Stencil or Dies TMR

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for 

 The Male Room

 I seem to have been on a theme with last month's DT card for TMR and this one. I found a stencil design in my Silhouette files and cut it out. So handy to be able to cut my own stencils and with a laminated sheet, cheap too. I stencilled it onto a piece of card, also adding gold ink to enhance and give it a shine. The stencilled piece was die cut with a layer of brown card. The feather stamps were stamped onto the brown card and I fussy cut them, then stamped a sentiment and die cut it. 

stencil - Tanya Batrak Silhouette Studio # 62274

ink - Distress ink, vintage photo

gold ink - Kuretake

stamps - Magazine freebies

brown card - stash

embossing powder - Altenew Antique Gold 

sentiment - stamps and die - Julie Hickey

frame dies - Card Making Magic

 

 

 showing the shine of the gold embossing and paint

Real Bird WLSC

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 a bird, I have been frightened of this stamp since I had it. It has so many small parts that I didn't think I could do it. I'm not the best stamper, that is why I joined the DT, so that Brenda, could stretch me, and I can tell you I was stretched with this card. 

The stamp set, as I said, has tiny stamps, and each of them represents the coloured parts of the bird, a Blue Tit. I cut a square of water colour card, as I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, design wise.

I stamped the branch, using 2 colours of ink on the stamp, not done before, then added a watercolour pencil for shadows. The feet were stamped, near enough to the branch, it was just of landing! Don't say it hasn't got its wings out! :)  The outline of the bird was then stamped, and fit the different stamps in the right colour, inside. I am so chuffed I managed to do it practically all inside, and in the right place. Well apart from a slight correction in one part, but I'm not letting you know where! 

As I hadn't planned anything, (I didn't think I could do it). I had to think what to do for the background, and decided to do more stamping, simpler this time, stamping a part of a tree in the 3 corners. It needed something else, and I noticed that there was a tiny flower stamp in the set, so I stamped a little flower amongst the leaves and added a darker centre, again with watercolour pencil.

Thinking CAS, was not an option for me with this bird, so off I went and found some digital paper that matched the colours and even the stamped flower, so lucky, I used in the stamping. I added them to my Silhouette and made a square frame to fit the bird square and the background, then print and cut them out. I also cut 2 layers of white card to the printed square dp to raise it up off the bird. A sentiment was stamped and die cut, then coloured to match, and placed onto the dp square. Whew! it was finished, and I'm pleased with the result, as simple as it looks. Perhaps I won't be as frightened next time?

bird stamps - Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine #165

tree stamp - Chocolate Baroque 

sentiment stamp & die - Julie Hickey

digital paper - Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine #215

inks - Whisper pigment inks (very old)

inks - Distress Inks, vintage photo 

watercolour pencils - Nuvo Vibrant

 

 

These are the lovely prizes you could win for your entry

 

3 prizes, AALL and Create Elegant Peacock, Serengeti stamps and Starry Night stencil

Horse & Hat 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...

My Niece who has a beautiful white Spanish horse and is horse mad, was 60 a month ago, and I have always or for many years anyway, made her a card with a horse. 

I purchased the fabulous image and then didn't know what I was going to do with it. I thought of a fancy die border, that I have, but it wasn't big enough, so off to Silhouette, and I cut 2 fancy scalloped borders, 3 layers of the horse and 3 layers of the 60. I inked gold over the digitally die cut border, but wasn't keen, so I tried the white over it, better, but it needed a pale blue background to give some depth, I thought. So I used a watercolour pencil to mostly cover the centre, then used water to spread it out. They were then attached just off centre to show the gold ink.

The image was coloured with watercolour pencils and I cut one of the layers to add 3D pads to raise the balloons more. The 60 was added after colouring with gold ink, but just one layer. I then thought it needed more, so took a fine brush and inked around the card, adding gold inked horseshoes I cut out. Yep! a bit wavy, but I don't mind that. It's got a lovely shine to it. You may think I didn't colour the horse, I did, but tried to make it a white one, wasn't that successful though.

image - Hetty Clair, Tea Party Pony

watercolour pencils - Nuvo Vibrant Watercolour pencils

scalloped border frame - Shirley's Templates 

horseshoes - freebie image made into cut file

 

 

I hope to see you at the challenge

Tulips QKR

 Hi Everyone, my DT card 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

I love tulips, and we have quite a few come up in the garden. I also love this border of tulips, that at first I was going to make smaller and make a border of a few of them. Then changed my mind and used some oval dies to place them into. I chose music paper to back them, as the song "Tulips from Amsterdam"by Max Bygraves, was going through my mind at the time. 

I print and cut the tulips seperately, with the Silhouette and coloured them with DI's, placing them onto the music paper and then onto the different colour green card.

As I was about to layer the ovals and tulips onto the card, I felt it a bit bare for this card. I grabbed a long time unused die and embossed a piece of card, and added the ovals and tulips, then changed my mind again and added some mirror card butterflies. I was then more pleased with it all.

tulips - Tulip border QKR Stampede

inks - Distress Inks, mowed lawn, peeled paint, 

festive berries, mustard seed, fossilized amber

oval dies - Tonic

butterflies - Tonic & Tattered Lace (I think)

die (embossed) - Tattered Lace

mirror card - Hunkdory

 

I thought I would share our tulips that have decided to flower in the dreadful rain and gales. I hope they stand up to the bad weather.

Tulips, Azalea about to open, a peep of the polyanthus,

 you can also see the heather further up the garden. 

 

more tulips and Hellebore, with a peak at the Pieris about to open

 

tulips with the new Diatzia flowering

 I hadn't realised what a great match the Skimmia and Cherry Blossom would be,

when we planted them together.

 

Engine/Train/ Locomotive?

 Hi Everyone, firstly I have to apologise for being AWOL with my comments, I have had a few things going on, and it has made it less time for me on the 'puter. I hope to be seeing you all soon. I am keeping up with my DT work at least, and making family cards, this is one of them made recently.

Our Great Nephew is an ardent Railway fan and Volunteers for the Gwili Railway. His 20th birthday came up, and of course it had to be a card with a train on. I had forgotten I had a cut file, so off I went and cut the engine out of vinyl, added it to the card, I think you can just about make out the shine of the vinyl. I stencilled clouds and blended green onto the card. Furthermore, I'm happy to say he was pleased with it. 

image - Locomotive, Silhouette Design Store design #296656 

inks - Distress Oxide mowed lawn, tumbled glass

stencil - Funky Fossil

See you soon, fingers crossed.

Spring is in the air WLSC mid month

 

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

the theme this month being "Anything Stamped with Spring Is In The Air". 

 

 

My card today is snowdrops! I love snowdrops, I believe they are supposed to be the first sign of Spring, so I thought why not.  Having a lovely set of them, what do I do? I stamped the snowdrops and embossed them and the sentiment and die cut them, deciding also, to die cut a piece of matching pearlised card. Not satisfied with what I thought of, I went searching through a few sketches I like, to find this sketch. It helped with my design, although not followed faithfully.

 

I'm trying to do CAS, but finding it difficult. I was going to have just the centre, but I just HAD to add more. So I stamped some more snowdrop heads, embossed and coloured and then added them to each side of the centre.  I hope it's OK with you? It looks good in real life with the shine of the embossing. I just hope the recipient likes it.

stamps and snowdrop dies - Clearly Besotted mag freebie

sentiment stamp - Violet Studio

inks - Distress Oxide hickory smoke, peeled paint

clear embossing powder - Papermania

cross stitch circle die - lost packaging sorry.

Giving Bear QKR

Hi Everyone, my DT card 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

 

This bear caught my eye, with the lovely sentiment, and I had to make a card with him. As always, I take images into Silhouette and print and cut them, this time I included a circle around the bear, to match the dp I had chosen. Cutting 3 layers and 3 of the sentiment. I also cut a mask for the bear, so I could colour the circle background. I coloured the bear and used gold glitter pen to colour the bow of the parcel, then added 3D glaze to his eyes and nose. The sentiment was coloured, and a die cut border from green card added.

The dp, which is years old, was printed and cut to size, with a plain card border around it and just on the top of the floral paper. All attached and added to the base card. I then thought to add a couple of sequins. I really like the colour mix on this card. Thanks to the dp.

image - Giving Bear QKR Stampede 

 sentiment - Too Special QKR Stampede 

inks - Distress Inks, victorian velevet, shabby shutters, salty ocean, scattered straw

dp - Spring Breeze, Shabby Princess (2006) 

green card - Craft Sensations

die - Tonic 

sequins - stash