Sunday, 4 June 2023

Enjoy the Rhythm for Just Add Ink 655

 I have a new stamp set. I've had it a while now and I've been looking for a reason to crack it open. This week's challenge at Just Add Ink gave me just the reason!


I love music sets so I bought Enjoy the Rhythm just because it was there. I'm sorry I left it for so long. Now I've opened it, I feel a few more cards coming on....

For this card, I created a sponged and spritzed background using Lemon-Lime Twist, Azure Afternoon and Starry Sky, then stamped on various images from Enjoy the Rhythm.


It turns out that the sentiments in the set (at least the ones I used) marry perfectly with the Something Fancy dies, so I used them to build up this cluster.


I like the bright and cheery result and even have a recipient in mind!.

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Friday, 2 June 2023

Gorgeously Made for AYSI 300

Welcome to the latest challenge at As You See It. This one is extra special as it's our 300th challenge so we're doing something a bit special this time around.  To celebrate reaching this milestone event, each member of the design team is choosing their favourite entry and giving it a prize.  We all do appreciate the many of you who choose to enter into our challenges, either regularly or occasionally.  You make it fun for us as well!

The favourites will receive goods from either Stampin' Up! or Clarity, so there's something extra to try for this time round. Regular players will know that we rotate round six types of challenge and this time, it's the turn of the Theme Challenge. The theme is adventure - whatever that means to you: travel, exploration, extreme sports, the great outdoors - it's how you see it.


Extreme sports and I are not on speaking terms, but travel and I are. So it seemed a good chance to scrapbook some of our many travel memories. Our trip to Canada and Alaska was an adventure for us as it was our first trip away from home that was not to Australia or one of the Pacific Islands. It involved such terrors as getting a US visa and switching flights in Singapore! All worth it as it was an exciting adventure to a lovely country - and good to have got it in before the world closed up shop in 2020.

I always liked the photos from our visit to Lake Maligne. It was a glorious day, the lake was gorgeous, and the surrounding glaciers were on full display. I'm not sure why it's called Lake Maligne as there was nothing malign about it, only tranquility and beauty.


An incidental moment of adventure for me was running into a former New Zealand Prime Minister in the doorway of the Ladies' Loos. Not something that happens every day, even in NZ!


When I'm scrapbooking I like to bleed the colour from the photos into the surround if I can. Some of the new blues from the colour revamp were great for this. I've used Blueberry Bushel, Azure Afternoon and Boho Blue in this layout. The Artistic Mix Decorative Masks were great for laying down a background. I also used the text stamp from Gorgeously made and some of the die cuts from the same bundle. I used the Alphabest set and punch for the main sentiment.

The tags with the place and date are from Tailor Made Tags and the string is one thread from the In Color Jute selection.

We'd love to see what you can come up with for this theme. Pop over to the As You See It page to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your own entry. We'd love to be considering what you do for one of our six product prizes.

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Gorgeously Made for PP642

 I don't know about you but, for me, when life gets stressful it's time to hit the craft room. So I shut the door, kept the world at bay, and sunk myself into having a go at the latest challenge at The Paper Players. They're one of my favourite challenges so it was with pleasure that I saw it was a sketch this week - because that's my favourite kind of challenge!



The bundle that's currently on my desk is Gorgeously Made and, although I'd havered about getting it, it's quickly turning into a favourite. 

So strange is the effect this set is having on me, it's actually turning me into a DSP lover! Scroll through my blog or Instagram and you'll seldom find any DSP other than a strip here or there.... and now, look at this! I swear that DSP is addictive! For the record, the DSP from this suite is called Masterfully Made and is part of June's DSP sale, if you'd like to share the addiction with me. 😀

This bundle ticks a lot of my other boxes too: foliage, quirky background stamps, gorgeous die cuts. You might have noticed that alongside the die that gives you the spiral notebook edging, at the bottom of the tag you'll see a faux torn edge die in action as well.... more ticks from me. 



Thanks, LeAnne for a great sketch to play with.

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