Celebration Cat

 

I've been on a a mission trying to use up stuff from the Bitz Box on my desk, and this is a perfect example of getting inspired by one thing I found, then two etc.  This is as close to hallowe'en as I get.

The black base card is embossed with a Park Lane EF, with a banner diecut as a panel from Patterned Paper (out of the Bitz box).  The pumpkin is fussy-cut from a page that came with a magazine freebee PP.  It had matching PP but that would've got lost in the design, so it will keep for another day.   The sentiment is stamped and gold embossed.  I put a snippet of orange card behind the eyes of the diecut cat (again from the Bitz box) sitting on the pumpkin... that's a pretty scary cat.  I made this about a month ago but never got round to posting it before now.

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Old Chick

 

Again, using up stuff from my Bitz Box.  The chicken has been hanging around for ages and just needed colouring.  The base card is at least 15 years old, has sat in stash for too long, but is the perfect colour for this chick!  I do love her pearls  ;-)

Chicken is a digi image I think it's from IkesArt (if it's not, please let me know); coloured with Copics and fussy-cut.  The balloon is stencilled just for fun, and I made the sentiment on the computer, then diecut.

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Pear Note

 

I love getting inky and stampy.  And pears are my fave autumn fruit.

Here I used an embossed resist technique, by stamping with Versamark ink and clear heat embossing.  Colours are swinked direct-to-paper using JuiseyArt hybrid inks in several colours , as well as colour blending on the pear and leaf.   Excess wiped off.  Splatters with white gouache, and a little sentiment.  Panel adhered to a black top fold base card.

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Hiya-drangea Solo

 

The same stamp from AALL&Create (recent prize from Beautiful Blossoms)  as my previous card  but only using half the stamp.

I ink-blended the middle part of the background panel with Ranger DI's, then stencilled the sides using the same colours.  Making sure I only inked the flower and sentiment I stamped in black Memento ink, adding a bit more dark green at the leaf bases with brushes for depth.  I had a scrap bit of card with  stamped and stencilled flowers which I had experimented with, so I fussy cut some of the flowers adding them in parts.  WoS gold tracing the veins of the leaves and some of the flowers randomly for subtle sparkle.  I could have added pearls or something but didn't want to distract from the hero of the card: the flower.

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Hiya-drangea

 

 My fave thing in card making is getting inky.  This week I received this stamp as a prize from Beautiful Blossoms and couldn't wait to use it.  Thanks again Donna & team, see their work and join the challenge here: beautifulblossomschallenge .

I ink blended the background panel with JuiseyArt hybrid inks, then misted it with water to get a lovely mottled effect.   The stamp is an AALL&Create collage stamp called Hiya-drangea.   I used a water-lift technique to lighten the leaves so they stood out from the background, and highlighted the flowers with WoS gold for subtle sparkle.  The border punch is a really old one from Martha Stewart (among one of my first punches I think) just to 'ground' the picture, finished with a presentation bow at the neck of the flower.  The inks are five colours including 2 purples, 2 blues, and seagreen on the left bottom which hasn't photographed well.

I didn't fuss with it too much it is beautiful just as it is.  I reckon it will be quite versatile as I can stamp just the sentiment, and maybe fussy cut the flower.  The flower looks a bit like a topiary tree.

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CAS Sketch Tree Circles

 

CAS and a sketch.  Yes, tree circles not crop circles!

I used scraps/snippets of left over inked card to diecut the circles, misted them with Ranger Perfect Pearls.  The circles have different edge finishes, deckle, stitched, dotted. Sentiment is stamped and heat embossed in Zing hot pink EP.  Tiny diecut trees from my Bitz Box complete the simple scene.

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Skate Wild

 

I have tried this in days gone by with my kids.  Now I enjoy watching grandchildren skateboarding - it is a great physical activity, is fun, costs little, is portable and can be done almost anywhere.  It's like surfing without getting wet!

CAS style.  The black shape is the negative of a diecut shape, with patterned paper placed underneath.  The patterned paper is kind of like graffiti.  I like shapes that go off the page.  A small sentiment is all it needed, cut to an irregular shape and popped up a bit.  Orange dots drop-outs saved from other diecuts  embellished, and give a feeling of lift I think.  

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CAS circles sketch

 

CAS, one layer card.  I like the colour softness and Venn-diagram-type overlaps that make other colours.  Inspired by a sketch challenge.

Ranger Distress Ink blending using the holes as stencils, of circles diecut from a piece of card.  Stamped gold embossed sentiment.  Definitely Clean And Simple.

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Narwhal Thinking

 

Join our next Challenge at Critter Crazy Challenge with our theme "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter." join in here:  crittercrazy challenge

We want to see animals as the focus - whether real or fantasy!

Blue is my favourite colour; who would have guessed?

I have been digging in my Bitz Box again, finding the diecut frame (I think sent to me by someone else), which inspired the sea theme.  The school of tiny fish is stamped swimming right across the background, then the frame added.  The narwhal is stamped, coloured with Copics, misted with Perfect Pearls (see the sparkle in the detail pic), fussy cut and popped up on foam.  Simon Says Stamped sentiment embossed in silver.

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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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