Can You Case It? #110 - Botanical Builders Framelits Dies

Hello and Happy Sunday! Welcome to the a brand new week and a brand new challenge at CYCI. What better way to start your week than with a sketch challenge. I love a sketch challenge and they are perfect starting plaform to get those creative juices flowing! You'll find lots of inspriation from the Design Team here

I did think about changing the sketch to the Vertical orientation and then though I would actually leave the sketch as is for once.

I had a play around with the Botanical Builder Framelits Dies and the DSP from the 12"x12" It's My Party Paper Stack.

I've used Rose Red, Blushing Bride, Island Indigo and Pool Party. I saw the colour combo on an advertisement on the back of a local card making magazine and really wanted to give that a go.

The Botanical Builder Framelits Dies make it easy to create a beautiful card. Die cut a few of the flowers and arrange them on your card and you're done.

I've finished the card off with the Greeting Thinlits, Burlap Trim, Pool Party Glitter Ribbon and some the  Metallics Assorted Sequins.

Are you ready to enter your creation in this weeks challenge????? Can't wait to see your creation!!  Click here for more inspiration.

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2016 Occasions | Spring Summer International Stampin' Up! Blog Hop

Hello and a BIG welcome to you all for this International Stampin' Up! Blog Hop showing the fabulous products from the 2016 Occasions|Spring Summer Catalogue. I'm very much honoured and so excited to have been asked by Kylie Bertucci to be a part of this hop and I'm feeling a little nervous to be amongst these fabulous and very talented crafters.

Thank you for joining us today for our International Stampin' Up! Blog hop. You may be just starting here or have come from the ever amazing Krista Frattin. Either way you can make your way around by using the list below so that you don't miss a blog. We have and incredible group of talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrators who wanted to highlight some of the Occasions Catalogue items, remember that Sale-a-Bration is happening at the moment too so you can earn free products! At the moment you are currently in hot and sunny Melbourne, Australia and you are about to go around the world to different locations.

I've used the fantastic stamp set Number of Years and its co-ordinating Framelits set Large Numbers. The best part of this stamp set and framelits is that these two products are put together in a bundle and you can save 15% when these are purchased together. Everyone loves a saving right?!

I've made a few creations recently using the Chalkboard Technique and really love the look. I know its not a new technique but I thought it would look fabulous with this set.

This card nearly didn't happen. It took me at least 6 attempts to do the embossing layer and every time I managed to get it wrong. One I accidentally tore when sponging it, one the sewing machine jammed, one the embossing didn't melt right. I felt like (if cards ever had feelings. Ha!) that it really didn't want me to make it. I nearly binned the whole idea. At that moment that's when you walk away, take a deep breath and then come back to it when your thoughts are recollected.

I've embossed the leaf spray in the bottom left corner with White Stampin' Emboss Powder and then I stamped the little flowers on Shimmery White cardstock with Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Blushing Bride and Watermelon Wonder. I then fussy cut the little flowers, and yes they are little to fussy cut, and arranged them on the card. It is then finished off with some Blushing Bride banners and some Gold Foil Numbers. 

I just love the prettiness of this set and the watercolour feel that it has. I'm a sucker for anything flowery and pretty, so sets like these have me at 'Hello'!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Make sure that you hop all the way around to see all the awe-inspiring creations. You don't want to miss a thing! Next around on the hop is the ever lovely, Martha Inchley. She always has fabulous creations so go and check her blog out!

Jennifer Pauli

Kylie Bertucci

Michelle Last
Bibiana Cameron

Cindy Homier Schuster

Krista Frattin

Rochelle Blok - YOU ARE HERE

Martha Inchley

Tami White

Shannon Lane

Recreate this card at home using the following Stampin' Up! products.

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Just Add Ink Turns #300 - Just Add a Sketch

WOO HOO! Its Just Add Ink time! This week at Just Add Ink we are celebrating our 300th Challenge with a sketch challenge. It's a fantastic achievement and I'm so excited to be a part of it!

I've been staring at the sketch all week trying to nut something out. Usually I find the sketch challenges come to me quite easily but this time it wasn't to be the case. I tried a few different things but nothing seemed to be coming together like I had imagined. I put my card aside and thought something might come to me if I leave it for a while.
Something caught my eye this morning when I was getting my kiddies up to get ready for school and I thought that might work. I actually walked past some prints that I have hanging in my home with some butterflies on it and really loved the colouring of them and then the card all went from there. I really love it when the inspiration hits you like that from random things.

I cut the butterfly out vellum and then sponged Soft Suede, Early Espresso and Melon Mambo over the butterfly. Try to be a bit gentle when sponging over the die cut butterfly. If you are too quick and a bit heavy handed you can rip and tear the butterfly and then you'll have to start all over again. I may or may not had to sponge about 3 butterflies due to tearing them. Just sayin'.

On the circle behind the butterfly I've stamped and embossed one of the splatter images from Gorgeous Grunge with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder. You could get a similar look by flicking the Gold Wink of Stella Brush on the card stock too.

The fleur-de-lis image is from the Timeless Texture stamp set. And did you notice that strip of gold glimmer? That's the new Sale-a-bration FREEBIE the Metallics Glitter Tape. You get three rolls, one of each colour, gold, silver and white so it can go with any of your creations. Its fantastic and so sparkly and the best thing is that you don't even have to cut it you can just tear it like Washi tape. So easy. Loving it!

To make this challenge a little bit more special there are prizes for the 3 winners of this challenge. The usual challenge rules apply -

• Create a card, layout or 3D project using our challenge as inspiration.
• Link your post, NOT your whole blog.
• Your project must be new, created for this challenge and combined with no more than 5 other challenges.
• Please mention JUST ADD INK in your blog post and provide a link so others can come and join in the fun too.
• Please DO NOT use your challenge entry as self promotion. We are here to have fun and encourage creativity.
• We reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with the above guidelines.
• The challenge closes each Wednesday at 10.00 pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time.

 So why not get a start on your weekend and celebrate with us at Just Add Ink by getting your creative juices flowing and enter in this weeks challenge. Head on over to Just Add Ink for all the details on how to enter. Remember you've got to be in it to win it! 

So looking forward to seeing your creations! 

Last but not least make sure that you check out the rest of the fabulous creations from the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team and show them some comment love! We so love to know what you think of our creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Can You Case It? #108 - Birthday Blooms Sketch Challenge

Hello Everyone! Happy Sunday! Welcome to a new challenge at Can You Case It? A sketch challenge. And this week I kept to the sketch pretty much as it is. I know right! Don't fall off your chair that I kept to the sketch. I'm usually the first one to change it up a little.

I've used the Birthday Blooms stamp set and used it for a bit of water colouring. I do love to colour. I find it very relaxing and calming (when everything is going right and I'm not in a hurry to create a card). You don't need to buy one of those intricate colouring books, just stamp a few of your favourite images and get colouring.

I've used Blushing Bride and Watermelon Wonder to colour the flower. I coloured the Blushing Bride first and then a light layer of the Watermelon Wonder. I didn't want the Watermelon Wonder to be too bright and take over the whole image. Just a subtle bit of colour.

Do you notice the white striped card in the background? It's one of the cards from the Sale-a-bration Memories in the Making Project Life Speciality Card Collection. You can get this card kit for FREE. For every $90 AUD you spend (before shipping and handling) you can get this card collection for NOTHING!!! How awesome is that! Ask me how you can get yours TODAY. These cards are great as an added element on your cards or use them in your Project Life albums.  This striped card is perfect for a bit of a colour resist technique but I wanted to keep it white and keep the subtly if the white stripes. 

I embossed the Birthday Bloom image with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder first before I coloured it.  I find embossing an image first before you colour it in helps to stay in the lines and you don't have to be as careful when you are colouring. I love the beautiful outline that the gold embossing gives to the image. 

Its all finished off with some Gold Metallic Thread, Basic Rhinestones, Gold Foil Doilies and some Basic Gold Metal Buttons.

Why not take the time today to have a bit of a creative 'me' time before another week back at work and school and enter this weeks sketch challenge at Can You Case It?  I can't wait to see your creations!

Make sure you check out the awesome creations that the Design Team have created this week show them some comment love! We really enjoy the comments that you leave us.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Just Add Ink #299 - Just Add Inspiration

Hello there and welcome! It's time to Just Add Ink and what better day to start a new challenge than on a Friday when you have the whole weekend ahead of you to create. This week at Just Add Ink we are just adding some inspiration with an inspiration pic. It's pretty, its pink and its summery. All the things I love!

I was really taken with the pink and green colour combo in the picture and used that as my starting base and then I had a play around with the Botanical Builder Dies.
 I only got them the other day and couldn't wait to get creating. I wasn't so keen on these dies when I first saw them but as it always goes I've seen some amazing creations with them and then just had to get them.

I've layered a few of the flowers on the front. I've sponged the edges of each item just to give them all a bit of dimension and depth. I've had my first attempt at machine sewing on my card. Please be kind! I've borrowed my mums machine, Thanks Mum, to see how it would go before I look at getting my own. It is a little wonky but with some more practice hopefully it will get a little straighter! I'm going to have sewing on everything!!! Ha! I actually threaded the Metallic Gold Thread through the machine and it worked so well!! Looks so pretty!

Make sure you check out the Just Add Ink page to check out all the inspiration from the rest of the design team and then have a go at playing along!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

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The Stamp Review Crew - Sale-a-bration 2016

Welcome to another Stamp Review Crew Blog Hop! I can't believe that we are already half way through February and on to out second hop for this month. This hop we aren't using a specific stamp set, we are going with the theme Sale-a-bration 2016. We could choose whatever we wanted from the Sale-a-bration offerings so that you can see what fabulous products you can choose as your freebie item and some awesome things that you can create with them.

I've gone with a stamp set that will be available from 16th Feb - 11th March 2016, called Pedal Pushers. Super Cute!! It has 11 stamps in the set and comes in photopolymer so that you can easily line up the images to create your tandem bicycle built for two. I've actually used all the images from the set so that you can see how awesome a set it really is!

I've kept the same layout for all the cards but just changed them all up a little bit to make them all slightly different too.

I really hope that I've shown you some fun and funky ways to use this set and remember if you want to get your hands on this set spend $90 AUD on any Stampin' Up! products and this set can be all yours for FREE! Who doesn't love a freebie or two? Only available till 11th March 2016, to get yours ASAP before this fabulous set is all gone!

If you are following through on the hop Click on the Next button below to bring you to Betty Traciak

Or If you are hopping in reverse click here to hop on to Yapha Mason.

To see the full list of participants click on the header at the start of this post or visit the Stamp Review Crew site.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Can You Case It? #107 - Colour Challenge

Hello and Welcome! I'm so happy you have stopped by here today! It is Sunday so that means its time for a new challenge at Can You Case It? A colour challenge!!

When being on a Design Team and you are given the run down of the challenges in advance. Sometimes you just look at it and you know instantly what you want to create other times you usually look at for hours and hours and the inspiration just isn't coming to you. Lucky for me this week it wasn't the latter. I just looked at these colours and knew that I wanted to do some colouring with the Rose Wonder set. I could have chosen the safer option and used white as my base and coloured on that but I had seen (probably on Pinterest. He, He) that you can colour on Crumb Cake or Kraft for the non-Stampin' Up! people out there. 

I first embossed the Rose Wonder image onto the Crumb Cake with White Stampin' Emboss Powder. That big rose it just amazing and this stamp set, I love it! So that you are able to colour on the Crumb Cake you need to put down a layer of Whisper White Craft ink with your Aqua Painter or Blender Pen.This just 'seals' the card stock just a little so that you can lay down some colour. It wont be the same as water colour paper but it gives you to wet the card stock a little more than normal before the paper starts balling and piling.

Before you start colouring you need to make sure that your Craft ink has completely dried. Otherwise you'll just be mixing around craft ink, classic ink and water. You'll end up with a big mess and not a pretty one either.

Put down your colour next. I just treated it like I do when I water colour. Using my aqua painter I started at the edges and then pulled the colour in. The only tip is have your aqua painter a little wet but not too much. You don't want the colour so wet that it ruins your cardstock straight away because you've used too much water. You can go over the colour you've put down a little before you damage the cardstock, just don't make it too wet.

It's probably really hard to see but I finished off the rose and the leaves with a fine layer of Stella, of the Wink variety. That stuff is so pretty and you just need a thin layer for some beautiful and subtle shimmer.

Are you ready to play along with this weeks fabulous colours? Click here to see the rest of the Can You Case It? Design Teams Creations and how you can enter this weeks challenge. 

Can wait to see what you come up with!!

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