Spotlight on Florals Tutorial - Tubby Craft DT

Happy Monday!

I'm back!  How was your weekend? I was busy demonstrating the new Trimcraft Christmas products yesterday which was very enjoyable and in fact I have another couple of months of demos coming up.

I'm up on the Tubby Craft blog with a tutorial on the spotlight technique today.  This technique is used to emphasise particular areas of a card and I've shown two different ways this can be done using the Wishes with Magnolia stamp set.

To begin, I took the stamp set and positioned the stamps individually before stamping with my stamp platform.  I then used a couple of circular dies and die cut areas from the image I created.

I am drawn to colour pencils at the moment so I used my Chameleon pencils to colour in the images within the circles.

For my second card, I decided to stamp using a different composition of the stamps and use only one die.  This time I wanted the focus to be on the flowers around the spotlight so I coloured in the images around the die cut circle.

I've a jammed packed week ahead so I must get on and I hope you have a good week!

See you again soon!

Shabneez 

Products Used:

Tubby Craft Wishes with Magnolia Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Dye Ink – Jet Black

Nesting Dies - Circle and Tag

Chameleon Pencils

Everything else from my stash

World Tourism Day - Daring Cardmakers Challenge

Happy Friday!

Oh what a week it's been!  I have a mountain of work and my holiday is definitely a distant memory - ha!

It's my turn to set the challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers today and I have chosen a theme based on World Tourism Day.  I didn't even know it existed but Google is pretty good isn't it?!  It's role is to raise awareness of international tourism.  So I thought what better way of aiding tourism than by showing off creations which make us think of other countries.

Bet you can't guess my country?!! Ha!  I actually had a commission to do which tied in well to the challenge so a bit of a win, win.

I do hope you'll join in with the challenge especially after seeing  all the wonderful creations by my fellow team mates HERE.

My Trimcraft Christmas demos start this week and here's a list of where I'll be for the next couple of months:
29 September - The Range Hemel Hempstead
6 October - The Range Aylesbury
13 October - The Range Stevenage
20 October - The Range St Albans
27 October - The Range Watford
3 November - The Range Romford
10 November - The Range Harlow
17 November - The Range Enfield

I do hope you can join me!
Shabneez

Products Used:
Hunkydory Pad
First Edition Numbers
Everything else from my stash

Got Your Number - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

I think all the running around has caught up with me as I'm under the weather with a cold.  Hopefully a rest on Sunday will help get me back on track again though.

Ruth has set the challenge on the Daring Cardmakers this week and she wants to see numbers on your cards as both her children celebrate birthdays this month.

I decided to go for a masculine card this time and used paper piecing with a die to create this:

In fact it's all dies on this other than the cardstock.  A fun card to make!

You can see lots more inspiration from my fellow DT members HERE and I hope you'll join in with this fun challenge.

Have a great weekend!
Shabneez

Products Used:
First Edition Number Dies
Tonic Sneaker Die
Tim Holtz Sentiment Die
Simply Creative Paper Pad
Everything else from my stash

Adorable Animals - Tubby Craft DT

Happy Weekend!

As promised I'm back, a day later than planned but nevermind!  I am sharing a couple of very cute animal cards using the Tubby Craft Giraffe Love and Baby Elephant stamp sets.

For my first card I stamped the image using the Tubby Craft Lead Grey Ink Pad.  I then proceeded to colour in the image with my Chameleon pencils and coloured in the background too.  

To finish I cut a strip of card in a contrasting colour and stamped the sentiment from the same set along it in a line.

Next up, I used the Giraffe Love set and stamped the image in Tubby Craft Chocolate Brown.  I coloured in the image with my Chameleon pencils once again and fussy cut it out.  

I added die cut circles to my card base and used different elements in them.

I've just come in from doing the garden or as much as I could as the garden bin is now full!  Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

Shabneez

Supplies Used:

Tubby Craft Dye Ink Pad - Jet Black

Tubby Craft Dye Ink Pad - Lead Grey

Tubby Craft Giraffe Love Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Baby Elephant Stamp Set

Tonic Cross Stitch Circle Layering Die Set

DCWV Pastel Patterns Mat Stack

Sizzix Circle Dies

Special Thoughts - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

I've had a very productive week and the hightlight was a speech made by the Head of my youngest's school on the difficulties of parenting today.  In particular he mentioned how important family time was, eating at a table together etc and to cut down on time spent on social media etc.  I made a conscious decision this summer to cut down on my phone usage and it has made a great deal of difference.

Anyhow, I digress from the latest Daring Cardmakers challenge which has been set by my friend Dawn.  Sadly she lost he father to cancer recently and wanted to set this challenge to honour his memory in which you can make a card for a loved one or to say you are thinking of someone.

I opted for a sympathy card as I always find them so difficult to do especially at the time I need them so thought I'd make this one for Dawn to say I was thinking of her at this very difficult time.

For this card I decided I wanted to use flowers and a preloved sentiment from a set I'd bought some time ago.  I stamped the flowers on grey card and coloured in with my Chameleon pencils before fussy cutting.  After I decided on the placement of the elements I thought there was too much white space so I took out a CrafTangles stencil and my distress inks to make a subtle background.

I hope you'll join in with the challenge and I will be back with another blog post tomorrow so not long to go!

Enjoy your day!
Shabneez

Products Used:
Avery Elle Stamp Set
CrafTangles Speckles Stencil
Weathered Wood Distress Ink
Pinkfresh Fleur 1 Stamp Set
Chameleon Pencils
Everything else from my stash

Let's Smoosh! - Tubby Crafts DT

Happy September!

I'm wayyyyyy behind on my blog as I've been away for most of August.  We had an amazing holiday and managed to spend time with family in America too.  The boys are back at school and so I've been trying to get back into the routine.

This post was on the Tubbycraft blog at the end of August and in fact it was created at the beginning of August but I just haven't had time to get it out on my own blog until now.  I decided to do a post on smooshing as it's something I really enjoy and the dye based inks Tubby Crafts has are perfect for this technique!

So for the first card I used the Unicorn Dreams set and isn't that unicorn so adorable!  I used the Tubby Craft ink pads to colour in the stamped image too.

For my second card I used the technique on a shell and I'm really pleased with the way it came out.

I heat embossed the sentiment to make it pop and I added Dovecraft 3D Pearl effects to the pearl in the middle and I think it looks quite realistic don't you?

Hopefully I'll be back on track soon and I will be hopping over to your blogs to comment as well.  Thanks to those of you who commented in my absence.

Have a great weekend!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Tubby Craft Dye Inks in: Imperial Red, Tangy Orange, Lemon Yellow, Lawn Green, Aqua Blue, Lavender Violet, Chocolate Brown, Mustard Yellow and Jet Black.

Tubby Craft Unicorn Dreams Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Precious Treasure Stamp Set

Dovecraft 3D Pearl Effects

Everything else from my stash