What a fun bunny image by Croll, making a great CAS card. I coloured it with Copics, made a little tag with sentiment and tied it with a tulle ribbon. Stickles for sparkle.
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A lovely bunch for you! Another Parkinson's fundraiser.
Background embossing folder (Cuttlebug Script). Stamped, stencilled & diecut tulips (unknown set), coloured with DI's. Tulips are layered with different depths of foam tape. Tag diecut, twine, WoS, black splatter, gem.
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neglectedstuff-august the EF is one of my first buys a long, long time ago and is neglected. I love it, should use it more.
While this could be for any animal lover, it's a great man card, lots of fun to make with a couple of surprises for the recipient.
A red stripey paper background, along with a woody patterned paper (Kaisercraft) chopped up to make a barn door with diecut hinges. A flip-flap mechanism (I don't know where I got the instructions for this, have had it for ages) with punched corners (Couture Creations). Some really cute Simon Says Stamps coloured with Copics, a distressed panel, a scrap of twine, scraps of diecut foliage. Sentiment stamp Stampers Anonymous.
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I really like making CAS cards. In some ways CAS are harder than fancy ones because the design has to be stronger and the elements simple, which is why I often use a sketch. I am trying to find a way to keep them simple but interesting. This time I used three elements - a shape, an image and a sentiment.
The image and shape (patterned paper) are diecut, the sentiment words stamped with a hand drawn border. I chose a brick patterned paper as most skateboarders play in hard built environments. Good for a teen, or male.
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Acrylic on board. A leaf picked up on the way to the weekly art session.
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My art wall quilt hanging in TCC Art Centre Gallery.
"Houses don't make a village, people do. He tangata he tangata he tangata!"
Started in 2018 at a class, then abandoned because I didn't know where I was going with it when it came to finishing. Resurrected this year 2026 when I finally realised what I wanted it to say and how to quilt it. I used matchstick quilting technique and it fits the style perfectly. I love it. The fabrics are all raw edge batik, quilted with varigated cotton thread.
We live in a retirement village and that inspired the title of the work. A political statement, oh yes.
I used a sketch from Cheerful sketches for this one. Sometimes when you get a bit stuck with an image or layout a sketch is helpful. I like making cards that tell a story too.
My aim for this one was to use the sketch and also my last precious piece of lovely chevron patterned paper. I like the mix of greens too... fun. I'm sure froggy's fave colour is green, even though Kermit says "it's not easy being green".
Everything from stash, nothing new here. Lots of snippets from my Bitz Box. Most stuff used is probably more than 10 years old.
Lots of patterned paper from my Bitz Box, cut to shape. A Waffle Flower sentiment stamped and embossed on a diecut vellum stitched circle. A frog diecut, inked and gilded with 3D Kindyglitz. A lily pad made with a sand dollar diecut and some rushes for froggy to hide in. I think the vellum looks like a pool.
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I made this for our daughter who had surgery in late July and will be 6 weeks off work for recovery. This is to make her smile. She likes heat and sunshine.
I don't know what the stamp is, but it is fun. I coloured it with Copics and used some Ranger Stickles to make the water sparkle. The panel has a scored border to frame it, and a hanging partial diecut tag for the sentiment which came with the stamp.
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This CAS card used an embossing folder (woodgrain Sizzix), and diecuts from Lawn Fawn. I found a tiny diecut stamped sentiment in my Bitz Box which suited the theme perfectly. I debated whether to ink the tree trunks but decided the kraft had enough texture, and it would lose it's crispness. I like the white with kraft together and the tiny red bird is special.
This would be a good one for a male birthday - not too fussy and lots of contrast.
Gulls are food opportunists, this one has stolen a chip/french fry from someone - literally seized the day. Cheeky!
The base card is pearlised and a bit sparkly. A panel smooshed and splattered at the bottom with Ranger Distress Inks in blues, and a small smooshed snippet salted and splattered with white gouache paint, both arches wafer nesting die shapes. The gull is diecut and layered from odd snippets/scraps, coloured with Copics. I made a chip freehand, and it's a snippet too. The gull, sentiment and small panel are popped up on foam tape.
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The image is a House Mouse stamp, coloured with Copics, then fussy cut. Background is a pretty dotty patterned paper (MyMindsEye) diecut with cloud edge. The stars are sequin material. Image & sentiment are popped up on foam squares. White pen highlights.
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A background stencilled with DI's, a stamped, stencilled and diecut tulips, arranged as a bouquet in layers, and tied up with a bow. The sentiment is embossed in gold, dots are drop-outs from a die. All colouring is Ranger Distress Inks.
Another card for Parkinson's fundraising.
At a recent workshop held by a Masters student from the local polytech, we free-painted watercolours on A3 paper. I chopped up the page into 8 pieces and are using it for backgrounds. The watercolour paints were student grade, nothing fancy.
I used a black & white image from my bitz box (no idea where it's from) of a pear, fussy cut it and popped it up against the background. I chose this background because it was pear coloured mostly. The sentiment is also from my bitz box, a stamp I think? Using up stash.
Lots of fun, trying different techniques in watercolour on A3 watercolour paper.
Can you spot where the background is cut from?
Some more stuff from my Bitz Box. I don't know any details of the product as they are really old and I've had them for years (very neglected, prob. 20 years?). The floral panel had a centre piece and also pages with the same image to cut and layer in stages ( I don't know what it's called), which shows better in the side-on pic. I think it may have been a kit of some kind. I liked the gentle colours and they cried out for pearls embellishment.
Not my usual style, but I enjoyed working with a different process, and of course, using up some stash.
I recently went to a class run by a masters student at the local polytech. We tried all kinds of free drawing and paint exploration. At the end of the class we were encouraged to use some of what we did to make a collage.
One exercise was using charcoal we had to draw without looking at the paper. The queen was a woman sitting opposite me, the figure on the right was a wooden mannikin, the queen's hat was a vase of flowers on the table, as were the wooden blocks. So I cut them all up and rearranged them. The other stuff from a magazine. The background was an exercise exploring how watercolour behaves. The drawings were coloured with watercolour paint. Lots of fun. Size is about A3.
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The NZ cardswap this month is 3-2-1 : 3 patt.papers, 2 word sentiment, 1 image. I hope my swap buddy likes it.
I used a sketch from Cheerful Sketches
