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Card Making | CAS Colours and Sketches 532

I'm back again with my favourite type of challenge - a three colour swatch. This was an absolute pleasure to play with.  I made a 7x5 card featuring paper pieced shapes. I'm not sure what to call this shape... it is a die from an old Pinkfresh Studio set of snowflakes... clearly not your average snowflake!  I cut it from each of my selected patterned papers and mixed them up piecing back into white outlines so each of the three shapes had all of the colours. I added them to a panel with a touch of subtle inking around the edge and placed them on my card base.  I die cut the sentiment from matching patterned paper and added that below. A quick note on the 'patterned paper' - the bright blue piece is actually a piece I stamped and ink blended using a Concord and 9th Turnabout stamp.  I was following a Jennifer McGuire video tutorial on the iron off embossing technique.  The piece has sat in my stash unused for a few years now.  I may have used less than an inch and a half
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Card Making | CAS Colours and Sketches 531

It's the third Tuesday of the month which of course means there's a sketch up at CAS Colours and Sketches .  Take a look... I've gone for three shades (ombre-ish) of Concord and 9th cardstock to create my stripes.  They are layered up so there is a small amount of dimension too. The 'happy' is from Concord and 9th and the birthday is from Create A Smile.  I've layered them up too. Such a simple design but I kinda want to make it over and over in different colourways. This is for the CC&S challenge which runs until the 4th of March - we'd love you to join us!

The Story of a Die | Hello

All of The Hellos! The die is an old favourite from Concord and 9 th , and I’m quite fond of using hello on my projects.   I’m also a fan of zero waste and that is where this all got a tad out of hand! Card number one is a cut Honey Bee patterned paper with three hellos cut out.   The original plan was to bump the stripey hellos up on 3 layers of white cardstock and pop them back in place.   I believe this is called the eclipse technique.   I did this, cutting 9 white hellos along the way, and really was not blown away with the look.   It needed gold glitter, as so many things do!   So, I cut three gold hellos – these then needed another nine white hellos…   I was happy with card number one. I now had spare stripey hellos, gold glitter negative hellos and a whole bunch of white negative hellos.   These can’t go to waste! Card two was simple enough. The gold negative was simply stunning.   I die cut a panel, added the counters and chads back in place, popped some sprigs and

Scrapbooking | Chocolate Wrappers?!

Sometimes packaging is just too good to throw out in the recycling! At least it is for me as a crafter... The colours on this chocolate bar wrapper from Dormouse Chocolates was just the perfect ombre of palest yellow to rich sunset orange with a whole lot of perfect peachiness in between, and a really good weight of cardstock, too.  It demanded to be reused on a layout! I paired it with Simon Says Stamp's Garden Greetings stamp set and some stencilling with oxide inks in the background.  I love the softness of the colours, stencilling and vellum against the starkness of the bold black stamping. I used the text on the chocolate wrapper to make a found poem about my boy Theo.  It kind of has a double meaning as Theo is short for Theobroma; Theobroma Cacao is the name of the cocoa plant that chocolate is made from.  Yep, budgie boy is named after chocolate!  Two of my most treasured things are birds and chocolate!! I always say I'm rubbish with words.  The colour, inkiness, design

Card Making | CAS Colours and Sketches 530

 It's time for another colour challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches ... We've got these three bright beauties to play with.  Just match to the swatch as close as you can! I've gone for stripes of the three colours, building a panel that I then die cut out of. I die cut a skinny frame, some stars, a 'birthday' and then filled the rest of the space with other dies to get as much as I could from the panel.  The other pieces will show up on cards and layouts soon! I stacked up my frame and word on a few layers of black cardstock to add some dimension and a little flash of contrast from the white card base. I stamped a happy in coordinating ink to complete the sentiment.  This is where ink swatches come into their own - it was easy to flip through and colour match to my patterned paper. Dies and Papers frame die, red and yellow papers from Heffy Doodle birthday die from Create A Smile blue paper from Bella Blvd star dies from Honey Bee Stamps Hope to see you joining us o

Card Making | CAS Colours & Sketches #529

 I am loving the *really* clean and simple look right now... This is made for the new challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches which you can find out more about here.   It's based on this sketch... Obviously I switched the heart out for the greeting which is die cut (Create A Smile), stamped and die cut (Heffy Doodle), stacked, popped up and glittered.  CAS is all about those tiny details! Father Christmas Mum got me a fancy set of glittery threads for Christmas and I used three colours to mimic the triangular split of the card base indicated on the sketch. I dotted in a few iridescent circle confetti pieces.  They are tiny but very shiny.  They flash pink, blue and aqua in different light and are almost invisible from some angles. I hope you are inspired to play along with us at CAS C&S !

Card Making | CAS Colours and Sketches 528

I'm excited to have joined the team at CAS Colours and Sketches .  This is my first make for them and it is a colour challenge. I struggled to find an exact match for the berry burst shade but Pinkfresh's Regal Kiss was a good enough match.  I also went with Hydrangea, Spruce Tips and Lush Forest, all from Pinkfresh's ink line.  If green is in a colour swatch I immediately go to leaves and I fancied pulling out my Alex Syberia florals so that was an easy decision.   Keeping it CAS I stamped off the edge of the card base and embossed in white for a subtle look.  I then used the coordinating stencils to ink blend.  As I was blending rather than stamping my colours are a touch on the softer side.   Then I decided my greeting would go smack bang across the middle of my image.  Perhaps controversial?  Why place it over the prettiness?  I don't know really, I just like the closeness of everything design-wise. Come over and join us at CAS Colours and Sketches !