Close to Nature WLSC

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

Close to Nature

trees, animals, flowers

 

 

I bought this stamp recently and thought it suited the theme. However, it didn't end up as I intended. 

I used watercolour pencils on linen card. Then went off kilter and added a floral paper background, a plain background and then a punched border, and THEN added a few die cuts. I think the mess around me when decorating my craft room, caused me to over do things on this card. I found so many things I haven't used in years, I just had to use them, but it's OK and fits the brief of the challenge. It will go to one of my nieces, who loves her garden and creatures. 

stamp - House Mouse, Flower Market

pencils - Reeves Watercolour Pencils

floral paper - Make and Create, Spring Time

blue paper - Jelly Bean Crafts

border punch - Martha Stewart

flower die - Tattered Lace

butterfly die - Make and Create

 

A fabulous prize this month with a 

Glorious Bouquet, a large Tim Holtz floral stamp from Buddly Crafts

 

After a few weeks of upheaval, decorating and reorganising my room, I am back online. I've been missing commenting due to no computer to access blogs, I didn't want to use my phone in case of bugs or whatever. Anyway, here are before and after photos. Not quite all back yet, but getting there. My desk originally was under the window. 

This was in 2014

 

During with undercoat 

 

part of the spare room filled with my hoard 

 

nearly finished

Another year older! Critter Crazy

  Hi Everyone, I have 2 DT cards today, 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 had this set of stamps a while, and have been picking up courage to colour these fab goats. I eventually did it with watercolour pencils for the goats, pencil strokes for the grass and some shading around the die cut frame. The sentiment was stamped and I added a green card border for it and the goats, I thought to tie in with the grass? I die cut a few flower heads and added them. Quite a simple card which I am happy with.

 

stamps - Woodware 

square die - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

watercolour pencils - Nuvo

flower die - Tattered Lace 

shading - Distress Inks

 

Allsorts Challenge #674  Option of "Scenic" - maybe?

scrapping4funchallenges #212 ATG

Crafty Animals Challenge #61 Animals

 

Watercolour Poppies

HI Everyone, my DT card today is for the Morgans Artworld ATG Challenge all details below.

My card today uses the poppies image and I printed it out and then water coloured it, something I've not been successful in before. I've been watching some tutorials and they say to dry the print before using the water colours, so heat gun out and it worked! LOL. I also used blue for an outline background, I wasn't sure about the colour, but I think it's OK. I'm quite pleased with the overall result and feel more confident to do it all again.

I cut out the oval frame and a leaf of the stamp to overlap it, to add a little interest. I thought the sentiment could be used for lots of purposes.

poppy digi - Morgans Artworld

sentiment stamp - Stamps by Me

oval frame card - Centura Pearl

spot background card - Hunkydory

red card - Dovecraft

ribbon - stash

Nuvo Brilliantly Vibrant watercolour pencils

Tonic oval dies

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• 3 Entries permitted
• Open Challenge use any Image or Project 
• Link your entry to the direct Post and not to your entire Blog and make sure you Link back to our Challenge
•  You MUST be a follower of this Blog
• Challenge Themes are always "Anything Goes"
• Winners will be announced at Morgan's ArtWorld Facebook Group which will also be blogged and posted on the last day of each month prior to new challenge commencing on 1st of each month

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2019/07/ttrcd-challenge-week-of-july-30.html  ATG

http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2019/07/ch-431-anything-goes.html Use a die

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2019/07/challenge-508-digi-do.html  Use a digi

https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/07/wwc232-anything-goes-challenge.html  ATG

https://digichoosday.blogspot.com/2019/07/wk-31-anything-goes-crafting-challenge.html  ATG

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2019/08/seize-birthday-171-flowers.html Flowers

scraps?

Hi Everyone, I have been lacking mojo for a long time, but just hanging in there to make something, well yesterday morning I decided to have a clear out, I wasn't going to use those scraps in the box on my desk was I? Nope, they had to go, but, I may as well have a look at what I had first, you have to don't you?

It turned out that I used 2 of my scraps and actually really liked my card in the end. I did a stamping the other day that I thought had gone into the bin, I had water coloured it and decided I didn't like the pale colours, I had also done a Silhouette cut file, which in the end I didn't know what to do with, they both appear here!

"Made with Love" stamp flowers and sentiment - Stamps by me

water colour pencils - Nuvo Brilliantly Vibrant Pencils

Silhouette cut file - Wonky Plaid, Paige Evans,

swiped over with old Whispers Ink pads,
I used the white paper part under the inked cut file, for the sentiment

gold card - stash

Kraft card - Dovecraft

cross stitch embossed card - stash

the photo doesn't do it justice, it's so pretty in real life and the stamping doesn't look as pale as it did on it's own!