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Tuesday with Tara {take 322} Awesome

Happy Tuesday! I hope your day is AWESOME! I’ve been looking forward to playing with my new awesome stamp & die sets from Photo Play’s Stay It With Stamps Line! I’m primarily featuring the die on this card, but you see a small bit of the stamp set here as well. There is a huge variety of sentiments in this set that lets you use the word for almost any occasion that calls for some awesome!

I really wanted to make an autumn card, but something about being a child/teen in the 80’s took me in a different direction… I keep a pile of scraps and backgrounds that I’ve made to use for quick cards, and this crazy colorful one from some play with Dina Wakley Media Gloss Sprays felt very 80’s awesome to me! I used a bunch of colors, but I decided to bring focus on the deep night shade in the corner and use that for my die cuts & stamping.

I used VersaFine Clair in Twilight to stamp the sentiment and the background text behind the awesome die cut. A leafy branch cut from that same deep blue shade anchors it all together, while filling in some white space in that inky background!

I finished everything off by edging the background piece with blue ink (I literally grabbed a blue inking tool and used what was on it… most likely Prize Ribbon Distress Ink) and mounting on a light Kraft background. A bit of bling, including one a bit larger than I normally use, seemed to fit this bold but simple card design.

Thanks for visiting! Have an AWESOME day!

Inky hugs,

Tara

Canada, Eh! Blog Hop

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Happy Canada Day and welcome to the Scrap ‘N Stamp July 2020 Canada, Eh! Blog Hop! We are excited to be hopping a few days early this month so we can properly celebrate Canada Day with all of you!

Be sure to leave comments along the way as you hop- you’ll have a chance to win one of 3 Canadian prize packs this month (there will also be opportunities to win on Facebook & Instagram)!

Today I’m kicking things off using stamps, dies, ephemera & paper O Canada collection designed by Becky Fleck for Photo Play. It’s got a lot of fun elements, though I have to admit I was a bit creatively challenged this time… probably because it’s been too long since I’ve been back in my “home & native land.” It looks like future travels from my current home in the south back to British Columbia are probably in the distant future, so I decided to embrace the ‘eh’ factor, which I tend to do when I feel a bit home-sick for Canada.

Since colouring a beaver (we’re calling him Rocky. Do you recognize him from the hop graphic above?) was one of my many challenges, I chose to stick to some simple brown shading on white and added a paper pieced vest. As I played around with patterned papers & ephemera pieces to decide on a layout, I thought a window opening would give some fun dimension. I used a strip of plaid paper to give Rocky something to stand on and added my die cut speech bubble and ephemera around him. A bit of red twine tied around the bottom of the card adds some fun texture.

Inside the card I added a die cut rectangle of maple leaf paper and added a second die cut of Rocky & strip of plaid paper to stabilize the ‘floating’ elements in my window. I stamped one more ‘eh?’ to tie it all together…