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? 

Happy & Bright TMR

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for 

I was stumped big time with the mixed media, but after looking online for ideas, I came to the conclusion that it was just using different things to make a card. Please correct me if I am wrong.

I had a few male birthdays, well 7, out of a total of 11 birthdays in March. I decided to do 2 similar, but, I didn't know where to start. Going through the many paper pads I have, I found bright papers, suitable for the male species. These were die cut for a landscape 5 x 7inch card.

Then my Silhouette came out to cut this layered happy birthday, in matching colours for each paper. Starting with the light blue background, then the black layer, the purple Happy was next, then the black and green for the birthday. I coloured all the additional letters cut in white card, for layering, in colours to match the papers. 

 

The Happy letter cut out, was used as a "stencil" to add a glass bead paste layer onto the Happy letters. The birthday letters were covered in 3D glaze, after I had attached them to the birthday layer. Just one thing, t looks like the B and the R are both red, nope, the B is red, the R is orange. It must be the light.

I then stamped a sentiment and die cut it, adding it to the finished card.

my mixed media, contains

die cut, stamping, stencil, glazing

 

paper -  Craft Sensations 

Happy Birthday - My Scrap Chick

die - Card Making Magic 5 x 7 Card & box set

Silhouette Cameo 2

layered card & paper - Lidl

white card - Crafters Companion

glass beads paste - Winsor & Newton

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal glaze

birthday stamp & die - Julie Hickey Birthday Sentiment stamp set

I love the bead effect, I saw it originally on a Christmas tree on Loll's blog here. Not the same brand, though, hers looks finer and more even.

 

Oceans of happiness

 Hi Everyone, my card today is on the current theme at We Love Stamping challenge, but has no stamping! It did originally have the sentiment stamped, but I made a mess, so printed it instead.

 I started by using a stencil for the sea, using different blues, it was then die cut, and glued to the base card. Next, I got my dies out and cut them all in white card. I coloured them with marker pens, but left the seagulls white. These were then placed onto the die cut sea image. As I said earlier, I stamped the sentiment, but it came out wrong, so I went into Photoshop and made and printed the sentiment, then die cut it, and placed it over the original.

wave stencil - my own, cut on the Silhouette

cloud stencil - Funky Fossil

Distress Oxide inks - salty ocean, faded jeans, peacock feathers

markers - Spectrum Noir 

square die - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

dies -  Magazine freebies

sentiment die - Card Making Magic

sentiment - Oceans font - Baby Monkey. Wishing you font - Alef

 

 The insert was designed in Photoshop, printed, then placed inside the main card.

Yellow flowers birthday card

 Hi Everyone, my card today was for a girlfriend of one of the Nephews in the family. I had had the stamp in my magazine subscription and wanted to use it right away. I thought of a design of adding the image as a centrepiece of the card. The flowers were stamped twice and coloured. Next I stencilled a flower stencil avoiding the stamped flower, I also only went to the bottom of the stems to help "ground" the flower, although it doesn't seem it has in the photo. 

The stamped flowers were added to yellow card and attached onto the base card. I stamped the sentiment. Next, the flower heads were fussy cut and placed onto the flower image. 3 yellow gems were then added.

I forgot to take a photo of the insert, as it was a bit of a rush to send it. I stamped a flower head and added more stencilling and a verse.

stamp set - The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

Magazine freebies SC&P #254

stencil set -  Amazon

inks - Distress Inks, squeezed lemonade, fossilised amber, mowed lawn, rustic wilderness, tumbled glass

yellow card - Lidl

gems - stash

EDIT! I was in so much of a rush I sent it a month early DUH!

 

A Celebration too, at the

Allsorts Challenge

CAS

 Hi Everyone, apologies for not being around, I haven't been on the 'puter, due to something happening that put me completely out of kilter, nothing serious, but it has thrown me completely, I've got no motivation at all. I hope I'll be able to get to visit you all, sooner rather than later. 

At least I am being pushed into making cards for family members, but thinking of things to do is hard. Anyhow, I have a card today for my nephew. I cased a card from Hannelie and now can't find it.  As you can see, it's very simplistic. I kept off the layers, as he and my niece live in Belgium, and thought of postage costs, being the meany I am!

I bought some stencils, a pack of 30, and they are really great, only 125mm in size, but for patches of stencilling just perfect.  I stamped the car and made a mask, then using the stencils I blended the colours, removed the mask, stamped the sentiment, and it was done, so quick and easy, to get into the post double quick.

stamps - Magazine freebies SC&P 

stencils - Amazon

inks - Distress Inks, blueprint sketch, evergreen bough, twisted Citron

Fitness Star WLSC mid month

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping 

the theme this month being "Anything stamped/Masculine "

 I went looking for masculine theme stamps and came across these fitness stamps. As I have a few serious fitness men in the family, I thought I would add it to my ready made stash box, for one of them, maybe?

I stamped the sneakers and die cut them with a cross stitch die. Then my mind wandered, and I didn't know what I intended to do. So off to view some sketches and came across this Mojo '537, and knew it would be just right. 

I die cut another larger circle and painted the edge over the cross stitch pattern. I layered the first circle onto it. Then stamped another pair of sneakers and coloured them with DI's, they were 3D'd onto the first set. 

The cup was stamped and painted with silver ink. I chose a star stencil, well, a champ is a star right? I used 2 of the colours on the sneakers. 

 The circles and cup were added to the main card, all re the sketch.

stamps - Magazine freebies

inks - Distress inks, chipped sapphire, hickory smoke, lost shadow 

silver ink - Kuretake

stencil - a gift, no packaging

I hope to see you at the challenge

Highlight Crafts two prizes, collection of masculine themes dies and Poinsettias

 The theme of your entry can be any of your choosing and we would love to see Masculine creations, but most important is that the focal element is hand stamped as our preference (or digital). A small added sentiment or other element to an otherwise non stamped card will be ineligible and may be deleted.

WLSC Real Bird mid month

 

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping 

the theme this month being "Anything Stamped with Birds or Animals". 

 

My card today is another real bird, I've had this stamp for ages, but couldn't think what to do with it. I was rummaging in one of my ribbon drawers and came across this unused ribbon. I found Oxide inks to match, then laughed that they were "peacock colours". Then spread the ink, hoping to make lines or something. It didn't quite work, but I liked the colours, so out with my feather stencil, that I cut myself with the Cameo and stencilled the background with Distress inks to make a subtle background. 

I stamped the Peacock and embossed with white ink. I also inked, stamped and embossed in white again, a feather and sentiment from the same set. The feathers were attached to the tail, and I cut the sentiment on a diagonal and also added it onto the tail.

The ribbon was attached to the card, after cutting the wire from it and fraying the edge. The peacock layer with 3D pads was laid on top. A few clear sequins added, and the card was done. 

Peacock, feather & Sentiment - Magazine freebies

stencil - Tanya Batrak Silhouette Studio # 62274

inks - Distress Oxide, lucky clover, peacock feathers

 Distress Ink, peacock feathers

ribbon - stash

Brilliance ink - Moonlight White

embossing powder - Papermania

Turtally Wishes

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

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

 

I thought I would use these lovely images for my card today, and use a floral background I haven't done in a while, well! it's getting to Spring?

 

I added all dp and images to Silhouette, I printed them and cut 3 of the cat, turtle, and the sentiment.  I cut 2 pieces of card to match the size of the bottom floral, embossing a "wall" and adding stencil clouds. The images were coloured with water colour pencils, I added wobbly eyes to the cat and 3D glaze to the turtle eyes. All then attached to the card. I think I've made it sound a simple card, but it took longer than I thought, don't they always?

cat - Kitty Peaker Eureka Stamps

turtle - Turtle Stamp QKR Stampede

dp - Marisa Lerin Digital Scrapbook

watercolour pencils - Nuvo Beautifully Vibrant

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

wobbly eyes - stash

embossing folder - Crafter Companion Wall

card - Lidl

ink - Distress Oxide tumbled glass

Lighthouse WLSC

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping 

the theme this month being "Anything Stamped with Stencil Option". 

 

Looking through my stamps, I decided on this lovely Lighthouse. I stamped it onto a die cut piece of card I had left over from something else, then embossed with clear powder. I masked the lighthouse and inked the background, using a stencil to enhance the clouds. The birds were stamped onto the sky, then the lighthouse was painted with DI's. Using another part of the stencil, I inked the sea in 3 different colours. Before attaching to the main card, I matched up the wave stencil again and inked through the stencil onto the card. The lighthouse was added onto the stencilled waves and card. 

 

Not planning anything on the end result, I had to choose a sentiment. Looking at the lighthouse, I decided it was a rough day, so selected the sentiment to suit. I know the card will be ready for a "rough" time or event I will have to send a card for. Sorry the photo isn't up to standard, the weather was awful when I took it, so dark and miserable.

 

die - Card Making Magic 

lighthouse & birds - Magazine Freebie

stencil - Funky Fossil, clouds, waves and grass. 

inks - Distress Oxide, tumbling glass, faded jeans, hickory smoke, iced spruce

inks - Distress Ink candied apple, hickory smoke, iced spruce

embossing powder - Papermania

 

There are Super prizes from Highlight Crafts of a stamp set and die, 

and chance of a Guest spot too. 

I hope to see you there.

Dandelion Wish WLSC

 

OOOPs this was posted on December 1st 2022 by mistake, then removed, so here is my copied post, sorry everyone.

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping 

the theme being "Anything Stamped with Stencil Option". 

 I love this challenge, it makes me think outside my usual box, and make me look through my stamps to use them. Today I chose a stamp I have not been successful with before and not very today either, but I'm happier with this than before. It's a lovely stamp, but a "rubber block" that has text on the surface, I cannot for the life of me get the text. I rubbed over my ink and hoped it would help me, but nope. Anyhow, I was so keen on getting my stamp on, that I forgot I was going to add a stencil. I did the stencilling, but moving the stencil around her, so that I didn't add it over her. I also added more dandelion seed blowing away. The sentiment was stamped, also the frame around it and die cut. I added drops to the seeds. It's a shame about the main image, but I still like the card - in the end.

image - Crafty Individuals

stencil background - Craft Sensations

ink - Distress Oxide - fired brick, abandoned coral, mustard seed

drops - Tonic Crystal Drops.

sentiment stamps and dies - Julie Hickey

The Wonderful prizes this month are

 

Highlight Crafts two prizes, Crown and Glory stamp set and Little Tweet die

Vintage, Guest spot

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for the GDT at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. I was invited after entering this card.

 The theme is Vintage, something I have not done in a long time. I had to go through my files and think, and in the end found the image, and a sentiment that I thought was suitably Snarky!

 

I cut and print the image and the sentiment 3 times from Silhouette. Then shaded and coloured the image, sentiment and doily with DI's. The Kraft card base was stencilled with DI, the doily added and the layered image and sentiment. I didn't think it was finished, so die cut some small flowers and leaves from pink card, and distressed them with DI too. Her eyes didn't stand out, I felt, so added a spot watercolour pencil to enhance them. The black had been dulled with the DI's so, I went over a few parts with a fine black pen.

 

I'm afraid the photo isn't as clear as I wanted, I took a few photos and this was the best, I hope my camera isn't giving up the ghost!

image and sentiment - Create with TLC 

Kraft card - stash

stencil - Get Silvered

ink - Distress Ink, vintage photo, old paper, antique linen, victorian velvet.

dies - Tattered Lace

doily - kitchen stash

taylormadecards4u February Vintage

Ant & apple 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...

I have gone back to one of my favourite digi designers, sadly no longer trading. However I have a large amount of their images to keep me going.  The one I'm using today made me smile, so I had to use him. I also have other ants in my files and the circle is from one of them, it was just a perfect match. I designed it all in my Silhouette program, I print and cut the ant circle and my adorable ant with his apple and the sentiment, I found on the web. I cut an extra layer of the Ant, so I could colour it. The printed layer was then die cut. 

 I coloured him with DI's, 3D attached him to the printed layer, the circle was attached as it was. Quite a simple card, but it makes me smile. I hope it will you too.

 

Ant - Bugaboo

ant circle - KAagard

inks - Distress Ink antique linen, candied apple, mowed lawn, forest moss,mustard seed,

grass stencil - Funky Fossil 

Silhouette Cameo 

 

Come and join us in the challenge, ATG, but, don't forget animals only.

 

Little Donkey QKR

Hi Everyone, this is a DT card today for.

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

I have to admit to seeing a card, that I now can't find on the web, with the "Little Donkey" words. I just had to use this adorable donkey, because I had the song in my head. You know the one?  I struggled to get the card together though and one went into the bin. Then, I saw the snow scene in my files and had to use them together. I added an inked stencil music Clef, by the words and shaded the background with ink. A little glitter added with a glue pen and a die cut frame, and it was done.

 

 

Images -  Donkey Head and Snowy Cabin

inks - Distress Inks - lots 

stencil - Craft Sensations

dies - Sue Wilson Noble square 

 Creative Moments Challenge #240

Vase of flowers

 Hi Everyone, a post from me today that isn't scheduled weeks or months in advance. I'm hoping after what's been happening in my life, I can now get back to normal!

Anyhow, my SiL was due a birthday and with my mojo missing and still not feeling 100%, my card today is cased from the brilliant Loll Thompson, from here. I knew my SiL would like the flower in the vase, as she is a remarkable flower arranger and loves to have flowers in a vase around the house.

I was gifted some wonderful vases stamps from my blog friend Hetty some time ago, and used the round one, which I stamped and coloured with DI's. One of my dies was used to cut the leaves, and I used the die negative to stencil the leaves onto the card with DO's. I die cut the border and attached it to the card, placing the leaves and vase together onto the border die cut. A sentiment was then stamped and the whole layer was 3D'd onto the main card. I found a lovely sentiment stamp for the insert and off it went, luckily my SiL liked it.

vase - Michael Strong stamp

leaves die- no label 

flower die - Tattered Lace

border die - Magazine freebie

inks - Distress Oxide and Inks - spiced marmalade, mustard seed

red marker colour for flower - Spectrum Noir Markers

glaze on vase and flowers - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

birthday stamp - Magazine freebie

Autumn colours

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for the We Love Stamping Challenge I was very thrilled and honoured to have won the Guest spot for October with this card.

The theme is Autumn colours. I started with choosing my stamp, a feather, then decided to make a stamping stencil, for use with my stamping platform, to enable me to make a wreath shape, but I then went further and made it a star shape. Which actually turned out to be a wreath shape when finished, who would guess that, not me!

Anyhow, I die cut a frame to stamp onto, and stamped the feather in white ink and clear embossed it, turning the shape to stamp in each point. After which, I shaded the shape with DO's.

I dry embossed around the star shape, although it can't really be seen. A die was used for the stamped sentiment in matching ink, to add on top of the feathers. Then a die was cut, slightly bigger, into a frame and was used below the sentiment, shaded with the same colours. I stamped another feather using DI's, shaded again with the same colours. I then clear embossed it and added it as the front detail. 

This is the most involved stamping I think I have done, so I have to thank Brenda for the push to get me trying things.

star shape stencil - my own, cut with Cameo

feathers stamps, sentiment stamp and feather die - magazine freebies  SCP#231

frame dies - Sue Wilson square noble die

inks - Distress Oxide and Inks squeezed lemonade, fossilized amber, spiced marmalade, abandoned coral

 

 

I also added a touch of gold glitter pen to parts of the feather and around the shape, I hope you can see the shine of it?

Song Title TMR

 Hi Everyone, my post for today is for 

The Male Room
 

 I had a few choices in my head as to the title of a song, but this kept coming back to me, so here it is. Hubby guessed straight away, so I should think you would too?

I have had this wonderful image since 2011. I've used him twice before here. I cut him out with my cameo 3 times, just like a die cut, then coloured him with DI's, layered him up and then added 3D glaze to the puddle and his specs, the umbrella handle and frame, were painted with a silver glitter pen.

 

I wasn't sure what to do for the background but, when looking for rain in my files, I saw there was a group of drops, adding quite a few to the piece to be printed and cut, thinking I will add the drops individually! After cutting them out, I decided to use the cut-out as a stencil. Yep! I decided I wasn't that patient!

image - Mr Jones, Nana Vic

sentiment - mine, computer generated

inks - DI's tumbled glass, faded jeans, candied apple, chipped sapphire, mowed lawn, squeezed lemon, dried marigold

silver glitter pen - Uniball

 

 this is the cut showing the raindrops

 

 

 here you can see the tiny cut-outs, nope! not for me, so a stencil it became.

You must have guessed the song title it's 

"Singing in the Rain"

Hi! QKR

Hi Everyone, my post today is for 

 

 

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

 

One of my teammates at QKR, Sioban, uses 2 or more of QKR images on her cards, so today, I thought I would try and put two together and here is my offering. I love the happy Bee and used him a few times, the ladybug is a good match I think? Anyhow, I took them into my Cameo and cut all the layers out, 3 of each, including the sentiment, which is just using a font and cutting it!

I stencilled a background with DO's, coloured the images in Watercolour pencils, then for a bit of shimmer used gold and silver paint to make the bee's wings shine and added gold to the flower petals and the sentiment. I also added glaze to the eyes of the bug and bee. When I made this, the weather was not too good, making it difficult to photograph. I've added another photo showing the layers, you can also see a little of the shine.

 

 Bug Hugs digital stamp & Bumble Bee digital stamp  QKR Stampede

floral stencil - not known, it was a gift

Hi - Font Beauty Alesha Serif 

ink - Distress Oxides

pencils - Nuvo Vibrant Watercolour Pencils

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

Silhouette Cameo

 

 

this is a little of the shine

 

Bumble Bee QKR

 Hi Everyone my DT card for today is for the 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

I was looking through by bits box and came across this wonderful cut file card I hadn't used, it was perfect for what I wanted. I got out my Distress Oxides and coloured the flowers and swirls, then found a floral stencil that was given to me a few years ago and coloured the flowers yellow and the leaves green, shame is as the card is pearlised and the colours don't come out in the photo, due to the shine of the card. 

I then stamped the bee and sentiment and fussy cut around them. I coloured the bee with DI's and 3D'd them onto the stencilled part of the card. The wings and sentiment were lightly coloured too.

 image - Bumble Bee QKR Stampede

sentiment - Just buzzin' by - Artful Stamper QKR

Distress Oxides - Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemon, Kitsch Flamingo, Peeled Paint.

wings and sentiment - Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass  

flower card cut file - Krewella Creations. I had it in 2012

 

Creative Moments Challenge #234 Summer's Here? Yep! I think so

Global Design Project #343 Beautiful Bugs. He's cute?

70th birthday

 Hi Everyone, my card today was for our, now retired, Illustrious Leader of The Male Room. It was so sad to have Jane step down to do other things and hopefully enjoy "old age". I shall miss her. 

I stamped and embossed, in silver, the floral image and coloured it in Distress Inks, I decided to go pale, as it was a Winter birthday. I then stamped it again and fussy cut the flower shape, which I added onto the opposite side, with a die cut 70 added to it. A few dots of silver Stickles and 3D glaze onto the 70, the addition of a stamped sentiment on a die cut shape.

stamp - Stamps by Me

inks - Distress Inks

number die - lost it's packet (sorry, could be First Edition) 

sentiment stamp and die - Julie Hickey

Stickles - silver

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

hopefully you can see the embossing clearer in this photo

Jane is also a collector of ATC's, so as a Team, it was decided to send her an ATC also. This is the first time I have made an ATC, I hope she likes it.

I stamped the Post Box, text and sentiment. I stencilled the clouds and the Post Box. I shaded around the edge of the ATC, then placed it into an embossing folder of a Post Card, inking over it to bring out the details.

Post Box stamp - Chocolate Baroque

sentiment - magazine freebie

cloud stencil - Funky Fossil

 diamond stencil - mag freebie by Ranger Wendy Vecchi

Post Card embossing folder - Crafters Companion

butterfly stamp - mag freebie

inks - Distress Inks

button - stash