Animals are what this Critter Crazy challenge is about. Animals are always fun to work with.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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A diecut silhouette, simple type style sentiment, a bit of faux splatter in black & gold.
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CAS cuddles.
Image is Colorado stamp. Stamped, masked then stencilled with DI's. Stamped sentiment, white gel pen dots for nice feelings.
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This is for a friend's son who is a hunter.
The deer and trees are from a stamp&die set magazine freebee from Practical Publishing (a long time ago). Coloured with Copics. The plaid/checked p.paper looks so manly, and because deer live in forests I thought green was appropriate. Matted onto a side folded landscape base card. The stitched die to background and a diecut greeting from gold card. The diecut trees are popped up on foam. The deer is fussycut. Added Ranger Stickles, and black pen faux splatter. He is looking right at you!
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I made this for a NZ swap group with the keyword Double.
The double-sided card is folded in a double gatefold style and edges inked. The birds are two (double) and the twine is tied in a double bow.
The bird dies are Tim Holtz/Sizzix and are doubled onto black card to stand out, edges inked. The belly band and cut edge of card has gold metallic pen borders. A small sentiment is stamped and gold pearl added. The double-sided card and birds are from a First Edition 12x12 pad. Little leafy bits added to the fold, and inside is a feather.
CAS and monochrome.
Diecut circle inlaid with varying shades of purple (drop-outs from a previous card). Border xxx's and a diecut stacked shadow greeting. The word diecut is metallic brushed silver.
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CAS on Friday sketch
