WLSC Spring has Sprung

My DT card today is for

 We Love Stamping

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

Spring has Sprung

 

Of course to me Spring means Daffodils and that's what I have for you today, not one but two, and a two Spring piccies too. I'm being generous!

 

My daffodils were stamped and coloured with DI's, then I cut each of them out, now what to do? 

 

I embossed a frame around a piece of card and die cut the shape. I remembered a card that I had done with a die cut replaced into the die cut area, so decided to case it and die cut the piece. It was replaced it inside the shape and glued it to a piece of yellow and blue spotted paper, although the spots can't really be seen. 

 

A sentiment was stamped, and the daffodils were then glued into place. Next I splattered some rose gold onto the first card to match the daffodil colours and gold onto the second to match the yellow daffodils. Simple cards but it was good to make two enabling me to help fill my long birthday list of birthday cards.

 

stamps - Magazine Freebies SCP#240 

inks - Distress inks, dried marigold, spiced marmalade, peeled paint, 

squeezed lemonade, fossilized amber

die - rectangle, Card Making Magic 5 x 7 box set

die - square Sue Wilson square noble dies

die cut out - a very old die, I think it's Tattered Lace  

 sentiment - magazine freebie SCP

 

 

 

What does Spring mean to you? Show us in our Challenge.

 

We have Two Lovely prizes of Lavinia stamps

 

Vehicles Or Transport TMR

Hi Everyone my second DT card today is for

 The Male Room

 Still without mojo, when will it return? I have too many family cards to get made, it's going to be hard at this rate. I had already die cut a car, but it didn't go anywhere, even after a few attempts!  So off to my files again and found this image. My brother sent it to me many years ago, so I don't know where the original came from, I was under the impression, he added the ivy etc to an old car in Photoshop, but I may be wrong. He used to be a photographer, so very experienced.

Anyhow, I took it and added it to a scalloped half, in Silhouette, found some quotes to suit the men whose birthdays were in March. The scalloped image, and the background with a quote, were print and cut, then added to the base card, the scalloped shape was 3D'd onto the card. I used a landscaped 5 x 7. Next I found some gears and cut them out in Silhouette with rose mirror card to match the rust of the car. Then they were added.

I was happy to have 2 cards with one sitting. 

image - unknown 

scallop circle -  Digichick, Scraporchard

gears - The Free SVG blog 2017 

quotes from the web 

 

 What will your mode of transport be?

CCC Giraffe

  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 have a lot of birthdays and this is one I made for a GNephew. He is tall and quite serious, so I thought I'd give him a laugh or a smile?  

I printed the background to include the sentiment and then on my Silhouette, print and cut 3 layers of the digital stamp giraffe. I coloured the top layer, I had seen a coloured giraffe on the web and thought why not? It was coloured loosely in DI's, then the layers were glued together. Something I learned recently is that giraffes have purple tongues, which tied in nicely with his colours.

Before attaching the giraffe layers to the base layer, I stencilled leaves, then added it to a giraffe pattern paper, not that you can see much of it. It was then glued to the base card. Next I added the giraffe layers and decided to add a stamped, then die cut leaf.

giraffe - From The Heart Stamps (no longer available)

inks - Distress inks (see photo below)

stencil - Magazine Freebie - SCP243

leaf and die - Sissix Fine Stems

 

 

inks

What will your Critter be for our Challenge? 

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  

 

We have lovely wildlife themed prize from AALL & CREATE this month

 

 

 

 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. 

 

It's a long time since I entered a challenge, but had to with Morgan's image.

 

Morgan's ArtWorld Challenge #98 

1st Prize Winner:

#31 Faith

 

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).