Birthday Chickens

Who doesn't love chickens?  Anyone who has kept chickens knows they are such characters. I still miss my chickens.

Here I have made a background using Ranger Distress Inks and the smooshing technique.  The chickens are stamped onto the background and also onto patterned paper and fussy cut.  Their combs are coloured with Copics.  A couple of drawn lines connect them in the background.  The sentiment is typed on the computer and diecut.  Silver dots are drop-outs from other dies.  Everything from stash.

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Birthday Bird

 

Adding to my stash of birthday cards.  This time a masculine style.

The background uses an embossing folder that I bought to get fishy scales, but after a bit of a think, it's also like feathers!  The die shape is Simon Says Stamps squaoval nesting cut to a wonky frame and laid it over some repurposed gold wrapping paper.  The Happy Birthday die is an old Poppy Stamps one, I love the wacky font. The branch is Memory Box.  The Spellbinders raven/crow is all different shades of brown (the bird is not black! but is a very dark chocolate brown), kraft and a dark cream used.  A gold many layered thread bow.

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Autumn Thanks

 Autumn colours.

A lovely textured dotty paper matted onto gold.  Three tatty leaf diecuts in autumn colours, and a layered sentiment in metallic bronze & gold card popped up with a tangle of gold thread behind.

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Fishy Journey

 

This is a two-fer.   This one is stencilled, and the other is the diecut which I used as a stencil, and will keep for another day.

This die is in one piece, so I diecut a piece of white card smaller than a base card (used for a stencil), cut the panel for this one slightly bigger and taped them together.  Using brushes and JuiseyArt hybrid inks I blended three colours over both cards including the border of the larger piece.  

I ended up with a negative-cut inked panel and this one.  I misted with water to get that delicious watery texture, and brushed with WinkofStella to get the subtle shimmery sparkle of fish scales (see detail pic).  The eyes are drop-outs saved from dies.  Stamped sentiment (Kaisercraft) matted with silver.

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B&W Your Day

 

A bit of a challenge with black & white garden style paper products and a recipe.   

One image (sprig), two papers, three embellishments.  The sentiment is diecut with gold and black, gold pearls.

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Washi Here for You

 

I'm enjoying using washi at the moment, having not used it for a long long time.  This is for recognition of breast cancer.

I used a black panel to arrange the washi in random fashion, tearing the ends.  The sentiment is Waffle Flower stamps and diecut, inked with JuiseyArt hybrid ink.  Added bow and sparkly sequins.

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Sepia Discovery

 

Vintage style is always fun to play with.  I have a photo of me as a child very similar to this one.

The background card panel is some I treated/dyed/stained/coloured with coffee and coffee grounds. I made a whole batch for later.   Layered with a vintage photo (I think it came with an old Tim Holtz package) diecut into a Dienamics tag, an inked diecut doiley, gauze, a piece of fringe, stamping, a pearl, an old ticket, staples, and a Tim Holtz metal charm thingy that says "Discover" held on with brads.  Is that enough old stuff?

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Happy Friends

 

A woodland scene with stamping, stencilling and Copic colouring.

The panel is matted onto patterned paper.  This is a great way to use those difficult or 'ugly' papers that have sat in stash forever and not easy to use otherwise.  A diecut negative from another project is used as a stencil, coloured with DI's with a bit of water splatter.  The animals stamped, coloured with Copics and die cut.   The sentiment is Woodware.  White dot using gel pen.

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Tag Blues

 

 

A tag with munched bits; tag die AAll & Create.  Smooshed with Ranger DI's, random stamped with postmarks and also dotty circles from same set (unbranded) with JuiseyArt hybrid inks, then fussy cut.  Text strip sticker from Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Ideo-logy pad.  Scrap of ribbon stapled on.

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I Pick You

 

While the northern hemisphere is celebrating autumn, we are just moving into spring.  Our clocks go into summer time next weekend.  YAY!  This means sometimes we in NZ struggle to get excited about seasonal challenge themes.  Here goes one for autumn.

A large leafy background stamp using a watercolour technique, a diecut banner, some patterned papers (for zing) and My Favorite Things stamps that are coloured with Copics, paperpieced and fussycut!  There are a couple of punched maple leaves punch (not branded), twine, and gold pearls holding the sentiment sign in place.  I do like mousey's sweater which is stamped on a tiny scrap of patterned paper and carefully cut to fit; I think it looks knitted.

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Birthday Wishes for You

 

Inspired by a colour challenge, I picked out this stamp set that I've had for a while and not used yet.  It was perfect for a CAS style card.

Sage green and blue with a touch of metallic gold in the dotty bits.  The green ink is Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy.  I stamped the layers of the flowers with JuiscyArt hybrid inks, then fussy cut them, layering them with foam tape.  

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Zoom Zoom

 

The cheeky money is trying to find his way around the city in his rusty little car using this map.  It is intended for a grandson's birthday.

The background panel uses the letterpress embossing technique with blue ink pressed into the hollows.  A layered strip with smudgy blue dotty paper and chocolate brown for him to drive along; the car is stamped on a smooshed scrap (unbranded brand), coloured with Copics, fussycut, and popped up on foam tape.  The sentiment is part of the set.  White gel pen highlights, silver dots.

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Scripty Leaf

 

 A bit of a hybrid card.  This is an unusual colour combination with blue and brown together, colours I wouldn't usually use.

The background patterned paper is from Digital Scrapbooking.com with a texty patch, banners with blue staples, sentiment stamped and diecut (Waffle Flower) and popped up on foam.  A diecut inked leaf (unknown) and gold pearls.

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Make your own

 

I made this for a NZ cardswap where we had to make our own designer paper.  The sentiment is meant as encouragment.

I used my gelli plate to ink (Distress Inks) and stamp over to make my own background to this card (also misted with Perfect Pearls), which I diecut using SimonSaysStamp squovals die.  I also used same stamp to stamp on another piece of inky card spritzed with Distress Spray for the flowers, fussy cutting them and putting some under the panel as well as popping some up on the front.  The sentiment is simply stamped.  Gold metallic pen dots on the flower stamens and sentiment panel.   Sequins added.  

 I like the effect of this arty looking card.

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Pink n white

 

I've been trying to use up my yarn stash and have been knitting over the NZ winter.  One of my friends has a little granddaughter this is destined for.  The two tone is because I didn't have enough pink yarn so made a design feature with white yarn.  I've also knitted another two in the same pattern but different colours to give to a charity shop.   Pattern is Sirdar 3100 with sizes 0- 6 years, great value with a sweater, cardigan and hat.

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Washi Pink

 

Inspired by challenges using washi, which, of course, are now expired.  This is one of those products that, for me, are out-of-sight-out-of-mind.  Time I used them.

The doily die is Couture Creations.  Three washi in pinks, a gold embossed sentiment stamp (Grace Taylor - really really old, and I don't think I've ever used it before) onto a diecut label from cArt, gold pearls.  A breakfast tray and flower from stash.  Tiny diecut hearts with Ranger Stickles, gold strip trim to balance gold senti.   Gosh, time I used lots of stuff I have forgotten about.

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Watercolour Three Buds

 

I have been dabbling in watercolour painting lately; here is one of them.

Watercolour paper, watercolour paints, freestyle painting without drawing wet-on-wet plus splatter.

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