New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Time Out Challenges. The next fortnight our challenge is Funny!

Lawn Fawn is the sponsor of this challenge. I had the most fun playing with their apple barrel builder dies and sentiment stamp and die combo from Ready, Set, Snow stamp and die set. I knew I wanted to play with the apple dies so I googled for a funny sentiment related to apples... And found this joke. I thought it was hilarious! :) I dig out some Christmas tree paper but then realized I had no pineapple stamps in my stash (I know, can you believe it?!?) so I bought some very affordable digital fruit images from Etsy for making my pineapple paper. I colored the pineapples with Copics. I printed out the joke and put all the elements together for a very fruity Christmas card! :) 

Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of more DT inspiration! Play along and you could be invited to join us as guest designer -this time one of our regular players, the amazingly talented Claire joins us as guest. 

Now it's your turn to take Time Out and craft! xx

 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is "emboss your background". You can use embossing folders or heat embossing, both will do! Thank you my DT buddy Julia for choosing this fun topic!

I used a striped embossing folder for my background. After embossing it I masked the raised arias one by one as I went and inked the "valleys". The dies I'm using come from Honey Bee Stamps and I LOVE them -this is my first time using them. Also sentiment is by Honey Bee Stamps. We don't have possibility to buy Honey Bee here in Finland and when visiting US in May I did order these dies, a beautiful floral stamp set and orchid dies from them. Can't wait to try the other products too! 

I began with die cutting the pieces from white Neenah and sponged ink to them with Altenew dye inks. I guess I could have used colored card stock and shade that but decided go the hard way lol. :) Love the soft look though! The "basket" is a half circle die by MFT -I stamped a little checker pattern to it to make it more basket looking and also used some ink sponging and shading to add to the more textured look. Not a perfect basket but good enough! I'll confess this card took ages to make with all the masking, sponging, inking, shading, stamping... All the works. But I'm very happy with it!  

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us!  

 

Inkspirational Challenges Reminder!

Hi friends!

I'm here to remind you of our current challenge at Inkspirational: Seasonal

You can pick any season you want. I went with winter and holiday season and made a little Christmas card to my stash! I've used a Waffle Flower stencil along with sentiment die from SSS to create this card. Love how it turned out! Do head on over to our challenge blog for plenty of inspiration from our design team. 

I'm joining:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Flowers

The Flower Challenge: Your favorite flower (Poinsettia is no doubt my favorite flower when it comes to winter flowers and I have quite a collection of poinsettia stamps, dies and stencils lol!) 

 

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

We have a new fun challenge for you at Time Out, 'Sportive'! If this world is new to you, check out the definition below. All the challenge details + lots of DT inspiration HERE! Our winner gets a voucher to Newton's Nook and will also be called to guest design in a future challenge. This time our guest is the very talented Carol  with a super fun beach life-themed card. Thank you Carol for joining us!

spor·tive¹

/ˈspôrdiv/

adjective

1. 1.

   playful; lighthearted.

   "Sir John was in sportive mood"

   Similar:

   playful

   lively

   full of fun

   fun-loving

   high-spirited

   spirited

   in high spirits

   jolly

   merry

   lighthearted

   blithe

   gleeful

   frisky

   exuberant

   perky

   skittish

   sprightly

   coltish

   jaunty

   prankish

   frolicking

   romping

   capering

   full of beans

   frolicky

   frolicsome

   gamesome

   blithesome

   frolic

   wanton

   ludic

   Opposite:

   solemn

   staid
2. 2.

   relating to, interested in, or good at sport.

   "Britain's architectural and sportive heritage"

In my card I've used an old Winnie and Walter stamp with matching die. I decided to make a shaker card -not something that happens often! The shaky pieces are stunning embellishments from a Picket Fence sequin mix and they are so sparkly and iridescent, love them!! I'm however a bit unsure if I can send this to anyone... I was out of habit of making a shaker and I didn't remember how well you must glue/tape your pieces together -Some of my smallest pieces want to fly out when I shake lol. Well -I can leave it to myself as an inspiration piece to remind me to be very good with adhesive!!! The cover plate die is by Birch Press Design. 

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us! 

 

Guest Designing at Stamping Sensations!

Hello friends!

I have a special post for you... I'm guest designing at Stamping Sensations challenge this June, woot woot! I haven't had too much time to play along in challenges this spring so this was such a fun thing for me to win a GD spot! Thank you Brenda and Stamping Sensations for having me. 

Theme for June is  'Around the World’. Stamping Sensations is a stamping challenge so do make sure stamping plays a big part in your project! I played with Altenew's Monstera leaf stamps and matching dies and made a tropical card to fit the challenge theme. For the background I used an old watercolor piece from my stash and stenciled some flowers with a Hero Arts stencil on top of the watercolor. Sentiment is by Uniko Studio. I look forward seeing what you'll make for the challenge!

I'm playing along at 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes