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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Curtain Call Inspirational Challenge - Burlap Banner!

It's time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!
Burlap Banner

This challenge is sponsored by The Twinery. A randomly selected participant in the Burlap Banner challenge will receive a fabulous bundle from The Twinery, while the LEAD will be invited as a Guest Designer in a future challenge!

The Twinery also sent us DTs some of their gorgeous products. Thank you so very much for your generosity. Here is my take on the challenge.

I have used a new soon to be product called Creative Screening from Winnie & Walter to create my background. I have sponged black and orange ink using the product. Then I stamped the triangle stamps from Scenery: Rectangled and Triangled stamp set from Winnie & Walter using orange and black ink. I love how tone on tone stamping adds texture and interest to the background. Then I stamped and cut out the sentiment from The Big, the Bold and Blessings also from Winnie & Walter, which I added to the centre. For more texture I have added some Mandarin solid twine behind the sentiment. Then I added the smaller sentiment stamped on a strip of white cardstock.No card of mine is finished with some gorgeous Pretty Pink Posh's sequins. I have used Halloween Mix sequins. As I can see, I am inspired by colours and banner element from the graphics.

The Twinery Designers, our Guest Designer and the Curtain Call Crew have lots of additional inspiration for you today! Make sure you visit each of the designers' blogs!

Burlap Banner Designers

The Twinery Designers
Guest Designer, Kelly Latevola
Amy Kolling
Amy Sheffer
Gayatri Murali
Kim Singdahlsen
Laurie Willison
Lisa Henke
Marisa Ritzen
Maureen Plut
Monika Davis
Stacey Schafer
Tenia Nelson
Tracey McNeely

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge Facebook Page

Curtain Call Pinterest Boards

Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Burlap Banner for the challenge details and to play along with us!

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Trendy Christmas card sets

Hello! I am making a LOT of Christmas cards. Many of you are aware of it. I am thinking about doing weekly Christmas card share on my blog until end of November or even the first two weekends of December. So today is the start of it. I plan doing posting on the weekends either Saturday or Sunday. I will have a set of cards and a slideshow tutorial on how I made it. I also intend to use some newer and some older Christmas stamp sets from different stamp companies. Hope you are enthusiastic as I am sharing this weekly post.

Today I am starting with a trendy Christmas card set using the metallics - gold and silver.

I wanted to make a set of cards for my husband to give his colleagues at his hospital. I do not want it too traditional but something trendy and contemporary. So I chose a new stamp set from Papertrey Ink called Wet Paint Holiday and an older stamp set again from Papertrey Ink called Holiday Cheer to make this set of cards below.

This is the slideshow of how I made these cards.

These cards are very easy to mass produce once you have everything prepared. It does not need very much preparation either. I made them watching television. This is what I visioned to share with you. Something simple, easy to mass produce and looks trendy :)

I will leave you with some pictures of the gold version of the cards.

Thank you so much for visiting!

Friday, October 10, 2014

Tag You're It Challenge #8

Hello, I have a new challenge from Tag You're It Challenge Blog for you today.
This is the challenge's inspirational tag card designed by Lisa Arana!

I love the sketch of this card. So my card below is made using the sketch. I am into making Christmas cards at the moment. The more the better for me. I use each and every opportunity to make a Christmas card. lol! Here is one more.

The background paper is from Papertrey Ink. The tag is from Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Tag die set recently released. The snow globe is made using Set the Scene stamp set from Clearly Besotted. And the sentiment is from Little Pudding also from Clearly Besotted.

Non traditional Christmas cards are perfect to give children. I really need a few for my son and daughter's friends. This is the first in the collection. Just 20 more to go.
I added some white glitter stickles to the snow globe to make snow. This closeup picture shows them

It is you turn to play along. Head over to Tag You're It Challenge Blog to see what the other designers did with the tag. You can also find the linky to link your project at the blog.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Pretty Pink Posh New Release Blog Hop!

Hey, Hello and Hi dear friends,

Welcome to Pretty Pink Posh's product release blog hop!

Pretty Pink Posh has released two new die sets on October 1st. They are called Stitched Duo 2 die set and Stitched Tag die set. These are once again really versatile dies. I LOVE them. A few of us are doing new product blog hop to showcase these gorgeous dies. You should have come from the very talented Maureen Merritt's blog. Don't worry if this is your first stop. I will share with you all the designers participating in the blog hop.

I have a set of two cards today using dies from both the new release die set. Here are they are for you.

I have a slideshow tutorial for you on how I made these cards.

As a bonus, I have two more cards using similar layout. These are Christmas cards using watercolour technique.

The stamp set I have used on these two cards are from Penny Black called Red Star.

Your next stop is to the super talented and the gorgeous Danielle Flanders. Here are the list of all the designers participating in the blog hop.

Pretty Pink Posh blog

Make sure you leave comments along the way. There are two $25 gift certificate up for grabs. Winner will be picked randomly along the hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PDT on 10/12/2014. Winners will be announced on the Pretty Pink Posh blog.

You can buy these dies either from Pretty Pink Posh Shop and Simon Says Stamp shops

Happy hopping and shopping!

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Clearly Besotted Winner!

Welcome back! First I want to thank you for such a warm response to my work for Clearly Besotted Second Anniversary Blog Hop! I have closed the comments for the post because I have to pick a winner :)

Here is my random generator with the result.