Slimline Sunday

Welcome to another edition of Slimline Sunday - a day to enjoy all the extra design space a slimline design offers. 

My final design was inspired by playing along to a few challenges: Atlantic Hearts Sketch #AHS701 

TGIF challenges has a Halloween palette of Pumpkin Pie, Blackberry Bliss and Granny Apple Green #TGIF597

Just Us Girls has a challenge to use your Halloween dies #JUG843

I’m getting inky with Web of Fun bundle, Frightfully Fun DSP, Nested Essentials dies, retired Fall Fest bundle, retired Fabulous Sayings stamp set, the adhesive backed Ghosts, Bats & Dots, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry and Granny Apple Green inks. 

A fun very spooky birthday card for an October birthday - just love the little Ghost embellishments! 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Clean & Simple Saturday

Welcome to another edition of Clean & Simple Saturday - the continuous striving to master the clean & simple design principles.

 

Todays card design was inspired by playing along to a few fun challenges:  CAS ON Friday - Shades of Grey #CASF344

CAS Colours & Sketches #CASCS595 - fun sketch trio.

Addicted to CAS code word HAPPY - I used a Happy Holidays sentiment.

Clean & Simple CAS cards for beginners #saturdaychallenge40 - Windows and I used the window from the Christmas Mice dies.

Almost Clean & Simple CAS cards #saturdaychallenge16 Anything Goes but don’t use white or cream which pairs nicely with the Shades of Grey palette.

I’m getting inky with the Christmas Mice bundle, Everyday Arches dies, retired Snowflake Kisses, Silver Metallic DSP, Smoky Slate and Black Hybrid inks and  and rhinestones.

 

Another Happy Holidays card for the upcoming season and an example of having to try to fix a ‘ink where you don’t want it” blunder. I dropped my blending brush and it made a grey smudge on the corner of my card front after I had already glued down my window and other embellishments so had to try to make it look purposeful by adding blending around the other edges hopefully it doesn’t effect the clean & simple criteria 😜

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4life 

Fun Fold Friday - Slatted W fold

Welcome to another edition of Fun Fold Friday - today I am playing with the Slatted W fold I saw on Pinterest from Get Crafty with Sally 

I’m getting inky with the Whispering Pines DSP, Everyday Arches and Nested Essential dies, Fabulous Sayings stamp set, blend marker and rhinestones. 

Card measurements:

• 1x Pretty Peacock Card base 81/2” x 51/2” scored at 21/8”, 41/4” and 63/8”
• 4x White Cardstock 2” x 53/8”
• 4x DSP 17/8” x 51/4”
• 2x Pretty Peacock cardstock 11/2” x 73/4” score 13/4, 37/8” and 6”
• 4x White Cardstock 2” x 13/8”
• 4x DSP 1 7/8” x 1 1/4”
• 1x Pretty Peacock 33/8” x 45/8” die cut with the 3rd largest arch
• 1x DSP 31/8 x 43/8” die cut with the 4th largest arch 
• Scraps of Pretty Peacock and White cardstock layered for the sentiment of choice - I used a rectangle die from the Nested Essentials die. 

Love this Whispering Woods paper - it does all the hard work with this card. Bonus is that it’s the fundraising product for this round so $4 of all paper sold goes to different charities around the world. 

Quick process video for the visual learners: 

Stunning views of the pretty paper! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Wake Up & Create Thursday #TA4L022

Welcome to another edition of Wake Up & Create here on the blog: .

It’s a little mix of Throwback Thursday with an image or sketch inspiration to use to inspire you to shop your stash and combine some old favourites with new goodies in a new way and than share to inspire others to do the same with their stash! Today’s challenge is a fun photo and palette inspiration #TA4L022 

My final design was inspired by a couple other challenges: Festive Friday has a National Farmers Day challenge perfect for my Darling Donkey photo insp. #FF0219

 

Krafts Chicks Challenge another masculine vibes card.

I’m getting inky with the retired Darling Donkey and Fabulous Sayings stamp sets paired with the Nesting Essentials dies and Tree Ring 3D embossing folder, some burlap and twine ribbon, Moody palette gems and Crumb Cake and Petal Pink blends for colouring my donkey. Plus an action wobbler! 

Love the textures in the embossing and interactive wobbler that lets the donkey kick up its heals in gratitude - perfect masculine vibes thank you card! 

Would love for you to join the fun and play along with the #TA4L022 challenge. When you’re done add your link below to share with us all! 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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Whimsical Wings & Things Wednesday

Welcome to another edition of Whimsical Wings & Things Wednesday.

My card design was inspired by playing along to the Stamp2Cr8 Community September Inky Fingers Challenge. At our monthly team meeting our team leader Stamp with Anne gives everyone an inky finger package with DSP, a die cut shape and embellishments to take home and choose a stamp set to getting inky with and than share our design with the group to see how everyone can start with same base products but all come up with vastly different creations. It’s a fun way to play and learn from each other. 

I’m getting inky with the Cutest Crew bundle, the Rustic Check and Seasonal Cheer embossing folder, Spotlight on Nature dies, the Painted Patch DSP, gems & Calypso Coral ribbon. 

Adorable final design for a Just a Little Hello card.

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Technique Tuesday - dual embossing

Welcome to another edition of Technique Tuesday - today I am sharing the dual embossing folder technique.

My final design was inspired by playing along to a few fun challenges: Sunday Stamps Sketch reminded me of the fun of a dual embossed design. #SSC395

Global Design Project has a Halloween theme #GDP567

Just Add Ink has a for the kids theme - nothing more nurturing of your inner kid than Halloween Fun! #JAI795

Sweet Stampin’ has an autumn theme and Halloween is my favourite part of  autumn.

INKspirational has a fun fall mood board that made me hungry for Halloween! 

I’m getting inky with Web of Fun bundle, Swirl of Magic embossing folders, Seasonal Cheer embossing folder, Wink of Stella, Scenic Coast sequins, Timid Tiger and Gorgeous Grape inks.

Tutorial - it’s an easy one that packs a fun punch of texture!

1.  Choose your two embossing folders and run your card front through your machine - can do them both at same time as shown or one at a time if your worried about your paper slipping. You can do straight as I did or on an angle. 

2. Once your card front is double embossed create a scored border using a scoring board. I find this step helps your dual embossing POP better but it’s an optional artistic choice.

3. Complete your final design as desired - I kept a large enough space between my two embossed areas for my sentiment but lots of artistic expression on how much of a gap you leave or if you butt the design right up against each other. 

Final design is a fun Happy Halloween card perfect for the granddaughter! She’s going to love the glittering shine of the Wink of Stella on the web. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Minimalist Monday

Welcome to another edition of Minimalist Monday - honing the less is more design philosophy.

My final design was inspired by playing along to a few fun challenges: Colour INKspirational challenge -  Real Red, Pecan Pie & Basic Black #CI218

Inspire.Create. Stamping challenge for a Clean & Simple design. #IC225

Clean & Simple CAS Cards for Beginners Sparkle & Shine #saturdachallenge39.

Almost Clean & Simple CAS cards Birds #saturdaychallenge15

AAA Cards challenge - Follow the Leader #AACC324 - I’ve chosen the things that fly inspiration and the circle focal cluster. 

 

Addicted to CAS - another round of the Code Word Circles #ATCAS317

Just Us Girls - Anything Goes stencils #JUG842 

Krafty Chicks Challenge - Masculine #KCC839

I’m getting inky with the Cutest Crew bundle, Circle Stencil, Earthen Tone metallic paper, Red Glitter Paper, Red Metallic paper, Triple Banner Punch, 1 7/8” circle punch, Black bakers twine, Wink of Stella. 

Love the minimalist look with lots of white space but still having lots of texture and dimension and sparkle & shine!  Little metallic birds are too adorable. 

Hard to capture on camera but I added Wink of Stella to the Pecan Pie stencilled circles for extra sparkle!  

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life