Wednesday 31 March 2021

Beauty Abounds for Retro Rubber 155

 Welcome to the Retro Rubber's new challenge. This time it's a rainbow theme challenge: use either a rainbow, or rainbow colours, to create your card. Make sure that you use at least one stamp that is a year or more old, and tell us the approximate age of the stamp.


With the posting of the retiring list last week, I've been looking through my shelves and beginning my goodbyes. The Beauty Abounds stamp set and the coordinating Butterfly Beauty dies will no longer be available after the end of April and have been with us since January 2019. It was nice to be reminded of them so I decided to use them for this challenge. 

I started with a piece of Shimmery Cardstock and painted a rainbow stripe all over it using inks and a waterpainter.  Once it was dry, I cut out one layer of the Butterfly Beauty die from it and cut the second layer from Whisper White.


Once the two layers were together, I attached them to a piece of Whisper White and added it to a Thick Whisper White card base.


The sentiment, from Beauty Abounds, is white embossed onto Basic Grey card. To finish off the rainbow effect, I added is some sequins from the retired Iridescent Sequins while keeping to the rainbow colours.

You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry by visiting the Retro Rubber Challenge site.

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Note: The Iridescent sequin assortment is retired

Monday 29 March 2021

Soar Confidently for Fab Friday 210

 I really liked the colour challenge at Fab Friday this time around - but then got a bit stumped as to how to use it!

Appealing, isn't it? It did get me thinking that masculine could be the way to go and that lead me to Soar Confidently - a recent acquisition - and Beautiful World. Beautiful World is about to retire, which I'm sorry about as I've not had enough time with it. 

I stamped the airplane image from Soar Confidently in Misty Moonlight, used a Blender Pen to spread the ink and a Pear Pizzazz Stampin' Write marker to colour it. After masking the image off, I added in some compasses in Smoky Slate as well as some splatters from Painted Poppies in Smoky Slate and Pear Pizzazz.


The paper is from World of Good DSP.  I took a strip of Smoky Slate and embossed it with the die that imprints coordinates of longitude and latitude while the Pear Pizzazz mat is embossed with the Tasteful Textiles embossing folder.


The sentiment showcases two of my favourite retiring products: the Classic Label punch and Itty Bitty Greetings.  A trio of In-Colour Enamel dots finished it off.

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Sunday 28 March 2021

Handsomely Suited for CAS Colours and Sketches 412

 The sketch at CAS Colours and Sketches this week gave me an idea for a very quick and simple card that still has impact. 


I'm not generally a big user of patterned paper but sometimes, it's just the thing. This paper from the Well Suited DSP just screams 'TIE!' - so much so that I resisted the urge to cut the strips into tie shapes top and bottom. That's also because I didn't want to distract the eyes from the sentiment.


I embossed the card front with the Subtle embossing folder. If you've had your eye on this folder, make sure you get it soon as it will retire at the end of April and is now only available while stocks last.

The sentiment is die cut with one of the stitched ovals from Stitched Shapes - another retiring item, so make sure you order them now if you want them. 


The bow ties are stamped, fussy cut and coloured with Stampin' Blends. 

Such a quick and easy card and you could make it even easier if you didn't emboss the background - although I prefer the look.

Update: Delighted to be picked a Weekly Winner at CAS Colours and Sketches.

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