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The card I’ve created today is for the latest challenge at Global Design Project. This week their challenge is to CASE this fab project from Susan Wong:
I created a card with tags and ribbon detail like Susan’s creation. I’ve gone with a fun birthday card using the Beautiful Balloons Stamp Set.
The colours I’ve used on my card are Pebbled Path, Coastal Cabana and Gray Granite. I feel like this card could be a feminine and a masculine card.
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Narelle
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It’s Friday here in Australia, so that means we have a new challenge over at Just Add Ink for you to play along with.
I really wanted to use these pretty paper from the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper pack. This paper was the starting point to my card. From there I decided to keep my card with a mostly blue colour scheme. I added tinges of Smoky Slate Ink in the leaves I’ve stamped and tucked under the daisies. Or maybe they’re a new breed of flowers as I don’t think there are any blue daisies…
These blue flowers are from the Delightful Daisies Stamp Set. I stamped the flowers in Black Memento Ink and coloured the petals with my blue blends. I took the Dark Smoky Slate Blend and added colour to the centre of the flowers.
I shaded the background beneath the flowers with a Blending Brush and Balmy Blue Ink. I then added some die cut leaves. These leaves are from the Textured Floral Dies.
As always, the team at Just Add Ink have created awesome projects. Make sure you head over to the challenge and check out their creations.
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Narelle
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We have a new sketch for you all to play along with over at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Amy O’Neill. Make sure you head over to her blog and see her stunning creations.
I’ve found the combo of Wild Wheat and Basic Black is quite striking, so I’ve used this for my card today.Suppose any colour with black comes across as striking.
I’ve used products from the Gorgeously Made Bundle. Really loving the background script stamp.You will probably see it feature on a lot of my cards.
Make sure you check out all the design team cards by heading over to Freshly Made Sketches.
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Cheers
Narelle
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This week at the Global Design Project, they have a sketch challenge.
Take a look at the fab challenge they have for us to play along with:
I haven’t used the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set for a while, so it got a workout on my card today. I’ve been very drawn to blue lately as you might be able to tell…. I added some leaf diecuts cut with the Textured Floral Dies.The flowers and leaves were placed over a shaded and inked background. The background script stamp is from the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set.
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Narelle
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There’s a new challenge to play along with over at Just Add Ink. This week the challenge is to:
I’ve created a card with leaf inlays. The die set I’ve used for the leaves is called Aspen Dies. I used two of the dies to cut the die cuts out of my Basic White Cardstock. I then took a Blending Brushy and Balmy Blue Ink and added shading around the holes left from the dies. To add a little more interest to the cardstock, I flicked ink from a Dark Smoky Slate Blend over the shading.
I love a black and white DSP strip down the edge of cards. This DSP is from the Zoo Crew DSP pack. To this i added a thin strip of Crumb Cake Cardstock. Both of these were added to the decorated/diecut Cardstock. I then added dimensionals to this cardstock and adhered it to my card base. I then adhered the original leafy diecuts back in place but adhered them directly to the base card – while all the rest was raised.
I then sent about colouring this lil fatty bird with my Crumb Cake Blends. He is from the Perched in a Tree Stamp Set. The leaves I added behind him have been watercoloured on to Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper. I actually had these sitting from another project and instead of heaving them in the bin, I kept them for a project just like this one!
Make sure you head over to Just Add Ink and see what the team have created.
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Narelle
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I was able to play along with the latest colour challenge at Global Design Project today. This week their challenge colours are:
How pretty are they colours together?
My stamp set of choice was the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. My pansies have been stamped in a combination of all three colours for both the large and small pansies.
I added some die cuts that I had sitting on my desk from the Textured Floral Dies. I had them left over from other projects and I liked the Basic White Cardstock foliage behind the pansies.
The background was shaded with Azure Afternoon Ink, an Artistic Mix Decorative Mask and a Blending Brush.
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Narelle
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Welcome to another Wednesday and another new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been brought to us by Jennifer Timko. Jen is an amazing crafter who always makes me say wow!
Here’s her fab sketch:
I reached for my new Colour & Contour Stamp Set that had yet to see ink for this card. I took my colour inspiration from my new Countryside Inn DSP. I kept everything blue from my flowers to the masked background.
The team have created wonderful projects that you will want to check out. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.
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Cheers
Narelle
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It’s new sketch challenge time at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Linda Callahan.
A new catalogue means I have so many choices for sets to use on my cards. The stamp set I’ve inked up for the first time for this card is called the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set. This set has two stamps for each daisy – one for the outline and one can be inked up to colour the flower. Instead of using the second stamp, I coloured my daisies with my Daffodil Delight Blends. For the centre of the flowers, I took my Light Smoky Slate Blend and added shadows to create depth.
The leaves are also from the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set. They have been stamped with Garden Green Ink. I stamped the leaf on to Basic White Cardstock and then stamped the leaf again without inking up the stamp. This gave me a lighter shade of green for some of the leaves. All images were fussy cut out.
The team have created awesome cards. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches to see what they have created.
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Cheers
Narelle
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There’s a new challenge for you to play along with over at Just Add Ink. This week is the following challenge:
For this challenge I searched for the biggest sentiment I have in my craft room. The dies I’ve used are called the Love For You Dies. I’ve paired them with flowers and leaves from the Cottage Rose Stamp Set. The pretty DSP I’ve added to my card is from the Abigail Rose DSP pack.
The team at Just Add Ink have created awesome projects. Make sure you head over to Just Add Ink and see what they’ve created.
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Cheers
Narelle
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It’s Wednesday, so that means there’s a new sketch to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. Our sketch designer this week is Karren Johnson. Karren is the Queen of backgrounds and never seems to use the same stamp set twice – her whole house must be full of them!
Take a look at her awesome sketch:
I wanted to ink up the Nested Friends Stamp Set another time before it retires. I used the marker direct to stamp technique for the nest image. I applied Evening Evergreen and Early Espresso ink to the stamp, huffed on it with my breath and stamped it on Basic White Cardstock. I did the same with the branches and then fussy cut all images out.
The birds were stamped in Black Memento Ink and coloured quite quickly with Pool Party and Soft Suede Blends. These little cuties were also fussy cut out.
The circle of DSP I’ve added is from the Abigail Rose DSP pack. I am really going to miss this DSP! I added a sentiment from the Nested Friends Stamp Set and matted it with a torn piece of Coastal Cabana Cardstock.
I was actually going to leave the background all white, but decided it was a little too stark, so I added flicks of my dark Basic Gray Blend and then Pearls to finish it off.
The team have created wonderful cards using Karren’s sketch. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.
Thanks for stopping by.
Cheers
Narelle