Birthday Blooms Dear Friend | Global Design Project 031

I've finally had a bit of time this week just to play. Not to create for my Design Team commitments but to create just because. I thought that it was a good time to enter a challenge and what better challenge to enter than the one over at Global Design Project. Make sure you click on the link to see all the fabulous inspiration fron the fabulous Design Team at GDP. There are some amazing creations there thats for sure! This week at GSP its a theme challenge with the theme being Nature.

I've pulled out my Birthday Blooms stamp set for some more water colouring action. This stamp set is perfect to colour and its something you can easily do if you have an injured finger on the other hand. Just check out my Facebook page to see what happened to my thumb. Oops. Thumbs and sharp knives don't mix. Ouch!

The base DSP is from the Go Wild DSP stack. I love the large black and white stripes and think they make a striking contrast for the soft water coloured Birthday Blooms floral image.

I've water coloured the floral image with Blushing Bride, Old Olive and SO Saffron. With the Blushing Bride colour I laid down a light layer first and then went over it again to add a depth of colour.

With colouring with the Old Olive colour on the leaves I wet the leaves first with my Aqua painter and then laid down the colour. Having the water colour paper wet made it very easy to move the colour around. It almost moved itself.

It's all finished off with some Basic Black Stitch Satin Ribbon, leaves from the Bird Builder Punch, Gold Metallic Thread, Burlap Ribbon and sequins from the Metallics Sequins Assortment.

The circle behind the floral bloom I pierced with the Paper Piercing Tool and the one of the circles from the  Updated Essentials Paper Piercing Pack and then hand stitched some of the Gold Metallic thread though the holes.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope that you've been inspired by my nature creation.

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Honeycomb Happiness - #tgif 48

Welcome back to another challenge with the TGIF Challenges Team. Because we are at the end of the month we have our Monthly Remix Challenge.

What's the Remix All About?

The last week of the month will be our "Monthly Challenge Remix" week.  Take all of the cool challenges posted for the month, pick at least TWO of them, and create a challenge mashup!  For example, combine the Sketch with the Color challenge...get it?

I've mixed the Sketch with the Sweet Tooth Theme. I only received my Honeycomb Happiness set yesterday. I know a little late to the party right?! HA! So that set is perfect for this weeks remix. I've had a play with my new and all time favourite technique - No-Line Water colouring. I'm a little addicted to tell you the honest truth. The images from the Honeycomb Happiness set make the No-Line Water colouring super quick and easy and are the perfect images for a beginner at this technique.

I inked the image in Sahara Sand ink and then stamped it off three times so that the ink was super light. I could just see it. But that is perfect for the No-Line Water Colour Technique.

I used Blushing Bride on the ice cream and then for the cone I coloured it in So Saffron and then added the details in the cone with Soft Suede. I made sure that I wiped off a lot of the Soft Suede colour off the end of the aqua painter so it wasn't so dark.

How pretty is the Birthday Bouquet DSP?? I love the soft colours in it and goes wonderfully with the softness of the ice cream image from the Honeycomb Happiness stamp set.

I hope you have a fantastic and Good Friday and I do hope that you will play along this week. I can't wait to see what you come up with for the Remix. For all the details on this weeks challenge and to see the projects from the Design Team, click here. Remember to mention TGIF Challenges in your post.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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The Stamp Review Crew | Made with Love Edition

A big hello and welcome to you today on the next step on the Stamp Review Blog Hop.  This is going to be one cute hop today that's for sure as we are showcasing the Made with Love stamp set. It is found in the 'For Baby' section in the annual catalogue and it is all kinds of cuteness! There are also two Framelits sets that will help you with cutting out some of the images - Baby's First Framelits Dies and Tags & Labels Framelits Dies.

I've used only one image from the set, the super cute little deer,  but I've made two versions of my card a boy card and a girl one and I've had my first attempt at the water colouring technique - No Line Water colouring. This is when you stamp your image in a lighter colour ink and the lines aren't as defined and sometimes they ever look like the disappear. I really love the look of this technique and the softer look that it gives to the images. Perfect for a baby card!

I'm happy with my first attempt but I can see that I still need some more practise. What can I colour in next?? Ha!

Blushing Bride

Crumb Cake

Soft Sky

Crumb Cake

The deer image was stamped in Sahara Sand and I stamped it off once first to give it a lighter colour. After stamping it off I re-inked the words again to make sure that they weren't so light. I've then coloured the deer using Aqua painters with Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride and Soft Sky.

I'm looking forward to practicing the No-Line Water colouring technique and moving on to some bigger images.

Now its time to hop on to the ever fabulous Tanya Boser for some more inspiration

 Or if you are hopping in reverse head on to the super creative, Adriana Benitez.

Remember if you get lost along the way click on the Stamp Review Crew header at the top of the post and it will give you the full list of participants


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Can You Case It? #108 - Birthday Blooms Sketch Challenge

Hello Everyone! Happy Sunday! Welcome to a new challenge at Can You Case It? A sketch challenge. And this week I kept to the sketch pretty much as it is. I know right! Don't fall off your chair that I kept to the sketch. I'm usually the first one to change it up a little.

I've used the Birthday Blooms stamp set and used it for a bit of water colouring. I do love to colour. I find it very relaxing and calming (when everything is going right and I'm not in a hurry to create a card). You don't need to buy one of those intricate colouring books, just stamp a few of your favourite images and get colouring.

I've used Blushing Bride and Watermelon Wonder to colour the flower. I coloured the Blushing Bride first and then a light layer of the Watermelon Wonder. I didn't want the Watermelon Wonder to be too bright and take over the whole image. Just a subtle bit of colour.

Do you notice the white striped card in the background? It's one of the cards from the Sale-a-bration Memories in the Making Project Life Speciality Card Collection. You can get this card kit for FREE. For every $90 AUD you spend (before shipping and handling) you can get this card collection for NOTHING!!! How awesome is that! Ask me how you can get yours TODAY. These cards are great as an added element on your cards or use them in your Project Life albums.  This striped card is perfect for a bit of a colour resist technique but I wanted to keep it white and keep the subtly if the white stripes. 

I embossed the Birthday Bloom image with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder first before I coloured it.  I find embossing an image first before you colour it in helps to stay in the lines and you don't have to be as careful when you are colouring. I love the beautiful outline that the gold embossing gives to the image. 

Its all finished off with some Gold Metallic Thread, Basic Rhinestones, Gold Foil Doilies and some Basic Gold Metal Buttons.

Why not take the time today to have a bit of a creative 'me' time before another week back at work and school and enter this weeks sketch challenge at Can You Case It?  I can't wait to see your creations!

Make sure you check out the awesome creations that the Design Team have created this week show them some comment love! We really enjoy the comments that you leave us.

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Can You Case It? #107 - Colour Challenge

Hello and Welcome! I'm so happy you have stopped by here today! It is Sunday so that means its time for a new challenge at Can You Case It? A colour challenge!!

When being on a Design Team and you are given the run down of the challenges in advance. Sometimes you just look at it and you know instantly what you want to create other times you usually look at for hours and hours and the inspiration just isn't coming to you. Lucky for me this week it wasn't the latter. I just looked at these colours and knew that I wanted to do some colouring with the Rose Wonder set. I could have chosen the safer option and used white as my base and coloured on that but I had seen (probably on Pinterest. He, He) that you can colour on Crumb Cake or Kraft for the non-Stampin' Up! people out there. 

I first embossed the Rose Wonder image onto the Crumb Cake with White Stampin' Emboss Powder. That big rose it just amazing and this stamp set, I love it! So that you are able to colour on the Crumb Cake you need to put down a layer of Whisper White Craft ink with your Aqua Painter or Blender Pen.This just 'seals' the card stock just a little so that you can lay down some colour. It wont be the same as water colour paper but it gives you to wet the card stock a little more than normal before the paper starts balling and piling.

Before you start colouring you need to make sure that your Craft ink has completely dried. Otherwise you'll just be mixing around craft ink, classic ink and water. You'll end up with a big mess and not a pretty one either.

Put down your colour next. I just treated it like I do when I water colour. Using my aqua painter I started at the edges and then pulled the colour in. The only tip is have your aqua painter a little wet but not too much. You don't want the colour so wet that it ruins your cardstock straight away because you've used too much water. You can go over the colour you've put down a little before you damage the cardstock, just don't make it too wet.

It's probably really hard to see but I finished off the rose and the leaves with a fine layer of Stella, of the Wink variety. That stuff is so pretty and you just need a thin layer for some beautiful and subtle shimmer.

Are you ready to play along with this weeks fabulous colours? Click here to see the rest of the Can You Case It? Design Teams Creations and how you can enter this weeks challenge. 

Can wait to see what you come up with!!

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For Piper

I have just become an Aunty again for the 10th time! I'm so excited by the new addition to the family but but sad too as they live so far away. The Gold Coast isn't just around the corner from Melbourne. :(

I got my inspiration for my card from the fabulous and talented Teneale Williams. To check out her blog click here.

The card she made was for a baby boy but mine is for Piper Lisa, a beautiful little girl.

The colours I've used for this card are Whisper White, Pool Party, Blushing Bride and Early Espresso. And I've used water colour paper with the pram image from the Baby Bundle set and did some water colouring with an Aqua painter.

I do love to do water colouring, just now need to practice a bit more to perfect my technique.

Have Fun and Happy Stampin'

Products Used

Stamp Set: Baby Bundle

Cardstock: Whisper White, Pool Party, Blushing Bride, Early Espresso, Watercolour paper

Ink: Blushing Bride, Pool Party, Early Espresso, Basic Grey, Versa mark Jet Black Ink

Other: Big Shot Die Cutting Machine, Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Machine, Blushing Bride Pleated Satin Ribbon, Pool Party Bakers Twine, Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, Basic Pearls, Aqua Painter

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