Are you ready for a new challenge theme at TIME OUT? You all totally rocked the Halloween photo for our last challenge and it will be excruciatingly hard to choose our favourites!!
Our theme for this challenge will certainly come in handy at this time of year:
CHRISTMAS with an optional twist of pink and/or purple
I know I'm way behind with my Xmas card stash, so anything to push me to make some more is brilliant!
We even have a fabulous Sponsor for this challenge - Uniko Studio. And you have two ways to win one of their stamp sets:
- you can either twist with us using pink and/or purple and be a random picked winner for a stamp set of your choice
- you can also comment on the Uniko Studio Blog and on all the DT that have played along with us, to win their Stamp of the Week - Label Love
We also have a Guest Designer for this challenge, its the amazing Suchi from Suchi's CardStock. Her designs are gorgeous and she does incredible things with stamps. Lovely to have her with us!!!!
I decided to 'twist' with my card this week and use a Xmas die I had forgotten all about:
I die-cut the Xmas tree's (from Memory Box 'Pine Trio Background') from silver CS, purple glitter CS (from DCWV 'Glitzy Pastels') and a purple paint chip. I staggered them and glued them together. They were popped up on foam tape. I then heat embossed the sentiment (from CAS-ual Fridays 'Lovely Snowflake') in silver. A simple but glittery card that could do quite well with being made quite a few times in different colours!!
I'm going to link this to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where their theme is 'Anything Goes'.
You have two weeks to link your projects to the TIME OUT challenge. The rest of the Design Team and our Guest Designer Suchi have some cards on the blog to inspire you if you need any ideas. Hope to see you in the Gallery!!
Take care
Shona
I seem to have a real thing for making Halloween cards this year. Its the only time of year I can enjoy my love of horror movies and cards of the same theme. So I decided to have another go at the Winnie and Walter 'Rerun' Challenge.
For this challenge they were concentrating on the 'Moonlight' stamp set, which I don't own. But you could also be inspired by the cards created by the Design Team. This time I was inspired by a card that Shay created:
I loved the use of the bats and how the outside edge of the black card front framed the design. This is what I came up with:
I must make sure I have some bat stamps for Halloween next year but luckily I purchased some stamps that came with a bat stencil!!
Boy oh boy do I need more practice with my night-time blending!! I'm not 100% happy with this but I'm glad I threw some water on it as I love the effect with the Distress Ink. I used Chipped Sapphire, Seedless Preserves and Salty Ocean to create my night sky on a white CS panel. After the water dried I used a mini blending tool with some black ink and sponged over the stencil. I then used the same black ink to stamp the sentiment. The panel was put on some foam tape over a black card base and I glued on some stars for some night-time sparkle.
The bat stencil and 'halloween' stamp are from Hampton Arts. The 'happy' stamp is from Winnie and Walter 'The Big, the Bold and the Happy' and the sequin stars are also from W&W (from the Pretty Pink Posh mix).
I'm also going to link this to the AAA Card Challenge # 51 where their theme is:
Hoping its not raining tomorrow. I'm walking with Max's class and two other classes into town to go to the Art Gallery. Will take us about an hour each way, with nearly one hundred 8 and 9 yr olds it should be rather fun....Wish me luck!!
Take care
Shona
I really want to go to bed but I also have so many things to do on my computer. I'm behind with so much commenting and have a few more cards to post. I need to have a whole extra day each week to just work on my card/computer stuff, will put that request on my Xmas list!!!!
So excited because while I was staying with my Mum, I had the time to really sink my teeth into a card for the Little Tangles Challenge using Neat and Tangled products. It was really fun to put together and is Phoebe's favourite card from all I made at the weekend:
I spent a bit of time picking out pretty, pastel coloured patterned papers to use. I stamped the lightbulb in black ink onto each paper and then fussy cut them out. After working out the pattern, I popped them all on to foam tape on the card front. I die-cut a circle from vellum and heat embossed the sentiment in gold, so it really would 'shine bright' and used tiny pieces of double sided tape behind the letters, to hold it in place. A few coloured sequins finished it off nicely.
I used papers from American Crafts 'Serendipity' and 'My Girl'. And also from Echo Park 'Everyday Eclectic'. The lightbulb and sentiment stamps are from Neat and Tangled 'Sparkle and Shine'. The sequins are from Neat and Tangled as well.
Will also link to the Happy Little Stampers - October Challenge where their theme is also:
One more card to post and then need to catch up on some commenting. I follow so many incredible blogs and love seeing what everyone is up to and what they are creating but with working so hard physically gardening nearly every day, I can't seem to stay awake at night any more. I then feel so guilty that people are leaving comments for me but I'm not able to return the favour. So please, if you haven't heard from me for a while, please know that I haven't forgotten about you and I'm still seeing your blog posts. I just can't physically do it all at the moment, so please accept my apologies.
Take care
Shona
