Guest Designing at The Cutting Edge Challenge.

 Good' day everybody.

I am sharing with you a card I made as guest designer for The Cutting Edge Challenge #2

I am so excited and honoured to be selected as guest designer for the challenge. Thank you team!

Here is the inspirational card for Challenge #2

When Karolyn emailed me her card to work with for the second challenge, I was very thrilled because this is one of my favourite card by Karolyn. I remember seeing this card on her blog (for another challenge if I am correct!) and went Wow! That watercolour effect on the cityscape is just awesome, perfect and beautiful in all ways. The black strip is a nice contrast. I inspired by it and wanted to CASE it for a long time. Now, I was one happy girl. Thanks Karolyn!

So my card below is inspired by watercolour on the cityscape die.

The cityscrape die is from My Favorite Things. I have diecut a few of them and used three distress inks- Salty Ocean, Picked Raspberry and Crushed Olive to add watercolour to the die cuts. I love vibrant colours. Once dry, I layered the cityscape dies on the card front. Added black glitter tape to the bottom of the card front. I used Black Soot distress ink to add spatter. I learnt it from Julie Ebersole. She is one of my favourite designers. Stamped sentiment is from Contemporary Roses from MFT. Finally added some enamel dots in the same colours as the watercolour to finish off the card. I have a tip for you: I did not have the smallest size hot pink enamel dot. so I coloured a light pink enamel dot with copic marker to match the colour I wanted. How cool is that?  Now you can colour enamel dots the colour you want to match your project. I reaaly love how my card turned out. Hope you do too!

Check out all the amazing projects from the other designers at The Cutting Edge!

• Jackie Rockwell (Owner)
• Karolyn Loncon (DT Coordinator)
• Jean Manis
• Amy Kolling
• Lisa Addesa

We love if you can play along with us.

HERE ARE THE RULES: 

• Create a new, not previously posted card that features some kind of die-cutting (manual or electronic – all forms are accepted). Back-dated submissions will not be considered for the win.• You can submit multiple projects but they must be posted to InLinkz separately.
• Please use the project provided for your inspiration.  We'd love for you to mention in your submission how you interpreted the inspiration project, in case it's not obvious to the design team.
• You're welcome to combine up to three (3) challenges with the Cutting Edge Challenge, but NOT in conjunction with a promotional blog hop.  If you have questions about this, please feel free to contact us.
• If you have a blog, please include the project inspiration graphic in your post.
• You can link to Flickr, Splitcoast or another online gallery if you don't have a blog.
• You must have a working text link to the Cutting Edge Challenge Blog to be eligible for a win.
• Link to your post and not to your entire blog when adding your project to InLinkz.
• Please consider adding the Cutting Edge Challenge badge to your blog.
• Most importantly have fun, be creative and challenge yourself to try something new! 
  
We also have the wonderful Ellen Hutson sponsoring prizes. 

For more details about the prizes and linky tool to link your projects, head over to The Cutting Edge Challenge Blog.

You have until Thursday, ends on 7/10/14 at 9:00 AM EDT to play along!  We can’t wait to see what you all create!  Let the die-cutting begin! 

Thanks so much for visiting. Have a great weekend!

Tag You're it....Challenge #1

This is my second post. if you are looking for Winnie & Walter post, CLICK HERE!

So happy to bring you the first Tag You're It... Challenge. The guest designer for the first challenge is Virginia Lu. Most of you know she is a very talented, versatile and sweet person too. Here is the link Virginia's blog - Yes Virginia. Here are her tags as the inspiration for this challenge.

I was inspired by couple of things from her tags - first the array of colours on the sentiment and secondly the inlayed die technique. So my card below has a tag as the focus element where my ampersand has the rainbow colours and also inlayed on the tag.

I have stamped sentiments from My Favorite Things Always & Forever stamp set on the background using MFT's Hybrid ink Natural. I then die cut a tag using Wplus9. I diecut the ampersand at the centre of the tag. I diecut two more ampersands and layered and glued them. For the topmost ampersand, I used copic markers and coloured rainbow colours on a scrap white cardstock. Then diecut an ampersand which is glued on the top of the stack. I inlayed this stacked ampersand in the tag, stamped Mr. and Mrs. sentiment using archival black ink. I adhered this tag to the card base, added the twine. For the sequins, I used glitter paper from DWCV glitter pad and sequins dienamics from MFT.  That's my take on Virginia's inspirational tag.

Now, head over to Tag You're It Challenge Blog to see how Virginia's tag inspired  our designers and our guest designers as well.

Now it is your turn to play. Cannot wait to see your take :)

Winnie & Walter Share the Love week - Tag it with Distress Ink

Welcome back to the last day of  Winnie & Walter's Share the Love week featuring Distress Inks.

Today's theme is Tags. Make a tag using distress inks using any of the techniques we have featured. show us the tag by itself or incorporate the tag on a card, scrapbook or journal card.... Simple :)
I decided to make a coordinating tag for my resist technique card. Here is my card.

I have white heat embossed Hello sentiment from The Big, the Bold and Happy stamp set on the tag, then sponged some Peacock Feathers and Squeezed Lemon Distress Ink. Stamped the smaller sentiment in black. I added another blank tag at the back and glued at an angle. For the focus sentiment, I stamped the "YOU" from The Big, the Bold and You stamp set, cut it out. The on a strip of card stock I stamped the smaller sentiment. They are then glued on the tag as shown. I used black twine to tie the bow and added a sequins to the centre as I did on the card below.



Check out Winnie & Walter Blog for more Talent inspiration. And there is no sharing the love without giveaways. Yes! Yay! You can participate in the challenges or  leave a comment to be eligible for a chance to win the giveaways. For more details, check out Winnie & Walter Blog for more details.

Have fun crafting with distress ink and W&W stamp set.

CAS(E) this Sketch #83

Hey dear craft friends. This is me again.
This is my third post for today. Here is my CASE Study Post and here is my Winnie & Walter post.

I have a new sketch for you on CAS(E) this Sketch challenge blog. This new sketch is designed by me!

This is my take on the challenge. I went for watercolour technique on my card. 

I have used stamp sets from Wplus9 and distress ink to stamp and watercolour using a brush. I stamped the images using second generation distress ink. Then coloured using watercolour brush. I also did a pink colour wash from the bottom of the card panel and fade to the top. Finally accented with some 4mm Sparkly Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

It is you turn to play along. Head over to CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge Blog to see what the other designers did with the sketch and picture. You can also find the linky to link your project at the blog.

Have fun crafting!

Winnie & Walter Share the Love Week - Sponging Stencil using Distress Ink

This is my second post. Here is my CASE Study post for you.

Hey everybody,

Welcome back to day #4 of the Winnie & Walter Share the Love week featuring Distress Inks

Today's theme is using stencil/masking technique with distress ink. I have used stencil on my card below.

I wanted a softer look that fades away. So I used The Crafter's Workshop Mini Cosmic Bubbles stencils and sponged Tattered Rose and Spun Sugar distress inks which is faded towards the bottom. I then stamped the sentiment from The Big, the Bold and Happy stamp set on a strip of white cardstock and mounte dusing foam adhesives. Finally accented with some beautiful sparkly gold enamel dots. Absolutely love the softer faded look on the background using stencil and distress inks.

Check out Winnie & Walter Blog for more Talent inspiration. And there is no sharing the love without giveaways. Yes! Yay! You can participate in the challenges or  leave a comment to be eligible for a chance to win the giveaways. For more details, check out Winnie & Walter Blog for more details.

Have fun crafting with distress ink and W&W stamp set.