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Tuesday with Tara (take 75)

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Oh deer… and happy Tuesday!  I`ve got another simple card to share, but a closer look reveals some fabulous shimmer that was hard to capture with a camera!
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Basic supplies for this card include a couple shades of Color Burst, a stencil & die by Tim Holtz and some shimmering things… Stickles glitter glue, pearly cardstock & clear texture paste with glitter mixed in.  Everywhere there was color I used a combination of blue & green, one of my fave combos!

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I`m not sure if it`s because of my all around efforts to keep Christmas simple this year, but I tried adding a variety of embellishments & sentiments to this card and it just seemed to look best just like this.  I`m crazy about the text in the background and didn`t want anything to take away from that- it is perfect in it`s shiny sparkly-ness 🙂

There are just two more Tuesdays before Christmas, I`ll be hard at work getting cards finished up and in the mail (trying something different this year LOL) and look forward to sharing with you my final projects in the weeks ahead!  Hope your days are full of the joys of the season, and a good measure of ink & sparkles!

Inky hugs,

Tara

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Tuesday with Tara (take 73)

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Happy Tuesday friends!  I hope you`ve had a creative week and are ready to keep the inspiration flowing…winter-deer1-1

I love simple cards for Christmas- it`s better to actually send a handmade card than to just make them and hang on to them (though I`ve done a lot of that over the years!)  It`s a good thing this card is simple, because I`m having keyboard issues and will have to keep this post short 🙂  I love using white on Christmas cards, and chose to focus on a pearly white deer for this card, with a colorful background created with Color Burst on watercolor paper.  I created a several backgrounds in one sitting, then selected the one I wanted to go with this die cut.  The snowflake was added with white texture paste, which I sprinkled a bit of chunky glitter on while it was wet.  I`d forgotten how it picks up the ink color behind it as it dries, so added a bit of white embossing powder when I started to notice it fading on me.  After melting the powder, I ended up with a unique distressed looking snowflake, to which I added some bling to make it stand out.

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A combo of ribbon, die cut sentiment and sentiment stickers finish off this simple card, which I mounted on a kraft card base.  Hope you like how this came together- I love the color possibilities when you pull out Color Burst!  I definitely ended up with inky fingers after making these pretties…

Inky hugs,

Tara

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Tuesday with Tara {take 63}

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Happy Tuesday!  Hope you’ve had a great week and enjoyed a bit of cooler weather wherever you are!  I was inspired by a full sheet of pretty watercolor paper I had sitting on my desk (another project with Colorburst that took a turn I wasn’t expecting… so was set aside for another day!) and it looked like autumn to me, in shades of red, orange & yellow!  I paired it with this large swirl die by Tim Holtz- love it!  The die was cut from my card front and the background paper cut slightly smaller than my card front & carefully adhered to the inside using Matte Multi Medium.

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For a focal image, I decided to use a Prima doll, whose dress was paper pieced from the same watercolor background paper, with the addition of some leaves stamped on it in coral ink. The same leaves were stamped around the swirl cut outs on the card front.

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A few details that finish off my card include simple sentiment stickers along the bottom of the card and a bit of bling and lace added to the dress. The finished card is pretty simple, but I gotta admit it didn’t come together terribly quick & easy. It wouldn’t take long to duplicate though 🙂

sending inky hugs your way…

Tara

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