Monthly Archives: September 2013

Sep 30

Let’s Copic! Happy Haunting!

Hello! It’s been a longer than I anticipated but I’ve got another Copic tutorial today! This one is a quick study of monochromatic, and I’m working with the fabulous Haunted Halloween stamp set from Penny Black. Here’s what the finished card looks like.

Once coloured, I cut out the house and adhered it over the same image, stamped on a piece of yellow cardstock. Before I did that, I stamped the fence, witch and sentiment and used Distress Inks to ground the image on the card front.

Enjoy 🙂

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Sep 28

Sketchbook Saturday Challenge #106

TGIS (S = Saturday), everyone!! Got any special plans for the weekend? By the time you’re reading this, I’m recovering from my four year old’s third and last birthday party - LOL! It happened so this year that we had to spread the event between the family and friends. I’m glad birthdays come only once a year… lol, but we had heaps of fun none the less and a certain big girl is very happy 🙂

Thank you for joining me for the last week’s sketch, how fun wait it to see so many different takes on that simple layout! That’s one of the things that never get old - there’s never a limit to the number of unique interpretations of an inspiration piece. I love simple, timeless layouts especially, because every time I reach for one, I end up with a totally different outcome. Makes it all the more fun, huh?
I hope you’ll like this week’s offering, can’t wait to see what you make of it!!

It’s my pleasure to welcome my awesome friend and music connoisseur, Tenia of Jazzy Paper Designs, as a Sketchbook Saturday Guest Designer! Pop in to her blog, to see what awesomeness she’s got up her sleeve today 🙂
My eclectic card below… I strongly felt like cutting into my pretty patterned papers, which I ADORE and hoard as always, but don’t seem to use as often any more. I combined some My Mind’s Eye & Teresa Collins papers, and added the stamped bits, from the wonder of the Inkadinkado mini set, Reach For The Sky. I love it. So, so much. Funny how some brands never seem to make it to the “trend-o-sphere” even though their designs rock. Inkadinkado seems to be one of them. I own some of their stamps but they never get much use as I seem to reach for the more ‘mainstream’ stuff more often.
*making a mental note to myself, on how I surely can do better than that. Ha!

The flutterby was coloured with Copics and I added dots with a white gel pen to its wings (this one, awesome stuff). What do you think? 🙂

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If you would like to play along:

- You’re kindly asked to save the sketch image onto your computer first, and if you make a card based on it, please link back to this post.
- Share the link to your creation via the Inlinkz widget below, so that I can come and check it out!
Perks:
- A new sketch is posted every other Saturday night (8pm Australian EST, 6am American EST, and the link widget is open for two weeks. However, you’re welcome to play any time! Just leave a link in the comments section and I’ll pop in to see it.
- I’ll be inviting one person who uses my sketch, to join me for the next one! I’ll be also highlighting the entries that caught my eye, on my Facebook page.
- Every now and then, I will also invite an inky friend to join me as well, for an extra dose of inspiration.



Sep 27

Paint the sky… Tuesday Trigger

So, this week’s Tuesday Trigger: A Fine Toothed Comb is just DIVINE. I dig most of them but I swear I gasped in admiration as soon as I saw this fine piece…


Right?? So gorgeous. Don’t mind if I had one of these. I also had an instant spark of an idea, resin blooms and ‘antique brass’ embossed foliage were the way to go! I used a couple of flowers which I thought matched the inspiration best, and then added the cute wee maple leaves (cut & embossed with Spellbinders Orchard Harvest Tags & Accents Shapeabilities, in Engraving Art Copper Foil and then distressed). The other embellishments include Glitz Design Giant Rhinestone (though this one not so giant, lol), sequins (still on a kick!!) and Cosmo Cricket text sticker. The ‘doily’ was cut with Spellbinders Vintage Lace Accents.

For the white cardstock, I rarely ever share the origin, like I did here for this beautiful textured piece, and it’s because I sourced heaps of different ones from the local manufacturer K.W. Doggett. I never bothered to write down the names of the papers I was picking so this is how it must stay, unfortunately. Anyway, with majority of my readers being non-Aussies, it wouldn’t do you much anyway, I suppose 🙂
By the way, I dare you to click on the link and go visit the Doggett website anyway. You’ll thank me later 😀 Cheers!
 


Sep 26

CASE Study Challenge #159

We’re sadly saying farewell to our September Muse, at CASE Study this week… that’s the part that I never like. However, that means one more week with Kathy Racoosin’s card artistry and here’s what we’re serving today:


I was taken with the fresh and unexpected combination of elements, the moment I discovered this card, and immediately I saw potential. So many interesting elements to take inspiration from! My starting point was the pinking circular element which reminded me strongly of a bottle cap. I remembered an oversized cap I was given long ago and doubted I’d ever use… well, you never know! I used it to frame the trendy art deco image from the Waltzingmouse new release stamp set, Putting On The Ritz.
I completed the look with another WMS set, the Art Deco Backgrounds which I stamped the two-tone background with.

I decorated the inside of the cap with pearls, and I used the Want2Scrap Nestabling as an added decorative element. The latter came in pink so I used a Copic marker to recolour it the shade I wanted.


Apologies for the incomplete supply list below, lots of the stuff used is of a generic source: cream pearls, cap, ribbon & trim, plus some of the cardstock.
Because of the bottle cap, I thought it would be a good idea to link this card into The General Craft Supplies Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.

Check out the blogs below for the Design Team’s takes on the challenge, or visit CASE Study to see it all happening in one place.

Kathy Racoosin - September Muse
Amber Hight - September Guest Designer
Amy Wanford
Andrea Ewen
Clare Buswell
Debby Hughes
Jean Martin
Jeanne Jachna
Maureen Merritt
Silke Ledlow
Tasnim Ahmed



Sep 25

Papertrey Ink September Blog Hop

So, I thought I’d play with Papertrey Ink September Blog Hop! It has a lovely theme, I LOVE wreaths so much. Even though my PTI supply collection is nowhere near fitting for the given theme, I felt determined to give my stash a workout and see what I can come up with 🙂


So, what did I do? I used the Harvest Berries set to trail around my “hoop”, which I made out of the big clock face from Hands Of Time… You must think I’m crazy now, right?? Well, I had nothing else so that had to do for now… what do you think? 🙂
For the sentiment, I pulled out the In The Meadow set. As for the layout, I have seen it popping up on my fav card makers’ blogs (Laura Bassen, Cristina Kowalczyk) and although not convinced at first, I was intrigued to try if I can make it work for me. I popped the panel up on foam tape and tucked a length of washi tape underneath. Also, Glossy Accents was added to the berries for an extra “oomph” 🙂



Sep 24

Ready-made embellishments

Lucky me, today I had a chance to play with another challenge in the Moxie Fab World Handmade Cards Week, this time The Ready-Made Embellishments Challenge! This was a fun and easy one, it’s no secret that I love my embellies… especially die cuts and especially botanicals! It’s so rewarding on the child-in-me level, to arrange some of the favourite ‘trinkets’ on a card in a pleasing way, the more if I make them work together even if they all belong to different collections. The same kind of joy that I’m getting when I cut into my favourite patterned papers… just sayin’ 🙂

Just like yesterday, I didn’t want to stop at one card. Sometimes (um, often…??) I just want to spend a day whipping up these babies, one after another, after another… non-stop. Oh, if card making was a profitable business, I could easily make a fortune!

First card; I cut some papers from Basic Grey Fact paper pad, and I combined some chippie stickers from the same collection, with Kaisercraft die cut flowers, Martha Stewart punched butterflies, washi tape and haberdashery finds. Very eclectic, a bit wilder than my usual style but I kind of dig it 🙂

I decorated the inside as well, the insert made from another one of BG papers and a Kaisercraft die cut.


I kept the other one a bit more on the clean side, and it’s my favourite of these two. I used a textured cardstock for the base (similar to woodgrain) and it lifts the whole thing up wonderfully. Shame I couldn’t capture the texture very well. This time I combined the bird + branch from the same Kaisercraft die cut pack as above, with MME label and word stickers, a journaling card (trimmed) for the background and some sequins / twine.


The CTS#46 sketch further helped me with this design:


Greetings card



 

Enjoy Life card


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