Ordinary Joy

 

This is made using baby wipes to remove colour.  The white card panel is heavily inked with Distress Oxide Inks, laid over with a stencil, then a baby wipe and run through the Cuttlebug.  The wipe removes colour where the stencils isn't, and you end up with a babywipe you can dry and use for another project.  I love the arty texture it makes on the card.  The vellum adds a see-through layer, a frosted pearl dot, and the daisy echoes the stencil pattern.

This was a  topic for a NZ cardswap.  Just google babywipe inklifting and stencil for the technique.

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Blue For You

Our latest NZ cardswap topic was 'monochrome' so it had to be blue, my fave colour.  I had to put a butterfly on it too - my swap person loves butterflies.  I think it looks like willow pattern china.

This is a background stamp, which I used with water stamping technique and Ranger Distress Inks Chipped Sapphire. Also misted with Ranger Perfect Pearls.   Diecut an oval matted and popped up with foam tape.  The small butterfly is Kaisercraft, oval lacy diecut Babai Crafts from vellum, silver thread and silver pearls.  Sentiment diecut "For You"die AnOwl layered.  I also put a leftover strip of the background on the inside of the card.  Stampin'Up Berry Harvest.

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Hello You

 This is for a card swap that needed and animal and a frame.

One little dog and his doggy friends.

I stamped a large doggy background (unknown) onto a piece of card that I'd previously gelli printed with a stencil in soft creams.  I also stamped again on an inked scrap/snippet and fussy cut the main dog.  The background panel is smooshed with pale greens (Ranger Distress inks) and a diecut green frame (AveryE) added along with a black filmstrip (Sizzix/Tim Holtz).  A matching bow and little gold medallion round doggy's neck.  Dog popped up with foam tape.  The gold medallion is a drop-out snippet from a die.

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Say it with Flowers

 

A gingham paper background with punched corners, a couple of diecut ovals, two lacy diecuts and a bunch of diecut flowers tied with a pretty bow.  The sentiment is stamped & embossed in white and diecut with a shadow.  A touch of Stickles in the flower centres.  I hope you feel better already!

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Chihuly Flowers

 

We have just returned from a cruise which had watercolour classes on board.  In Seattle we visited the Chihuly Glass garden (a-maz-ing!!) which inspired this painting for one of the exercises in the painting class. It is painted wet on wet, wet on dry and splattered.  I had folded the thick watercolour paper in half to make a card. It is folded to A5 size. 

While on board we got to know a lady who was turning 80, so I turned the painting into a birthday card for her, by painting the inside with a couple more flowers and writing birthday greetings (I forgot to photograph the inside).  She was thrilled as she had visited the Chihuly Gardens and says she intends to frame it.    

And: a photo of the actual glass flowers - they are enormous and hang from the roof of a giant glass house.  The Chihuly Gardens are just by the Space Needle; You can see the Space Needle in the glasshouse photo.

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Felicitations

 

Critter Crazy challenges always have animals as the featured image. We would love to see your critters!

Join the design team with your critter,  here:  crittercrazy

The digi image is From the Heart Stamps and paper pieced.  It's printed twice, once on white card and once on patterned paper then reassembled.  The background is embossed with a strip of the reverse patterned paper that was used for the beret and scarf, and a scrap for the baguettes. Felicitations means congratulations. For the French it can be for birthdays, anniversaries etc. or any reason to celebrate.

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Dog Years

 

Animals are what this Critter Crazy challenge is about.  Animals are always fun to work with.

Check out the design team and join in here: crittercrazy

I used patterned paper as a mat and embossed some pearly card to make a background greeting.  The dog is a stamp by Colorado, coloured with Copics and fussy-cut.  I made a party hat just by drawing it and cutting out.  Sentiment is diecut and stamped.

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Knit sweater

 

Knitting is such a creative and useful pastime.  A lot of my friends knit so guess where this is headed?

Also, here in NZ  it's autumn - coming into winter - it's time to get that knitting out and create something cosy.  It's so relaxing (except when you get to the sewing up stage) and productive.

Embossed fair isle pattern for the background, the cable stitch sweater is made using DI ink colour in the EF and also spritzed with pearly mist, dried then diecut.  The sentiment is stamped, uses Ranger Distress EP (great texture), and bordered with sparkly silver washi tape.  The knitting needles are diecut from brushed silver card and stacked x3.

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Queen of the Night

 

Butterflies and Moths belong to the same scientific order, Lepidoptera. Moths are queens of the night.

A page from a novel added to journal page, inked, splattered, stencilled (Distress Inks).  Then stamped with Tim Holtz Entomology image.   Ranger Distress Crayons & white pen in circles and dots, and in orange along the edge of the page.  In a Tim Holtz Idea-ology I found some text that suited.   I added stamped & fussy-cut moths (over the stamped ones) with gold bodies (Versamark ink) and wings left free.  The other bugs are company while she looks for a mate ...

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Inky brush cleaning

 

I have separate blending brushes as recommended for Distress Ink and Distress Oxide.  I accidentally used my Distress Ink brushes with DOxInks, so gave them a wash with handwash foam in the palm of my hand, rubbing the brush in and the colour came out beautifully into the foam.  Not being one to waste anything, I rushed and got some pre-cut panels of watercolour card that I had ready to use for another project and smeared the foam out, leaving it to dry naturally.  YAY, what a lovely mottled result.  Similar to using shaving foam but easier and what a lot of ink comes out. 

This is what they looked like when dry.

Motorbike man

 

Card for a motorbiking son.

Watercolour card, Distress Inked and water spritzed.  Diecut motorbike riding a black strip.  Another black strip with white embossed greeting. 

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Baby Mouse

 

This is such a cute image from House Mouse, I love doing baby cards with this.  I chose soft green for the accent colour as it would do for a boy or girl.

Check patterned paper cut for background mat, cut again for oval panel (this is one of my favourite papers and this is the last of it, has been in my stash a long time). A pale green scallop oval diecut to layer the check oval onto.  Coloured the stamped image (House Mouse) with Copics and fussy-cut.  Popped up on 3D foam as is the stamped Baby sentiment.  The diecut bow is layered x3, gem added.  White pen dots added to coverlet.

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Metallic Roses

Playing with metallic Artist Paint Stiks on 3D embossed black card.  Artist's Paint Stiks (at least 20 years old)  in gold, silver and copper, rubbed on with fingers (oh how messy, but satisfying).   Gold embossed stamped sentiment on a snippet of black card, gold thread.  All stuff from stash.  

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Cricket Birthday

 

Our son and grandson are avid cricket players, so this will be for one of them when their birthday comes around.

I painted white card with stripes and patches of green metallic watercolour paint to look like a grassy oval, then splattered.  I masked a strip for the pitch and painted it a darker green.  The wickets I cut out of a scrap of painted card, the ball in red card.  The players are diecut from white card, colour details are done with Copics.  I traced a fence for a boundary and drew in the crowd with a black pen.  The sentiment is a Hero Arts stamp into green card. 

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Dartboard Birthday

 

A masculine birthday.

The background panels are coloured with metallic watercolour paints - stripes and splatters in blue and brown, then diecut in the middle with a wavy die.  The dartboard is cut once in brown and then a plain circle in blue for underneath.  The darts have diecut stars which are dropouts from other dies, covered in Stickles.  Birthday sentiment stamped, diecut and popped up on foam.

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