Every Shade Of Happy

Time for a new challenge at Time Out! Challenge #231 starts today and runs through February 15th. It is a special edition Photo Inspiration Challenge where we are challenged to CASE a designer. We invited the marvelous Gina K. of Gina K. Designs to design a card for us to CASE. We are so tremendously excited to her Gina K. as our muse!

We welcome Karen Wlker of Random Reflections and winner of Time Out #228, as our Guest Designer. Karen's blog is filled with beautiful creations and musings. Do treat yourself to a visit. You are sure to be inspired.

My card is made with stamps from Gina K.'s Be The Rainbow Stamp Set incorporating heat embossing and ink blending with Distress Oxide Inks.

Please head on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see the wonderful creations that the Design Team came up with to inspire you. Come play with us!

 

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Gina K. Designs Be The Rainbow
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest 80 lb. Neenah Solar Crest Ebony Black 100 lb. Essentials By Ellen Cardstock
Ink	VersaMark VersaFine Onyx Black Various DO Inks
Embellishments	Heart Sequins
Other	Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue Scor-Pal Score Tape-1" Adhesive backed Fun Foam Brutus Monroe Alabaster EP WOW Clear EP Various ink blending brushes

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks #649 - Stamp Act

Just Us Girls #664 - CAS Birthday

Colorful Options - Rainbow

Merry

There's a new Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge up and running. This time the optional twist is reindeer. As soon as I saw that, I immediately thought of this gorgeous retired Stampin' Up Dasher image and went from there. I embossed the image in gold, die cut it with a stitched circle die, and mounted it on another gold circle die cut.The background is made with watercolor and emboss resist. The sentiment is die cut from red foil cardstock.

Please head over to the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Blog and see what my Design Team colleagues have created for your inspiration, then put your antlers on and come up with a creation of your own to link to our gallery. You could be the winner of a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

Yeah Baby!

Time for a new game at Time Out Challenges! TO #86 is a Theme challenge: Celebrations - with the optional twist of One Layer. Our wonderful sponsor is CASual Fridays Stamps. A random winner of a $25.00 gift voucher will be

selected from those who go for the twist on their creation.

TaeEun of Rainbow In November is Guest Designer for this challenge. Her work is incredible. Treat yourself to a visit to TaeEun's Blog. You can't help but be inspired.

I wanted to twist. As I was looking for some inspiration, I came upon THIS post by Jennifer McGuire. I decided to use her design, but instead of die cutting the sentiment panels, I masked them to achieve the one layer effect. The result was a happy accident. 

I masked the areas where the sentiments would be stamped, inked CAS-ual Friday's Full On Floral background stamp with VersaMark, and heat embossed with white EP. I wanted to cover the entire card front with the floral background, so I stamped again and applied three Brusho colors. I loved the way the color turned out, but I was concerned about the line on the right side that was created when I stamped the second time. Then when I lifted the masking paper, I saw that some of the watercolor had seeped under the mask. At first I was frustrated with these two "mistakes", but after stamping the sentiments (Casual Fridays Woot Woot - retired) and adding the sequins, I ended up being quite pleased with my wonky creation.

Please head on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog, and be inspired by the awesome Design Team creations. See where your creativity takes you, link up and play with us at Time Out!

I am also playing at:

Simply Irresistable Challenge - Emboss Resist Technique

AAA Cards Game #92 - Resist Technique

ATCAS - CHEERS

The Flower Challange - Anything Goes

Virginia's Blog Party - Share Your Summer Creations

Happy Little Stampers June Watercolor Challenge

Anything Goes with optional twist of Mask