Showing posts with label Timeless Textures Stamp Set. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timeless Textures Stamp Set. Show all posts
Totally in love with timeless grunge using Strawberry Sketches #SS02 & Global Design Project #GDP045
Sunday, July 24, 2016 Somerset, UK
I really enjoyed making today's card! So much that I am entering it into two challenges!
First up we have the Global Design Project #GDP045. This weeks challenge is a colour challenge. I have to use the colours Basic Black, Smoky Slate & Melon Mambo in my project to be able to enter.
As soon as I saw this colour combination I knew I just had to enter. I love how Melon Mambo just pops when used with Basic Black.
The second challenge I am entering is Sarah Berry's Strawberry Sketches #SS02. This is a new sketch challenge in its second week and I plan to play along with this each week.
I love sketches, have I told you that? They really help kick start my creativity. Sketches are a guide, you don't have to copy them, all you have to do is loosely base your design on the layout suggested.
This really is a lovely sketch, I hope you can see how I've designed my card using this sketch.
To make this card I've used the Botanical Builders Framelit Diet for the flowers and the new Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies for the sentiment.
Can you see I've die cut the sentiment in both Basic Black and Melon Mambo. There's just a peep of Melon Mambo showing through underneath the Basic Black.
I've also used some Silver Metallic Thread underneath the flowers to add some further interest.
The spotty background is stamped in Smoky Slate and the stamp is from the Timeless Textures stamp set. The ink splodges are stamped in Melon Mambo and are from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.
I hope you've enjoyed today's project! I certainly enjoyed making it and I can't wait to play along again.
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Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
On 1st June 2016 the new Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue will be live! How exciting!
Over the next few weeks I will be saying goodbye to some of the products that are retiring from the current catalogue and today I am starting with the In Colours 2014 - 2016, Lost Lagoon, Blackberry Bloss, Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow & Tangelo Twist
I have cased one of my own cards which has been very popular on Pinterest. Click here to see the original version.
The first card showcases Lost Lagoon. This is my favourite colour of all time and I am very sad to see this go. Its going to be Pool Party all the way now.
This is Blackberry Bliss. This used to be one of my favourites but I have found I turn toward Perfect Plum more now I am using more muted tones. I used this colour in my very first Pinkies blog hop, which was also one of my first blog post. Click here to see this card.
Hello Honey is such a lovely colour, not one I tend to use that much. I really like how it looks on a screen card that I made, click here to see it.
Mossy Meadow is a colour I haven't really used before so I am glad I made this project so I had a chance to use it before it retired.
This is Tangelo Twist. I don't tend to use orange very much in my projects, I think that's because I tend to think of Halloween.
Thank you
I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you! My entry into Kylie's International Blog Highlight made it into the top 10 which means I will have the opportunity to take part in an international blog hop with demonstrators from around the world.
Thank you SO much for voting for me x
Sympathy cards aren't cards I generally enjoy making, unfortunately they always mean someone, somewhere has lost someone dear to them and are in unimaginable pain.
A close a family member on my husbands side, died a few days ago. It wasn't news we were expecting, as quite often it never is. We are deeply saddened and wanted to express our heartfelt condolences to the immediate family, and so here we have a sympathy card I've made and sent to the immediate family members.
I wasn't planning on using one of the new stamp sets from the Spring Summer catalogue but while creating this card I knew I wanted to stick to a monochrome theme, I didn't have any patterned paper that I felt would be appropriate so I used a stamp from the Timeless Textures stamp set and made my own background paper by stamping in Smoky Slate onto Whisper White cardstock.
I think it looks simple in an elegant way. Its exactly the look I was after. Clean, bright, sombre, special and beautiful.
I used the Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp set to stamp 'With Sympathy' on the front and 'Thinking of you' on the inside.
The butterfly has been die cut using the Butterflies Thinlit Dies and has 2 layers. The underneath is cut from Basic Black Cardstock. The top layer is Vellum, from the new Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack from the upcoming Spring Summer Catalogue. There is a subtle pattern on the vellum and I felt this added something to the card.
I finished the butterfly with a row of 9 rhinestones down the centre. Simply stunning.
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