Tinstar Designs

Today I made a Christmas ornament card. I was inspired by the Colour of Hues #3 theme to use cream and gold on your card.

Seems I’ve slightly over exposed my photos on this grey Melbourne day so my cream looks a bit white. Think I need to invest in a photo box or a better overhead light.

I watched a Jennifer MacGuire video the other day, where she made a card with an ornamnet on the belly band. I loved that idea and just received a new Stampin Up order which included the ‘Dove of Hope’ stamp set and matching dies that I knew would be perfect for this technique. I also used a panel of the ‘Plush Poinsettia’ DSP which I coloured some of the flowers with my gold marker. I die cut the dove components about 6 times for each piece to give them enough depth to be able to hang properly on the tree.

I loved how this looked so made another one but used a differnt looking panel of the DSP which I coloured with red.

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When I post these cards, I think I’ll need to use a padded bag to look after the ornament.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

By my usual standards I have not been as productive this weekend, but in my defence the project I made this weekend took me almost a whole day to make!

I was inspired by the current Sisterhood of Crafters challenge to make anything but a card!

I’ve been playing with making a variety of boxes and saw this one over on YouTube (sorry can’t remember who created it) but it has a 2 tiered aspect to it. I did have to alter some of the measurements from the video to make it work, wasted a bit of DSP in the process – LESSON, next time practice with photocopy paper!

Well, that’s it for this weekend, I’ve got chores to do. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day.

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

I created a card with a flap closure. I used my SU daisy punch for the flowers and did a little bit of inking on the petals and stamped some leaves and stems behind them. I embossed a strip of white cardstock for the inside that helps ground the sentiment flap.

Come join in the fun and make a feminine card. 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, 13th October at 9:00 Melbourne Time or Monday 12th October 5pm US Mountain Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

I was a weekly winner during August and have been asked to be a Guest Designer for the month of October. I’m super stoked as I love this challenge group, they have great colour schemes and cool sketch challenges.

This week, it’s a colour scheme for you. They are Stampin’ Up color names just for reference; you can substitute other companies’ colors so long as they match closely. The three colors must be the only ones used, with the addition of white, ivory, black, grey, brown, metallic (gold, silver, or copper) or kraft for card bases/layers, image outlines, and sentiments. 

I decided to use 2 dies from Altenew called ‘Layered Floral Dies A & B’ that I cut from white cardstock and then sponged the 3 colours on the base die cut layer to look like the flowers petals. I then pieced the 2 layers together over a black cardbase with a sentiment from the Ton ‘Birthday Sentiment Stips’.

I’m really happy with how this card came out. Come join in our fun, make a card using these wonderful colours and link it up to the challenge blog by Monday 12th October.

Thanks for stopping by; enjoy the rest of your day.

Got my craft on today for World Card Making Day and of course I played along with some challenges!

First up is a card for Fab Friday #198.

I decided to create a scene using these cololurs with the Stampin Up ‘Sending Sunshine’ stamp set.

Next is a card for Inspired by…. #144.

I was inspired by the colours and the hanging floral arrangements. I used the Stampin Up ‘Forever Fern’ stamp and die set which I inked up in a variety of greys with a touch of green.

Next is a card for Just Us Girls #556 – Word week.

I used a new stamp set from Uniquely Creative called ‘One of a kind’ which has the most adorable platypus images. I stamp one and coloured him with my Stampin Blends and then added a bit of blue checked paper behind.

Lastly is a card for Less is More #429 – Cheers.

I have a stamp set that was perfect for this challenge – PTI ‘Uncorked’.

Well that’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by for a look. Enjoy the rest of your day and I hope you had a chance to get crafty this WCMD.

I’m thrilled to have been asked by Michelle Lupton to join her in her Case Me a Christmas Card series. 

Michelle has asked lots of friends in blogland to CASE one of her cards and make it a Christmas twist and she in turn will CASE one of our cards   I played along last year with her Challenge Me a Christmas Card series which was heaps of fun. For her challenge this year, I chose this adorable card Michelle made back in October 2019.

I was inspireed by the layout, the panel of Alcohol Ink and the colour matching image. I chose to use Chrstmas greens for my AI panel and coloured and cut out a cute elf from MTF ‘Santa’s Elves’.

Well thanks for stopping by for a look and I hope we’ve inspired you to think about taking inspiration from and CASEing a fellow crafter.!

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

I decided to play along with the farm animal theme and used one of my favourite Katzelkraft stamp sets ‘La Fermes des Animaux’. I water coloured them and then cut them out with my Scan’n’Cut. I added the sentiment on the sketches top banners.

Come join in the fun and make a card based on the sketch, inspiration photo or 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, 14th October at 7pm Melbourne Time or Tuesday 13th October 12pm US Pacific Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Hello there, it’s time for another Watercooler Wednesday Challenge and as it’s the 5th week of the month we have an Anything Goes challenge this week!

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I love making fancy fold cards and when I saw a tutorial by Brenda Quintana for a Star Fold card, I just knew I had to try it.

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I will be making more of these cards and attaching some ribbon to a point so that it can also double as an ornament.

Come join in the fun and make a card/project of your chosing. 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, 6th October at 9:00 Melbourne Time or Monday 5th October 5pm US Mountain Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Christmas cards that is!

Today I decided to make a series of Christmas cards inspired by a number of non-Christmas challenges.

First up is a card for CAS Colours & Sketches #389.

I liked the 3 verticle stripes and decided to use a stamp which had 3 different verticle Christmas trees. I ithem up with my Kaleidacolor ‘Caribben Sea’ ink pad and added them over some gold glitter paper and teal cardstock.

Next is a card for Colour Hues #2 – Navy & Turquoise.

I love the idea of using non-traditional colours on a Christmas card and decided to use my favourite Christmas tree stamp from Altenew ‘Sketched Evergreen’. I used Catherine Pooler inks in Fiesta Blue, Something Borrowed and Juniper Mist.

Lastly is a card for The Male Room Challenge #142 – Travel and Festive Friday #68.

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I decided to make a card with Santa and his sleigh (that’s travel right?). I created a night sky background, a silver embossed sentiment and added a Santa sleigh die cut and my card was done.

Thanks for stopping by for a look. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hello there, it’s time for another Watercooler Wednesday Challenge and Michelle is our host with an all about occcasions challenge this week!

I’ve been going through my old stamping goodies of late and found my owl punch and decided to make a wedding card for a work colleague’s sister. I used a sentiment from PTI called ‘Side by Side Sentiments’.

Come join in the fun and make a card for an occasion of your chosing. 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, 29th September at 9:00 Melbourne Time or Monday 28th September 5pm US Mountain Time to link up your project.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.