June 2020 – Page 2 – Tinstar Designs

Ink smoosh crafting

Today I played with my favourite technique – ink smooshing and I made four cards.

First one is for:

I ink smooshed the Kaleidacolor ‘Desert heat’ ink pad on a scallop edge panel and added a sentiment from The Ton ‘ Easy Expressions: Birthday’.

My second card is for:

I flipped the sketch on it’s side and moved the sentiment to the top. I ink smooshed my Kaleidacolor ‘Vineyard’ ink pad on a scallop edge panel and then stamped the field of poppies from the Stampin Up ‘Painted Poppy’ stamp set and added a sentiment from The Ton ‘Simply Birthdays’ digital set.

I love how these colours look like the grass and a purple setting sky.

My third card is for CASology #369 – Wind.

I ink smooshed my Kaleidacolor ‘Denim’ ink pad on a watercolour panel and then added my die cut windsurfer. and another sentiment from the Ton digital birthday sentiment set.

You certainly need wind to ride a windsurfer – right?!

My last card is for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #161 – I is for Ink.

For this card, I ink smooshed a few Catherine Pooler Design inks in ‘It’s a Girl’, ‘Be Mine’ and “Rose Petal’ on a watercolour panel. I think stamped the unicorn from CAS-ual Fridays ‘ Be a unicorn’ and the sentiment from The Ink Road ‘Zero fucks’.

Well, that’s it for today. Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

WWC #274 – Dawn’s Challenge: Anything Goes with a Feminine Twist

Hello there, it’s time for another Watercooler Wednesday Challenge and Dawn is our host with feminine challenge this week!

I’ve been following Nancy Heotker for some time and now she’s in Australia we have become friends as we both have the same Stampin Up up-line. She has created a tutorial for a unique card called a ‘theatre card’. I used some Stampin Up DSP called ‘Flowering Foils’ that I coloured with Pink Pirouette ink and ‘Happy birthday to you’ stamp set.

I added some ribbon to the sides that you pull to make it a bit easier to open.

Pretty stunning right?!

Come join in the fun and make a card for an occasion of your choosing. Check out the projects that the other artists at Watercooler Wednesday Challenges have created, take the challenge and link your creation to the challenge post. We’d love to have you join us. You have until Tuesday, 9th June at 10:00 Melbourne Time or Monday 8th June 5pm US Mountain Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Hello June

1st day for winter and boy is it a terrible day. It’s grey, raining and only 10 degrees. I was up early (530 thanks to the cat pawing at my face!), so I started working and now I’m having a well earned break doing a bit of crafting.

I’m playing along with Time Out Challenges #162 – Free and Case this Sketch #374.

I had a stenciled background in my stash that I thought would pair beautifully with one the dancers from Visible Images ‘Hip hop girls’. I added a it of twine to the top and my card was done. I kept the imagery at the bottom and the sentiment parallel to match the sketch.