WLSC Wild Life Tiger

 Hi Everyone my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping  

 This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme 

 Wildlife - Animals/flowers/plants/trees/fish/birds/butterflies etc (A&C) 

World Wildlife

 

I didn't have a "wild life" stamp, that I wanted to use, so off to my digi stamps and I came across this old one. That I had made into a card here, nearly 10 years ago. Anyhow, I printed it out onto cream paper with the sentiment, it was just the right weight to use for water colouring. After reminding myself what colours a tiger is, on the web, I coloured him with DI's. I then used a white Posca pen to go over the white areas. I kept it very simple, as it's a wonderful image with impact, I thought. 

 

After colouring it, I cut it to fit the card, and layered it onto an orange paper background, I did the same to the sentiment. I'm so glad that I used cream paper, layered onto cream hammered base card. I think the white stands out more. 

 

image - Wild 3 Morgans Artworld 

inks - Distress inks, dried marigold, rusty hinge, bundled sage, peeled paint 

white - Posca Pen 

orange paper - stash  

 

I felt like Spring has sprung with tulips and daffodils and azaleas, with other plants blooming in the garden, so I changed my header to Spring, I hope it lifts you too.

 

tall Daffodils with Spring starting in the garden on another wet day recently

 

Tulips coming into beautiful blooms with Helleborus just peeking into sight. 

Birthday card

Hi Everyone, a card that was done for another family member, I have so many birthdays in March. I love this clover stamp. I decided to use it with a pen die, that I'd forgotten about. I stamped the flower, and coloured it with DI's, then added a text stamp randomly. 

Next I cut the pen die out of textured card, matching the clover, and gold mirror card for the nib and pen holder, what is lovely is that the gold nib is textured. Not colours I normally use, but I wanted to go with the colour of the clover flower.

 

stamp - Penny Black, Delicate Florals 

text stamp - Magazine Freebie, SCP #239

pen die - The Greetery, Pen Pal

ink - Distress Inks, victorian velvet, old paper

pink card - Craft Creations, (years old) 

gold mirror card - stash 

 

Blue & Brown TMR

 My DT card today is for 

 

The Male Room 

 

I'm struggling with mojo, so I'm using my Silhouette, sketches and casing some cards to get me through this complete blockage. I had pieces of brown card on my desk from my previous post and then realised the colours were what I wanted for this post. How handy was that? I went looking for more of the brown card and I didn't have any! Just little pieces that were far too small. I had to order more, who runs out of brown card? 

 

Anyhow, I had already chosen this treasure box to make. I then I picked a different paper for the blue, I decided on pearlised, so that I could stamp the greeting on it. 

 

I cut the base box with my Silhouette, and after glueing it all together. It was fiddly, as I had reduced the size of the box to fit the gift I was using it for, it's still 85mm x 80mm (31/4 inch x 3inch). I tried to keep the paper pieces together, also cut with Silhouette, whilst stamping, again a little fiddly, but they were done and added piece by piece to the box. I then used dies for the fastener, with an anchor cut with Silhouette, and a little velcro to close it. I'm quite pleased how it turned out. Although the quality of the stamping could have been better! My apologies.  

Treasure Trinket Box - Dreaming Tree. 

card - Florence Cardstock 216gsm Amazon

blue pearlised paper - Bumaga (years old) 

stamp - Stamp Addicts

dies -  Tonic

anchor - Jessica Dunn "Coastal Spring element" at Digital Scapbook.com

 Silhouette 

 

WLSC Wildlife

    Hi Everyone, my second DT make today is for

We Love Stamping  

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme 

 Wildlife - Animals/flowers/plants/trees/fish/birds/butterflies etc (A&C) World Wildlife

 

 My choice for this month of the WLSC is this mices image, that I stamped and coloured with DI's. The sentiment was also included in the same pack. I actually made it for my crafty SiL, who loves knitting and crochet. 

 

After stamping it and colouring, I embossed the top of the image with a cable knit design, which I rubbed over with ink. I made a border with the knitting stamp in the pack. Next I cut, coloured, and added balls of wool dies, I should have been a bit finer with the colouring of the balls of wool, but was not in the mood at the time of making. It was accepted with joy, that's the main thing.

stamp -House Mouse - Knit One

inks - Distress inks, twisted citron,barn door,lucky clover, vintage photo,

gathered twigs,tumbled glass

ball of wool die - Crafters Companion, Sewing 

background paper - Lidl 

 

What will you use as your subject for the Challenge this month?

There are two wonderful prizes for you from AALL and Create stamps and stencil (photos not to scale).

 

Doggie Bag CCC

     Hi Everyone, my first DT make today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

  

I was asked if I could make a bag with a dog on it, so I went looking for dogs in my files and found this. Well, I had to make it.  So easy to make, and she was pleased with it too. 

 

I used the cut file with my Silhouette, cutting out all the pieces out of 210gsm (80lb) paper. After glueing all the pieces in place. I inked the edge of the face and added a Velcro circle to keep the head in place, as it closes the bag, so clever. 

design - Dreaming Tree, Doggie Bag 

all paper - Lidl

mirror card - the Range 

 

What will you make from your animal? 

90th Birthday card & memories

Hi Everyone, this is the card I made for my eldest brother who was 90 on the 3rd of this month. I got together some photos on my computer, and some I found going through lots in January. I added a background paper to give it a little colour and interest, then added frames and paperclips, some quotes, even a couple of red arrows to identify him in a group. Not only that, but I managed to find photos through his life from the age of three. After it was completed in Photoshop, I printed it out and layered it onto an 8 x16 inch base card, then for more interest a ribbon. I'm glad to say he was very pleased and had forgotten some photos. 

His daughter and myself and our younger brother and his wife took him out for a meal. Our other brother was too unwell to come from Lincolnshire. Big brother had had a big party with the local Railway Club, (he was a fireman on the Steam Engines) who had also, with the Mayor, presented him with a fob watch engraved with his name and age, and a Great Western Railway train on the front. A beautiful gift with the memory of a big gathering especially for him.

all elements and paper - "Paradise Splash" Esperanza at Digital Scrapbook 

Photoshop 

ribbon - stash 

 

I thought I would show you our daffodils in our front garden, they've been flowering since the end of January and are still showing. I hope they stay until March the 1st, St Davids Day. We usually have a few of them last until then. The shadow on the right, is because I took it indoors, it was too cold to go take them outside, coward that I am. 

Hearts Mid Month WLSC

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping  

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Myself 

Hearts

 

February is the time of professing our love, as I said in my previous WLSC post, but it can be for any occasion. I have two occasions today. I didn't have any heart stamps that were of the right size, so I drew them instead. I then ordered some, well you have to don't you?

 

Firstly, I will show you the card I did with my new stamps. The stamps weren't separate as I thought, but that didn't matter, I used them for an Anniversary card, thinking of our 60th in June. 

 

I went through some papers and found a spotted paper I liked and stamped onto it, then embossed in gold. I had found a banner in some very old stamps and used that with the Anniversary greeting that came with it. 

 

Next I attached it to gold mirror card and then to the base card, a very simple card. I thought I could add the year numbers on top of the banner, there are a few special anniversaries in the family this year, maybe using it for one of those.

 

paper - Craft Sensations, Romantic Florals

heart stamp - Temu Love Stamp

banner stamp - no identity, a gift from my lovely SiL years ago.

 

 This is the card I drew hearts. I wanted a thank you card for a neighbour who has been wonderful and above helpful for me. I cut a piece of card, then drew some lines and 3 hearts with stems. Next I coloured them with 3 different reds, a combination I saw on the web, which I liked. I then used 3 different greens for the stems. 

 

I had already used a sentiment for my last card from this set, so decided to use two more from it. I stamped them to suit, as I thought, then layered them onto red paper which were attached to the base card. 

 

stamp sentiments - Avian Allure by Alex Syberia SCP272

inks - Distress inks, ripe persimmon, abandoned coral, fired brick, shabby shutters, bundled sage, forest lodge, and antique linen for the ground.

red paper - Lidl