JOY OF SETS BLOG HOP - FEBRUARY 2020 - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Welcome to another month of the Joy of Sets Blog Hop.  You've landed on my blog Fiona Whitehead and I am the owner of The Joy of Sets - a Facebook group full of paper crafters who love to stamp and create beautiful things whether it is cards, 3d projects or scrapbooking.  Originally for Stampin Up both current and retired we now are open to all stamp companies.  There is lots going on within the group with swaps, RAK's, challenges, our own challenge blog as well as our blog hop organized for us by the fabulous Angie McKenzie. 

Our theme for this hop is Love Is In The Air.  I've used a lovely rose stamp from Kaisercraft Rosabella stamp set.  I coloured it in with Derwent Metallic pencils and blended with a Derwent blender pen. I added a touch of Glossy Accents to the rose buds and some Tri Spectrum Sparkle pen for the large rose.  

The sentiments are from SU's Amazing You.  I used the die cuts to cut out the You and Amazing from SU Lovely Lipstick foil and layered them onto white card stock.  I added some sequins to finish off the card and layered it all onto some Rich Razzleberry card stock.

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For the full list of our hoppers please see below:

Rochelle Laird-Smith

Fiona Whitehead

Jane Allmark

Tricia Butts

Angie McKenzie

Susan Webster

Sue Allen

Libby Fens

JoAnn Pollock

Alejandra Gomez

Narelle Fasulo

Vicki Milyard

Gez Carpenter

Jill Chapman

Kristie Meeker Wilson

Annette Ball

Anne Marie Hile

Angélique Nederpel

Brenda Nelson

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LATTICE FOLD CARD - FLORAL ESSENCES

I've had another play with this technique I've just found but this time I've paired it with the new Floral Essences and matching DSP from Stampin Up.

I used Perfect Plum for my base and cut out the lattice fold.  I added a piece of the DSP Perennial Essence and used the same paper to cut out the words from the retired Amazing You thinlets.  I added a piece of pink behind the cut out too to form a shadow.  I stamped the flower in Blackberry Bliss and used an aqua painter to colour it in in the same colour.  The leaves were cut out from teh same paper.  The little diamantes are from my stach.  I added some Spectrum Noir shimmer to the wording.  

I'm adding this into Inkspirational challenge this week which is asking for Folds.

I'm also joining in with the Snippets Challenge #357 this week - I sure used some snips making that Lattice lol! 


 

SATURDAY'S CARDS AND SOME CHALLENGES

I have a spare Saturday with hubby being away for the day so a good chance to catch up on some crafting and some challenges.

The first one that caught my eye was Inkspirational Challenge #191





I used my Clearly Besotted Hello Cupcake stamp set for this set - I used some of the new DSP from SU as the background and cut it out with some stitched banner framelits.  I then stamped the hippos direct on to the DSP and coloured them in with SU watercolour pencils.  I added some Glossy Accents to the icing on the cakes.  I used some Versamark to add some interest to the card stock using the little hearts, dots and fruit slices from the set.  I added a little bow of twine to the middle to finish off the card.

My second card is for Freshly Made Sketches - #397




I have a new set from Card-io Stamps which I hadn't used yet so wanted to have a play with that.  Amongst my box of papers I found a background I had made a few weeks ago and never used. It was made with some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks on a particularly inky day of crafting!  I cut the piece I had made into two strips and added them to some SU card in Lemon Lime Twist.  I then stamped and fussy cut out the bottle of champagne and the two glasses from the stamp set.  I coloured them in using Tri Spectrum Noir blends and a touch of gold pen.  I added some interest to the base card by using Versamark and the champagne cork stamp. The sentiment is from SU Amazing You. Now all I need is a Celebration!  

My third card today is for Just Add Ink#466 .  and TGIF which is doing Christmas In July. I love this seasonal image and I'm going to make sure I do this with my lanterns at Christmas time.  I was inspired to use Merry Mistletoe, a retired SU set, by a you tube video I saw by a lady known as Stampin Star Creations.  She had used the mistletoe from this set to turn it into a Christmas Tree which is just inspired! 

 

RETRO RUBBER COLOUR CHALLENGE - #rrcb115

There is a colour challenge over at Retro Rubber this week -




My card uses a retired SU set called Amazing You together with the matching framelits - this retired in March 2018 I think so it is just over the year old.  I used Spectrum Tri Blends to colour in the flowers and some SU Wild Wasabi ink for the green.  The thinlets were first cut out of the yellow and then the purple and layered on top of each other so that both colours would show.  A touch of sparkle on the flowers and some glitter circles inside the flowers finishes off the card. 

 

RAINBOW CARD

The challenge over at Try It On Tuesday is colours of the rainbow.  I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire to do a rainbow card out of scraps of card stock - something we all have lots of I'm sure.  This was such a simple technique I'm going to be doing a lot more of them.

After I had glued all my different strips I cut the card stock down to the size I wanted and glued it to the base.  I then used one of the SU thinlets from Amazing You for the word Celebrate and a butterfly thinlet for the butterly. I added some rainbow coloured enamel dots to the butterfly.

I'm also entering this into the Less is More Celebrations challenge #399