CarolG ... creates (creationsnz)
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23 August, 2026
Wanna Have Sun
Peanuts - Love Brings us Home
One of our grandchildren is away to university this week. I made this CAS card for her.
The image stamp is a magazine freebie from Practical Publishing - a bunch of wonderful peanuts images. I cut a mask for around the image and coloured the background with brushes and DI's in blues & greens. The hearts have Stickles sparkles.
She is well organised and has lots of stuff to take with her. I made a bag of goodies to go, including a small first aid kit, playing cards etc. and cuddly crochet throw, Ian had made some wood turned pendants and she chose one of those to take with her. So, something handmade from nonna & poppa.
Shared on challenges:shoppingourstash-580-back-to-school Everything from stash.
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22 August, 2026
Splashy Birthday
Things got a bit fishy around here.
The aqua coloured panel is smooshed with several colours of DI's and misted with Perfect Pearls, then given embossing that looks like fish scales; the sentiment (Acid Drops & Whatnots) stamped & diecut and misted as well. The fish are diecut from a Daphne's Diary paper, assembled using snippets of coordinating shaded card for heads and tails. Put onto a black base card to make the colours pop.
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tryitontuesday-inspired-by-song The Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel
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Sunflower Birthday
The panel and additional flower is made by smooshing JuiseyArt inks and Distress Inks, allowing to dry and stamping over; Copics used to add shadows to flower. I fussy cut the flower and used 3Dfoam to pop it up. the centre is highlighted in gold pen and the berries & acorns in white gel pen. Sentiment embossed and gold cord tied around. Matted onto lemon textured card, then onto black base card.
When I was finished I thought maybe I should have done gold embossing to go with the gold cord, and could have easily put another on top with gold embossing. I decided not to as I like the not-matchy-matchy thing, and think it adds a bit of zing and I like unpredictable!
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21 August, 2026
With Sympathy
A pretty bold paper, and in colours I would not normally choose. So I let the paper do the talking and made the stacked sentiment bold too, in pewter metallic. The paper has some textured parts, not exactly glittery, more gel-like.
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Birthday Ride
The background is painted with pearly watercolour paints on watercolour paper. I has a lovely sheen.
The diecut balloon from Joanna Sheen is cut in two different patterned papers and reassembled using both papers. A stamped diecut tag (NCraft) tied up with gardeners twine.
Here in Hamilton, NZ we have a hot air balloon festival in April, our southern autumn.
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tryitontuesday-inspired-by-song Up up and away, by 5th Dimension 1968
20 August, 2026
HM Yikes Birthday
This sweet little house mouse has 'presented' herself for someone's birthday complete with a gift ribbon.
The House Mouse image is stamped on white card and coloured with Copics with a soft brush of DI colour around the edges of the diecut oval. The oval is popped up on foam and placed on a blue & green checked panel that is scored around all the edges, and then onto a diecut lacy panel. The Papercraft diecut tag has a computer made sentiment, and a cute little snippet of ribbon bow. White gel pen highlights.
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asyoulikeit/favourite-colouring-medium-and-why I like Copics because they are instant, saturated colour and easily blended.
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19 August, 2026
Peony
A clean and simple floral in beautiful colours inspired by a couple of challenges.
The white panel has an embossed border (a really old Cuttlebug EF). Firstly white card is coloured with JuiseyArt hybrid inks, then stamped with the outline peony stamp & diecut (Couture Creations stamp & die set). I used Copics to add shadows and detail to the flower & leaves, and Wink of Stella to the petal edges for a bit of sparkle (see detail pic). Leaves stamped on a snippet of card, and on a snippet left from that, the sentiment (Waffle Flower) is stamped & die cut. The flower is popped up in foam tape to create a soft shadow.
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17 August, 2026
Red Flowers
Red flowers are always stunning, and here I used a simple colour palette and simple design inspired by a Beautiful Blossoms moodboard. Another one for a Parkinson's fundraiser.
The flowers are diecut, misted with Perfect Pearls and arranged randomly as they would grow, some of them are popped up on foam. A diecut border in white, and a stamped & embossed sentiment with a handcut fishtail end.
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16 August, 2026
Whaletime
15 August, 2026
One Chameleon
Just trying out my new stamp (LawnFawn). I smooshed the background, then stamped the chameleon and die cut it. The other bits (tree & leaf) are stamped on scraps/snippets and added to the panel. The panel is diecut in a tag shape (Art by Marlene), added to the base card and the chameleon is popped up on foam. Detail on the creature is coloured with Copics. Stamped sentiment strips and a twine bow to finish.
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10 August, 2026
Make a Splash
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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09 August, 2026
Side bunch tied
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.
08 August, 2026
Barn Birthday
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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