Over on the Winnie and Walter blog, they recently spent the week 'Sharing the Love' with Pinkfresh Studio.
Over five days the Design Team and some special guests created some amazing projects using both Winnie and Walter products but also the 'Felicity' collection by Pinkfresh Studio. They have a challenge running at the moment where you can create a project with inspiration from one or more of the designs and link to their blog.
I recently had the chance to purchase the 'Felicity' paper pad locally but I wasn't fast enough and missed out. However, last year I won a Simon Says Stamp Card Kit and it contained Pinkfresh papers from their 'Happy Things' collection, so decided to give the challenge a whirl!
For this first entry I took inspiration from this card on Day 1 by Shay:
I absolutely loved how she had die-cut the background die from vellum and layered it over the patterned paper. I had to try this idea right away:
As you can see, this is TOTALLY different from my usual card designs (there is no white showing at all!!) but it was so fun trying a different style and using some patterned paper.
I started off by die-cutting the background die from vellum and then adhering a panel of patterned paper directly to the card front. I then very carefully added tiny dots of glue to the back of the vellum and glued it over-top. After stamping the 'thank' in red ink on some white CS, I fussy cut it out and popped up on some foam tape. The rest of the sentiment was stamped in black on some white CS pieces and glued as well. And of course I had to add a few orange, dark coral and clear sequins to highlight all those fabulous dots.
As mentioned before, the paper is from Pinkfresh Studio 'Happy Things'. The sequins are from Neat and Tangled. The stamps and die are all from Winnie and Walter: Cover Model: Multi-faceted Cutaway and 'The Big, the Bold and You' stamp set.
I'm also going to link this to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where their theme is 'Anything Goes'.
I just finished off another card for the W&W challenge, so will post that tomorrow, in-between moments of Spring cleaning Max's room. I decided last week to go room by room and clean EVERY surface. I've done ours and Phoebe's bedroom, which look amazing but my enthusiasm is starting to wane. I'm sure once I get going and see all the 'stuff' under his bed, it will give me the energy to carry on!!!
Take care
Shona
I can't believe its April already??!!! It seems like Christmas was just a few weeks ago and now I'm whizzing towards Winter.....buggar! The good news is that its time to CASE a new designer for the Happy Little Stampers - CASE the Designer challenge. This month we have an incredible card by the always creative Joyce of Cards by the Sea:
Isn't this card gorgeous??!! Joyce is so good with your colouring and she has those fabulous Altenew flower stamps I would love to own myself.
You don't have to use Happy Little Stampers products to play along and you have the chance of winning a $15 discount at the HLS store too!
I love Joyce's card so much I couldn't help but copy the design but decided to use something else instead of a flower:
I don't think I've ever made one of these cards where there is only partial colouring but have been dying to give it a go. I started off by working out where I would die-cut the rectangle and stamped the butterflies in the corners. I then die-cut the rectangle from the card front and also twice more from some white CS. I cut a panel of white CS and adhered to the inside of the card front to give something for the inlaid panel to stick to.
I coloured the butterfly areas on the die-cut and glued the rectangles together. They were then inlaid back into the card front. I stamped the sentiment in black and added a few pink sequins for a bit of shine.
The butterflies are from Happy Little Stampers 'Butterfly Birthday' and the sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays 'Truth is'. The stitched-rectangle die is from Pretty Pink Posh as well as the small pink sequins. The larger sequin is from Neat and Tangled.
I'm going to link this to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where their theme is 'Anything Goes'.
You have until the end of April to link your projects to the HLS CASE the Designer challenge. And if you need any help with inspiration, the rest of the Design Team have CASE'd Joyce's card too over on the blog. Looking forward to seeing your projects in the Gallery!
Take care
Shona
Hi everyone and welcome to Friday...yippee!! Although it didn't take long for Friday to come round this week with the kids getting 'Easter Tuesday' off as well, so its been a very short week for getting my jobs done!!
It also means that its time for another new challenge at Just Add Ink and this week we have a sketch for you:
Oh the possibilities with this little number.....I can't wait to see what you come up with!!
I pretty much followed the sketch but my three long rectangles became rather short but its not the size that matters....is it?:
I've come back to this particular floral stamp set so often, its a wonder the rubber hasn't perished with overuse!! I just love the shape of the flowers and they heat emboss like a dream.....
Firstly I die-cut the small tag 3x from white CS and then stamped and heat embossed the flowers in gold. I then set myself up in front of the tv to watch Madam Secretary while I coloured away with my pencils. The tags were then popped up on foam tape. The sentiment was stamped in black on a strip of white CS and adhered to the bottom of the tags. And of course I had to add a few gold sequins to pull it all together. I can't wait to send this to someone!!
The tag die and stamps are all from CAS-ual Fridays. The tag is from the 'Tag Buddies' Fri Dies set and the flower and sentiment from the 'Mon Ami' stamp set. The gold sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh.
I'm going to link this to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where their theme is 'Anything Goes'.
You have until next Wednesday to link your projects to the Just Add Ink challenge and the rest of the Design Team have some gorgeous cards on the blog to give you some ideas. Looking forward to seeing you in the Gallery!!
Take care
Shona
