The background has partial embossing which the pot sits on. The orchid plant diecut and assembled (unknown). The pot, flowers and centers are cut from pearlescent card. Touches of DI to shade. The sentiment is old from my Bitz Box, I think I made it on the computer.
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The background is an experiment with paint, an iceblock stick, spray bottle caps and a wooden skewer. I really like getting inky, but this is pretty messy. I used Adirondack Paint dabber paint only.
After making the background I inked the edges with DI. Stamped the dog, partially cutting around the sticky-out bits and matted onto blue card that matched the dots. I left the dog uncoloured (haha, turns out he is a white dog!) to let the colours take centre stage. The sentiment is stamped and embossed with copper EP to go with the copper paint. Panel is popped up with foam tape.
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A cardswap relating to a youtube tutorial by Natasha Foote. A kind of variation of zentangle.
To start the black square and lines are made, junctions thickened, rounded, coloured. I decided to amp it up a bit - masked the shapes, inked with DI's and stamped over in a similar colour.
Used: Black pen, DI's, random stamps, sentiment die and stamp. Leaves punched (CraftsToo) and gold embellishments are drop-outs from another die.
A little bit of fun for a friend's birthday this week. Inside it says "Now's the time to start lying about your age". She is a month older than me and I just have to rub it in.
Image and sentiment stamps are Art Impressions. Image coloured with Copics, masked for applying stencil. Stencil is Rosie's Studio coloured with DI's. Also white pen & WoS on the butterflies, Stickles on her jewellery. Kraft card base.
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Made for a NZ cardswap with a them of "A" ... arch, autumn, animal
Background is some pretty vintagey patterned paper from stash, various diecuts, silky twine, a wooden rabbit button. I wanted it to be a journey though a garden, enjoying the little things you might discover. The Autumn stamp is a really old one.
I just got these 3D stars by Sizzix/Tim Holtz and had to use them! Red White & Blue... does anyone remember the childrens rhyme "Red white and blue, the queen's got the 'flu, the king's got the whooping cough boo hoo hoo"?
I used the colours of our flag as a starting point (although our flag has 4 stars), used some patterned paper from stash, did a bit of splattering with metallic watercolours, inking with DI's. Navy star dropouts are from another die, a stacked sentiment from Simon Says Stamp popped up with foam tape. The pearlescent shiny background stars are hand drawn using Sakura pen for a bit of glimmer (on some angles they don't show at all - peekaboo), and some faux stitching as a border - I believe flags were originally handsewn not printed.
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CAS with grey embossed background, black panel (AALL & Create), feather diecut (Sizzix Tim Holtz) from smooshed and splattered card which is made using watercolours in grey and rusty red. I chose rusty red for the base card to bring out the colour, the black panel is popped up on thick foam tape. I deliberately didn't want a sentiment. The photo at the bottom shows the contrast between white (on the left) and the grey (on the right) as it isn't apparent in the other photos.
asyoulikeit-favourite-2-colour-combo-and-why Grey and red, great contrast and spicy looking.
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White card on the left, grey card on the right:
I am happy to be invited as guest designer this month at pearly Sparkles! It's a shaped card for July -What a great challenge - LOTS OF FUN!! Come and join us here: pearlysparkleschallenge
We hope you'll join us so we can see your creations: pearlysparkleschallenge-july-shaped cards
I chose a heart-shaped 3D card with songbirds. The shape is diecut with inset panels of patterned paper from My Minds Eye. The birds are from various companies like Spellbinders, Couture Creations, etc. The cage and blue bird is Memory Box and I have doubled it back-to-back (one side turquoise one side black), the branch is Marianne. The underneath base has a plain white panel to write a message on. It folds flat for mailing and that's also why I haven't put embellishments like gems etc on.
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Hi crafty friends,
For #100 we are making this our BIRTHDAY Bash Milestone and so for this one challenge, the theme is changing to 'animal birthday', and you're invited!!
There will be special instructions and one of the special commenters will receive an animal theme prize package provided - check it out here:
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The patterned paper from Trimcraft (really really old) was the starting point for this design. The textured coordinating card is Provocraft (I picked out the red in the pp design) which is used for the panel (embossed & sanded) and the numbers. Gold versamark ink swiped over black card for the figure, black soot DI distressed the numbers and the little rivets are copper Nuvo Drops. I put a leftover strip of the pp inside on the paper insert.
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Ahhh just what we need right now, to get away from all the awful stuff happening in the world and let nature heal us. Also it's the middle of winter here in NZ so we're off to Samoa for a week in July with family...woohoo! (only 3.5 hrs flight away).
Lots of layers to make a scene for the caravan to park in. The caravan is Sizzix/Tim Holtz die Wacky Transport #1. Some card smooshed with DI's and misted (sea, sky, sun, caravan which is also stacked), some card splattered with metallic watercolour paints (sand), and some snippets of patterned papers as well to spice it up. Also black pen and Stickles on the edge of the waves. The hill with trees is a magazine freebie, other various dies. I like the simple sentiment - it looks like someone has written in the sand.
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asyoulikeit-favourite-to-add-sentiment-or-not-and-why I usually add a sentiment this time a fairly simple one
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