voucher. Their stamps are so gorgeous, its one amazing prize!!
From the photo I couldn't go past using red and white on my card. And luckily I had a new die-set a friend gave me to try out and one of them was perfect:
The dies sent to me are from Little B 'Holiday-Navidad-Noel'. I had no idea they made dies, had only come across their foil washi, so this was a fantastic surprise!!
One of the dies is a sprig, which I die-cut a few times from white CS. I arranged them in a wreath pattern on a panel of white CS and glued as I went. After stamping the sentiment (from CAS-ual Fridays 'Must Love Snowflakes') I adhered the panel to the card front. As I needed some red, I added some red bling to the wreath. My husband saw this card and told me how much he liked it. He doesn't usually say too much about my creations, so that made me extra happy!!
You have one week to link your projects to the Addicted to Stamps Challenge and the rest of the Design Team have created some beautiful cards for you on the blog, to get you in the mood!! I can't wait to view the Gallery and see what you've made!!
Take care
Shona
It's an exciting day for me today! Not only is my son Max turning 9yrs old but its also time for a new challenge at CAS-ual Fridays 'The Clean and Simple' Challenge.
Time to break out those metallic ink pads, embossing powders and papers and create a 'clean and simple' design. You don't have to use CAS-ual Fridays products but if you do have some, we would love to see them!!
When I think of 'metal', my mind goes straight to heat embossing and my favourite silver embossing powder. So I knew I needed to include that in my design but I also had some shiny metal stars that were screaming for a shaker card....:
I started off by cutting a panel of white CS slightly smaller than my card front and die-cutting the flower shape. I held this over the card front and marked where the opening would sit and then stamped and heat embossed the flower in silver. I also heat embossed the sentiment in silver on the panel. After gluing a piece of clear acetate to the back of the flower die, I put a few sequins in the middle of the flower, added lots of foam tape to the panel and placed it over top. Sealing in the shaker stars. I glued an extra one above the sentiment for some extra shine.
The flower die is from CAS-ual Fridays 'Loving Bloom' Fri-dies. The flower stamp and sentiment are also from CAS-ual Fridays 'Loving Thoughts' Stamp Set. The silver and gold stars are from Papervine.
I'm going to link this to the House of Cards November Challenge where their theme is:
The CAS-ual Fridays 'The Clean and Simple' Challenge finishes on Friday 27th November, so plenty of time to get creating and link your projects. The rest of the Design Team have some gorgeous cards on the blog to help inspire you. I hope you join us and I can't wait to see what you come up with!!
Take care
Shona
