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Tuesday with Tara {take 62}

Happy Tuesday!  Hope you enjoyed your long weekend, especially if you got the time off work 🙂  Or maybe more so if you didn’t, like me… ha.  Anyways, we are officially transitioning from summer into autumn and I know that I am enjoying the cooler mornings and evenings!  I was thinking about cooler temps when I made these cards with my Colorburst backgrounds, but once the cards were “done” I felt they had more of a winter feel to them than autumn, so I changed them into Christmas cards!  So today I am sharing with you 2 card designs- before & after their Christmas transformation.

Christmas Coffee (4)

The mug portion of the stamp was paper pieced from my watercolor background paper and the rest is very simply layered. I added some wooden embellishments to my card and a touch of bling, as well as a sentiment and some very subtle snowflakes stamped in the background. You’ll notice a difference in color in the two photos as well, simply because my first one was taken in direct sunlight.  Just a few simple changes turned this card into a Christmas card!

Christmas Coffee (1)

Here’s my next ‘before’ photo:

Christmas Coffee (2)

The color palette just didn’t scream ‘pumpkin spice latte’ at me 🙂  Here’s the wintery after image:

Christmas Coffee (3)

I kept this one simpler, with just one wooden snowflake added, but I think it works!  Hopefully this gives some ideas for stamps in your stash and how you can use everyday stuff to make Christmas cards!  I am actually someone who struggles with making Christmas cards early/on time, but sometimes they just fall into place.

Have a creative week!

Inky hugs,

Tara

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Tuesday with Tara {take 61}

Happy Tuesday!  I have a simple card today that features pretty embellishments by Prima and a Colorburst background!  I  realized the other day that I tend to use my Colorburst in a variety of ways, but rarely do I use them in the original way I was taught- with a stencil!  So I grabbed a few colors and a stencil with a bold, open design and set out to create some backgrounds.  One inking got me a variety of background (with multiple spritzes & flips) and this card features one of the flip designs.

butterfly wonder (1)

My card is very simple- I really just wanted to showcase the background!  I also knew I had these Prima butterflies in my stash, and I’ve been mesmerized by the butterflies in our yard lately.  We have a butterfly bush that is almost done blooming, but they still love it!  The blossoms are purple, like the butterfly on my card.

butterfly wonder (2)

I inked my edges and stamped my sentiment (love this set by Tim Holtz!) with Distress Ink.

I made more cards from this batch of backgrounds as well, which I’ll share with you next week!  Hope you have a creative one!

Inky hugs,

Tara

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