TIME OUT #62 Reminder

We are continuing our Home Sweet Home photo inspiration challenge at Time Out.  How will this photo inspire you?

Our fabulous guest designer, Stephanie from My Ink Well is with us again this week - so make sure you stop by her blog to check out her beautiful designs (she is an expert with Brushos!).

Last week, my card was crisp and modern inspired by the artwork - this week, I took my inspiration from the vintage lamps. The shapes of the shades reminded me of flowers, and the way they were clustered made me think of this poppy stamp from Hero Arts:

I coloured the stamped image with Copics - trying to use the same colours as the photo. I added some Wink of Stella shimmer to the coloured blooms and stamped the SSS greeting to overlap them slightly. I challenged myself to use some coloured card stock for the mat and the card base (something that I don't do too often), and mounted the panel in the top left corner to do something different. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #62 - Photo Inspiration

It is time for another Time Out Challenge - and this week, it is my favourite type of challenge - a Home Sweet Home Photo Inspiration Challenge - and as usual, Sandie has chosen a gorgeous photo for us:

So what do you see in this photo? Lots of gorgeous elements to choose from - I know I had a hard time choosing what to focus on...

We have a wonderful guest designer with us this week, Stephanie from My Ink Well is a good friend and enormous talent so make sure you stop by to see how she was inspired.

And here is how I was inspired:

I really liked to the picture with the letters - it reminded me a little bit of an eye chart which made me think of this stamp set from MFT. It was stamped simply in Versafine Onyx Black ink (I thought about doing some red letters but ultimately decided not to). I die cut the rectangle and framed it with some black cardstock. The background was created with some MFT glasses die cuts adhered to the card base - this is one of my favourite techniques - I love the tone-on-tone effect :)

So how will you be inspired? Take some Time Out to join us for this really fun challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT#61 Reminder - Inspired By Words

This week at TIME OUT, we are asking you to create something based on the following words:

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Our wonderful Guest Designer is Sue from Foleysfriend - so please stop by her blog to see how these words inspired her.

Last week I went with a rain storm inspired card and this week, I went in the opposite direction - to the beach and sunshine! I used a Simon Says stamp set (flip flop season) to stamp the flip flops repeatedly across the panel and white heat emboss them.I then watercoloured them using some Gansai Tambi paints (really vibrant IRL!) I also watercoloured the bg in a sand colour but I wasn't entirely satisfied with the look so I masked off the flip flops and used my Tim Holtz Distress Marker Spritzer tool with a couple of darker markers to add in the grains of sand - much better :) 

I die cut the panel down and mounted in on a plain white card base - and then I added a couple of greetings from the same set - stamped in black.

So that's where those words took me - where will they take you? 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill 

TIME OUT#61 - Inspired By Words

This week at TIME OUT, we are asking you to create something based on the following words:

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

Anthony J. D'Angelo

We have a great Guest Designer with us again this week, Sue from Foleysfriend has some fabulous inspiration to share so please stop by her blog to see how these words inspired her.

Here is how they inspired me:

I used the Neat and Tangled Fractal Clouds stamps and dies with some Distress Inks as watercolours for this card - a lot of playing around with techniques really - very fun :)

So now it's your turn to take some TIME OUT and join us!
Thanks for stopping by!
Jill

TIME OUT #60 - CASEing Therese Calvrid

Our challenge this week is a CASE challenge - and this weeek, we are CASE-ing the amazing Therese Calvrid - her designs are amazing and her colouring skills blow me away every time. You can find Therese at Lost In Paper and she also has a great YouTube channel. Here is the card that Therese is challenging us to CASE - along with a description about how she made it:

Card Deets

• A6 topfold landscape (finished size 10.5cm X 15cm)
• Cut another piece of cardstock to the same size and add wide watercolour stripes added withAltenew Peach Perfect (diluted with water and painted).
• Die cut a dot edge on the vellum with Paper Smooches – Dots & Dashes wise die. And adhere this on an angle and behind the top of the panel and fold over the front of the card. Cut off the excess edges on each side. (I added some tape behind where the flowers were going to be). Adhere this panel to card front with atg.
• White emboss the sentiment from Altenew’s Magnolias for Her.
• Stamp X 2 flowers and X 3 leaves from Altenews Beautiful Day (inks – MFT Hybrid Steel Gray / Sour Apple – Dye inks Limelight / Coral Crush / Peach Bellini) Die cut these and use double sided tape to add them to the card front. Pop up the top flower only with foam tape.

We also have a wonderful guest designer joining us this week - Brigit from Crafting While I Wait has shared her wonderful take on Therese's card - so make sure to check that out.

Here is my CASE of Therese's card:

I was really inspired by the watercolour stripes in the background and was very inspired to play around with those. I had an unopened set of shimmer watercolours that I picked up for a vary good price at Michael's a little while ago - so broke them out and started playing. I actually created about 4 shimmery and stripey backgrounds! I made this one into a card by die cutting the panel with a rectangle die, and adding some Lil Inker flowers that I had heat embossed with Liquid Platinum onto vellum and fussy cut. I used the same shimmer watercolour to colour in the Lil Inker "thanks" die cut which was stacked up for some dimension. A few sparkling clear sequins to add even more sparkle and shimmer to the card!

This week, our challenge is only one week long - so make sure you squeeze in a few minutes this long weekend to play along!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #59 Reminder - Masculine Cards

We are now in the second week of our theme challenge at TIME OUT - focusing on those 'sometimes difficult' Masculine Cards.  In addition to making them masculine, we would also love to see some mixed media cards in the gallery so we are doing an optional twist of mixed media.

We have a great sponsor for this challenge:

Shery from Stamplorations has very generously agreed to provide the winner with a $15 gift voucher AND provide a random entry from the cards that feature the optional twist (mixed media) with a Artplorations stencil!!!

Patti from Stationery Styles Is our wonderful guest designer has some great inspiration to share :)

This week, I went with the mixed media twist - here is my card:

I have to admit that the inspiration for this card was heavily influenced by Debbie Hughes - and a card she made a while back where she thought this Crazy Cat looked a little tipsy - I loved that idea and played off it.

I started out by applying some embossing paste to the card front thorough the Artplorations Retro Circles stencils - I thought that it would reflect the head spinny feel of my tipsy Crazy Cat. I used the Crazy Cats stamps and dies as well as the Crazy Things stamp (for the hat) - and I coloured them with Copics. I added the die cuts with some foam squares to pop them up. The greeting is from the Avery Elle More Party Animals stamp set - how perfect is it for this image!!! I added the dashed lines to ground the image, and finally, I added some Studio Calico wood veneer stars around the cat's head and some Glossy Accents to his eyes to complete the tipsy look, I am really happy with how this turned out - and I may make a couple more like it because I can think of a few men in my life who would appreciate it :)

So make sure you take some TIME OUT to create and join us!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #59 - Masculine Cards

We have a theme challenge for you this week at Time Out - and this week, we are focusing on those 'sometimes difficult' Masculine Cards.  In addition to making them masculine, we would also love to see some mixed media cards in the gallery so we are doing an optional twist of mixed media.

We have a great sponsor for this challenge:

Shery from Stamplorations has very generously agreed to provide the winner with a $15 gift voucher AND provide a random entry from the cards that feature the optional twist (mixed media) with a Artplorations stencil!!!

We are very lucky to have wonderful guest designers join us at Time Out, and this week is no exception - Patti from Stationery Styles has some amazing cards featured on her blog so please stop by for a visit.

Here is my masculine card for the week - what could be more masculine than wood grain and metal?! Just like being in the workshop!

This full cover plate die from Memory Box is one of my favourites (I also have the Christmas version!). I die cut a piece of white cardstock which I then embossed with a wood grain tPTI texture plate. I then used the same die to cut the words from sheets of foil cardstock (gold, silver, and copper) - and inlaid the words into the white panel. I love the way this one turned out :)

So make sure you join us for this fabulous challenge - we can't wait to see your masculine cards with or without the mixed media twist!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill