TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY AND RETRO RUBBER COMBINED CHALLENGE #TSOT397

We are joining forces with Retro Rubber Challenge blog again this week at Try Stampin on Tuesday -





As you know I'm all about the old stamps so I loved this one.  I used a retired SU Set called Yay You - I love this set and don't seem to see it used much.  It has some really great sentiments.  I started by using the leaf stamp lightly stamped with Pear Pizzazz as a background.  The little felt flowers were also SU very old in their own little tin box - I wonder who remembers those?  The bird was stamped and cut and added with an embellishment and I used some retired Washi Tape for the banners at the top.

 

SWEET STAMPIN - DR SEUSS/GRADUATION

We have an unusual challenge for you today over at Sweet Stampin - Dr Seuss or Graduation.  Now I have a mental block with Dr Seuss - I'm not sure where it stems from but it gives me the creeps - even the mention of it can turn me in a jelly so my choice had to be Graduation.  I don't have any stamps at all that can be deemed Graduation so I had a think out side the box and decided to use Beautiful You.  I can still remember what it felt like over 30 years ago to graduate from University with that all important qualification which sadly I never really used.  I studied languages, French and German but today they are most decidedly rusty through lack of use.

My girl, however, is full of confidence that she is going to put that qualification to good use.  I kept it simple with blacks and blues - and added some blue thread to her hat and her rolled up qualification.  The sentiments are from Yay You and Remember this -retired Stampin Up sets.

 

TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY #391

We have a double challenge for you today at Try Stampin on Tuesday

Use the Technique of Mixing up your Fonts and/ or using the sketch.  I chose to try both.

I started off with some Whisper White card stock from SU and masked off a centre panel.  I then used two Tim Holtz Distress inks - Bundled Sage and Picked Raspberry and Soft Sky from SU and sponged them onto the white card.  The set I've used is an old retired SU set called Fresh Vintage which I haven't used in such a long time - it always seems strange now using wooden stamps instead of the cling or rubber - do you find that?  In fact in some ways it's much easier - I didn't need to hunt for a block.  I used Versamark to stamp the medallion type stamp and then used some of SU's copper embossing powder which really makes it stand out against the pale inks.

I actually cheated with mixing up my fonts and used another retired SU set called Yay You.  This sentiment was already in this set - all mixed up - all I did was cut it up into three different parts.  I added it to a piece of Soft Sky card stock which had been cut using a stitched framelit.  The little flowers are also from the same stamp set - I embossed them in the Bronze onto some dark red card stock and cut them out and added them with dimensionals.

 I look forward to seeing how you interpret the challenge and whether you go for both options.



 

COLOR THROWDOWN

Thanks to Watercooler Wednesday for choosing my Christmas card as one of their winning cards this week! Their Challenge this week is Anything Goes and my card was inspired by the colours in the Color Throwdown #CTD508 challenge - honestly they are!  However, whereas their's are vibrant, mine came out more muted but I still followed the brief of Red, Green, Yellow and Purple. It was probably my choice of Tim Holtz Distress Inks.





I started off using Bundled Sage by Tim Holtz for the background and edges and inked Stampin Up's Daffodil Delight and Summer Sun yellows in the dots.  I used the Bundle Sage again to ink one of the stamps from In This World - a retired set from Stampin Up.  The red is another Tim Holtz  Worn Lipstick which was sponged on and then, once the image was stamped, I used a SU Blender Pen to add more ink to the image.  The stamped butterfly was coloured in with SU Summer Sun so that it shows through the cut out butterfly.  I added some Dazzling Diamonds to the cut out butterfly and some Bronze Thread from SU behind.  Tricky stuff to try and keep it in place.  The sentiment is from another retired SU set Yay You and this was inked in Memories ink in Violet.

Not quite the vibrancy of the colours in the challenge but I still love how this card turned out.