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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Challenge Rules:

• 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

Magpie stamping

Hi Everyone, more stamping from me, I may get to like it LOL. In fact this is my first go at masking a stamp, I'm thrilled it worked, not as good as you lovely stampers, but it's a start.

A story about the magpie first, I think it has a bad press, only because we have had a family of magpies for the last few years, they are wonderful parents, this year there are 3 chicks and the parents visit every day with the chicks, they teach them how to feed, how to take water and how to bathe in the bird baths we have.

What I didn't know and only recently found out was that, (this is from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) "They fledge after 26 to 30 days, and are fed by the parents for a further four weeks after leaving the nest. The young birds stay in the parents' territory until September or October, when they form loose flocks, feeding and roosting together."

They have a fluorescent black & blue wings and tail and shine in the sunlight, I tried to copy that shine with a little clear sparkle pen, shame you can't see it.
Here is one of the chicks today, the others flew away as I went to take the photo, as always!

OK! I'm boring you now, onto my card, I hope it's CAS enough.

I saw a challenge that I have admired a long time and didn't do stamping to join in, well I have stamped today, so I am joining in! Here's my card -

stamps - magazine freebie

coloured with Nuvo water colour pencils

Clear sparkle pen - Spectrum Noir

die - Tattered Lace

background sentiment - using WRMK Quill pen and

 silver foil with Silhouette Cameo.

Uniball white pen for highlights on birds

I am entering the 

https://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/2019/07/freshly-made-sketches-398-sketch-by.html

http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-bit-more-time-to-craft-challenge-96.html

https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/07/223.html

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/07/miucb-27-anything-goes-foiling.html

Get me out of here!

Hi Everyone, no! I didn't me for you to get me out, just the kitty that is on my card LOL.

This card is for the Limited Runs Progressive challenge  this is the image we were given to play with and I had fun playing with it too. I decided he was playing as a parrot! So I caged him and added a sentiment I thought would be fun.

 kitty playing - Limited Runs digital stamps

coloured in Photoshop CS6 and print and cut with

 the Silhouette Cameo, cutting 3 layers of the Kitty

and 3D layering the glued together layers.

adding Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pens to the "stand!"

background paper - Marisa Lerin Pixelscrapper

bird cage - Birds Cards free svg file, 

I added Uniball gold sparkle pen to give the cage a little gold sparkle.

The cage is layered 3 times on 3D dimensionals.

sentiment - my own computer generated,

 cut and layered then using a corner punch

you can see the layers in this photo and the curve of the cage.

And, as I am showing you a bird cage I thought I would show you a couple of visitors to our garden this week. We usually have these birds in the garden, but in a flock of about 15 of each - a definite NO! I rushed to get my camera as there were a number fighting to get at the feed and nuts, with at least 6 on the seeds and more on the nuts, when I had my camera ready they decided they had better fly into the nearby tree, so these are all I could get.

these are the Blue Tits

this is a Long Tail Tit, looking quite young and hanging on for dear life LOL.

Surfs Up Dude!

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

The Male Room

I had so much fun with this card, it will go to my adventurous GNephew who, at this moment, is on a trip around the Australian coastline. When he gets back to his home in Sydney, I'll send it.

I had a few choices of images that I have in my files, but decided to go with this wonderful gnome surfer, layered 3 times and placed on a 3D frame, the ball and sentiment were also layered 3 times. 

frame, background and ball- Hugware, Laurie Furnell, fussy cut

 (no longer available)

Gnome - Larry-Surf'sUp - Lacey Sunshine

coloured in Photoshop CS6, print and cut with Silhouette Cameo

sentiment - Printable Cuttable Creatables, print and cut Silhouette Cameo

sparkle pen - Spectrum Noir

3D gloss - Anita's

I am entering the following challenges

Saturday Paper A La Mode Challenge July 20, 2019

http://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/challenge-101-for-guy-any-age.html  For a Guy - any age

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2019/07/238-here-comes-summer.html Here comes summer

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2019/07/ttcrd-anything-goes-challenge-week-july.html ATG

https://digichoosday.blogspot.com/2019/07/week-30-anything-goes-crafting.htmlATG 

http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/2019/07/anything-goes-challenge.html ATG

Over the top card

Hi Everyone, I did this tutorial for the TTCRD magazine last year, so I thought I would share it with those who hadn't read it.

I designed the card in Silhouette, by making a shape for a 6x6 card = 6x12 rectangle. I added the elephant head shape by ScrappinbyKris to the rectangle and welded it to make the shaped card. I arranged the shapes of the elephant and used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the parts out. I coloured parts of it with Spectrum Noir marker pens, I used a Martha Stewart border punch for the border and computer generated the sentiment.

1. first place all pieces of card in colours required, 

I placed them all for this card.

2. after being cut out remove from the mat 

3. fold the white card and cover with chosen paper,

add the ears and other parts to the head shape onto the white card

4. layering with 3D pads on the trunk

5. add the border punch and sentiment

6. finished card!

Electric socket thanks

Hi Everyone, another card I found while going through my files, that I haven't posted, it was a thank you card for the electricians who worked on our new kitchen.

I had seen a USA version on Pinterest,

 but adapted the design to the UK version of electric sockets in Silhouette.

I think the background paper is off the web

sentiment designed in Photoshop CS6

this is the insert

If anyone would like the Silhouette cut file of the socket and plug,

 I am more than happy to send it to you.

stamping

Hi Everyone, I've been experimenting after watching a few tutorials by Toni Darroch and came up with this card casing a couple she has done.

floral stamp & sentiment stamp - Stamps by Me
embossed with white embossing powder

leaf die - Tattered Lace

cut and layered onto card

label die - Card Making Magic

watercolour pencils - Nuvo Brilliantly Vibrant

image fussy cut and 3D'd

gems - stash

something else I have been busy with identifying our rubbish/garbage bins that are supplied by the Council, the blurred bit is our road name. Have to say the neighbours have been asking where we had them done! I'm chuffed with them.