Top Tip Tuesday Dig Out The Old Challenge

Hello and welcome here!  It's time for a Top Tip Tuesday Challenge and this time you need to dig out your old stuff, anything older than 6 months, use it in your creation, and name it in your post. How fun is that!  I finally used some of my stuff I've been meaning to get around to using.  Jeanette has a great Designer Paper Envelope Tutorial, so be sure to pop by the TTT Blog.

Challenge - Dig Out The Old

Tutorial - Envelope from DP, Jeanette

DT Tips

Card Size: 4.25" x 5.5"

I have a My Mind's Eye pack of paper I haven't used yet, I have to admit it's from 2009...shame on me, lol.  It was a gift, and because of its size, I store it in a different area than my other patterned paper. So it was definitely time I used some:) The other items that I haven't used in over 6 months - the Corner Punch, the stamp, the Ribbon, and the Pearls.

The Sponsor's

For a chance at the following prizes, be sure to link your creation to the Dig Out The Old at Top Tip Tuesday, you can enter up to 3 times!! For a chance at an extra prize leave a tip on your blog and be sure to leave 'tip' after your name in Mr. Linky.
Don't forget the challenge runs for 2 weeks.

Sew Sweet - £10.00 voucher

Nicecrane Designs - $15 gift voucher

TIP -  Leave your Spellbinder on the CS to act as a mask so that when you stamp your image the ink stays within the oval, and doesn't mar the fancy edge.

Recipe: PP-My Mind's Eye Jen Wilson La Paperie, CTMH CS-White Daisy, Ink-Memento Black, SS- Penny Black Words Like Flowers, Spellbinders-Floral Ovals, EK Success Interlaced Corner Punch, Wild Orchid Rose Petal Seam Binding, Copics-R02, R05, R11, YG93 & YG97, Pearls & Foam Squares.

Enjoy, 

Deneen

Top Tip Tuesday Clean & Simple Cards

Hello and welcome here!  It's time for another Top Tip Tuesday Challenge!  This time the challenge is C&S which means Clean & Simple...which was a challenge for me, lol.  Samantha has a great Tutorial on creating C&S cards.

Challenge - Clean & Simple

Tutorial - C&S Sketch by Samantha

I couldn't stop at just one card so I have several to show you.  Here are the first 2 I made.

Card Sizes: 4.25" x 5.5"

Recipe: Digital Stamp-Bugaboo Hummingbird Flowers, CTMH SS-Card Chatter Sympathy, CTMH CS-Petal, White Daisy & Sweet Leaf, CTMH Ink-Petal, Sweet Leaf & Black, Black Fine Tip Felt Pen, Pearls.

I love how quickly these cards came together.  My TIP for this week is by drawing a line around the edge of your card you 'ground' your image without having to add a lot of embellishments.  

A big THANKS to Bugaboo for letting me use Hummingbird Flowers for my cards.  I printed the image on white CS, and then added the black line with a felt tip pen.  I finished the cards off with a sentiment and a couple of pearls, super easy!

Some close-ups of the 2 cards:

The Sponsor's

For a chance at the following prizes, be sure to link your creation to the Clean & Simple Challenge at Top Tip Tuesday, you can enter up to 3 times!! For a chance at an extra prize leave a tip on your blog and be sure to leave 'tip' after your name in Mr. Linky.
Don't forget the challenge runs for 2 weeks.

Simon Says Stamp - $20 gift voucher for their store

Bugaboo Stamps - 7 Digi Images of your choice

Ooh La La Creations -1 of their CD's

Here are a few more C&S cards using Hummingbird Flowers:

Card Sizes: 4.25" x 5.5"

Recipe: Digital Stamp-Bugaboo Hummingbird Flowers, Flourishes SS-Tag Lines, CTMH CS-New England Ivy, Sweet Leaf, Pansy Purple, Petal & White Daisy, CTMH Ink-Black, EF-Craft Concepts Budding Vine & Provocraft Textile, Spellbinders-Big Scalloped Circles Lg, Foam Squares, Pearls.

For these 2 cards, I embossed a piece of CS, matted it with a darker piece of matching CS, and cut out the image with Spellbinders Scalloped Circles. My fingers itched to use ribbon and some border punches, but alas the challenge was C&S, lol.  I really like how they turned out though.

And last, but not least, I made a couple of 3x3 cards.  I sized the image a little smaller than the ones I printed for the larger sized cards....that's the beauty of Digital Stamps!!

 Recipe:  Digital Stamp-Bugaboo Hummingbird Flowers, CTMH SS-Say It In Style, Flourishes SS-Tag Lines, CTMH CS-Petal, Indian Corn Blue, Outdoor Denim, Blush & White Daisy, CTMH Ink-Black, Black Fine Tip Felt Pen, Copic-BG0000, Spellbinders-Lacey Squares & Classic Squares Sm., Pearls & Foam Squares.

I used Copic Marker BG0000 to add a touch of colour to the image on the blue lacey card.  I used the black felt pen to add lines to the 2 other cards.

Don't forget to pop on over to Top Tip Tuesday to check out the other C&S cards by rest of the DT.

Enjoy,

Deneen