Hi Everyone!
I’m thrilled to be joining Time Out Challenges today to celebrate their 8th Birthday!! WOW! I was a member of the Time Out Challenges Design Team for almost 3 years, from October 2016 to August 2019, I think my longest tenured design team. I learned so much while I was with the team, and was lucky enough to meet a few of them in real life. Such wonderful ladies, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the challenge, and to all of you teamies past and present. It was a pleasure to be part of this amazing challenge.
Today’s challenge of course has a ton of amazing sponsors – head on over to the Time Out Challenges blog to link up and take part to be in with a chance to win! You can also see all the amazing folks taking part in today’s challenge. I hope we inspire you to link up and take part! The challenge is 2 weeks long so get crafting!
For my card today, I wanted to combine several techniques in one card, add a little dark drama and still keep it somewhat simple (although layered!). My main image is Choose Hope from Pinkfresh Studio. I stamped it on Altenew Watercolor cardstock with Altenew embossing ink and heat embossed with their Golden Peach embossing powder.
I then watercolored the image using my Altenew pan watercolors, building up the layers one by one. I started with pale pink, then deeper pink, then a darker purple for the shading. For the leaves I used two shades of blue, building up the darker areas in the base of the leaves. When dry, I die cut out the image and set aside.
For my background I used a panel of Simon Says Stamp Royal Purple cardstock, die cut with Pigment Craft Co’s Cozy Stitches Cover Plate. I also added a few splatters of Rose Gold Shimmer Spray. I adhered the floral over the top with foam tape, then adhered the panel to a white notecard, leaving a border.
My sentiment is hot foiled, using my Spellbinders Glimmer system. It is a plate by Pinkfresh Studio ‘Fancy Script Words’ – I paired it with Matte Gold Glimmer foil and die cut it out with the coordinating die. I then popped it up on the top of my panel with thin strips of foam tape. I finished with a few crystals here and there. ‘
Glam birthday wishes to you all at Time Out Challenges!
Jenny x
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This card is a beauty! Love the soft water coloring combined with the dramatic color of the background. Thank you so much for being our GD in out Birthday Special Challenge! xxx
Yah you joined us! So good to have you celebrating with us and so pleased to see all that purple!! Adore purple and gold so a real winner for me! Beautiful colouring and love the added splashes and placement of the sentiment. Thanks for inspiring our players in the years you were with us and also for helping with the badges for the years after-so much appreciated my friend xx
Jenny I’m quite your tenure at Time Out is where we first ‘met.’
Another gorgeous creation! LOve the drama of the purple, and your gorgeous water-coloring – so nice that Nonni invited you to party for their 8th!
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What a joy to have you with us again, Jenny. I haven’t been on your blog in quite a while, and I really love the way you have organized it. It looks fabulous and you have grown so much as a wonderful artist over the years. Sending hugs and thank you so much for designing with us for this very special challenge.
Such a beautiful card. I just love all that purple! Thanks so much for coming back to join us as we celebrate 8 years of Time Out.