Slide & Lock Roses

 

Beautiful roses for a lovely lady.  This fancy fold is on youtube called Slide and Lock and is easier than it looks.  The centre piece slides and holds the front edges together.  The flowers deserve a butterfly to visit them.

I used watercolour diecut card flowers & leaves (a prize from Stix2Anything) with watercolour paints.  The beautiful papers are from stash, the diecut label is Spellbinders, other diecuts are a flourish and a butterfly from  my Bitz Box.   Stamped sentiment (Rosies Studio)  cut to shape has gold heat embossing around the edges.  All put together embellished with gold pearls, a bead and Ranger Stickles.  The sliding piece could be re-used if wanted.

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Weird Stuff

 I made this for our daughter who loves weird stuff.  I collected a whole bunch of weird sayings and put them on the inside.  NO, I'm not going to show you!  Does coffee make you say weird stuff?

I made my own backgound using Ranger DI's.  Frog stamped and fussy-cut.  Sparkly mist, all the frogs I've seen do sparkle.

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Forest Moonlight

 

A moonlit forest.

Tim Holtz bottlebrush trees stamped with Ranger DOxInks also stencilled with Tim Holtz mixed media stencil.  Corner die: Tim Holtz/Sizzix with an interference gold mist on inset pieces.  Metallic watercolour paint splattered in turquoise and gold.  Panel set on pale blue base card.  Sentiment intentionally left off so it could be used for any occasion.

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Being You

 

Doc Martens, fairly CAS.  Inspired by the SOS challenge.  I didn't realise I had this many shoe stamps!

This could be masculine or feminine.  

Usually workmen's boots, I don't know if these are still a thing or not, but I was always amazed at how young women could wear these with floral skirts and skinny tops and still look gorgeous.

Doc Marten Stamp from Deep Red, left uncoloured.  Stamped sentiment.  Wrapped twine.  Thin strips of dark plum and matt silver laid along the edges.  Card base is glossy purple. That's it.

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Penguin Day

 

Hey-hey it's penguin day!  These penguin wish you a beautiful birth-day.  Aren't they dinky?

A CAS Clean and Simple card.   Stamped and coloured with Copics.  House Mouse sentiment.  Stickles on the heart.

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Leafy Frolics

 

Come join our next Challenge at Critter Crazy Challenge with our theme "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter/s."   Here: crittercrazy

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

Just flyin' by to say hi and Happy Birthday...  this is a version of the chicken dance, the bird dance!

Pretty paper dotty background framed in pink on a blue base card.  A diecut bird with a patterned paper scarf dancing on  diecut autumn leaves.  The banner at the top stamped with sentiment is a left over from another die border.  I think it looks festive.  Gems added.   Lots of layers to this one;  2 PP lots of snippets.  I left the ends of the wings free so they stand out.

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Simple Pleasures

 

Such pretty words.

Back panel is red, embossed with a scripty EF nibbled at the edges, misted with Ranger Perfect Pearls and put on black card base.  A leafy die cut in three colours,  a sentiment diecut, stamp from PrintWorks. Sentiment 'dirtied' with DI's, perfect pearls,  A tangle of gold thread behind the senti.

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Good Witch Bad Witch

 

It's all about the shoes!  

And the stamps.  These stamps only come out once a year so I may as well use 'em!  I've had this set nearly 20 years and I still like it and think it's fun.

The background is card that has been inked (Ranger DI's & DOxideI's), smooshed, dabbed, ink blended, inked on the edges.  The stamps are all Dare 2B Artsy.  Broom & shoe stamped onto coloured card, with ink blending & gold pen.   Sentiment stamped and gold embossed.  Insert has the second half of the sentiment. Spiders are shiny with Glossy Accents, insert has the second half of the sentiment.  Stars are leftover dropouts from various dies. 

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Not Perfect

 I got this stamp and then couldn't think how to use it.  What the heck, just go for it, it doesn't have to be perfect ....

The background is watercolour card, smooshed,ink blended and stencilled over using Ranger DI's.  The edges are diecut with Tim Holtz edges and sentiment heat embossed with Zing lime green EP.  I diecut a sunflower in a not-perfect colour - I know that will annoy some folk - but I wanted it to be not-perfect amazing.  Hmm maybe I should have made the leaf hot pink.

This is going to a teenage grandaughter who is going through "that" stage, where I hope this will encourage her.

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Momagami

 

For one of our NZ cardswaps we made Momagami paper.  I made mine into a little booklet so my swap partner could use the papers if she wanted to.

The papers are from  Bella! paperstack, so they all coordinated.  I treated them to Momagami and myself as well - what a soothing process and they smell delicious.  I stitched the collection together adding a Tim Holtz butterfly, hello sentiment, twine, gold dots.   I stuck it on a top-fold card.  Other odd items got added in as I went, things I thought would bring a smile or thoughtful contemplation.

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Shadow Block floral

 

This was my offering for a recent NZ cardswap which had to use the Shadow Block technique.  The person I was sending to makes the most beautiful floral cards, so I decided she deserved one back.

The watercolour-look paper is from Rosies Studio Indigo Mist pad, gold & green figured papers from a Sizzix pad. Paper cut into 1" squares, assembled with dark green as shadow.  Sentiment is gold embossed with a bit of EP splatter & layered with vellum.  Gold pearls and thread/twine.  

The sentiment started "It's your day " ... and inside says " to get some real mail".

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Wings 'n' beaks

 

I was sent this enormous die by a lovely lady - thank you again, you know who you are.

The die is Sizzix all in one piece, so I cut it from white card and coloured it with Inktense Pencils while watching tv one night.  It resides in the jungle created by an embossed background (Cuttlebug Hawaiian Shirt) made using letterpress technique and white ink, and also a scrappy strip of jungly looking p.paper.  The coloured dots are drop-outs from dies which I collect.  We saw these parrots in Costa Rica.

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Tiny Bit o' Fun

 

A tiny bit o' fun with bouncy critter friends.

A diecut border in green, critter stamps coloured with Copic markers.   A balloon stamped on PP and fussy-cut and paper pieced.  A weee sentiment.  Are we having fun yet?

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Haunted Book ... mark

 

This is specially for reading horror stories late at night ...   eeek

Card cut to shape, corners punched (Couture Creations) and smooshed with Ranger Distress Inks.  Stamped with bats and scripty writing.  Tree with house diecut from black card.  Black tulle and ribbon stapled on.

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All about the Shoes

 

Yes, it's all about the shoes!  I'd like some like this.  I'm sending this to our daughter who works in the fashion industry, she will have a laugh.

 Coloured leftover strips laid randomly (I'm sure witches never have anything straight) because I like wonky, strips are loose at bottom & top.  Stamp by Stampendous, coloured with Copics.  Sentiment stamp is Dare2BArtsy.  Silver dots of 3D KindyGlitz to nail down the sentiment - I'm sure witches like a bit of glamour here and there.  All popped up on foam.  Insert is decorated as well.

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