CASE Study #208

Good afternoon everyone,

Sharing with you the second muse from Debby Hughes for the CASE Study Challenge.

Here it is for you.

Beautiful teacher's tags. Love the simplicity of the tag and how the fantastic colouring of the apples take focus. But for me the inspiration is the entire photo. I love the settings Debby has created. The wooden plank background, the texture from the hessian bag and the jute twine, the bright red apples.  Love it. So I took all this into consideration to CASE my card.

I have used wooden plank background. It is a pattern paper from My Mind's Eye. Then I have stamped and die cut the Poinsettia from Pretty Poinsettia stamp set from Wplus9. I have added a sparkly gold enamel dot at the centre of the poinsettia. The tag is from Reverse Confetti and so is the banner on which the sentiment is stamped. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. I have added red twine to the tag and a piece of hessian behind the tag. Here is a closeup!

Check out the how the designers below interpreted Debby's muse or see them all at CASE Study Challenge blog.

 Amy Wanford, Anika Lerche, Anja Curvers, Anna Kossakovskaya (Umichka), Gayatri Murali (That's me!), Iwona Palamountain, Jill Foster, Jeanne Jachna, Julia Stainton, Michelle Williams, Silke Ledlow, Tasnim Ahmed and of course Debby Hughes.

Come and play along with us.

From the Craft Room: A Lime Lemony Congratulations....

Hey everyone,

Glad to be back blogging after couple of days. I have been crafting but cannot yet share the cards I have made. But surely tomorrow. I always get a bit distracted while making DT projects and end up with a non DT project. And today's card share is one of them. I was going through pattern papers to use on one of my DT project when I came across this gorgeous bokeh lime lemony pattern paper. I think this came with Simon Says Stamp kit recently. I then remembered, Altenew's new monthly challenge. I played along :)

This is Altenew's new monthly challenge inspirational picture.

From the Craft room: Lime Lemonade

I am inspired by the Lime Lemonade colours of the ribbon and the simple b/w stamped and diecut flowers and leaves. So here is my card for the challenge.

I have used the beautiful yellow and green bokeh pattern paper on the background. Then stamped the Magnolia from Magnolia for Her stamp set on some scrap white cardstock, cut them out and clustered them together. I bunched up some thread before adhered the cluster of Magnolia on the pattern paper. I then used the sparkly gold enamel dot to embellish.

For the sentiment I have used Tsukineko Kaleidacolor  Melon Melody dye ink to ink the sentiment also from Magnolia for Her stamp set and heat embossed it using clear embossing powder. How gorgeous is that sentiment? I love the glossy effect from heat embossing. Here are some closeup!

Thanks for stopping by!

Curtain Call Challenge reminder and a video

Good Morning everyone!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Mine is a relaxing weekend because the weather is cold, windy and rainy. I am catching up on household chores and craft.

Today's card share is my second card for Curtain Call Challenge - Lovely Leaves.



There is still time to play this challenge. So join in the fun with me.

I have used a negative die cut as stencil to sponge some distress inks to get the fall leaves foliage. The sentiment is from The big, the Bold and Blessings stamp set from Winnie & Walter. No card of mine is complete with the gorgeous Pretty Pink Posh's sequins.

I decided to do a video of this card. It is a long video and I have tried doing a voice over after getting some feedback over my voice on the first one. It is not perfect but I will get there. Practice makes perfect , right? Hoping to achieve with practice. 

Enjoy my video.

Here are some photos of the new card I made in the video. After the video I went ahead and heat embossed the big sentiment by stamping over with versamark. This gave the sentiment some texture and made it stand out.

Hope I have inspired you to look at your negative die cut differently and reuse them.

Come and play along Curtain Call Challenge.

Comparing White pigment inks - a video

Hi, Hiya and Hello everybody,

This is my first video. I have been trying to make videos in the past but only now got around to it. This one has turned out well, so I am sharing it with you.

I have compared Wplus9 Pure Color White pigment ink and Hero Arts Unicorn White pigment ink in this video. 

Here is the video

Being my first, I would like your feedback as I am planning on making card videos as well. Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for stopping by!

CASE Study #207

Hiya, hello and hi dear friends,

After a month of celebrating the 4th anniversary with plenty of  prizes (Yay!) we are back to our routine muse challenge. This month's muse is my all time favourite designer - Debby Hughes! She is full of talent and I adore her designs. I am sure you will all agree with me :) Here is one of her recent card using Altenew Stamps as the muse.

How pretty is this card?  The colouring on the vellum makes the flower look soft and pretty. I love it this flower stamp set from Altenew. I have this set with me so I decided to use this set on my card too. I still wanted to use vellum and colour the flowers but did not want to CASE Debby's card paper for paper, colour for colour, flower for flower.... You know what I mean? I am lots for the right word here lol!

Here is my card inspired by Debby's muse card.

I used watercolour paper and white heat embossed the flowers from the Altenew called Persian Motif. I then used Peerless Watercolour and Ranger's Perfect Pearls to colour my flowers and leaves. I love how Peerless watercolour blends. So I have used purple and pink on the flowers and while wet I also added perfect pearls. This gives the shimmer on the petals as you can see below.

I then stamped the sentiment from Reverse Confetti on a vellum die cut banner using Memento Luxe Lilac pigment ink and heat embossed using clear embossing powder. They are two sentiments which I stamped and heat embossed one below the other because I think it goes really well together. I LOVE this sentiment. 

I then folded the vellum banner a bit on the top and adhered at the back of the watercolour paper using clear tape. I mounted the watercolour paper on the card front. Then Pretty Pink Posh's gorgeous gorgeous sequins Amethyst, Pansy Purple and Pink Peonies sequins. Here is a closeup!

Check out the how the designers below interpreted Debby's muse or see them all at CASE Study Challenge blog.

 Amy Wanford, Anika Lerche, Anja Curvers, Anna Kossakovskaya (Umichka), Gayatri Murali (That's me!), Iwona Palamountain, Jill Foster, Jeanne Jachna, Julia Stainton, Michelle Williams, Silke Ledlow, Tasnim Ahmed and of course Debby Hughes.

Come and play along with us.