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Monochromatic Crushed Curry – Ink Smooshing Technique

Today’s Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Insta Hop features Crushed Curry. It’s only lately that I have grown to love this colour. I used to find it too bright but now I’m loving the vibrancy of this colour and it’s beautiful shade of yellow.

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This card started with a die cut circle from Fluid 100 Cardstock. On this, I I ink smooshed the background.

HOW TO CREATE AN INK SMOOSHED BACKGROUND

  • Pat your ink pad on a piece of acetate (I use the backing for the photopolymer stamps)
  • Spritz the ink with water
  • Curve the acetate and work the centre on the Fluid 100 Cardstock
  • Ink, spritz and repeat the process, moving the acetate around
  • Leaving it to dry between applications will create dark puddles and add texture

For added texture, I ink smooshed Black Memento ink on the right hand side. Once dry, I stamped the lined image and splattered some dots with the Dark Black Stampin’ Blend Combo.

On top of all this I also added some splatters using White Kraft ink with a Water Painter which added some lovely contrast against the Crushed Curry.

The flowers were watcercoloured in Crushed Curry ink refill and some shading was added on the leaves in Smoky Slate. A Paper Butterfly Accent embellished with a Sparkle Gem adds a pretty finishing touch to this card.

I hope you have enjoyed my creation today and give ink smooshing a try for some inky, messy, fun. If you live in Australia you can shop with me in my Online Store. A product list is below to help you create your Shopping List. If you have any questions, please get in touch with me.

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CASEing the Catty CTC484 – Annual Catalogue

Hello friends, Welcome to our CASEing the Catty Challenge and for CTC484. Today we get to CASE anything from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue. Well, you know when the there is such a large selection, it’s harder to make a choice!

I really loved the ‘You inspire me’ square card on Page 74 of the catalogue. There are so many elements in this card to be inspired by such as the background stamping, layout or square card.

What I really loved in this card was the colour palette so I selected these colours for my card.

I flipped the colours around a bit, making Summer Splash the predominant colour.The matte layer was embossed with the Changing Leaves hybrid embossing folder and I added some ink blending over it in Summer Splash to highlight some of those embossed leaves.

The leaves were stamped on Fluid 100 Watercolour Cardstock. I stamped 2 leaves in Saddle Brown Stazon ink and watercoloured them in Calypso Coral, Petal Pink and Wild Wheat using ink refills.

The larger leaf was stamped in Calypso Coral onto Fluid 100 Cardstock. Then I added some Calypso Coral and Wild Wheat onto the stamp using a Water Painter. As the stamp set is photopolymer, I was able to align the image over the previously stamped image. The slight dampness which was on the Water Painter was sufficient to create movement on the ink and create some areas of deeper colour.

Some glimmer die cut sprigs from the Flowers of Beauty Dies were added inbetween the watercoloured leaves and placed on a die cut circle from the Spotlight on Nature dies. I added some tone-on-tone shading with Petal Pink around the circle.

A heat embossed sentiment on black and some Drusy Adhesive Backed Embellishments (from the upcoming catalogue) complete this card.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are inspired to try some of these techniques. Please leave a comment as you follow through to see Monique Fielder’s project.

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AWOW Blog Hop – CASE a Team Member – Bananas!

Hello, Welcome to our Around the World on Wednesday blog hop for July. Has our bananas theme got you a bit confused? Well, it had me confused at the start but I was told that Bananagram is a word game. I’m all in for a word game.

Our challenge today is to CASE a team member, spelling out our design elements in tile format like a word game.

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CASEing is to Copy and Selectively Edit a project and today Cheryll Miller and I have been paired together for this bananas challenge which has been put together by our leader Angie McKenzie. I love our CASE the team member challenge each year as Angie has a heart for friendships and loves when we get to know each other as a team. So part of our challenge parameters is to get together on Zoom, chat and find out about each other, our families, what we like and work out what we’re CASEing .

Cheryll and I had a wonderful catch up over Zoom for nearly an hour and we got to know each other so much more. We decided to CASE each other today. Cheryll particularly liked a project that I recently shared which had lots of layers on it and I loved a project which Cheryll created for one of our AWOW blog hops earlier this year, which had lots of collage elements to it.

Out came the Scrabble board tiles to create our elements for our Bananas challenge. At the heart of stamping is friendship and that’s what our community is about so we had to incorporate that in our board.

This is Cheryll’s card which I CASEd. I copied along with similar colours and used her watercolouring techniques. Click on the image to see how Cheryll created her card.

I used several stamp sets to create my base, layering the images for lots of texture. After creating my base, I started applying the layers. I added some Gold embossing which gave it a bit more of a vintage look.

The flowers from the Flowers of Beauty stamp set were stamped in Jet Black Stazon ink and watercoloured. I added a touch of Fresh Freesia for some variation against the background.

The collage look was continued on the label which was die cut from the Full of Life Designer Series Paper and blended with ink to tone in with my background.

Thank you for stopping by. To see a variation of this card being made, please hop on to my FB Live tonight 7:30 PM AEST.

Now click on the Next button to see what Cheryll created with our combined elements.

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Waves of Inspiration for #GDP442

Inspiration can come to us from anywhere and the inspiration for this card began with a scrap piece of stamping where I was just trying out some colours. This scrap looked so good that I wanted to recreate it for a card and the background of this project came to be.

I used the smooshed image from the Perched in a Tree stamp set and inked it up with Fresh Freesia ink. Then I spritzed the stamp with water before stamping. This created a watercoloured look. I repeated this a few times. As I was using Basic White Carstock I was careful not to oversaturate the image, yet keeping the fluidity of it.

I’ve followed the sketch at Global Design Project #gdp422.

Global Design Project #gdp44, Card sketch, card layout

The pelican was stamped in Early Espresso ink and I added a hint of shading with Crushed Curry and Gorgeous Grape Watercolour Pencils. The lovely large leaf in the centre is from the new Thoughtful Wishes dies. It was perfect for sitting across the card so I could add the pelican on top of it.

Some additional pieces of DSP and a heat embossed sentiment complete this card. The Waves of Inspiration stamp and coordinating dies and the Perched in a Tree stamp set are all retiring on the 30th of April. Get your favourite products before they leave. If you live in Australia you can shop with me in my Online Store or get in touch with me on Ph: 0404 255 001.

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Magnolia Mood – Colour Palette #49

Inspired by Colour Palette #49 I’ve created today’s card which uses the Magnolia Mood bundle from our Oneline Exclusives range. If you follow me on Facebook, you will know that I share a new colour palette each Monday for inspiration. You can share what you create using these palettes on my page under the image.

The Magnolia Mood bundle comes with a stamp set and dies which cut out the stamped images as well as individual magnolia dies. I’ve used these individual images as the focal point on my card.

For the Starry Sky element, I blended some Starry Sky ink on a die cut label from the All That dies. These dies are retiring and can be purchased for just $24.50 in our Last Chance sale. Original price was $49. I just love all the unique little dies that come in this set.

Colouring the image with Watercolour Pencils I was able to achieve some beautiful colour variation on the flowers and leaves.

I’m following the sketch at Just Add Ink Challenges #697with the smaller flower making up the little hexagon on the right.

I heat embossed my sentiment in Black to make it stand out against those beautiful colours.

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my card. For more inspiration, join me tonight at 7:30pm for my weekly Live on my Facebook Page.

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