TioT- Spotlight

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge is "In the spotlight". You can use the spotlight technique, like I did - you can check out tutorials and videos on this technique - or you may have your own idea for "spotlighting" on your project. Please head over to the challenge blog to get more inspiration.

For my card I chose a flower stamp from Tim Holtz. I heat embossed with white on kraft on the background. For my "spotlight" piece I used kraft colored ink on white paper and watercolored the flowers. I used a sentiment from Lawn Fawn cut with a small banner die and added 3 translucent dots.

This will sadly be my final project as a DT member over at TioT. I have enjoyed my time with this friendly group of people and awesone challenge themes. It's just that I don't have enough time at the moment so I decided to step down. However, I will try and join their challenges in the future for fun, as I will continue to craft.

This card is also for:
Day of the Month Cart Club - #60 Random Act of Kindness Day

 

TioT - Heart and/or Flowers

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge is "Hearts and/or Flowers".

For my card I chose the flower option, I made the flower with a die from Pinkfresh. I kept the card neutral, both with the colors and my choice of sentiment as I have had requests for general cards. 

Please head over to the challenge blog to get more inspiration from my TioT teamies.

This card is also for:
Incy Wincy Designs - Valentine / Love and/or No Pictures

TioT - Add some text

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge is "Add some text".

For my card today I went the masculine route with black and white and a more than a decade old typewriter stamp from Prima. And I used  background stamp of a much newer date (less than a year old) with a font similar to what you would get using an old typewriter. 
The sentiment translates  to something like "even youthful men like you celebrate birthdays every year".

Please head over to the challenge blog to get more inspiration from my TioT teamies.

This card is also for:
Make My Monday - #217 Happy Birthday
Creative Crafting Uncles - #49 Happy Birthday

TioT - Winter Blues

Over at Try it on Tuesday our first challenge of 2024 is "Winter Blues". 

I chose to create a winter scene using a combination of Lavinia and Hero Arts with black and blue inks.I added yellow around the lantern for a bit of glow. The sentiment is a sticker with a birthday greeting.I addded Wink of Stella to the trees and glitter glue to the fairy boy´s wings.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration.

This card is also for:
Get Creative Challenges - #127 Snow Much Fun
Allsorts - #762 Anything Goes
Krafty Chicks - #697 Use Stamps

TioT - Santa Claus is coming to Town

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Santa Claus is coming to town".
I love the white and kraft combination and went with a vintage Santa stamp, heat embossed and colored with white gesso and water. The background is stencilled with snow paste from Finnabair, it has a nice sparkle.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration.

This card is also for:
My Time To Craft Christmas - #75 LETTER S ITEMS (Santa, slimline, string, stencil)

TioT - Baby It's Cold Outside

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Baby it's Cold Outisde". I chose an image from LOTV of a boy skiing. The snow is cold and in addition to the snow on the image I have the die cut snowflake circle and the blue DP with snowflakes as well. I added ribbon with a charm of mittens and some with branches cut our of kraft to fill up some space.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration.

This card is also for:
Craft Rocket Challenges - #109 Wintertime (No Christmas)

TioT - Sparkle All The Way

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Sparkle all the way". 

I love glitter of any color and form- glitter paper and loose glitter or embossing powder - and I've used both on my card. It may be hard to judge from the photo but Santa's belt, the snowflake swirl and the inner edges of the frame are glittered up.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration.  

This card is also for:
Krafty Chicks - #687 All Occasions

TioT - Halloween

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Halloween". I don't celebrate Halloween and I don't uasually send out any cards. However, I have started enjoying making cards for Halloween, because I love the colors and there are so many fun papers, stamps and dies for this occasion. For this card I used a purple gingham paper and a cobweb die cut. The skull is from Tom Holtz, the sunglasses as well, I put glossy accent on them and popped them up on foam, The necklace is colored in purple, green and orange and I added glitter glue on as well - it makes the pearls look like candy, yum. I used sentiments from three different stamp sets.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration.  

This card is also for:
Creatalicious Challenges - #269 Halloween
Get Creative Challenges - #126 Purple, Black, Green, Orange

TioT - Autumn

 

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Autumn". 

This is one of those cards where I did not have a plan before I got started and I started kind of in the opposite order of what I usually do.
I had cut out a wreath of flowers from a Scrapboys paper and I had made a leaf with a stencil from Sweet Poppy and fussy cut it, and I decided to use both. I had some die cut leaves laying on my desk and decided to use them too. I chose a piece of DP I have had for a long time, with leaf pattern on it. Frpm there I had to decide how to decorate the stenciled leaf, and I do love my mushroom stamps from Tim Holtz. But as they were to small to fill up enough of the spaee I masked them off and stamped a tree from Lavinia behind them, along with some falling leaves. I added some bling some Pinkfresh on the leaves, not very visible in the photo, but thry look nice IRL I also used other stamps from the Tim Holtz stamp set, the splatter and scipt, inked in kraft colored ink.

This card is also for:
Allsorts - #748 - Autumn Trees, Leaves and Berries / Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations Autumn Colours / Anything Goes
Krafty Chicks - #683 All Occasions

TioT - Fantasy

 

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Fantasy". For this challenge I  didn't go with fairies, unicorns, monsters or troll, but a fantasy world where an octopus is wearing a hat. I think the image is so cool, it's from Aall&Create and it's brand new to me. I think it's perfect for a male recipient.
I used purple, blue and green Distress inks and used a stencil with a baby wipe to lift some of the color off. I also I used a text stamp on parts of the background. The photo doesn't show it well, so I tried to do a close up photo as well. I added one leftover paper strip, some cheese cloth and a few Pinkfresh Studio Ombré Starry Sky bling.

 

This card is also for:
Creative Crafting Uncles - #44 Animals
I Spy With My Little Eye - Anything Handmade for Boys or Men

I decided to make a second nd similar card using another image from the same stamp set and the same supplies. I masked off the whale and colored it with water and grey distress ink

TioT - Let's go outside

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Let's go outside". For this challenge I went with a one layer square card design, using a stencil from Sweet Poppy to make the maple leaf outline with Speckled egg Distress Oxide.
Inside the leaf I used a Holly Hobby stamp, it is part of a set that came free with a magazine ages ago and it had yet to see ink.I colored with my Inktense pencils and stamped a birthday greeting.
A photo of the inside:

  

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration.  

This card is also for:
My Time to Craft - #514 STENCILING
Cardz 4 Galz - #205 A Summer Day
Krafty Chicks - #677 Clean and Simple

TioT - Sing a song/Music inspired

Over at Try it on Tuesday Sing A Song is our new challenge and we would like to see anything Music inspired.
I don't know about you, but just be looking at the sentiment "You are my sunshine" a melody immediately starts playing in my head. And of course my card had to include a large sun, it's die cut and inked with yellow, and a blue DP was put behind to mimic the sky. A few die cut flowers were added.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see what my TioT teamies have made. 

TioT - Pretty papers

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Pretty Papers". I have so many pretty papers I can choose from as it seems I've been hoarding them over the years, but Maja Design has always been one of my favorites so I chose papers from there.

I don't have a big supply of butterfly items, but I won these dies earlier this year and I think they are so pretty. I die cut some borders, stamped a sentiment and added some bling and my card was done,

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration. 

This card is also for:
Challenge Up Your Life - #160 Patterned Paper
Allsorts - #738 Summer Blues

 

Back in blogland - TioT 3 Colors

I'm back in blogland after a much needed break and holiday away in the sun. Now I'm back home, to cooler temperatures and grey clouds, which is perfect weather conditions for spending time in the craft room and visiting others blogs!

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Use 3 colors".
I made a one layer sympathy card using the faux embossing technique and the colors kraft, brown and white. The sentiment is heat embossed. The flower stamp is from Penny Black.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration. 

This card is also for:
Day of the Month Cart Club - #53 National Simplicity Day
Krafty Chicks - #671 Use Stamps

 

TioT - Birds and/or feathers

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is "Birds and/or Feathers".

Several years ago I boughT an embossing folder with a corresponding die from Sizzix, this is the first time I'm using them. I teamed up the bird with a die cut Christmas sentiment and leaf and I decorated using some white pearls, courtesy of Gundi/Papierelle and a challenge win. The kraft background is stamped with a white ink and an old Tim Holtz script stamp.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration. 

This card is also for:
NBUS Never before used Schtuff - Challenge #51
Krafty Chicks - #667 Christmas
Sparkles Forum Challenges - #164 Things With Wings

TioT - Make it Masculine

Over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge theme is a favorite of mine, which is "Make it Masculine". Having 5 nephews and no nieces have resulted in a much larger need for masculine makes than feminine ones over the years.

I love the ocean and so I went with a nautical design, using scrap paper strips, precut die cuts from Scrapboys, enamel dots, gauze and a sentiment from Tim Holtz. The layout was inspired by a sketch, another challenge theme favorite of mine.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration. 

This card is also for:
The Paper Players - #642 Sketch
As You Like It Challenge - Masculine or Feminine projects & Why

TioT - Keep it simple

Over at Try it on Tuesday the challenge of "Keep it simple" has been running for a week, but there is still one week left for you to join. Keep it simple can be interpreted as clean and simple or just something that was simple to make.

I made a background quikly, using a stamp set from Aall & Create and some birthday greetings in Norwegian.
The image is an old Meljens digi, I found the image in my stash already colored up, fussy cut and ready to use, it was intended for a previous project but not used. I popped the image up with foam and added it to the stamped card base.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration. 

This card is also for:
Allsorts - #729 Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Masculine
Craft Rocket Challenges - #103 For The Boys

TioT - Use a stencil

Over at Try it on Tuesday we want to see you use your stencils for our first challenge in May.
I used a leaf stencil from Altenew, and I chose to use rainbow colors again - it's probably the first time I do so "voluntarily". I used to think rainbows were an almost impossible task, but now I think these colors are fún to use. I added an almost equally colorful bird - or owl? - from Art by Marlene's Artsy Arabia. I love that hairdo! I made it sit on a die cut branch.
The birthday sentiment translates to something like: A year older? I would'nt believe it if I didn't know it.

The card was quick and easy to make, so I made another one but used the colors in the reverse order. I think I prefer my first take, though...

 

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get inspired. 

This card is also for:
Allsorts - #726 Anything Goes with an option of One For The Girls
Crafty Catz - #635 ANYTHING GOES - with Optional Twist Things with Wings
Krafty Chicks - #661 All Occasions

TioT - Rainbow Colours

Over at Try it on Tuesday we have a new challenge for you and this time we want to see projects inspired by the rainbow colors.
I used a Tim Holtz number stencil and distress inks in rainbow colors to make my colorful background. My hippo was colored grey, but his accessories, ballons, hat, tie bow and preset, were all colored in rainbow colors as well. The birthday greeting was made with my Dymo.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get more inspiration. 

This card is also for:
Allsorts - #724 - Anything Goes with an option of Create Your Own Background
Day of the Month Cart Club - #50 Find a Rainbow Day

TioT - Hello spring

Over at Try it on Tuesday we have a new challenge for you - Hello spring!
So spring to me means a lot of different things - seeing the sun again after a long winter, hearing the birds sing, Easter period with its yellow flowers, greeneries of different sorts...
Here I chose to go with sunrays, Easter flowers and a hen and a rooster, colored with Posca pencils.

Please head over to the challenge blog to see the my TioT teamies have made and to get inspired. 

This card is also for:
My Time to Craft -#504 SPRINGTIME
Papercraft Challenges - #91 Easter
Sparkles Forum Challenges - #162 Clean and Simple