Kylie Bertucci's International Highlights Top Ten Winner

Hi there, I hope your week of off to a great start.

I have a very special post today!  I am SO honoured to be a part of Kylie Bertucci's International Highlights Top Ten Winner Blog Hop!  (Now that is a mouthful.)  Yes, I was selected as one of the top ten for October's Highlight Challenge! Thank you to everyone who voted for me.

The theme for October's challenge was Change, a life change.  It could be wedding, retirement, new baby ect.  It was a fun challenge and you can see my post for the challenge here where I created a wedding card for my sister.  To celebrate, all of the Challenge winners create a second card using the same theme and participate in a blog hop.  The Highlights Top Ten Blog Hop has the same theme.  Sounds like fun right?

Here is the card I created for the hop with the theme Change in mind.

 I created a shower card - could be either a wedding shower or a baby shower and always good to have one in your stash of cards.   I used the new Stampin' Blends to colour the umbrella and the clouds.  This was my first project using the Stampin' Blends and let me tell you, they are so easy to use.  I just love how it turned out!  Helpful hint for the clouds - I used the colour lifter to create the white space in the center, an awesome effect for making clouds. 

My card base is Crumb Cake and the layers are made from Pink Pirouette and Pool Party.  The DSP is taken from the Coffee Break pack.  The blue on this DSP is actually Soft Sky, but pattern is so soft, it looks great next to the other colours.  

Thank you for stopping by today, be sure to hop on through to all of the blogs participating. I can't wait to see all of the projects created!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

 

Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Hey gang,

Thanks for joining me - I have some very exciting projects to share with you today. If you are joining me through the Blogging Friends Blog Hop, you have reached Canada and today is a very exciting day for Canadians - it's Canada's birthday.  Not just any birthday, but it's a 150th birthday!!!

There are celebrations happening all over the country, parades, fireworks, bbq's, street hockey of course and some good old family and friend time.  

So the cards I created for today's blog hop are all with the birthday celebrations in store for Canadians today.   Fair warning, patriotic post ahead.  :)

Our theme for this month is watercolouring.  I really love this technique, but I have to be honest, I was nervous to give it a try, but once I did - look out! I love how every one is different even if you use the same colours.

 I made three cards for the occasion all with some watercolouring.  
 

 On my first card, I wanted to do a watercolour flag.  I used my aquapainter and some excess ink in my inkpad lid to do the colouring.  I took a 4 x 5 1/4 piece of watercolour paper and drew my lines then coloured each end.  I also watercoloured another piece that I used to cut our my little maple leafs!  I LOVE these maple leafs in the new Seasonal Layers Thinlits.  I was SO excited to see them in the set, you get 3 different leafs. I couldn't wait to get my hands on them - just for Canada Day in mind - can't you just see some really great fall leaves with them too? Watercoloured in fall colours - perfect for a card or scrapbook page!

 My next card is a pretty simple one.  I used another real red cardbase, whisper White layer and added several watercoloured leaves in Real Red and then added my 150 cut using my Large Number Framelits. This card shows all three leaves in the set. Cute huh?

My final card is the first one I thought to make.  I just had to make a Real Red chair using the same set of thinlits.  In Canada (well at least in Ontario) we call these Muskoka Chairs.  Muskoka is our cottage country where there are thousands of lakes with beautiful views.  Visiting Muskoka and enjoying the water is the favourite part of our summers.  I made this card especially for friends who's cottage we are going to next weekend.   

Thank you so much for stopping by and indulging in a little Canada Day fun!  Happy 4th of July to all my American friends.

Next up on our hop is Rick - can't wait to see what he has in store for us!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy





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