RIC#54

Hello pretty people.
Today I have a runway inspired challenge card to share with you. This weeks photo caught my eye. It is totally my style and when I saw the amazing creations from the design team.... my head was buzzing with ideas. Now this is one of those cards, where I had a few ideas and nothing just fell together, I had to abandon some ideas and work with some to get to this ;)

Now my "process" (if you want to call it that) whenever I see the inspiration photo is to first do a search to see if I can get close up photos of the fabrics/prints etc...  Cause a lot of times something will catch my eye, or I'll have a brainstorm.  So with this one, I did just that and I found this close up.

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According to the Blogger, the inspiration for this collection came from Murano glass and night lit city sky scrapers. I found that wayyy cool!
So II knew I wanted the wavy checkered look, and I remembered seeing a cut file in the silhouette store that would work.  I sized and cut the black background piece on my cameo and adhered it to a white card base covered in score tape. I then added glitter so that the cut outs resembled the windows of the buildings. I thought the shimmer from the glitter would add a bit of a 'lit' effect.  For the next step, I wanted to create the colorful wavy lives but in a structured sort of way. I knew I wouldn't be-able to do it free hand so I found another cut file that was in the form of a journaling card that had a zebraish (yes, that's a made up word ;)  pattern. So I cut that out. Reassembled the pieces together onto anther piece of card stock with score tape. and used the cut lines as guides. I colored the pieces with copics, and added some clear wink of stella for some shimmer. Next I cut them into the triangular shapes and then added a thick layer of glossy accents (which incidentally sealed the cut lines that were visible before) to resemble the Murano glass. The sentiment was heat embossed on to a black piece of cardstock with Wow embossing powder in vanilla white and popped on with foam tape.

Thanks so much for looking in :)

I hope you have a great weekend.
Peace and love.
Tasha :)

Rainbow Birthday

Hello again.
I finally managed to make something to participate in all the PTI Anniversary festivities. :)

Todays challenge is all about words!  I actually used one of the sketches from the anniversary wish list challenge.  But I didn't use any of the color combos, so I can't eter this into that challenge too. ;(
I do hope to make something else though ;)

For this card, I simply added strips of score tape to the card and added glitter in rainbow colors (al la Laura Bassen ;) ). I die cut the word 'HAPPY' from a white piece that I die cut using the accompanying tip top dies. I then die cut the word 'HAPPY' and the star from gold foil card stock and put it into the recessed negative. Next, I stamped the sentiment. Lastly, I popped the panel onto the base and added some enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping by.
Natasha :)

More glitter

So, last week, I said I would share some other cards I made with Jen Rzasa's  gradient glitter  technique. And as promised here they are.
Attempt 1)

 Attempt 2)

For the first one, I followed the same process as in the video, and I quite like it. The cover plate is from MFT, and the sentiment is from Lil inkers.

For the second one I had another idea. To glitter the cover plate die cut too. So I applied double sided tape to the piece of card stock before cutting it and added Warm light glitter ritz to the die cut, before attaching it to the base card . Sup fun, and LOTS of glittery goodness. My DH likes the first one, and I'm not sure. I think they are both nice in their own way.
I'd love to hear what you think :)
Anyway, that's it from me, for today.
Love, and peace.
Tasha :)

Stenciled class shares

Hello, there.
I wanted to quickly share some cards I made for the recent online class, stenciled.
It was such a great class, and I found myself inspired to try so many different ideas and techniques. I did play around a lot, but only managed to finish two cards, so far.  I will try and finish more with some really cool techniques and results. But I thought I would share what I have since the Gallery closes tomorrow and I wanted to share these there too.

First up I have a card inspired by Jennifer McGuires card on day 1.

I did not have a chevron stencil, but I did have a PTI, cover plate, so I die cut that out of acetate and made a stencil. I used 3 colors (Limeade ice, Hawaiian shores and Classic Kraft) then rotated the stencil and repeated the coloring. I simply stamped an MFT greeting using versafine onyx black and popped this onto a plain white base with foam tape. Simple and easy.
Next up i have a stencil I created using my Cameo.

I cut this flower image by hero arts out on acetate and stenciled it onto a plain white piece of card stock, using (pure poppy, orange zest, summer sunrise, simply chartreuse and ripe avocado)  I stamped the sentiment with dark chocolate. I added a small scalloped border and popped this up onto the base card that I embossed with a distressed folder. Lastly I added a touch of wink of stella clear glitter to the flower to give it a bit of shimmer.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.
Tasha ;)

Papertrey January Blog Hop Challenge

Hello :)

I am so excited to have found time to make something for the 

PAPERTREY INK JANUARY BLOG HOP

This Months hop is all about pink! And boy was this a fun card to make.  

I have here a very pink glitter card ;) I was watching This  video by the uber talented Jennifer Rzasa, on her gradient glitter technique. Now, I LOVE glitter and I LOVE ombre, so I just HAD to try it out.  This was not my first attempt (I'll post that later ;) ). But it was a winner for me. So the background was made using this technique. The card however was based on a sketch by the lovey Lucy Abrahms, who is hosting a sketch challenge on her blog.  I saw this sketch and everything just came together.  I used some birch wood to die cut the tag and my PTI star dies to cut the star out of the tag. The sentiment is from the "super stars" set and was stamped with brown stazon (the other inks bled). The heart and arrow are studio calico wood veneer that I used this weeks MIM technique to add glitter to. I added some glossy accents to them as well to give them more dimension.

I quite like this one.  I hope you do to. Thanks for stopping by and hope you have fun hopping .
Till next time,
Tasha :)

It's an i-pod kinda birthday ;)

Hello, there.
I wanted to stop by today to share a birthday card I made for my son, who turned 7 years old today. He asked for an i-pod, so I thought I would oblige ;)

There's no stamping (gasp!)  But he LOVED it and it was really easy to make.  I love it too. What do you think?

Anyway, I'm outta here. I have to run some errands before the birthday, pizza, movie night celebrations tonight.
Thanks for stopping by.
Tasha :)

Dino-Mite Birthday

Hello again.
Today I want to share a card I made for a birthday party my boys attended over the weekend.

I have had this set for a while now, but had not inked it up. I just adore these little Dino's they are really fun to color.
I started with the panel on the base. I tried Laura Bassen's famous plaid stamping. I used Hawaiian shores, limeade ice and orange popsicle.  I am in LOVE with this technique, you will be seeing more of it here for sure! (thanks Laura ;) )
(I would have preferred to not cover up so much of it, but I was in a hurry and did not have time to make another panel for the front. I still think it looks awesome though ;)  )
I colored this little guy in with copic markers and added some wink of stella shimmer to it.  I added a few enamel dots and it all came together quite nicely.

Thanks for stopping by.
Tasha