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Tip Me Tuesday: Suspend An Image
Happy Tuesday, everyone! It's time for Tip Me Tuesday, a fun little feature where I offer up some creative ideas using favorite images from the Farm. I love combining sets and wanted to try my hand at a CAS (clean and simple) design. Today's card is brought to you by last month's sweet stamp set Anya In Japan, and the sentiment from Deepest Sympathy:
Tip Me Tuesday: Silhouette Technique
Hello everyone and welcome to Tip Me Tuesday! I hope you all enjoyed the recap of June's new sets with the Stamp Features. There are so many fun images this month (isn't there always though?) that my mind kept spinning on fun techniques to try out. Today's TMT not only took me out of my comfort zone, but had me second guessing my intentions until actually posting this.
If you follow Sandy Allnock on Instagram, then you may have seen her latest cards made with silhouettes. Of course she makes it look soooo easy, but more importantly she gave me the courage to try it myself. I thought what better stamps to use than Hello Bestie:
With a little help from my 15 year old, I recreated a night scene from Animal Crossing. First I started off with just a textured piece of blue card stock, then I stamped in the characters, shrubs, and trees (from TGF's Main Street set). With just a Copic 100, I colored everything in; it took three attempts to get them completely shaded, then built the scene around it.
My moon was a die cut circle since the card stock was too dark for my white pen. Once I was happy with the layering, I added little highlights and shading to give the card more depth. There's a bit more shimmer to the moon and the sky from my Spectrum Noir sparkle pens that the photo didn't capture well.
Finally, I added a die cut sentiment that actually pops out a bit more from the landscape than it shows.I cannot explain how skeptical I was trying this technique but I guess you can kind of teach an old dog new tricks! teehee! I hope you try this TMT, I would really love to see it.
Thank you for stopping by today, have a wonderful day, friends!
xoxoxox
Joni
My moon was a die cut circle since the card stock was too dark for my white pen. Once I was happy with the layering, I added little highlights and shading to give the card more depth. There's a bit more shimmer to the moon and the sky from my Spectrum Noir sparkle pens that the photo didn't capture well.
Finally, I added a die cut sentiment that actually pops out a bit more from the landscape than it shows.I cannot explain how skeptical I was trying this technique but I guess you can kind of teach an old dog new tricks! teehee! I hope you try this TMT, I would really love to see it.
Thank you for stopping by today, have a wonderful day, friends!
xoxoxox
Joni
Tip Me Tuesday: Search the Web!
Happy Tuesday friends! I hope your week is off to a great start. For those who kicked off summer already, here's to a fun season full of happy memories. I know I'm excited to spend more time in my craft room, but with the end of the year I have zero creativity left in me. Today's TMT is to search the web for ideas! I know so many of you find inspiration in fellow crafters, but every now and then a simple
TMT: It's the little things
Happy day, friends! We are in a fun week of Stamp Features but today we're taking a quick pause for Tip Me Tuesday. It's Joni here with a reminder to appreciate the little things...especially the ones in TGF stamp sets. I love how Marie creates fun little accessories in her sets, which opens up a whole world of possibilities. For starters I used the little bunny, mouse, and flowers from the Mini-Remix Wild
TMT - Spinner card with Frappe-y Anya
Happy wonderful Tuesday everyone! I hope your week is going well so far, I can really feel the indecision of seasons - one day it's sunshine and pollen, the next day it's storming and yellow. ;) For today's post, I wanted to spread a little warm weather happiness, and share a fun little make with Frappe-y Anya. Marie has designed some wonderful front/back stamp sets, so what better card to make than
Tip Me Tuesday: Sunglasses Season
Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope your week is off to a great start, here on the East Coast we're definitely getting spring like temperatures this week. Not sure I'm ready for it just yet, but come the weekend it will drop back down to cooler temperatures, yay! For now, I've pulled out my favorite sunglasses and created a card using the awesome Breakfast at Cheeky's digital set:
Tip Me Tuesday: Sunglasses Reflection
Happy second day of the week, everyone! It's time for Tip Me Tuesday, a feature where I share some of my favorite techniques, inspiration from friends, cards by amazing designers, and much much more. For today's card I used the fabulous Breakfast at Cheeky digital image to play with a sunglasses reflection idea I had:
Tip Me Tuesday: Green Light
Happy TMT everyone! I hope your October is going well, considering it's almost coming to an end. How is that even possible? With Halloween creeping up right around the corner, my Tip Me Tuesday is to not be afraid, and go deep into your TGF stash!
I went way back into my archives for my project today . This card uses a retired
Tip Me Tuesday: turning Donuts into Frogs
Happy TMT day everyone! I hope your week is off to a Fall-y wonderful start. We haven't quite transitioned into the cooler weather just yet but at least we got to turn the calendar another page. Woohoo!
Now that it's October, I know so many of us are looking forward to Halloween and
all of its candy and, of course, costume happiness. I thought it would be fun to take
Now that it's October, I know so many of us are looking forward to Halloween and
all of its candy and, of course, costume happiness. I thought it would be fun to take
Tip Me Tuesday - Fun with ribbon
Happy Tip Me Tuesday everyone! For today's TMT, I wanted to create a card inspired by this amazing $1 ribbon that I found in my local craft store clearance bin. I just love embellishments with personalities of their own! I knew exactly which TGF image I wanted to pair it with, because last week's new digital Nursery set sparked up baby animal fever:
