Two Watercolour cards

 Hi Everyone, another birthday in the family, it was in January, a Great Niece this time. I had an idea to try to do a watercolour effect card, not something I usually do, I always colour in the images. Anyhow, I stamped the flowers and used watercolour paper to try it out, and decided it was OK for the card. I used plenty of water with the DI's and tried to loosely colour the flowers and leaves. I die cut the paper and stamped a sentiment. Luckily, the colours I used were good for the greyish effect of the watercolour paper, which I didn't mind on the white base card. 

stamps - Stamps By Me "Made With Love"

inks - Distress Inks fossilized amber, shaded lilac, wilted violet, bundled sage

watercolour card - Crawford & Black

 

My second watercolour card was for a cousin, who rang me from the USA over Christmas and let me know that she was 90 in two weeks. A quick card was needed, so I could post it, and she had it on time, thankfully. I decided to use the same design, but in different colours, and use die cut numbers for her age, coloured in the same colours as the flowers. The long swash on the F was perfect to add the numbers, I thought. Here it is

 

inks - Distress Inks twisted citron, worn lipstick, fossilized amber, ripe persimmon

It's the same watercolour card, again I didn't mind the greyish tones of it. It all looks so different from the first card I think.

 

my first card - colorfuloptions yellow, purple, and green!

Anything but a square card 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 of  -

Anything but a square card

   

One of my nieces has a birthday this month and I made this card for her, taking the opportunity to use the challenge as inspiration. I used the Silhouette to make a scalloped stitched circle card. Which I edged with pink ink. I stamped the jumper and the scarfs, using the main colour of yellow, to colour and make them more feminine. I then added the pink and a green. Perhaps I should have made the embossing folder bigger, to hide the fold, would you believe it, I didn't think of it until I had put it all together. DUH!

The background was embossed with a cable design, the scarfs were stamped with the sentiments, and 3D'd onto the embossing.

stamps and embossing folder - Nordic Winter, SCP freebies

stitched circle design - Font Market CCC234 Stitched Nesting Shapes

inks - Distress Ink & Oxide, kitsch flamingo, scattered straw, peacock feathers.

 

 Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

  Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge Here

There are Three great prizes from AALL and Create, a die set and two stamp sets

Motorbiike

Hi Everyone, a card for my #3 brother, he loved his motorbike but, at 85 is passed riding them now, that doesn't mean he doesn't still like them. Hence, my card today.

I stamped a motorbike and clear embossed it. Next, I used the mask I had already made for this card, and stamped the background mountains and some grass, then die cut it and also a gold mirror card base. 

I was going to use die cuts for the age, but I had been reminded recently, seeing a blog using foil with the Silhouette. I hadn't used it for foiling for a long time. So, I went to my Silhouette and designed a circle with an 85, his name, and the sentiment, to foil onto card, also cutting a circle from mirror card at the same time. 

I then stencilled tyre tracks with DO onto the base card. I should have made them darker? They show a little in real life.

motorbike stamp - Indigo Blue - Ride Long

background stamp - Stamp Addicts - Scenic Sailing

grass - I can't find it now, but I think it's a freebie from my subscription magazine.

 inks - Distress Oxides

ink black - Stazon

foiled sentiment font - Galantis

 

Anything but a square card WLSC

 

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

Anything but a square card

   

 

A search through my stamps, brought up 2 sets that I could use for New Year, that was my easiest choice as mojo is seriously lacking. Seeing a design in my subscription magazine that I quite liked, I decided to try it out. I went to my Silhouette to cut out the hexagons, as I don't have any dies to suit. On the smaller one I stamped the bottle and the glasses, then I stamped the firework flash, and also the sentiment. The fun fizz sentiment was stamped onto a spare piece of card and fussy cut. All with gold embossing powder. The firework flash was inked in red and blue and the bottle and glasses were coloured with DI's.

Next, I stamped the party swirls all over the halved hexagon, embossed in gold, and blended ink. Then I added the top hexagon to the half piece and added the fun sentiment. 

I hope you all had a fun celebration for the New Year.

stamps - freebies from Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine #212 and an older one.

inks - Distress Inks, salty ocean, candied apple 

Silhouette

 

 Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

  Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge Here

There are Three great prizes from AALL and Create, a die set and two stamp sets

Chick Birthday card CCC

  Hi Everyone, the first of my 2 DT projects 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 had a card to make for my Great Niece, so took the opportunity to make it for the challenge too. I had this fabulous chick in my files, so took it into Silhouette and cut around it. Then I chose a floral Spring paper for her and cut the 6 from it. Next, I printed out the sentiment and her name. I thought it needed something else, so used a heart die and coloured the hearts in matching colours, using left over hearts to add randomly. The cut out 6 was added to the base card and the chick was added with an action wobble, to give it some fun for her. Next, I designed an insert with 2 more of the chicks from the set.

Chick - Creative Fabrica Watercolor-Chicken-Clipart-Chicken-92197332

paper - Make and Create Spring Time paper pad

Wobble - stash

heart die - Tattered Lace {very old}

 

 

the insert

this is the wobble action, sorry there is so much black around it, but I rotated the video and then couldn't remove the black. I'll keep trying!

Male CAS card TMR

 Hi Everyone, my second DT card today is for 

Looking through my stamps for male images, I found a few of sport, I hadn't used the cycle stamp, so that's what it would be.  

Next what design, I have said for a while I've been minus mojo, so I decided to use a sketch to help and thought this one quite different, that would certainly get me going. It's by MFT #519

What was I going to use for the triangle? I went through my paper pads and came across this, not a usual colour for male cards, I thought, but what the heck. I measured the bottom at 4inches, then measured the sides until they met at the centre. That was it, I cut the triangle. Then stamped the bike and embossed it. The stamp came with sentiments and I mixed them to get them the effect. A large die was used to cut around it, so plenty of shifting it to fit. I then blended the sides with DO ink. 

I laid the triangle and sentiment onto the base card to see the effect, but I didn't think it looked finished, even though it's a CAS card. So I went into my Silhouette, then looked online to find a free cycle helmet and cycle gloves to fit inside the triangle. Two layers were cut and glued together, then attached to the triangle. Although you can't see it, I also embossed a triangle around the card triangle.  In the end I was happy, I think I may have to start using sketches again to get my mojo going. 

 

paper pad - Make & Create Vintage Romance

stamps - Creative Stamping #56

ink - Distress Oxide dusty concord

Silhouette

cycle helmet image - DIY Design Your Own Bike Helmet - Young Learner

gloves -  Flaticon

 

 

I hope to see you at the challenge, there are great ideas from my Teamies for male CAS cards.