Little Mouse hand painted WLSC

 Hi Everyone, number 2 of my DT cards today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Lolo of  

Hand Painted Images

 

I chose this little mouse as I just love him.  I coloured him with watercolour pencils, then used a mask and added inked butterflies and grass with a tiny sentiment. Next, I used the square die to cut him out and then 2 further larger die cuts. They were all centred and attached to the base card. I really liked using the pencils, then spreading the colour with water. Very CAS methinks. 

mouse - Colorado Craft Company, KL615-D

watercolour pencils - Nuvo Brilliantly Vibrant

butterflies - Polkadoddles Daisy Days

grass -  Magazine freebie

inks - Whisper, VERY old inks

dies - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

 

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.

 

We have two prizes to reflect the theme from Highlight Crafts of watercolour mediums

CAS ribbon bow card.

 Hi Everyone, my card today is based on a card I saw from Jackie Mooney on Facebook Clean and Simple card making group. Such beautiful work by her. I hope she thinks I have done her justice, but couldn't compete with the beauty of her cards.

Anyhow, this is my version. I embossed a three lined border, and marked where the bow would go, and embossed from that line, to the bottom edge of the card. I used the same bow as Jackie, on my card and found autumn seed heads in my files too. Next I coloured them with DI's and clear embossed them for a little shine. I added gold drops to the top, arranged them onto the card and attached them. 

The bow was attached to them and along the embossing line. I also cut the sentiment shape, before stamping the sentiment. I  used glitter twine, bundled, to enhance the bow and sentiment. The card layer was then attached to the base card.

seed head - Nic Squirrel Silhouette Design Store #79681

 ribbon bow - Silhouette Design Store #458455

all shapes cut with Silhouette

inks - Distress inks, mowed lawn, twisted citron, mustard seed, spiced marmalade

gold drops - Nuvo Crustal Drops bright gold

sentiment stamp - Magazine freebie

 

seed heads coloured then layered, I layered the bow, but left it white. 

 

the embossing doesn't show well, so have put a darker image below. 

'puter troubles and a 5 year old card

 Hi Everyone. I've been missing in action, as I have had my 'puter not behaving itself. I haven't been able to see my files, they were all greyed out, unless I clicked on them. I couldn't do any searches, it made me feel I didn't want to be on it, I think it's the longest I have been off my 'puter for years. I did come on to see if I could repair it, I went online to see if there was anything I could do, but each time I saw something promising my 'puter looked the same as the example graphic.

Then on Monday, I came on to try again and went looking for more ideas, I came across something to tell me to go into the Control Panel, BUT! My Control panel was missing, so after a bit of playing around I found it and what I was looking for. I noticed one of the panels wasn't the same as the example graphic, so changed it, and lo and behold I was back and everything was doing what it was supposed to. What a relief. I don't change things here, so I don't know how it happened, unless a Windows update changed things, I'll never know!

 Anyhow, you aren't here to listen to my grumbles, but I had to explain my absence from your blogs. Luckily, my DT cards had been scheduled. 

Now onto my card, one of my Niece's granddaughter, has her 5th birthday coming up and this is what I did for her. I saw a card recently where an image was popped up from the card. I went into my Silhouette program and designed this shaped card around the digital image. I added a slight border to the card, so the image was framed. The sentiment was sized, and a shape designed to match the black border on the image. Both the image and sentiment were print and cut with 2 layers of each.

Next, I coloured the image face with DI's, but as I wanted brighter colours for the rest, I changed to markers. I then used a sparkle pen for the number and the sentiment letters. I decided to add a few crystal drops. All attached to the card and now ready to send with an insert, I forgot to take a piccie of. The finished card is 7 x 7inches.

image - Bugaboo

inks - Distress Ink, tattered rose, tea dye, aged mahogany

markers - Spectrum Noir

crystal drops - Nuvo Crystal Drops

font - Chocokings

 

 

showing the sparkle on the 5

Easter bunnies - CCC

 Hi Everyone, I have 3 DT cards today, I hope you will be able to visit each of them, this 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...

As Easter is just a few weeks away, I decided to do a fun Easter card. I saw these fun bunnies in a store recently and as they were SUPER cheap, I had to have them. I die cut a circle and then placed one of the bunnies as close to it as possible. The circle was removed, and the bunny stamped, turning the card to do 3 more, I did the same with the carrots and clear embossed the images and coloured them. I took another bunny and stamped it onto the circle with the sentiment, embossing those too. The carrot was stamped and embossed separately, and I fussy cut it out to add to the centre, which was then added to the card. I went to add pompoms to their tails, but they were far too big, so a drop of crystal drops and the card was done.

stamps - Violet Studio (The Range) 

inks - Distress Inks - hickory smoke, spiced marmalade, kirsch flamingo

die - lost packaging, sorry.

drops - Nuvo Crystal drops

Stamping and digital die cutting?

 Hi Everyone, I hope you're all well and things are good with you. Today I have something I never thought I would be able to do. Stamping and cutting out with the digital die cutting machine !

I saw a YouTube video that showed how to do it, (I've lost the link sorry) so I tried and although it's a little time consuming for layering, I think it may be OK occasionally, if wanted for a special card? I'm glad I tried it though.

Anyhow, this is the card I did. I printed cutting registration marks out, then stamped onto the marked printed paper, I scanned them into my PC. I merged them to my machine program, traced them and added an outline, as if they were die cut. I then put the registration marked and stamped paper into my machine and cut them. 

When they had been cut, I coloured the cut stamps with DI's.

I have this lovely blue pearlised paper in my stash, I wanted to emboss it, but was interrupted by a telephone call, I came back to my desk and carried on attaching the stamps with dimensionals to the paper, when I had added it all to the card, I realised I hadn't embossed. Must be an old age thing or too many things in my old mind hahaha.

I've added the images of the procedure, although, I guess, not many of you have a digital cutting machine. However it just shows what can be done. 

here is my card 

stamps are Magazine freebies from SCPC

inks - DI's 

blue paper - stash

drops - Nuvo Crystal Drops gold

I haven't given instructions, just shown how I did it, but if of you are interested please contact me and I'll explain what to do. This means that you can still stamp and emboss and then add it to a coloured background. 

the cut out stamps before colouring

the left over "die cut" paper

where you see the words on the top left, my paper moved on the cutting mat during cutting,  so I just used the images that cut OK.

Lemon girl

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Hi Everyone, A mixed media ish? card today with a few processes. I started off, designing it in Photoshop, I chose the sketch but didn't have paper to match for the rectangles, so I made some in PS, using the items, that I eventually placed on top of the matching paper. Then as I wanted to cut the items out, I added them to my digital cutting machine, so much easier than fussy cutting, for me anyway. I added glaze to the elements, I thought it made them look like stickers. 

I found a lemon in my cutting files, so used that as the background to the beautiful image. I had my subscription magazine recently and I used the stamps that were with that, heat embossing them and colouring them. Adding drops to finish. Sounds so simple doesn't it? It took me a fair few hours though.

image and elements - Lemon Girl Planner Creative Fabrica

inks - Distress Oxide & Ink

stamps - Magazine freebies SCPC #218

lemon cutting file - Lettering Delights

lemon card - Crafters Companion

white drops - Nuvo Crystal Drops

Greetings

 Hi Everyone, I'm still in can't be bothered mode, with a few family things going on, however, as a follower of Beccy, I saw her post and had to have the images. They are fun and actually had me enthusiastic to get going, whew! mojo may still be there! 

Anyhow, I wanted something pretty and came across a scrapbook Quick Page in my files, I thought it would do nicely. I added them to my digital cutting machine print and cut out the QP and the cow and the sentiment included, I had placed it onto rectangles to match the colours. I coloured the cow in DI's and added a double layer of dimensionals to make it 3D and decided to arrange a few floral dies in amongst the printed flowers, then added drops to the centres. I also placed some flower dies onto the sentiment. A little glaze to finish on the horns nose and eyes.

I hope you all have more mojo than me and after seeing your beautiful work I know you have. Now this post and the card is finished, I am going to look through my stamps and see if I can get something else done, SiL is waiting for a few birthday cards, so if that's not incentive what is ay? AND there is blue skies with fluffy white clouds instead of the awful wind and rain the last couple of days.

 cow & sentiment - Clarice Cow Beccy's Place 

inks - Distress Inks

quick page - ABD Designs

wood dp - Janet Kemp 

flower dies - Tattered Lace

glaze - Crystal Glaze and Drops - Nuvo

cut & print - Silhouette Cameo

Beccy's Challenge

Patties Creations Challenge #182

Cut it Up Challenge Blog #226

Creative Fingers Challenge #208

Crazy Catz Challenge #552 - Twist, Cute

You know what I'm like about the garden, well a couple of photos, taken a couple of days ago.

A lovely show of Aquilegias and our very old clematis, it is an original plant in the garden and we have been here 27 years. Hubby has tried quite a few times to take cuttings, but they just don't grow.  (That's him in red, seeing to the potatoes in the pots) 

No! this is not a marquee for the Gnomes or Fairies in the garden, it's stopping the carrot fly and white butterflies from laying their eggs, in the carrots and cabbages. 

"Wood" you believe it?

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

The Male Room Challenge

Last time we had a wood challenge, I did a sign for hubby and his garage door, which by the way is still there as new! I'm pleased to say. Anyhow, this time I have used a completely different piece of wood and "wood" you believe what it is? It's an ice cream stick from a mini version of the larger chocolate ice cream lollypop which begins with an "M".  😀

Our G.Nephew was 13 at the end of the month and I made this for him, he is a character, so I knew he would enjoy the pun and the colours, (he did). 

I printed and cut the papers and layered them onto black card. I coloured the sticks with Distress inks with colours similar to the striped paper and I added some wobbly eyes to them. I then added 3D gloss to the red words on the sentiment.  I saw the sentiment on the web so cased it.

papers - Digital Press

sentiment - the web

recycled lolly sticks

Distress inks - Mermaid Lagoon, Crushed Olive, Abandoned coral

wobbly eyes - stash

3D gloss - Nuvo Crystal Drops

What "Wood" you make for our challenge?  I hope to see you there.

 Please remember to use The Male Room badge if

 you want to be included in amongst the Winners

Bouquet bear

 Hi Everyone here I am with my DT card for today, it's for the new challenge at QKR. Our challenge is on the 1st and 15th of every month, so you have 2 chances every month to enter the challenge.

http://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/

We will select two winners each of the weeks 

1 using QKR Stampede  or Eureka Stamps image

 and 1 using any image!

Anything Goes every 1st & 15th of the month

My card today used a sketch, but the file I saved, to tell me what everything was, is mislaid! I'm usually careful where I save files, but this has gone walkabout! I had to go hunting to find out who's paper I had used. My lovely bear was print and cut 3 times for layering, with the digital cutting machine Cameo, I coloured the bear with Distress inks to match the paper I used. The sentiment was also print and cut and layered.  

Bear - Bouquet 

inks - Distress inks

papers - Creative Fabrica

black paper - stash

gold spots - Nuvo Crystal Drops

I hope to see you in the QKR Challenge

 

Floral

 Hi Everyone, I've been missing in action, with lots keeping me busy behind the scenes. However I have done a little card making. My "local" SiL (the rest live in England) asked me if I would make 3 cards the same for friends of hers, all 85 years of age this year. I asked her what she wanted and she said flowers, so this was my interpretation of what she wanted. I'm glad to say she was pleased.

paper and wreath - CreativeFabrica

gilding flakes - Cosmic Shimmer 

glue pen - Sakura Quickie Glue Pen

gold mirror card - The Range

ribbon - stash

Glaze - Novo Crystal Drops

Silhouette Cameo 2

This was the process

I cut and print from Silhouette Cameo, 3 layers of the centre wreath, I went over the top layer with a glue pen on parts of the flowers. I then ventured to the gold leaf and pressed it into the glue. I should have put it into a container, lets say I was finding gold for a few days! Next I layered all the wreath layers and glued them together.

I printed the background layer and cut to size and added to gold mirror card and then to the base card. I added 3D gloss to the 85 for added shine. The wreath was added to the card and a bow placed on it.

here are the layers before attaching and adding the gilding flakes

adding the gilding flakes

here you can see the finished result of the glazed 85 and the result of the flakes

here you can see the layers, which I didn't 3D for the sake of postage costs, it was an 8x8 card, with 3D the cost would have been expensive shall we say. 

This was the insert

We had good news this week about nearing the end of lockdown, let's hope we can get to "normal life in the next few months. Although I don't see it becoming normal before the end of Summer - ever the optimist? 

In the meantime, keep safe and keep wearing your mask. Oh! yes over your nose too! - Please.

Two DT cards

Hi Everyone here I am with my first of two DT posts for today and it's for the new challenge at QKR. Our challenge is on the 1st and 15th of every month, so you have 2 chances every month to enter the challenge.

http://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/

We will select two winners each of the weeks 

1 using QKR Stampede  or Eureka Stamps image

 and 1 using any image!

Anything Goes every 1st & 15th of the month

This card is for a Winter birthday of one of our GNephews 

image & sentiment - Broom & Birthdays are

both 3D'd, the broom has glaze on the eyes

inks colouring the broom - Distress inks

background paper - Creative Fabrika

presents - Julie C Designs

dust - Jumpstart Designs

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

I have 2 DT cards today and as DT for both, I'll blog both here, this the second 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies

the 46th challenge

Anything Goes but

they MUST feature a critter

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter featured...

... and 

 We are excited to be sponsored this month by 

the company which handles digi stamps from both

Eureka Stamps and QKR Stampede!

 

I paper pieced the dress and added shadow with a marker, the sentiment was computer generated, the die cuts were edged with Di's and the separate horizontal pieces of the striped paper were fussy cut.

image - Tripping Rhino 

sentiment - Stop a Rhino

coloured - Spectrum Noir Markers

paper - Pixel Scrapper

dies - Sue Wilson Square Noble 

dots - Perlen Pen Transparent

can you spot my deliberate mistake?

memo to self, put specs on before adding details to cards!

I don't think it matters actually as the credit cards are being taken away LOL.

Dragon Army

  Hiya Everyone, my first DT card today is for 

the 44th Challenge at

 2 Crafty Critter Crazies  

     Now, our November Challenge!

We are excited to be sponsored this month by

The Paper Shelter!

The digital stamp has uncoloured and ready coloured images and background and I loved it, then thought I needed a challenge to make this different. My card today is from a second attempt! Why? because I thought Halloween, forgetting this post would be after it! So my second attempt is Winter / Christmas and do you know what I'm pleased with it, I hope you like it too.

I used the uncoloured digital stamp and a background I have used many times, but is perfect for lots of images. I coloured the image and I HAD to have a red dragon of course. (It's on our Welsh flag in case you didn't know!) I paper pieced the image digitally and added the sentiment, it had to be "warm" wishes didn't it? I print and cut it with my Silhouette, when printed the image's skin was paler than I liked, so I coloured the skin with markers. 

I had cut three images out, they were layered, with sparkle pen used on the sword and shield and part of the helmet also the fire and smoke. I added glaze to her eyes. Before I added her to the card, I stamped some trees and added white pen and glitter, also to the snow area of the paper background.

background - Carin Grobe Design (I've had it since 2011)

image - My Little Dragon Army The Paper Shelter

paper pieced papers - Summer Driggs (no longer available)

stamps - Simply Cards & Papercraft #208 freebies

ink - Papermania

sentiment -  Create with TLC 

markers - Spectrum Noir

sparkle pen - Spectrum Noir

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Drops

showing the sparkle and layers,

 although the sunlight has actually made the card lighter than it is.

 I've added it to a tent fold card,

 anyone any ideas how to stop it opening up while placed to display?

I'm hoping to see you in the challenge.

This was my first creation done in Photoshop, the Halloween version, I wasn't going to add it, but actually like it, so thought I would share the digital version with you.