This weekend in the inspiration comes from our design team and guests featuring the fabulous tinkering ink patterned papers, die cuts, alphas and very cool felt and rubber embellishments. Leave a comment and we'll send one random lucky person a pack of your favourite line!
Suz has combined the yellows and turquoises of the Botanical Bliss line in this layout with the copper from the We R Memory Keepers Metals range. She has overlaid the tree as well as the bird from underneath the photo onto the photo to give it a feeling of continuity with the patterned paper. Each blossom in the design has been embellished with a sprinkle of Queen & Co beads to pick up the splash of red from underneath the title.
Maxine has created this wonderful layout using the Perfectly Posh range. She shares a cool technique on how to easily get a stitched circle to look right by going off the edge of the page onto another piece of paper (see above). Then after the stitching is done, you just fold the additional bit behind the layout. Very easy and worth it to get a good looking circle without lots of ends.
Max also cut the centre of the white flower out, placed co-ordinating paper behind it and painted dots with the end of the paintbrush. We love the rub-on swirls over the Heidi Swapp hearts and Max loved the way they went over the Tinkering Ink felt embellishment too.
We have Virginie Wurtz to thank for this stunning layout which we thought was a masterpiece of simplicity. Perfectly dsigned and balanced with overlapping circles using the Perfectly Posh patterned papers, Virginie shows that pink doesn't just have to be for girls. We love the tiny splash of perfectly placed Queen & Co felt ribbon on the top left hand side.
This delightful card by Betsy Feldman caught our eye immediately. She has made beautiful use of the Botanical Bliss papers, and we love how she has teamed it with an not immediately obvious choice of the olive spotted ribbon. Thanks for allowing us to share Betsy.
We featured the tremendously talented Iris Babao Uy last week in our BasicGrey post, but judging from her gallery she's also a fan of Tinkering Ink and does just as stunning work with these papers. Here she makes beautiful use of the Perfectly Posh range, handcutting the spectacular flowers and flourishes to underline her photos.
More handcutting from Suz using the gorgeous pastels in the Covent Garden collection, you'll find this layout in the For Keeps Elite Team Special Issue which is out now. She has 'crowned' her photo with a handcut design from the patterned paper as well as making wonderful use of the co-ordinating die cuts and alphas.
You'll find more inspiration as well as previewing the two new ranges we can't wait to get our hands on - Blur and Beloved on the tinkering ink blog here.
