TIME OUT #57 - Inspired By Words

This week at TIME OUT, we are asking you to be inspired by the words:

'May All your weeds be wild flowers'

This quote is is perfect for the season (as I am waging war on the dandelions in my yard!), and we have a wonderful guest designer, Julia, from der Kleine Klecks, who is sharing some inspiring designs!

Here is my take on the words:

I started out by sponging some Distress Inks onto the card base - normally I use bright colours but this time I went more "earthy" with Wild Honey, Peeled Paint, and Broken China. I splattered the background with some Perfect Pearls. I added a panel die cut with a large stitched rectangle and a large stitched oval with some foam tape to the card base, and then I added in the Memory Box Frangia Bouquet die cut - layering both under and over the oval panel. The Altenew greeting was heat embossed on some vellum for the finishing touch.

So make sure you take some TIME OUT to join us for this inspiring challenge - we can't wait to see how you are inspired!

Thanks for stopping by!
Jill

TIME OUT - Happy Birthday Sandie!

We are having a special challenge over at Time Out to celebrate the birthday of one of the most wonderful people in blogland, Sandie Munro. Since the challenge is in honour of Sandie, we are asking you to come up with cards that are very CAS (Sandie's style) with the colour purple as an optional twist (her favourite colour). It is going to be a lot of fun - and did I mention that it is a surprise for her!

I love Sandie's style - she keeps her designs so crisp so I really wanted to try a card in her style - I'm not quite sure I got there....here is the card: 

I used Clearly Besotted's Flight of Fancy (now discontinued but a mini version is still available). I stamped the butterflies in two shades of purple pigment , and I added some Stampendous Kaleidoscope embossing powder while the ink was still wet. This powder is really amazing - you don't see it until it hits the light - and then it is so glittery. I stamped the greeting from the same set and then I ran the card through the Big Shot with a PTI texture plate (I know Sandie loves this one too!).

So please join us in celebrating a wonderful card maker and amazing person at Time Out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #56 - Reminder

There's still time!!!!!

At Time Out - and this week, we are CASE-ing this gorgeous card from Kay Miller. If you want to check out more of her creations, her website is here.

Instructions for Kay in her own words:

I started by stamping the dot background pattern in grey ink then adhered  the little stitched square frame with foam tape. I stamped, cut out, and layered all of the leaves and flowers with foam tape as well. The white swirl was die cut and tucked under the frame and flowers with a glue dot. I stamped the sentient with black ink onto a fishtail flag die cut, and adhered it with foam tape just under the edge of the frame. I added a  few clear PPP sequins to finish it up!

We also have a wonderful Guest Designer this week - Marlena has some great card designs so please stop by her website here. 

And here is my card:

I love so many elements on Kay's card that I CASE-d quite a few of them (again!!!). I started off by creating a mix of silver PearlEx and gum arabic to splatter across the card front - this is going to be new favourite technique because the gum arabic is so much thicker than water that the splatters are actually dimensional when they dry - I love this! I added some white die cut Memory Box branches to the background. The frame was die cut from some MFT dies and the birds were die cut using some patterned paper and some Memory Box dies. Finally, I added the silver flag with the white embossed greeting before mounting the card front on a light grey card base.

So now it's your turn to CASE Kay and have some fun! See you at Time Out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

Happy National Scrapbook Day 2016

Happy National Scrapbook Day!

I thought about celebrating by completing some of my unfinished scrapbook pages from a couple of years ago but I decided to make some cards instead :)


Here is the first card - the technique used is a masked glitter over acetate technique that was shown in OCC Clear and Sheer - I have been dying to try it since I saw the video and this week's Merry Monday Glitter and Ombre challenge seemed the perfect opportunity to do it. I used the MFT Snowflake Fusion cover up die as my mask and applied three colours of Wow glitter to create the ombre effect. I love the microfine glitter a lot more than the Wow but I didn't have the right colours. I added the die cut greeting (stacked up) from W+9 cut from silver foil card stock. I just love the see-through panel and how it sparkles in real life!

I will link up to the following challenges

• Merry Monday - Glitter and Ombre
• MFT Sketch Challenge:

The second card I am sharing uses the adorable Simon Says Furry Cat and Box stamp. I used a double masking technique to create the background using Peacock Feather and Twisted Citron Distress Inks (I had no idea they would so good together!). I then coloured the image with Copics and added some red sequin hearts. I finished the card by adding a die cut circle frame (from MFT) and a greeting strip across the bottom (the strip is actually to cover up a badly stamped greeting but I really  like the effect :) The "home" and "congratulations" are from the Clearly Besotted Sentimental set.

I will link this card to the following challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps and More - where the challenge is Make Your Mark
• CAS-Ology where the key word is MOVE - this may be a stretch but I actually made this card for a cat to congratulate him on being adopted and moving into his new home (which happened to be owned by some of my good friends!) - silly but true!

So now off to continue celebrating NSD in my craft room

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #56 - CASEing Kay Miller

We have another challenge at Time Out - and this week, we are CASE-ing this gorgeous card from Kay Miller. If you want to check out more of her creations, her website is here.

Instructions for Kay in her own words:

I started by stamping the dot background pattern in grey ink then adhered  the little stitched square frame with foam tape. I stamped, cut out, and layered all of the leaves and flowers with foam tape as well. The white swirl was die cut and tucked under the frame and flowers with a glue dot. I stamped the sentient with black ink onto a fishtail flag die cut, and adhered it with foam tape just under the edge of the frame. I added a  few clear PPP sequins to finish it up!

We also have a great Guest Designer this week - Marlena has some great card designs so please stop by her website here. 

And here is my card:

There were so many great elements to CASE on Kay's card - I think I used most of them! I loved the colour scheme, the grey splatter and the overall layout. I splattered some watered down Warm Calico mist over the card panel which had been die cut. I then die cut the MFT flower from some pink card stock - I embellished the flower with some Spun Sugar Distress Ink and a light application of Stickles (for a touch of glitter!) before adhering it together - I also shaped the petals a little bit to create some dimension. The vellum leaves were also die cut with an MFT die, and the sentiment (from Altenew) was stamped in HA Wet Cement and popped up with some foam squares. The card front was mounted to a light grey card base. A splattering of sequins finished the card.

So now it's your turn - how will you CASE Kay's card? Whatever elements grab your eye - make sure you take some TIME OUT to join us!

Thanks for stopping by!
Jill