Tinstar Designs

Today is a cold and wintery day here in Melbourne, which encouraged me to make Christmas cards. I played along with four different challenges for my four cards.

First up is a card for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #214 – C is for Christmas.

For my card I used two stamps sets – ‘Bright & Breezy’ from Stamps by Chloe and ‘N-7874’ from The Cat’s Pajamas. I stamped and coloured the underwear with my Stampin Blends then cut them out and added to a simple card base with my sentiment.

Next up is a card for Less is More #469 – Traditional Chrismas.

I made an OLC using the beautiful tree from the Altenew ‘ Sketched Evergreen’ inked up with three different greens.

My third card is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown #27 – Christmas Floral.

I used a Stampin Up die set ‘Poinsettia Petals’ with a sentiment from ‘Leaves of Holly’.

My last card is for the ABC Christmas Challenge – N is for New or O is for Old.

I used a new stamp set from Stampin Up called ‘Mistletoe Magic’. I embossed a background panel with a Merry Christmas script, then stamped, coloured and die cut three mistletoe images and popped them over the sentiment strip.

Well, that’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by for a look. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hello there, it’s time for another Fusion Challenge and do we have a great sketch and inspirational photo for you!

For this challenge, I opted to follow the sketch but did use the flowers on the hat as a bit of inspiration too. I stamped, coloured and fussy cut out the flower from Altenew ‘Paint-a-flower: Rose’; popped it up over some dotty DSP and a sentiment from Uniquely Creative.

Come join in the fun and make a card based on the sketch, inspiration photo or fuse them together and play with both! Check out the projects that the other artists at Fusion have created, take the challenge and link your creation to the challenge post. We’d love to have you join us.  You have until Wednesday, 21st July at 7pm Melbourne Time or Tuesday 20th July 12pm US Pacific Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Hello there, it’s time for another Just Add Ink Challenge and do we have a great sketch for you!

I love this sketch as it plays to my CAS crafting heart. I used a new DSP from Stampin Up called ‘Santa Express’ for my banner, added a mistletoe sprig from the Stampin Up ‘Mistletoe Magic’ and a sentiment from Uniquely Creative.

Come join in the fun; we’d love to see how you were inspired. Check out the projects that the other artists at Just Add Ink have created, take the challenge and link your creation to the challenge post. We’d love to have you join us.  You have until Wednesday, 13th July at 7pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Well hello and welcome to today’s post. It’s time for another challenge over at Get Creative Challenges where its Anything Goes with an optional twist to add red, white and blue to your card.

When I think of red, white and blue, I think of flags and sailing so I reached for my Stampin Up ‘Let’s Set Sail’ stamp set and matching punch for my card. I embossed the background panel to look like waves, added some SU DSP from ‘Waves of the Ocean’ then added my stamped and punched out boat with some dimensionals and twine.

Check out the Get Creative Challenge blog for details on the sponsor prizes and links to the other fabulous projects from the DT and come join in our fun and share your anything goes project by 1pm Monday 1st August (Melbourne time) or 11pm Sunday 31st July (US Eastern Standard time)

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Today I had a chance to get crafty with the current Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge – Z is for Zombies.

It feels like ages since I’ve crafted with the Sisters, but I couldn’t resist this theme!

For my card I created a sponged background panel using a variety of green distress inks from Tim Holtz, added some embossed lightning bolts from Altenew ‘Rain or Shine’ and printed a digital image from E9 Designs on Etsy.

I love how this card came out. Thanks for stopping by for a look. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hello there, it’s time for another Fusion Challenge and do we have a great sketch and inspirational photo for you!

I love the colours and that ombre background in the photo so went with that for the basis of my card. I used a flower from Dina Wakley Media ‘Good idea’ and added it in a similar place as the sketch.

Come join in the fun and make a card based on the sketch, inspiration photo or fuse them together and play with both! Check out the projects that the other artists at Fusion have created, take the challenge and link your creation to the challenge post. We’d love to have you join us.  You have until Wednesday, 7th July at 5pm Melbourne Time or Tuesday 6th July 12pm US Pacific Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Hello there, it’s time for another Just Add Ink Challenge and do we have a great theme for you!

While I was on holidays the other week, I bought a craft magazine that had an amazing stamp set called ‘Japanese Dreams’ and that’s where I got this lovely blossom flower from. I stamped it close to the edge and then coloured it with my Stampin Blends. I then fussy cut along the edge and popped it up on a card base with some gorgeous gold sparkle on it. The sentiment is from Uniquely Creative which I cut apart and individually popped up.

Come join in the fun; we’d love to see how you were inspired. Check out the projects that the other artists at Just Add Ink have created, take the challenge and link your creation to the challenge post. We’d love to have you join us.  You have until Wednesday, 29th June at 7pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.