AAA Birthday – Game #21 – A Stencil Background

January 4, 2021December 27, 2020 | tinwhistlecrafts

Welcome to a new year…2021…and a new round of monthly challenges.

Congratulations to our guest designer this month – Melanie. Pop over to the AAA Birthday blog to see what Melanie has designed for her guest spot for this months challenge and be inspired by the rest of the Design Team cards. We also welcome our new design team members, Bhavya, Maaike, Nonni & Valerie. So exciting to have you join us.

First up we would like you to stencil a background. There are so many different ways to use a stencil; dry emboss, texture paste, ink, paints, glitters, embossing ink and powders – the list goes on and on… I’ve used a very cool turnabout stencil by Concord and 9th and I love how it turned out.

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The Library Challenge #74

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 | tinwhistlecrafts

Over at The Library Challenge the current challenge is to pick any book cover from the last three years and using the cover, title or story of a selected book as inspiration. I used the colour scheme (red, white, blue and gold) and the stars as my inspiration.

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Wishing you a Sunshiny Christmas

December 18, 2020 | tinwhistlecrafts

Living in the Southern Hemisphere we…usually…have a hot Christmas. Here is my take on a summer themed Christmas card.

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AAA Birthday – Game #17 – Animals and Critters

September 7, 2020September 6, 2020 | tinwhistlecrafts

And there we go…another month gone by already. So many stamp sets to choose from made this months theme hard for me, but I finally decided to go for simple. This stamp set from Concord and 9th made it easy and then the next decision was colour! You can’t go wrong with a rainbow colour scheme.

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Inspired by…Fruity Sentiments

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 | tinwhistlecrafts

I am entering this card in the current Inspired by Challenge – Fruity Sentiments. I have a few fruit based stamp sets but chose this one by Concord & 9th as it had a great sentiment I wanted to use. I ended up making a couple of cards (2nd one further down) but am entering this one as it is also based on the sketch.

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AAA Birthday – Game #14 – Use Vellum

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 | tinwhistlecrafts

Another new month has snuck up on us and it’s time for the June challenge at AAA Birthday. This month we want to see cards using vellum. Hop on over to the AAA Birthday blog and see what the Design Team have created and a special welcome to Izzy Scrap as this months guest designer…she has created a STUNNING card this month to inspire you.

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AAA Birthday – Game #8 Balloons & Banners

December 2, 2019December 1, 2019 | tinwhistlecrafts

Hi again everyone. This month AAA Birthday has another great challenge to get your juices flowing. Get creative with Balloons & Banners – you can use both on your card of just one. Come along to the AAA Birthday blog and see what the Design Team has created and a special welcome to Maaike.

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AAA Birthday – Game #6 Colour Palette

October 7, 2019October 4, 2019 | tinwhistlecrafts

Hi everyone, time for another challenge at AAA Birthday. This month it’s a colour palette theme. Come along to the AAA Birthday blog and see what the Design Team has created and a special welcome to Trina as this months Guest Designer.

I wasn’t sure where I was going initially with the colour scheme and you only have to include at least two of the colours but I ended up using all the of them.

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SOSS Ombre Challenge – Guest Designer

March 10, 2019May 4, 2019 | tinwhistlecrafts

I’m thrilled to be a guest designer for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers latest Challenge #130 – Ombre. How many Ombre elements can I fit on one card? At least four as it turns out.

Images

Stamped Altenew Layered Cupcake images onto Neenah Solar White cardstock. As there are 2-3 layers for each part of the image I used Altenew Green Meadows, Cherry Blossom and Coffee Break mini ink cubes – Ombre element 1.
Diecut with matching die.

Other items

Ink blend the three lightest Cherry Blossom inks over three pieces of Strathmore Bristol Smooth Cardstock (super easy to blend on) – Ombre element 2.
Using Concord & 9th Bags and Tags die set, diecut edge of each of the pieces of cardstock.
Cut down to size for your card base.

Sentiment

Stamp out the banner and sentiment using Concord & 9th Here’s the Scoop stamp set.
The pole for the banners is the straw stamp in the same set and watercoloured using the same Altenew Inks listed in Image section. Perfect to add Ombre element – Ombre element 3.

Background

Ink blend Distress Oxide Ink Tea Dye over Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock.
Using the circle stamps in the Layered Cupcake stamp set randomly stamp over background in the Coffee Break ink cube colours to create an ombre look – Ombre element 4.

FINISHING

Using ATG adhere background to card base.
Adhere pink tablecloth cardstock in layers with foam tape.
Adhere cupcakes and banners with foam tape to add dimension (see closeup above).
Using darkest of the pink inks ink blend around the bottom edge of the card base.

Thanks for stopping by and have a good day.

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