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CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #188

I'm just back from a 2500 mile trip - 2419.9 miles to be precise. We drove from Jacksonville in Florida to San Diego in California, basically from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. I had hoped to share photos while we were travelling but the internet access was very flaky. I'll will share some of them soon as I'm hoping to Project Life some of them.

Anyway, I've not been able to craft for over a week and couldn't wait to give the latest CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge a go.

This week it's a sketch one.


I'm still in the USA so my supplies are rather limited but this is what I managed to come up with.



As you can see, I rotated my card so that it was portrait rather then landscape. I used the Flower Patch stamp set to decorate the oval (the sentiment comes from there too) in some of the 2015-2017 In Colors.

I stamped the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black onto the piece of Mint Macaron before running it through my Big Shot with the Fluttering embossing folder. This is a great of incorporating an effect without the need to raise the sentiment.

I also decorated the inside too (there's a surprise).



As always, please feel free to leave a comment.

Fiona xx

If you are interested in making this card, these are the supplies I used.


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A little peek

of what we will be getting up to on Saturday at my All Day Event.



You didn't seriously think I would show you the whole card and spoil the fun, did you? Sorry. What I can show you, is one of the four cards that we made at last weekend's regular monthly class.


I love the colour combination on this card and everyone had fun making it. Details of what was used is as follows:


I only have a few classes left for the rest of this year, so if you are interested in coming along to one check out the dates on the Events & Classes page and let me know. 

I will be working on dates for next year in the near future, and will let you all know what they are once I have figured them out.

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Sneak Peek of the new Tutorial

I've not posted a new tutorial recently so thought I'd share with you today a peek of the one that I have just posted. Yep, there's a new one on the Tutorial's page. I was going to wait for the weekend but I was on a roll today so thought I'd get ahead of the game.

The tutorial is for a Triple Stamped card. It's a technique that I've used in class but one I've not tried for some time.

As mentioned, full information on how to make this card is now available in my Tutorials. I hope you give it a go and I would love to see what you make. Photo's can easily be uploaded to the Oakfield Crafts facebook page for all to see.

Please forgive the Island Indigo mark on the bottom flower - not sure where it came from

Here are this week's fantastic Weekly Deals.

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If any of these deals take your fancy click on the picture and you will be taken to my Online Store. Don't forget, these deals expire 19 August, so don't miss out.
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Flower Patch card

What is it about flowers?

I've been looking through the Annual Catalogue  and I have to admit that my wish list seems to be leaning heavily towards most of the new stamp sets that have flowers in them. I know I need to see some inspiration before I fall in love with some of the other sets, but honestly I do need to widen my horizons.

Staying on the flower theme, today's card was made using the Flower Patch Bundle (Flower Patch Stamp Set and Flower Flair Framelit Dies). Don't forget that by purchasing the bundle you save 15%.

It's taken me a little while to get my hands on this set as it has proved to be very popular. Now that I have it, you can expect to see a few more cards and things over the coming week or two.


I'm really taken with the Blackberry Bliss ink but not so much with what it does to my stamps. The Flower Patch stamp set is a Photopolymer set which means it is clear. This is great for two set stamping such as the leaves that I've stamped in Pear Pizzazz and Mossy Meadow. The Blackberry Bliss does however have a habit of staining the stamps as you can see from the next picture.

 


Please be assured that the staining does not affect the stamp's ability to give a clear stamped image it's just that the stamp itself is no longer as pretty as a clear one. I just wanted to warn you that this will happen should you use this colour (Real Red is another colour that does this), but it's such a lovely colour that it can be forgiven for what it does to the stamps.

Stampin' Up! supplies used to make this card are:



Just in case you are wondering, I stamped the flower image three times. The bottom layer is the full flower, for the second layer I cut off the outer layer of petals and then layered the smaller flower directly over the bottom image and the top layer is just the middle part cut out. I rotated it a little to cover up a blemish on the middle image (we can't all be perfect and it's a handmade card so it's not going to be).
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