A couple of weeks ago I was asked by the TIOT team to join them.
TIOT has been a challenge blog that I have tried to link up to as often as I could so I was super excited to have been asked!
So here's my first effort as part of the DT for this week's challenge which is 'Let's Get Messy'.
I can get messy when I have to - but getting messy and producing something which actually looks OK is a bit more difficult!
I love Alco Inks and simply don't use them enough so this was the perfect challenge to wipe the dust from them.
I stamped a large Hydrangea (For the Love of Stamps) onto vellum and heat embossed then carefully cut round it before popping it on the top of the inky panel, then wrapped it up with a vellum strip (word from the same stamp set).
Please pop over to the challenge blog and check out what 'mess' the rest of the team have made 😊
and thanks for looking here today - hope you will join in our challenge too! x
28 comments:
Beautiful card, such a vibrant inky background to offset the delicate hydrangea
Fabulous alcohol background Viv with your lovely embossed flower. Congrats on your new appointment though TIOT is new to me...what does it mean? xx
Congrats on your new DT -love the fabulous inky background and embossed hydrangea
Carol x
Welcome to the TIOT design team Viv. I love your alcohol ink background. And that's beautiful stamping and heat embossing on vellum. It looks so much like lace. Happy week ahead. hugs-Erika
Congratulations Viv, and what a wonderful card to start with. Love the Hydrangea and doing it onvelllum just makes it pop even more. Hugs Mrs A.
Congratulations Viv, what a stunning card as your first DT submission. I love the colour of AI you've used.
Sue xx
Fantastic background for the delicate hydrangea.
Congrats on becoming a DT member of TIOT.
Hugs, Sarnie xxx
Congrats on joining that DT, what an honour for you. I do love hydrangeas and alcohol inks, so this card is right up my street. Using the vellum was such a good idea, it has worked brilliantly. Thank you for the inspiration xx
Congrats on your new Design Team, Viv!! LOVE the gorgeous AI background you've made. The white heat embossed vellum overlay is lovely! Followed the new challenge and looking forward to seeing more! xx
Stunning AI background, so beautiful with your velum hydrangea ♥
Hi Viv,
I just went back to some of you house buying updates from a couple of years ago. I will be back in Swansea this week hopefully to finalize the sale of my late mothers house and I was thinking of you and your very stressful time. I've never had to sell a house in the UK before as I've lived in Canada for the last 35yrs and things are very different here. With what should have been one of the easiest sales - no chain- 1st time buyer and an estate sale- OMG it's taken 5 mths to date- I am convinced it's incompetence and lack of inertia by the solicitors. Someone really needs to sort this process out, we could have gotten the whole thing done and dusted in less than a month. Fingers crossed it's sold :(
Congrats on the DT gig! Your AI background is amazing, plus the hydrangea can hold its own in beauty
Such a gorgeous background against the lovely hydrangea image…beautiful card Viv
Anne
Hi Viv and welcome, we are so happy that you are joining our design team at TioT's. A fabulous card with a great inky background, I love the flower image you used on the vellum base.
Yvonne xx
Congratulations on your new DT gig. I love your AI background and that beautiful vellum Hydrangea. A great first card for the team.
Congratulations on your new DT position. Your card is gorgeous and not messy at all. Maybe a controlled mess!
A warm welcome to the team, I'm so glad that you've joined us and I love your inspiration 😊. Those alcohol inks look amazing, they blended so beautifully and messily, and the stamped vellum look amazing. Happy and creative wishes! Hugs, Jo x
Big congrats on becoming a TioT DT member Viv and what a stunning first project you have treated us all too. Fabulous background, I really love how the inks separate and granulate. The hydrangea looks so pretty sat upon it.
Happy crafting Tracey x
That alcohol background is fabulous Viv, lovely colour and card
Joan x
Yay!! Congrats to you! Fabulous card Viv!
The color effect of the background looks stunning and great idea to simply heat emboss on vellum so that the flower doesn’t compete with the background colors. Great to be on the team with you:)
Thank you for the inspiration, Viv, because I need to dust off my alcoholic inks, too! You've used my fave colors and my fave flower! I used to have a plant in blue shades and your blue hues from pale to purplish look just like my blue hydrangea did!💙Hugs, Dolly
p.s. Congratulations on your DT appointment to the TIOT Challenge! They are lucky to have you!!
It's lovely to have you join the team Viv and with such a fabulous card. Love the Alco background and I'm like you, I don't use mine enough. The Hydrangea looks stunning embossed in white on Vellum.
Avril xx
Ooh! Congratulations on your design team post, Viv! Well deserved, my friend! Love this beautiful alcohol ink background with this embossed vellum hydrangea!
Gorgeous background Viv, my favourite colours. Congratulations on joining the TIOT team, I must join in more often. Long time since we swapped ATCs.
Another stunning card and such a great background done again!!!
Firstly congratulations on joining the DT and this card is really beautiful with that gorgeous AI background, and the white embossed vellum hydrangia looks wonderful over the top, and I must join in the challenge here more often. x
Well you kept this quiet Mrs. T! Many congratulations Viv, this is a perfect fit for you and I’m thrilled that they’ve snapped you up. It’s actually one of my favourite challenges, although I don’t seem to do much blogging of late. Your card is really beautiful, I love the contrast between the white hydrangea and your lovely background xx
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