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.
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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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A woodland scene with stamping, stencilling and Copic colouring.
The panel is matted onto patterned paper. This is a great way to use those difficult or 'ugly' papers that have sat in stash forever and not easy to use otherwise. A diecut negative from another project is used as a stencil, coloured with DI's with a bit of water splatter. The animals stamped, coloured with Copics and die cut. The sentiment is Woodware. White dot using gel pen.
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A tag with munched bits; tag die AAll & Create. Smooshed with Ranger DI's, random stamped with postmarks and also dotty circles from same set (unbranded) with JuiseyArt hybrid inks, then fussy cut. Text strip sticker from Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Ideo-logy pad. Scrap of ribbon stapled on.
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While the northern hemisphere is celebrating autumn, we are just moving into spring. Our clocks go into summer time next weekend. YAY! This means sometimes we in NZ struggle to get excited about seasonal challenge themes. Here goes one for autumn.
A large leafy background stamp using a watercolour technique, a diecut banner, some patterned papers (for zing) and My Favorite Things stamps that are coloured with Copics, paperpieced and fussycut! There are a couple of punched maple leaves punch (not branded), twine, and gold pearls holding the sentiment sign in place. I do like mousey's sweater which is stamped on a tiny scrap of patterned paper and carefully cut to fit; I think it looks knitted.
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Inspired by a colour challenge, I picked out this stamp set that I've had for a while and not used yet. It was perfect for a CAS style card.
Sage green and blue with a touch of metallic gold in the dotty bits. The green ink is Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy. I stamped the layers of the flowers with JuiscyArt hybrid inks, then fussy cut them, layering them with foam tape.
The cheeky money is trying to find his way around the city in his rusty little car using this map. It is intended for a grandson's birthday.
The background panel uses the letterpress embossing technique with blue ink pressed into the hollows. A layered strip with smudgy blue dotty paper and chocolate brown for him to drive along; the car is stamped on a smooshed scrap (unbranded brand), coloured with Copics, fussycut, and popped up on foam tape. The sentiment is part of the set. White gel pen highlights, silver dots.
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