Welcome back to my blog and thank you for stopping in today. I made this card on my Tuesday Night Live @7pm on Facebook in my Diane's Craft Space group. If you are not a member yet, please Like and Follow my fun group. I share many card ideas with you, some sales post (after all, I am an Independent Demonstrator with Stampin' Up! and that's how I get my craft toys), some tutorials, and some funny memes.
This was my second ever Live broadcast. It went a lot better than my first video, I was super nervous (introvert here) and not technically savvy enough to know how to set my phone in landscape mode and not mirror/upside down video. So I'm quite proud, and I'll only get better from here.
Back to my card. I played along with a 3 different challenges:
1) CASEing The Catty is a Facebook group
of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from Australia and New Zealand who love
to create and CASE using the Stampin' Up! catalogues as inspiration. This week we are playing with Masks (stencils). I chose the Honeybee Home Bundle card from the January-June Mini catalgue on page 80 to CASE (Copy And Share Everything). #ctc360
2) Global Design Project #334 is a sketch challenge and you all know how much I love playing with Sketches. It was a coincidence to almost be the same layout for my CASEing The Catty inspiration card. #GDP334
3) CAS Colours & Sketches #461 is a lovely colour combo of blues and yellow. They don't mention it specifically but these are Ukraine's national colours. That was my first thought anyway. Let's hold the Ukranians in our heart and prayers while they try to survive through this war time.
Here's a tip for you when stamping lined images that you will be colouring:
Normally when colouring with Stampin' Blends, you want to use Memento ink so that the colours don't "bleed", smear, or blur. But look at my samples using different inks. I think the Memento one to be the worse. I then tried the Crumb Cake, thinking no line stamping, but it just looked faded. Then I remembered reading somewhere that a dark gray isn't so black, yet still somewhat black. The article I read made it make sense, so I tried it. Not there's still some fading but it's a happy medium, in my opinion. Maybe if I try the Basic Gray Archival ink (retired) next time, maybe that will have the perfect effect.
Supplies I used:
- Nature's Harvest stamp set: 156495
- Night of Navy card stock: 100867
- So Saffron card stock: 105118
- Balmy Blue card stock: 146982
- Basic White card stock: 159276
- Basic Gray ink pad: 149165
- Balmy Blue ink pad: 147105
- Night of Navy ink pad: 147110
- Stampin' Blends combo pack, So Saffron: 154905
- Stampin' Blends combo pack, Old Olive: 154892
- Stampin' Blends combo pack, SU300/SU400: 159461
- Stampin' Blends combo pack, SU500/SU600: 159152
- Stamin' Cut & Emboss machine: 149653
- Harvest Dies: 156504
- Butterflies & Flowers Layering Decorative Masks: 158142
- Blending Brush:153611
- Linen Thread: 104199
- Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels: 151193
- Stampin' Dimensionals: 104430
And to finish of the card set, because we never send a naked envelope, I just added more of the masked vines. Clean and Simple, Easy Peasy!
Hope you enjoyed today"s inspiration and squeeze in some crafty time this weekend.
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