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OSAT – One Stamp at a Time – Blending

April 14, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 5 Comments

With One Stamp At a Time this month, we are Blending things together and I share a couple of ways of doing this.

With a Sweet Farewell soon to come of some favourite retiring products, had me think of the stamp set of the same name. I took the Sweet Farewell stamp set and got to play.

Alcohol Pens

My first card had me think of my husband’s love of photography. I randomly stamped the image in Black Memento Ink across a white matting layer before colouring with our Alcohol Blends Pens.

Taking a strip of Basic White cardstock and Blends Pens, I blended Pool Party and Bermuda Bay together. The word ‘Smile’ was Die cut using the Playful Alphabet Dies and added to a vellum panel.

Ombré Effect

The Ombré effect is a beautiful blending technique. Randomly stamping images all over a Pool Party matting layer with Versamark and heat embossing white allowed for the Emboss Resist Technique. Masking the image with a Post It Note before adding ink, helps keep the images clear.

Starting tonally with Pool Party Ink, I worked in a circular motion across the cardstock, stopping just short of the end. Building up the colours I repeated using Coastal Cabana and then Bermuda Bay ink. Work until you achieve the density of colour that you desire. The Stampin’ Chalk Marker helped me to colour in the paper planes.

Blends Pens will help bring vibrancy of colour to a focal point like the suitcase.

Blending on Vellum

Ripping Vellum cardstock, I coloured each strip with a different Blends Pen. Pool Party Light, through Dark and onto Bermuda Bay. Overlapping these onto white cardstock and die cutting gave this great layered sea effect with perfect curved sides.

A simple white Die Cut BON was added before the extension of this sentiment stamped to complete Bon Voyage. The sailboat was stamped and coloured again with Blends before the panel was mounted onto an Embossed panel.

Whether it be beautiful colouring, blending with a brush or clever effects with paper, Blending can be achieved in so many ways.

Now for a sweet farewell to this fabulous set and to all who have kindly hopped over today. Be sure to hop around the rest of the team for more Blending inspiration.

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Cactus Cuties Flower Note card

April 14, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Love to get versatility from your stamp sets? Well, the Cactus Cuties isn’t just for Cactus building. I show here how you can use the images to create a Cactus Cuties Flower.

Making the card base colour teamed with the flower helped bring a coherent feel. Repeated stamping of the three leaf image generated flower petals that were fussy cut. The same image was stamped and cut in Granny Apple Green to create leaves. Texture was easily achieved with the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. The Cactus Builder Punch offers a great sized shape for a flower centre.

A Stitched Rectangle made the perfect anchor for this focal point. This was where I decided to stamp my sentiment, which I kept simple. A panel of Designer Series Paper is a great way of introducing another pattern or tonal colour.

I so enjoyed creating this card, which used the Cactus Cuties Stamp set, yet there’s not a Cactus in sight. A few final sequin embellishments and my card was complete.

I hope I’ve inspired you to look at your Cactus Cuties stamp set with different eyes.

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Around the World on Wednesday – At the Market

April 13, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 9 Comments

Welcome to the Around the World on Wednesday hop, where the Team are at the Market and I bring Cherries.

A warm welcome if you’ve hopped on over from my dear friend Aurélie‘s blog where I’m sure you’ve been inspired with market produce.

I took my inspiration from Cherries. Personally, I dislike cherry flavoured things but I love fresh cherries like these. Buying fresh fruit and vegetables weighed into brown paper bags is much nicer than buying pre packaged Supermarket produce.

Thinking of scales had me thinking of the soon to retire Measure of Love Stamp set, which is where I took the scales and small cherries from. I wanted a dark cherry colour so chose to use Merry Merlot with Garden Green stalks. Thinking of bundling the cherries up in gingham cloth, I chose a Soft Succulent Gingham paper from the Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper.

Taking coordinating Blends Pens in Soft Succulent, I coloured the body of the scales in adding shading beneath the bowl. Die cutting this image with a layering circle I was able to layer with a scalloped crumb cake circle layer, which teamed with the tag. This tiny tag came from the Meadows Dies set and reminded me of the rustic market price tags we often see.

Sizing up the Cherries

With the desire for larger cherries in the foreground, I took the Sweet as a Peach Stamp Set and inked up the mini peaches with Merry Merlot. These stamped with die cut Garden Green leaves, allowed me to simulate yet more larger cherries.

Carrying the images and colours over into the inside of the card, helps to pull the theme over. This bowl was again coloured using our Alcohol Blends Pens.

Quite a simple little layout and theme but a cute one that I really enjoyed creating.

Next up in the hop is my dear friend Annette who I’m sure has some wonderful Market themed inspiration for us. I look forward to seeing this and I hope you do too.

Thank you for hopping by today …. Enjoy the rest of the hop and all of the inspiration throughout.

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Sweet as a Peach Wreath Card

April 12, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Today I’m sharing a card I made a while ago using the Sweet as a Peach bundle. It’s such a shame that this beautiful bundle is about to retire as I’ve enjoyed being creative with these products.

I’ve used one of the striped papers from this suite and the flowers from this Stamp Set and Die bundle to create a wreath.

Using sponge daubers to add a deeper shade to the flowers, helped take away the flatness otherwise achieved. Pale Papaya and Calypso Coral gave a real Peachy tone which I teamed with Pear Pizzazz leaves. Calypso Coral and Bumblebee cardstock die cut flowers were used to embellish this wreath further.

The Genial Gems were the perfect tone to add to this wreath, picking out the Pale Papaya colour. To give additional warmth, I used Early Espresso ink for my sentiment, which I stamped and pieced in two rows.

A simple little card which I hope you like and will make you consider this beautiful Stamp Set and coordinating Dies. You don’t have to use this set just for Peaches. Check out the prices too … they’ve been dramatically reduced.

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Stampin’ Up! Pansy Petals on Basic Borders

April 11, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 3 Comments

The Stampin’ Up! Pansy Petals Bundle is a beautiful bundle that will have you creating gorgeous cards in no time. With Dies that not only cut images from the stamp set but also images from the Designer Series Paper, its so versatile.

The Basic Borders dies were used to reveal the bottom section of this card, which was replaced with Designer Series Paper. Who says that a sentiment need be straight upon a card? I loved how this sentiment followed the line of the stitched border.

I adore Gingham papers and this coordinates so beautifully with the colours within the Pansy itself. You can create no end of colour combinations with each layer being die cut separately. I used Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape and Blackberry Bliss. Two shades of green helped give interest to the leaves and stems seen here.

A single pansy head that still looks like it has a nose and moustache. What colour combination would you choose?

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Stamping Sunday – Last Chance

April 10, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 4 Comments

Welcome to the Stamping Sunday Blog Hop where this month we share our inspiration with items from the Last Chance offering. I decided to use the From All of Us Stamp set, that I’d been colouring with our Watercolour Pencils.

Starting with the background paper patterns from the Beauty of the Earth pack, on the Last Chance list, I created a background scene. Cutting a strip of woodgrain paper to represent a tree I created a curve with a Bone Folder and added Dimensionals within the belly of the tree.

Black Memento stamped on Basic White cardstock enabled me to colour the From all of us image with Watercolour Pencils. Once fussy cut, I took a bone folder to the image and curved this also.

Some Grey shading added beneath the animals on the grass gave a realistic shadow.

Simplifying the design, I focused on just one animal backing it with a woodgrain die cut label. The label came from the Hippo Happiness Bundle, which is where the bow tie came from.

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Rainbow of Happiness

April 9, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 4 Comments

With a Rainbow of Happiness we can say Thank you, Happy Birthday or simply Amazing you! Today I share a couple of cards I created a good few weeks back using the patterned papers from Sale-a-Bration. Switching up papers for alternatives would give these cards a whole different feel.

With the Die cut rainbow up in the clouds, I had to select this soft paper with it’s delicate little clouds. The Give us a Whirl Dies offer the most adorable Stitched clouds for detail.

I loved the unconventional colours I’d chosen, which offered quite a soft palette.

My second card had a background of mini hearts on a Pool Party base that I layered my Rainbow upon. Taking several layers of Basic white the same size, I repeatedly cut the rainbow shape and stacked these layers. Giving depth helped the inset colours look further into the distance.

Some more scattered stitched die cut clouds helped provide an elevated layer for my sentiment to sit upon.

Gold foil sentiments helped give a lift and were die cut from the Amazing thanks Dies.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my share with you today and I’ve inspired you to look for detail in other products.

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Stampin’ Fancy Friday – CASE a Fancy Friday

April 7, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

The Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge this month had us CASING another Fancy Friday Team Member.

I love a good CASE and what an honour it is to be able to CASE a fellow Fancy Friday Team Member. All ex or current serving Artisan Design Team members, it’s always a pleasure to CASE anyone of them. The talent amongst these Team Members is off the scale and choosing who and what to CASE was hard to narrow down. This card had jumped out at me a few times in passing, so I made my decision to CASE the fabulous Kayla McCreadie’s card.

What is it to CASE?

To CASE is to Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit. It’s always appreciated to give credit to the originator too.

Kayla’s beautiful card had an almost vintage feel about it. I loved her colour palette, layout and detail included and wondered if I should recreate it using the Tulip Dies.

I chose to stick with a similar colour palette of crumb cake and Pool Party. The flowers were a punchy vibrant Mango Melody, sponged with Real Red Ink and vibrant Granny Apple Green leaves.

To age this card up a little, I sponged Crumb Cake ink to the Hive Embossed layer, which added interest and atmosphere.

Loving the way that Kayla’s sentiment stretched across her card, I chose a large die cut sentiment. The two layers of this were Crumb Cake and Early Espresso to help soften any darkness that Black would bring.

The Gold Bumblebee embellishments are just adorable and helped complete this card, which I later sent to someone very special. My Amazing Mum, who had her Heart Attack and surgery at the back end of last year, has done amazingly well with her recovery. She’s such a strong woman and I knew that she’d love this card. This was the perfect Mother’s Day card for her this year … so thank you Kayla for your amazing inspiration, I loved it and Mum did also.

Why not consider joining in this month’s Challenge and select a card of ours to CASE and share. You can add a hashtag #fancyfridaychallenge to share your designs with us both on Facebook and Instagram.

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Every Chapter of a Friendship

April 7, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

This line drawn Every Chapter image by Stampin’ Up! was the perfect image for me. I don’t enjoy reading but I do adore colouring. Where some would read, others will Watercolour and this image offered the perfect combination for me.

Stamped with Black Memento Ink onto Basic White Cardstock, I used two sets of Watercolour Pencils to dry colour. Building up the colour and shading takes time but is well worth the effort.

Once fussy cut, it was down to the card assembly. I wanted the colours of this image to sing. Sponged Crumb Cake was the perfect base for a vintage feel. The script image from Very Versailles set was then randomly stamped all over this card base.

I wanted to mimic the look of an actual book, so selected a Coastal Cabana Book cover and added a Very Vanilla layer. This layer was aged by adding sponging of Crumb Cake to the edges, before rushing up with a scissor blade edge. The text from the Vellum Layering Designs added to the look of my faux book.

Our Bone Folder was used to help add curves to the pages, to simulate an open book, which had stacks of Dimensionals for height.

Sitting across the centre fold of this book was my coloured image. This too I added curves with my Bone Folder and scored between each book, again to allow for individual curving. A top corner curled and the addition of a Linen Thread Bow and my card was complete.

I hope I’ve inspired you today with my colouring and composition of this fabulous Stamp Set. Can you think of the perfect person you’d send this to?

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All Star Tutorial Hop – New Horizon

April 6, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 4 Comments

The All Star Tutorial Design Team have been playing with the On the Horizon Suite ready for this month’s Tutorial Bundle. This blog hop is to share even more inspiration using this amazing suite of products but these are NOT the projects you will find in the Tutorial Bundle itself.

I decided to team up the New Horizon Papers with the Inspiring Canopy Tree Dies that I thought would work well. Cutting an entire internal matting layer of the patterned paper, I used the excess on the front of this card and trimmed down the trees. These Dies are fabulous but are sadly due to retire and have been reduced from £30 to just £18.

Layering the tree canopy up with two shades of green, added depth and interest. Head further into your walk and you’ll find the interest continues onto the inside of this card.

I enjoy making a Shadow Box card from time to time and thought it would work really well with this suite. The Stitched Rectangle Dies offered ease of cutting the aperture from the inside of this card.

The patterned paper was then adhered to the back panel with a scattering of birds stamped onto it. In hindsight, I wished I’d stamped them a little lower.

You can see the depth created with this style of card. The woodgrain image within the stamp set was used to stamp tone on tone to the Soft Suede fence panels. Again, I should have added this to the tree bark if I’d thought of it sooner.

Keeping to one colour for the tree canopy on the inside of this card, allowed my eye to be taken off into the distance.

I love the detail and enjoyment of this card. There is plenty of space for you to write your message on the inside free panel or the back if you like.

I hope you have enjoyed my inspiration for you today and shared another way that you can make use of your New Horizon papers.

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