Bookmark Blues

 

Inspired by the bookmark the lovely Brenda included with my recent prize.  What a nice surprise it was!

A leftover strip of card,  smooshed with DI's.  Spritzed with shimmer, stencilled with stars and dots (stencil made with a leftover diecut & DOxI's) & stamped.  An irregular top border cut freehand (to keep the kinda weird theme), added hand-drawn borders top & bottom.  White dots and black dots made with pens, some Copic stripes & eyes added to the people.  Gilding flakes to random spots, yarn threads.

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Gilded Bicycle

 

During the week I received this stamp set as a challenge prize from the lovely Brenda at Allsorts (thanks again Brenda!).  I couldn't wait to use it.

I stamped the image twice, once on the card panel and once on spare card to use as a mask.  I spritzed the card with water and splattered with Colour Fusion powders, more spritzing, more powders before removing the mask.  The when it was dry I put 2 in 1 glue on random flower petals and some parts of the background, when dry added gilding flakes (OMG how does anyone control them? I ended up covered in little bits!), rubbing the excess off.  I wanted the stamp to be the hero of the card, so didn't colour anything else.  

Stamps:  AALL & CREATE

Also: Colour Fusion powders, Cosmic Shimmer gilding flakes.

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Shaker Day

 

Shaker jar, with homemade shaker.  I diecut and used 3D foam to make the shaker using acetate film and sequins from stash.  Stamped the background of it with the greeting (Rosie's Studio) so that when the recipient took it out of the envelope the greeting was covered with sequins and they had to shake it and discover.  The top of the jar is brushed silver card. I thought the patterned paper was pretty by itself and had some distress markings, so inked the edges, it really didn't need anything else.

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Squeeze Me Strippy

 

It seems I can't stop using up my scraps/snippets.  A different selection of papers to the ScrapBust from my scrap box, but it happened to be sitting on my desk along with the smooshed colour heart, a snippet of ribbon and little snippet of white that I made a tag from, which is stamped with a senti and a heart.   Hearts diecut from patterned paper with edges inked. This time it's a valentine card, shading red through to pink.  

The picture (from an ephemera sheet of old paintings - must be at least 15 -20 years old, so neglected) and smooshed heart is from my Bitz box.  The strips just needed organising into shaded/ombre order.  

Heart dies: ALLCreate, Couture Creations    

Picture unknown (really old)

Tiny heart stamp & senti: unknown

Also: DI's, ribbon, gems, papers are snippets/strips leftover from various collections & pads.

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Cheesy Grate

 

CAS and cheesy, but a grate/great card to send a friend.  The cheese is stamped and diecut from some previously sponged/smooshed card from my bitz box.  The panel is sponged like ombre, and added sentiment (always grate to tell someone they are wonderful) which came with the cheese set.  I like blue and yellow together.  Blokes seem like things like puns and cheesy sayings, so I'll keep this for one of the grandsons.  

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Butterfly Thoughts

 

Embossing, smooshing, splattering, spritzing, stamping, diecutting - it's got it all!  Inspired by the photo from inspiration station.

I letter pressed the hearts embossing folder (Sizzix) with dark blue ink, then smooshed with DI's, edges in purple.  Splattered with Distress Spray Stain in black and white.  The flowers are diecut from various red cardstock snippets and assembled.  I used transference gold spray on the butterfly and flowers to get some texture and glitteryness.  Diecut and stamped sentiment.  A little bit of Nuvo Drops gold.

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Hearty Hugs

 

A bit of 3D embossing, inking, diecutting, sponging (DI), misting, splattering (gold interference & red DI), stamping and sparkle (tiny heart diecut drop-out bit).  I re-discovered this scribble heart die (TimHoltz) when I was looking for something else, I haven't used it for five years or maybe longer, so neglected.  Bought in 2017.

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Friendship Purple

 

Lots of using up stuff.   Gorgeous patterned paper, silver strips, home made flowers out of snippets with inked edges, bits of card main one distressed, and an embossed senti stamp I've had for a long time and hardly used.  I reckon when you're doing flowers, greenery is a neutral.

Stamp: Kaisercraft    

Oval dies: Spellbinders

Leaf die: Couture Creations

Big flower: Dienamics

Centre of flower: Couture Creations

Also: Silver EP, silver strips, gems

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Raining Hearts

 

The panel is watercolour paper that I smooshed a while ago and splattered.  Die cut with hearts panel die.  Single heart is stacked.  I think they look like they are raining.  This is for my special man.

Matted onto pearlescent card.  Heart is stacked diecut, stamped with senti and made into a tag with silver cord.

Die: Sizzix    

Heart:

Senti stamp:  Taylored Expressions

Also: DI's, snippet of red card and silver cord.

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Hearty Sheep

 

CAS, red & white, hearty.

The stamp is a new one, coloured with copics.  Stamped sentiment underlaid with a scrap of tulle.  White pen dot shine on balloon.        

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Robot Love

A new stamp, coloured with metallic watercolour paints - I'm sure robots would be mostly metal.  The background is smooshed in DI's pale pinks, then diecut with panel die.  Image coloured, masked, background flicked with gold paint, highlighted with white pen.  The little hearts are dropouts from a Sizzix die.  Panel popped up on 3D foam tape with edges left free.  I hope they look like rusty old battered metal... a bit like us really!

A hug would be quite clangy between these two (certainly would'nt be a secret) and I'm sure the holding hands would be easy if the metal was magnetised!

Stamps: Creative Expressions

Die: ALL&Create 

Hearts: Sizzix

Metallic Watercolour (cheap kids paint set)

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Owlish

 

A little bit of love swooping in by the light of the moon.

I've had this owl stamp a while now and never used it before.  The set has 3 cute owls and some sentiments; I also used part of one senti (Hoot) on the heart.  The background is diecut tag (NCraft), painted, splattered, overstamped with random stamps.    Moon is punched (Fiskars) from marbled card, the sentiment is a strip sticker (Tim Holtz).    Also: Copics, metallic watercolour paints, DI's, dye inks, Dylusions acrylic paint, white pen, ribbon & string. Owl fussy cut, popped up on 3D foam.

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Hamster Fun

 

These li'l critters are happy just bouncing around having fun.  This is a new stamp & die set I won recently at Snippets Playground  (pixiessnippetsplayground) - I just had to use it!  

The images are stamped on tiny offcuts/snippets of white card, coloured with Copics, background smooshed with DI's with a mask to get the curve.  The silver embossed sentiment is one of my first stamps (an old wooden stamp probably from around 2002),  the rubber is rounded now from how much I've used it.  So something old and something new too.  I'm trying to use up scraps and also to use some of my fave oldie stuff.

I CASE'd a card by Carol Mc from Just us Girls challenge, see here: justusgirlschallenge

Carol McFarland's birds looked like they were having a lot of fun just being together, which inspired this one.

Stamp & Die set: Waffle Flower    

Sentiment stamp: Hero Arts 

Also: Copics, DI's

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Sheepish Wishes

 

Image stamped and partially coloured with Copics.  The sentiment is embossed using a die for subtlety.   A bit of an experiment.   Embossing is weird, I've noticed that in photos it often looks pushed in when it's really pushed out, the same happens with photos of quilting.  The pic of the angled card looks better.

I love these dancing sheep; I think one is doing tango, one the cancan and two are line dancing!

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Let's Go Birds

 

You love animals, we love animals - join us with your creations, and check out the design team inspiration, here: critter crazy challenge blog

I love birds, they always seem such cheery creatures.  My friend Gayle has a bird hotel like this one.  

The blue background is digital patterned paper that I overstamped with white paint and bubblewrap.  Other images layered over, some cut out and popped up using 3D foam. Wonky border drawn with black pen.

Digi PPaper Background: Digital Scrapbook   

Birdhouse: Doodle Pantry

Fence image: Digital Scrapbook 

Sign: Digital Scrapbook 

Also: Copics, black pen, Bakers twine, WoS

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