Wake Up & Create Thursday #TA4L028

Welcome to another edition of Wake Up & Create Thursday 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 & colour palette inspiration #TA4L028

Today’s final card design was inspired by playing along to a few other fun challenges: #30DayChristmasCardmakingChallenge Festive Floral celebrate Christmas Botanicals with flowers, foliage, berries or pinecones 

Another round of Stampin’ Fancy Friday - Christmas Mix Up I love combining several different holiday products into my design.

Case-ing Tuesday Sketches #590 page 40 of the Sept-Dec catalog 

Sweet Stampin’ - use red

I’m getting inky with some old favourites from my stash - Delicate Pines bundle, Poinsettia Petals bundle and Greetings for You ephemeral paired with the currently available Detailed Wreath Accents, Tree Ring embossing folder, Adhesive backed Berries, Real Red, Pecan Pie, Old Olive and Mossy Meadow ink pads and Wink of Stella. 

What do you think - did I nail the Festive Floral challenge?  

Would love for you to join the fun and play along with the #TA4L028 challenge. Please add the challenge graphic with a link back to the blog on your post. 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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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 

Slimline Sunday

Welcome to another edition of Slimline Sunday - using the extra design space to show off pretty DSP today! 

My design was inspired by playing along to a few challenges: The Card Concept  #tcc229 mood board & colour palette of yellow, green, black and white. 

Sweet Stampin’ has an Autumn prompt and nothing says autumn like a field of sunflowers! 

TGIF challenge Hello Fall Mood board #TGIF596

Getting inky with Sunflower Fields DSP with sticker sheet, Christmas Mice bundle, Soiree Salutations stamp set, Glimmer pen in Golden Rod, Moody Palette gems and blends to colour my mouse. 

Perfect Grateful for You card for a sunflower lover - 🌻 Have I mentioned how much I love the little mice - they can hold so many different things which makes them so much more than Christmas Mice 🐭 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh. Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Slimline Sunday

Welcome to another edition of Slimline Sunday - having fun with the extra design space to create a slimline clean and simple design! 

My card design inspired by playing along to a few challenges:

Clean and Simple CAS Cards for Beginners #saturdaychallenge38 Patterned Paper 

CAS on a Friday #CASF343 - Autumn / Fall 

AAA Card Challenge - # 323 M is for … I have chosen Mouse! 

Sweet Stampin’ - create a CAS card design - I’m trying a slimline clean & simple.

Inspired By… #IB407 Acorns - using the Glow of Harvest DSP with the pretty acorns. 

I’m getting inky with the Christmas Mice bundle, Soirée Salutations stamp set, Glow of Harvest DSP, Triple banner punch, Metallic Gems, unbranded gold twine and Timid Tiger, Crumb Cake and Petal Pink blends.  

Lovely ‘grateful for you’ card for my stash. The little mouse is just too adorable! 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Clean & Simple Saturday

Welcome to another edition of Clean & Simple Saturday.

Today’s final design was inspired by playing along to a few challenges: 

CAS Colours & Sketches #593 

Sweet Stampin’  - CAS card 

Krafty Chicks Challenges #837 - Christmas  

Clean and Simple Cardmaking September White on White palette.

Clean and Simple CAS cards for Beginner’s #saturdaychallenge37 Christmas. 

Almost Clean and Simple CAS cards #saturdaychallenge13 Snow

I’m getting inky with Winter Adventures Dies, Soirée Salutation stamp set, retired Winter Snow embossing folder, Adhesive Backed Snowflakes and Basic Gray Ink.

Love the look of a crisp white on white design! I cut the Winter Adventure die so just the cluster of trees and popped them up on my Snowflake embossed strips and added a couple close embellishments. I chose the Holiday Wishes sentiment as it makes this Christmas card more versatile for friends on my Xmas Card list who might celebrate a different holiday in December. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Technique Tuesday

Welcome to another edition of Technique Tuesday - today I am playing with the Ink Puddle technique. An artisan from Stampin’ Up! shared an example recently and I had to give it a try.

My card design is also inspired by playing along with a couple challenges. My colour palette is thanks to AAA Colourful Themed challenges and mood board #25. I have chosen Daffodil Delight, Gorgeous Grape, Coastal Cabana and Pretty Peacock with some Gold from the hues in the colour board.

My layout was inspired by CAS Colours & Sketches sketch challenge #579 - still working in the whole clean and simple end of things but I did keep to the 2 focal images and a sentiment but my big butterfly took up a lot of white space on me. 😜

Sweet Stampin’ has a prompt to not use patterned paper or DSP in your design which worked well as my butterflies didn’t need any competition from patterned paper. 

Today I am getting inky with the Beautiful Butterflies bundle and embossing folder, Daffodil Delight, Gorgeous Grape and Lost Lagoon reinkers to do my puddle and Pretty Peacock ink for stamping my sentiment. Some Wink of Stella, Rhinestone’s and unbranded Gold twine.  

Quick video version 

Step by Step tutorial as shared by Artisan Pamela that inspired me to give it a try:

I followed along but I chose 3 ink colours for my puddle and for my stamp I have used the back of the large butterfly for a solid image. I didn’t stamp over my watercolour image and instead used the die cut for the butterfly outlines on my wings.

Final design ended up with two pretty butterfly inspired Happy Birthday cards.

Happy Stampin 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life