TIME OUT #66 - Photo Inspiration Reminder

We are one week into our current photo inspiration challenge at Time Out but there is still lots of time to play along and possibly win one of the prizes offered by our generous sponsor, Stamplorations. Sheri, the Stamplorations owner and Time Out DT has offered: a $10 gift voucher to their store for the winner AND there be two random draws for stamp sets Trendy Leaves 2 and Holiday Expressions: Thankful.

Here is the photo to inspire you:

We are also lucky enough to have Claire from Life on the Scrap Heap with us as a guest designer this week - her cards are beautiful so please check them out!

Here is what I cam up with this week:

For my card this week, I took my inspiration from the brick wall and the Atumn colours of the leaves. I started out by painting a blank piece of card stock with some Silks acrylic glazes in some yellow, orange, and red colours - hard to see in the photo but these glazes have some gorgeous shimmer. Once they were dry, I stamped Stamplorations Trendy Flowers in Archival Black on the card stock, and fussy cut around the edges to create the flowers. I used a brick stencil to add some embossing paste to the card base, and then added the flowers. I finished off the card with a CAS-ual Fridays sentiment white embossed on a black banner, and a few sparkling clear sequins.

We can't wait to see how you will be inspired by our current Time Out challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

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TIME OUT #66 - Photo Inspiration

It is time for a new Time Out Challenge, and this week we are being inspired by this pretty picture:

We have a great sponsor this month - STAMPlorations is sponsoring the challenge - the winner will receive a $10 gift voucher to their store AND there will be two random draws for stamp sets Trendy Leaves 2 and Holiday Expressions: Thankful.

We are also lucky enough to have Claire from Life on the Scrap Heap with us as a guest designer this week - her cards are beautiful so please check them out!

Here is how I was inspired - using STAMPlorations Trendy Leaves set:

I was really inspired by the couple of coloured leaves against the black and white leaves so that is what I wanted to do in my card. I masked a circle on the card front, and stamped the leaf from Trendy  Leaves in some yellow, orange and yellow inks. I then stamped the same leaf repeatedly in SSS Fog and Smoke inks - masking the leaves as I went along. I traced the leaves with a black Copic multiliner to make them pop a little bit more before colouring the background with Copics. To make the coloured leaf pop even more, I coloured over it with a Versamark pen, and heat embossed some Enchanted Gold EP over it - it adds the perfect amount of golden shimmer! I used some MFT dies to create the stitched circle frame, and a Your Next Stamp die to add the stitching line across the bottom of the card. The greeting is from Clearly Besotted.

Because I can never decide on colours, I also did the same card but created a darker background by using darker shades of Copics - small change but big difference in the overall feel of the card....

So how will you be inspired? We can't wait to see at Time Out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #65 - Inspired By Words Reminder

Our TIME OUT Challenge this week wants you to be inspired by these words:

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” 

Chad Sugg

And we are lucky enough to have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge: CAS-ual Fridays has very generously offered the challenge winner a $25 gift voucher!!!!

 Rema from Paper Panache has joined us again as a Guest Designer so make sure you check out how she was inspired.

Here is my card:

I dug deep into my stash to find some fun supplies for this card - an old Tattered Angels super-sized stamp and matching mask. I laid the mask on a piece of white cardstock and sprayed some Copper Tattered Angels glimmer mist. Once it was dry, I stamped the matching stamp in the void with some SSS Slate ink. I trimmed the panel with an MFT die and matted it with some SSS Slate cardstock before adding it to the card front. The greeting is from Simon Says and was white embossed on Slate cardstock as well. This is one of those cards that looks so much better in real life with the shimmer of the spray showing through. I love the effect so much that I kept playing and created this card:

I also die  cut some tags from similar panels that I made that will find homes on cards at some point :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OT #65 - Inspired By Words

We are starting September at TIME OUT with a very seasonally-appropriate Inspired By Words Challenge:

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” 

Chad Sugg

And we are lucky enough to have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge: CAS-ual Fridays has very generously offered the challenge winner a $25 gift voucher!!!!

As always, we are equally lucky to be joined by a wonderful guest designer, Rema from Paper Panache is so creative and always has gorgeous cards.

Here is my card:

I thought of leaves changing colours - and my MFT Out On A Limb die set. I started out by applying some orange, red and yellow alcohol inks to a sheet of glossy cardstock to make my own patterned paper for the leaves. I then used my Minc machine to add some platinum foil to a piece of Heidi Swapp paper and a greeting that I printed onto my card base. I then die cut the leaves and the tree trunk from these papers and used a template to glue the the pieces onto the card front. 

The design was pretty simple but I liked it so much that I decided to make 3 more, and some matching envelopes to create a card gift set.

Finally, I really liked the look of the die cut alcohol inked cardstock so I added some Be Creative adhesive behind it and applied some iridescent glitter to the openings. I used the same foil to cover a W&W die cut greeting and on a piece of vellum. 

So you can see how inspired I was by these words - I can't wait to see where they take you!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Jill

TIME OUT #64 - CASEing Julia Reminder

There is another week at TIME OUT  for our current challenge - CASE-ing the wonderful Julia Alterman from Just One More Card. Here is her very fun CASE card:

Our great Guest Designer is with us again this week - Jenny from Craftmosh is sharing another one of her gorgeous designs!

So here is how I was inspired by Julia's card:

I think that it is pretty obvious what I CASE-d on this card :) 

The airplane and banner are from Avery Elle and were coloured with Copics and highlighted with Wink of Stella. I then masked the images and the borders and sponged the sky background using some hand made cloud masks. The 75 was die cut using Lawn Fawn number dies - then backed with adhesive and filled with microbeads (I love the texture of microbeads!) The rectangle die is from 'lil Inkers - inlaid with teal cardstock - to mimic the hatched border on Julia's card.

The 75 was not chosen at random - I made this card for my Father-In-Law's 75th birthday that is coming up.

Thanks for stopping by!
Jill

TIME OUT #64 - CASEing Julia

We have a new challenge this week at TIME OUT - and it is a great one - we are CASE-ing the incredible Julia Alterman from Just One More Card. I am big fan of Julia's work and her excellent YouTube videos and am just thrilled to be CASE-ing her this week. Here is here creation:

What a fun and vibrant card! There are so many great elements that could be CASE-d......

We also have a talented guest designer with us this week - Jenny from Craftmosh is a good crafty friend and very talented card maker so make sure you stop by her blog to check out her creations - you will definitely be inspired!

So here is how I was inspired by Julia's card:

I absolutely fell in love with the diagonal striped frame around the main image so that was my starting point. I went through my (masses of!) patterned paper looking for diagonal stripes and came across this rainbow one which caught my eye. I die cut the frame from this paper using two Walter and Winnie dies. I die cut the MFT soda bottles from some Tim Holtz watercolour paper and then coloured them with different colours of Distress Inks (I tried to match the colours on the bottles to the stripes they were next to) - I added water splatters and ink splatters to the bottles to create the illusion of fizzy drinks. I used some Hickory Smoke ink to watercolour the background onto another piece of Tim Holtz watercolour cardstock and then stamped the MFT greeting. The bottles were adhered directly to the background but the frame was popped up with foam tape.

I did another card using the same supplies - actually, this was my first card but as I was making it, I kept thinking of things that I should have done differently so I made it again! Lucky that I had another piece of patterned paper!

Be sure to join us for this challenge - there are so many great elements in Julia's card to CASE - I am looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

I will link up to a few challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make for the border
• Inkspirational - patterned paper
• Addicted to Stamps and More - Make Your Mark

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #63 - Holiday

This week's challenge at Time Out is theme challenge - we are looking for your holiday cards. There is an optional twist in this challenge too - we are challenging you not to use any stamping (except for the greeting) on your card. We are very lucky to have Uniko Studio as our sponsor this week - and they are offering a £15 gift voucher to a random participant who participates and does the optional twist!

We also have another wonderful guest designer with us this week, Aileen from Colour and Sparkle is a regular Time Out player and always has creative ideas and beautiful cards.

Here is  my take on the challenge:

I decided to do a Christmas card - and to twist. I used my Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die and matching embossing folder to cut the flower from some red cardstock. I added a little bit of Candied Apple Distress ink to it after it was embossed - but I don't think there was enough of a difference to the base colour so it doesn't really show - I think that if I were to redo this card, I would use a darker ink for more effect. The poinsettia was put together using lots of foam squares - so this card has lots of dimension - the gold in the flower centre is some crushed glass that I added with some Glossy Accents. I used some other gold accents on the card to complement the centre of the flower - a couple of strips of foil cardstock, a Penny Black sentiment die cut from the same cardstock, and the word Christmas (from MFT) embossed n gold on a piece of vellum. The white embossed panel on the card was created using a Taylored Expressions embossing folder.

This Tattered Poinsettia die/embossing folder is one of my favourites and I use it regularly for Christmas cards - the only downside is that it is not so mail friendly.

I can't wait to see what everyone will come up with for this challenge - looking forward to seeing your creations at Time Out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill