Baby Bear

  I have 2 DT cards today this is the second, please scroll down for my first card, I'd love you to see it.

2 Crafty Critter Crazies

Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter featured...

We are sponsored this month by SheepSki Designs and they generously

provided images to our DT to use on their inspiration projects.  

Don't you just love this darling bear? I printed it onto watercolour paper and painted it with DI's then added a few spots with marker pens, the paper was a cheapy and didn't show the colours up so well, so I added glaze and it now looks like I added a sticker! after he was finished. I added a grass stencil, (I have to say this is the most used of any stencil I have, it's fabulous) and some die cut flowers. The bear layer was attached to the die frame and placed onto the strip of paper. I still wasn't happy so added parts of a heart stencil. 

image - Panda/Bear image #161

die frame - Tonic

flower dies - Tattered Lace

paper - Craft Sensations

grass stencil - Funky Fossils

`heart stencil - Julie Hickey 

Something a bit different this month.  We're partnering with Double Trouble

and here's a bit about their theme which runs from August 1 through August 19.

Challenge #90  "

Thing 1:  Trouble Maker - says, "Cleo, my purr-ty furbaby, is excited that August 8th is International Cat Day.  She's "feline" that purr-haps it's time for us to do something claw-some.  Cleo wants to celebrate all of her fur-ends by creating a project that includes any baby animal, e.g. kitten, puppy, chick, elephant.  She thinks this challenge is a paw-sibility, it's purr-fect and will be pun for all." 

You can paws here... OR ... use Twisted Sister's optional twist for an additional chance to our random draw.   

  

Thing 3:  Twisted Sister says, "Paw-don me, are you kitten me?  This is hiss-terical!  I am purr-ple with laughter.   Let's see if mew  can come up with a pun for your baby animal or feel free to use one of ours.  Have some pun with this optional twist.  

And you're already entering here at 2 Crafty Critter Crazies so pop on over to Double Trouble and enter their challenge, too.  If it fits here, it will fit their theme!  :-D 

Bad Hare Day

 I have 2 DT cards today

2 Crafty Critter Crazies

our 50th challenge

Anything Goes but

they MUST feature a critter

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

We are sponsored this month by Sheepski Designs and they generously

provided images to our DT use on their inspiration projects.  

My card came about when I saw this image with Andrea at Sheepski Designs, I loved the idea around it and I tried to make it look like it was taken in a room, (a little as she had done hers) with wallpaper, taking the colours from the paper. I also used a font that looked like it was being blown by the hairdryer! OK! that's in my imagination! I'm not too sure if I succeeded but I did enjoy doing it. As for the sentiment it had to be! I seem to be doing cards with a case on this sentiment a lot!  However that's what I think when I make cards for the family, blimey Charlie, their nearly as old as I think I am! hahaha

image - Bad Hare Day

papers - Bella Gypsy

sentiment - my own 

stamps - Magazine freebies

using "Speed of Oatmeal" font

sketch used 

FMS Final 463-001 sketch

Get your Critters out to play and I hope to see you in the challenge.

Keep Safe - you still need to.

Christmas Robin 2 CCC

Hi Everyone, I have 2 DT cards today this the second 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies

41st challenge

Our sponsor for this challenge is the wonderful 

Sheepski Designs

I decided to use this image as we have a resident Robin in the garden. I printed it out on watercolour card, one with a border and one without.  I started watercolouring and after the first image, I ended up printing another 5 and doing the 6 in no time, I was so pleased with the result, I left it as a CAS card, I was impatient to get it made into a card straight away to see the finished article. I also added 3D glaze to the berries and the robin's eye.

watercolour card - Windsor & Newton

inks - Distress inks

sentiments - Crafters Companion and Card Making Magic mag freebies, 

gold mirror card - stash

banner paper - First Edition

Nuvo Crystal Glaze

The A5 size cards have an added banner and a different sentiment and the smaller square centre was printed onto white card and splattered with black ink, with the same check paper added as background.

The Double Trouble Challenge

has a challenge that we are partnering, it's

"Dog Days of Summer"

"Embossing - hot or dry" 

using a dog or other favorite animal.

Well as my Robin is a joy when he pops up at the food feeder, I guess he is my favourite animal. So here is my card with dry embossing on the background papers, I know it's not a Summer card, but our Robin is around a lot now.

 AND! after seeing the glitter glue result on this card I added it to the others also.

Robin - Sheepski Designs

coloured with Distress inks

papers - Janiscrap Designs

embossing folders - Crafters Companion 

glitter glue - Stickles

die - Tonic

Double Trouble Paper Crafting Challenge

Blue Tulips!

Hi Everyone, 

WHOOOOPPPPEEEEEEEEEE

Congratulations to my fellow Welshman

 Geraint Thomas

 on winning the Tour de France.

I have been trying to catch up on challenges I usually enjoy and this is for one of them. The Outlawz Progressive challenge. The sponsor is Andrea Norris at Sheepski Designs who gave this wonderful image of Tulips for us to use. I was wondering what to do, as I wanted to make it in the shortest time possible, - it didn't happen!

I added everything to the front of the card, went to open it and found I had added it upside down! I really didn't want to do it all again, so cut the back off the ready made card, I got another, but folding the front in half, thankfully an easel was made to rescue everything. Whew! But that meant doing more for the insert, oh! well the best laid plans and all that, in the end I'm quite pleased with it. AND I made my first ribbon folded roses/flowers!

Tulips - Sheepski Designs

paper pieced and coloured in Photoshop CS6

papers - Amanda Creations

don't you just think the "folds" in the background paper look real? 

die - magazine freebie (I think by Johanna Sheen Signature Die)

ribbon - Dovecraft

cat with daisies

Hi Everyone, my card today has a minimum colour pallete, I think it works with the image which is from the Outlawz progressive challenge and given by -

image - Sheepski Designs

coloured in PS

flower border svg, I used part of her Daisy Border card - Shirley's cards

butterfly dies and embossing folder - Tattered Lace 

sentiment Create with TLC

bling - Poundland

ribbon coloured yellow with Spectrum Noir markers - stash

this card is for the Outlawz Progressive Challenge and the 

Sketch Challenge, I am using a sketch SC012015 from 2015 turned 45%

Seeing as the sentiment quotes April, 

I thought I would show you our garden a few days ago 

  

- with sunny "blue" skies, BUT! amongst the dark threatening grey clouds. 

Beauty

Hi Everyone, my post today is for the Outlawz Progressive challenge and we have the most beautiful image from Andrea at Sheepski Designs.

I wanted this image to be light and floaty, don't ask me why, I'm quite the opposite, I wanted her to merge with the background and I think I got there in the end.

After finding paper I liked from a mini digital kit, I followed the colours of it, colouring it digitally, then added a gradient overlay, I added the elements from the kit, PS brushed a shadow effect to the image all in PS. Because I think she's beautiful, I added the word "beauty" then printed it out.

I used grey and red card which luckily matched the image, then die cut into the card and cut an edge from the same die to add to the bottom, now I'm not sure if I should have done that, oh! well it's done now.

image - Sheepski Designs

mini digital kit - Follow your dreams - Tiramasu Design a newsletter freebie

die - freebie with Johanna Sheen magazine

font - Levibrush

added to Sheepski designs ATG challenge FB
https://sheepski-designs-challenges.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/challenge-3-girlz-rule.html