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Tuesday with Tara {take 370} Miss You Mugs

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Happy Tuesday!

I’m excited to share a card I made with the Fall Calls for Lattes stamp set by Catherine Pooler. I fell in love with it when I saw the first project with it and since there’s so many great elements on it, you’ll likely see me share several cards with it while autumn is still here!

I started with some simple stamping and coloring with my Copic markers.  I stamped a bunch of mugs & elements and just started to play… these images are so much fun!  After fussy cutting a few pieces, (the coordinating dies might be something I invest in soon!) I selected cardstock colors to work with.

I had already chosen a layout I wanted to use, inspired by a sketch I saw on Instagram by Freshly Made Sketches.  I knew these small elements would be perfect framed on a die cut square!  For my background layer, I pulled out a ‘vintage’ Tim Holtz embossing folder with simple leaf shapes.  I embossed a Kraft panel then inked the edges with Ground Espresso Distress Ink.  A hint of mica spray is a great touch, I love the gold on Kraft!

The rest is pretty self explanatory!  I finished everything off with some foam squares for dimension and a touch of twine & bling for texture.  Next up I need to get this in the mail to one of the many friends I miss having coffee with…

Inky hugs,

Tara

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Tuesday with Tara {take 368} Hello There

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Hello There!  I’m back after some a bit of time off!  It’s been fun for me to see Raya’s picks of my past cards to share on Tuesday’s here 🙂   Life is a bit crazy for me right now, and will continue to be that way for a while but for now I’m happy to share another card and some ‘creative therapy’ as I’m able to make things!

Today, I’ve got one more card I did using the fabulous Leaf Fragment dies by Tim Holtz.  This is the first one I’m sharing here on the SNS Blog, but if you participated in our September Inspiration hop  (or follow me on Instagram) you probably saw some of the others!

I made a series of 4 cards using a variety of inky leaves, Kraft card stock and book print and for this one, I added a glittery sentiment!  I die cut a BOLD TEXT sentiment with gold glitter Cardstock and pieced the letters carefully together along a ruler to keep them as straight as possible.  I kinda wish I had cut it from white or black also to layer under it and add a bit more pop, but since I didn’t I simply highlighted the left edges of the letters with a dark green pen to add some definition.

It definitely feels like autumn is here in the south now- temperatures have dropped and we had quite a bit of rain & wind as Ian landed in the United States.  Thankfully, where I’m living we didn’t have any major damage.  There were plenty of trees knocked down from the winds, and because of that we had a power outage for 12 hours on Friday night/Saturday morning.  It was mostly an inconvenience here and we are very grateful for our safety!

Be sure to stop back by this weekend- our October Inspiration Hop begins on Friday and it’s sure to be a treat!

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

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Sizzix Autumn Blessing Card

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A few Tim Holtz Skeleton Leaf dies and the Autumn Blessing Stamp from MFT and you have the perfect card for fall.  Raya here filling in for Tara while she’s on the move – she’ll be back next month with cardmaking goodness. I chose this card to reshare with you because it uses the same sentiment stamp we used last week.

 

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Happy Tuesday!  Today’s challenge word is “campfire” which may have had you wondering a bit… or maybe you are a big Distress Ink fan like me and you knew exactly what to expect- a project featuring the newest Distress color,  Crackling Campfire!  I’m kinda loving how Tim Holtz is releasing a full set of each color at one time (and thankfully not too close together so my bank account can handle it) as it really lets you play and experiment with the different mediums.  I’ve used several on todays card, hope you like it!

Autumn Blessing card with MFT stamps Tim Holtz Skelton leaves dies

Today’s card also features the gorgeous Skeleton Leaves die set by Tim Holtz.  I cut them from a piece of watercolor paper which I had inked up with Crackling Fire Distress Ink, as well as a bit of Fossilized Amber & Carved Pumpkin.  Once I cut the leaves, I added a bit more Crackling Fire- both Oxide & Regular Distress Inks, and a bit of brown to add some depth to the edges of the other two leaves.

I took a piece of book print which I had applied a thin layer of white gesso to and trimmed it down to size over a pewter layer.  After inking the edges, I splattered a mix of both sprays- the Spray Stain and the Distress Oxide Spray.  I was curious to see how they would differ on the prepared surface.  I misted it lightly with water and left it for a while… when it still wasn’t dry I misted it a bit more and pressed some tissue paper onto it to life some of the color and help it dry faster.  This gave a much softer background than I initially had, and some fun splotchy bits as the inks reacted with water.  FYI, most of the lighter spots are from the Distress Oxide Spray, the deeper from the Spray Stain.

Autumn Blessing card with MFT stamps Tim Holtz Skelton leaves dies

The final element of my card is the sentiment- another one from Autumn Blessings by MFT.  I embossed it with the Embossing Glaze over the oxide ink on vellum for a soft finish.  A mini stapler (Tim’s Tiny Attacher) ads an easy & fun way to adhere the vellum.  I also added a bit of clear adhesive behind the sentiment so it would be hidden.

I hope you enjoyed my first play with Crackling Campfire!  You’ll be seeing a lot more of it in the near future… can’t wait to try different color combos with it, it’s such a gorgeous color perfect for autumn!

Be sure to put Friday on your Calendar- our October blog hop is happening then and we’ll be coming at ya with all of our best fall inspiration!

Inky hugs,

Tara

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