CASE Study 120
It has been an eventful week for me with some exciting opportunities presenting themselves, my lips are seals for the moment however! I am now completely in the Christmas spirit, most of my decorations are now hung and most of my shopping is done, I have my most favourite job left to do! Wrap all my gifts so they look beautiful under the tree with huge bows and fabulous tags.
Not only am I in the Christmas Spirit but Christmas is all I can think about in the way of cardmaking, I felt like I was prepared with my Christmas cards then I prepared my list and oh o boy was I wrong! I have taken this chance like the past two weeks to use my CASE Study challenge to make Christmas cards.
This is the first week of December, so you know that means a new Muse to inspire us for the month… Please welcome Windy Robinson!! Woohoo!! Check out her blog here: windyrobinson.blogspot.com For those not familiar with the name, she’s a PC Magazine Go-To-Gal, she also designs for Spellbinders and Zva Creative. You should see her card to the left, it is a great card with so many elements that can inspire us, I am so excited for December.
For this weeks challenge I was taken with elements of her layout, I did not have the same dies however I played around with the dies and shapes I did have, the back layer in actually a die cut tag from the Holiday Catalogue and I have used the reverse side of the tag. I kept the “low” bow but off centered mine and were Windy has used that thin greeting under the bow, I have placed mine on the main image. I have kept the card very simple because I will be making a few more of these I need them easy to make. The layering of the stamped images come from Shelli from here.
Well here is my card! If you have time please play with us at CASE Study along this week:
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Who Still Needs to Make Christmas Cards?
Well join the fun this Saturday for a Christmas Cardmaking Extravaganza
Saturday, 24 November 2012 from 1 to 4pm. You still have plenty of time to send handmade Christmas cards this year, so why not book in to attend the Card Making afternoon in Minchinbury, you will receive the address when confirming your spot. Bookings essential so that you will have your pack cut and waiting for you on the day the cost is $40.00 for 20 cards with a $10.00 deposit
CASE Study 116
I am someone who loves Christmas time, I love seeing neighbors starting to hang Christmas lights, driving at night and seeing the homes all lite up, I love walking through the shopping center and hearing Christmas carols playing, the only music I play from about this point in the year is Christmas Carols and one thing I love most of all is signing my Christmas Carols at the top of my voice in my car and being looked at when I pull up at traffic lights, I feel like everyone is just has happy and cheerful at this time of the year.
I start making Christmas Cards in July and make a few each month so by the time December rolls around I am all set to post out my Christmas cards. I have a few people who always get special cards from me, unlike my cards I start in July that are made in bulk and simple in design, my special cards are one off cards like this one I made for one of my biggest supporters.
Inspiration can sometimes be an issue when life is busy and I am time poor but still have grand ideas which one thing that comes hand in hand with Christmas! Thank goodness for Challenge sites like CASE Study! They provide us with wonderful inspiration. We are up to CASE Study 116 which is crazy and we still have the sweet Angeline Yong, as the November Muse.
The muse sample for this week is to the left, it has great elements to inspire us! I was taken with the layout it was so simple and I liked the image hanging over the top. I took that layout idea and used it mine is shown with the night star hanging over the end of the stamped layer. Also with the background of the stamped layer Angeline has use a check pattern over her stamping layer, I like that change of not using plain old White and Vanilla. I have created my background by masking of each section and lightly brayed over the masked sessions.
Stamps: First Christmas {Christmas Catty}
Ink: VersaMark, Crumb Cake and Midnight Muse
Cardstock/Papers: Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse and Very Vanilla
Other: Brayer, Champagne Shimmer Paint spray mixer and Scallop Dot Punch
Cart Kids Class + Projects in the Post {trial}
For sometime I have been asked if I can offer some of my classes I teach to my local customers as online kits, I have resisted for many reasons but I have been talked around to offer them as a trail, so here goes!
The kit that I am offering is this super cute little red cart and set of 4 cards with mini envelopes shown above. I will send you all the cut pieces and establishments required with a PDF on creating the project. You will need to supply your own stamps, inks and basic tools to complete the project.
Below are the key products I have used, you can order them from me or use your own stamps that are similar.
Greeting Card Kids, Pg 14
Little Friends, Pg 52
French Foliage, Pg 86 Only used to add distressing details
Daring Adventure, Pg 104 Text image only used to add distressing details
Jet Black StazOn
Crumb Cake and Cherry Cobbler Marker
Blender Pen
$20 including postage, shipped anywhere in Australia.
All kits will start shipping from Monday 19th November. Limited number of kits and sorry only sold within Australia.
To order you kit email or phone me 0416 000 955, with your mailing address, any items you wish to order to complete the project or just your latest Stampin’ Up! Order.
Also advise of your payment choice: PayPal or Direct Deposit.
Yes I said FREE! Stampers in my INKspired Stampin’ Up! Group/downline get all my PDF’s for FREE, they can use them for classes if they do them or they can just use they for their own personal crafting inspiration. Read more about my team here, you can always contact me for more info.
Everything is still the same for the local classes, check out to the right of my blog for other classes which are only offered as “In the Classroom” classes.
CASE Study 116
Hello my loyal blog readers! I have returned after a short blogging hiatus, I missed a few weeks of CASE Study Challenges while a had a few things happening and one of which was preparing for the Penrith Papercraft Festival that was last weekend, if I met you at the festival… Welcome! I created many projects of the show which I will show in a super post in the next few days.
I am still in a state of shock that it really is November and Christmas is just around the corner, this year has just going in a flash. This is my first week of November playing long at CASE Study, we have a new muse Angeline Yong check out her blog to see more of her work.
On to talking about this weeks muse sample, it is a interesting sample and I think you can take a lot of inspiration from this card.
For me this card was a no brainier I was straight away drawn to the flower images, they are a little abstract in their design and open to be taken in many different ways. I am sure you can tell the tree branch with the attached Dahlias is my take on the flowers, I just cant work out what she has attached to the center of the circles they look like eye’s to me but I am not 100% sure! If you know please drop me a comment below.
The colours also played a small part, I love Karft {or Crumb Cake to us Stampin’ Up! Girls} I think everything goes with Crumb Cake so I was happy to use that as my base and I took the Yellow and blues I could see for the rest of my colour palette.
Below is my finished card, I have my tree branch going vertical. I love this little bird family they are so cute.
Stamps: Woodgrain Background, Take Care and Flock Together
Ink: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Summer Starfruit and Island Indigo
Cardstock/Papers: Crumb Cake, Island Indigo, Whisper White and Birds of a Feather DSP
Ribbon: Summer Starfruit
CASE Study 112
I have wonderful news for many, I have been blogging for 6 years and never had an option to subscribe to email notifications of my blog updates, over the years I have had SO many emails asking if I have this option! Well after replying to many email over this time I decided I was going to put my “big girl panties” on and work it out! I am not very “technically minded” or good with all “that” computer stuff however funny enough I am one of those Gen Y’s and it is kind of “expected” that we are up to date with all the “cool” ways to communicate like Facebook, Tweeter and Instram! I am clearly just not that hip and happening {which is kind of no surprise to me} ANYWAY, after getting the most fabulous guidance from Heather Wright-Porto at blogsbyheather, a HUGE thanks to Heather for helping me out. Heather was suggests by Amy Celona. OMG Heather has the most amazing service and SO helpful, if you are looking for blog/web design or hosting then Heather is your girl! Check her out here: www.blogsbyheather.com
It has been a crazy few days with lots happening which I will save you from as it really is very boring, so I am a little late in posting my CASE Study card here on my blog, it has been on the CASE Study blog since Thursday when the challenge started. I had recorded with my Teneale Cam the process of me creating this card but it had I shown you the video would of just seen lots of printed paper get wasted and my fingers tapping on the table as I think of my next move! It was a mess, a mess I tell you!
What inspired me?
The measuring tapes at the bottom of the card came from the measuring tape on the muse sample, believe it or not the layout {this is where it all went wrong} however I have just adjusted the proportions and added some layers. I created the Congrats Grad button as a CASE from the muse card where a flower was make, I was going to have it to the off centered but it just did not look right. I normally make a card knowing I would use the card at some point in the near future however I know a handful of friends and customers that have children about to graduate from year school in the coming weeks before or after they do their HSC exams.
I realise the inside of the card is not that exciting but I think with this kind of card the message is very important, I was not sure what to put inside in respect of a greeting so I started flicking the catalogue to find something suitable and on page 76 I found it a greeting from ”Best of Everything” it was similar to something my Fabulous Mother said to me back when I was nearing my own granulation and deciding what I wanted my next move to be ”All I want for you is the best of everything”
Stamp Set: Best of Everything, French Foliage and Blue Ribbon
Card stock\Paper: Storytime and Very Vanilla
Inkpads: Crumb Cake. Basic Gray, Pool Party, Riding Hood Red and So Saffrom
CASE Study 111
Oh my goodness, yes I know!!! I know! If you are a regular visitor to my blog and/or a fan of CASE Study this card is late, I drop my head in shame and say I am very sorry! Technology has not been my friend again this week, I can safely say our relationship is classified ”its complicated” I LOVE technology, I know it is good to stay in tune with, but sometimes I just don’t understand how it works then once I feel it is all going well…. technology has to go and UPDATE it’s self, I don’t cope well with change! The saddest part of all is not matter how mad technology get’s me I can’t live without it!
I will stop my chit chat about the delay and carry on to say, we have a new CASE Study muse of the month of October and she is Julia Stainton I remember as one of the first stampers when I first started that i used to check her work daily! I am very excited to case her is month. To the left you will see Julia’s creation for use to get all inspired by.
I will be honest and say, this card had me thinking for a little longer then normal, I does have so many elements that can be taken from it, the easy way was to go very girlie, but I think of time and clocks as a male image I kept with the clock and time, I created a square card, were my greeting going around the clock, Julia has it as a section along the bottom of the card, for me I have used that way stamping and embossing my bottom strip.
Inside my card, I am not a huge fan of writing to much in my cards {because I don’t really like my handwriting} so I have not left that much room for writing I can address it at the top, below the Birthday greeting is room for a short message and a sign off from.
Ok ladies, hold on….. some of you MAY get excited by this! I have placed a digital video camera above my desk which I have now called my stamp cam! It has been a learning curve and many hours playing around, I already know I few things I will do differently for the next video. This card took about 3 hours in real time from start to finish but I have cropped it down the 20 minutes.
CASE Study 110
Oh my internet! We are not getting on at the moment and sending my crazy! I have no idea of the problem and its seams nor does my internet provider. I never realised how much I relay on internet in my everyday life and without it! Can be stressful and don’t even get me started on coping without Pinterest, I say that laughing BUT really I think I have a problem!
September is nearing the end and this brings the LAST week with the talented Torico as our muse! It’s the last chance to CASE her gorgeous work guilt-free, so let’s get cracking! It would be great to see you join the fun.
I was really excited to work with this card, I could see some great elements to case. The layout was very basic but it worked well with a new background stamp I had just brought myself from Stampin’ Up! Called Ex Libris, I know that was going to be the base of my layout. I really liked the pearls descending down the center of the card, I am a little boring I think and have never thought of using them in this way. I am a layer girl so even thou I was using a background stamp for a large part of the design I stamped it out three times twice in Midnight Muse and once in Crumb Cake to create layers of the stamped image, you can see the layers clearly in the finished card below.
Inside the card, I have stamped the background so I could frame the inside panel, at the bottom I have stamped a friends verse from the “friends words” jumbo wheel that I removed from the wheel and attached to cling foam {see pg 7 of the Aust Cat} then cut up the wheel so I had separate friendship related greetings and verses. You can see on the Vanilla card stock I have very lightly stamped the text from Daring Adventure in Crumb Cake and also the splodge from French Foliage.
Stamp Sets: French Foliage, Daring Adventure, Friends Words Jumbo Wheel, Ex Libris and Loving Throughts
Colours: Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Raspberry Ripple and Bravo Burgundy
Cardstock: Very Vanilla
Accessories: Basic Pearls
Don’t forget I still have stamps on sale click on the sale image below
CASE Study 109
I am late, late for a very important date! I hope you know which film/tale quote that is from. Well I am late for a date with CASE Study, 24 hours late! Yes this should of been posted yesterday but all I can say is I am having a “shocker” I think those days just happen sometimes.
This is only a short post so I will get straight to the point, the CASE Study DT and players are given the inspiration to the left, we are to take elemets and case the work of torico our September muse. I kept pretty close to the muse card this week, I loved the layout which is funny because I normally like balance and this layout is SO not balanced, I guess the great thing about challenges they make you step outside your comfit zone.
I could not go past a bit of ribbon with a nice bow in Rose Red Seam Binding and a little lace ruffle down the right of the watercolour paper. This will be a card for one of my October classes on creative embossed backgrounds, so I can’t give away too much about the background effect.
Stamp Sets: French Foliage and Pleasant Poppies{Pg 72 main catty}
Colours: Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red,Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake
Cardstock: Watercolour, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla
Ribbon: Rose Red Seam Binding and Crochet Trim
Tools: Blender Pen
Sizzix: Big Shot, Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder and Stripes Embossing Folder
Click on the sale image to go straight to the sale items.
CASE Study 108
Greetings blog readers! Thanks for stopping by, you know it dawned on me the other day I never say thank you for coming to my blog! I love the fact I have a few people interested in my work. I have so many exciting changers in the works and I SO baddly want to spill some of the beans but I just can’t yet. They are all wonderful things coming to INKspire you even more! And share even more of what I LOVE!
At the moment the only thing I can share is this weeks CASE Study muse inspiration card to your left, we are in the second week with Torico as the Muse. Here style is such fun and her colouring technique is outstanding. I just love those little monkey images they are super cute! I took Torico’s lead and selected a cute image to feature in my card, I just adore this little owl image from the holiday Catalogue on page 13, this set can be a Christmas or Birthday set, I have clearly taken a Birthday theme.
On the Muse sample I loved how the heart was cut out, taking this idea I have punch a circle in the front of the card and embossed Early Espresso Core’dinations card stock in the Woodgrain embossing folder, I was trying to get the front of the card to look like a tree with an owl sitting inside the tree having a party! LOL Did I achieve it!
You can see in this photo the owl is inside the card…
A second shot of the front with the Happy Birthday Banner in focus. I think this card is just super fun.
Inside the card, the PARTY is happening! I just love this stamp set I must say…
Stamp Sets: French Foliage, Owl Occasions {Pg 14 Holiday Cat} and Patterned Party {Pg 45 Main Cat}
Colours: Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Island Indigo, More Mustard, Lucky Limeade, Raspberry Ripple
Cardstock: Orchard Harvest DSP {Pg 28 Holiday Cat}, Very Vanilla and Early Espresso Core’dinations
Punch: 2 1/2″ Circle
Sizzix: Big Shot and Woodgrain Embossing Folder
Click on the sale image to go straight to the sale items.
