Birthday Shining

 

I love doing challenges, they really inspire and motivate me.  Thanks to all the challenge presenters out there - you do a great job!

Blue shining-look diecut panel, a daisy pattern paper background (a little bit of frosty sparkle here), diecut sentiment with metallic teal card.

This card looks really happy happy!  I like the way the type is randomly set. It feels happy.

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Natures Secret

 

These summery butterflies bring an important thought.  The background is watercolour stencil printed using Ranger DI's.  Add a diecut banner, stamped Hero Arts butterflies coloured with DI's, gems,  Opal Dust on butterfly bodies, & twine.  

These stamps are among my first papercrafting purchases many years ago, everything is from stash.

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Peanuts Always Here

 

I have always loved Peanuts humour and was so pleased to get this stamp set (Practical Publishing) with a Creative Stamping magazine recently.  I stamped and coloured with Copics, white pen dots.  Diecut a frame and stamped the sentiment separately on the frame and gold embossed.  Base card is linen finish.  When you read the sentiment, remember it is Lucy!

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Lucky Peanuts

 

I just got this Peanuts stamp set with Creative Stamping magazine by Practical Publishing.  It usually takes about 2 months for magazines to reach us.  It has loads of images all cute as can be!  I had to make something straight away.  These stamps are great for man cards - not frilly at all, but still leave a bit of love!

The background is watercolour card (so quite thick), coloured with Distress Oxide Spray and splatter.  I embossed it with a Cuttlebug EF, then distressed the edges.  The image panel is stamped, coloured with Copics, edges distressed.  I covered the black (drop-outs from a die) dots and hearts with Glossy Accents.

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Amazing Cool

 

The base card is pale blue.  Background is made using leftover strips/snippets (Yes, I have a container of them) glued to a piece of card then overlaid with a diecut of positive words.   Snippet strips are smooth, glitter, textured & metallic.  What a great sentiment. Black dots embellishment.

I reckon this is a great card style for masculine as it doesn't have frills but is still colour-interesting.

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Just a note

 

Another Parkinsons fundraiser red tulip card.

This is a stencil, coloured & shaded with Distress inks.  A red band edged in gold embossing with a stamped sentiment in gold embossing.  A little bit of glimmer with WoS on the blooms.

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Rusty Crow

 

Two stencils on black card.  One using metallic watercolour paint, the other using two colours of Rust Effect paste from artExtravagance.  I made the sentiment on the computer and stacked it.  Gold pen, black pen, for eyes.  I put the frosted pearl in its mouth because I know they like to collect shiny things.

I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I like it and I had fun making it.  I will just have to be selective with who I send it to.

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Scotty Birthday

 

This was a request from a friend made for an older man's birthday.  His dog's name is Chloe - this stamp looks just like her.  

I used a banner die, a little label diecut, a buckle die (Memory Box), and a doggy stamp & sentiment from Inkadinkado.  I cut a dog collar from the lime card and attached a tag from stash, stamped with a pawprint to continue the doggy theme.  I found googly eyes in my stash and decided to add them for a bit of fun.  Inside I added another collar strip along with a birthday greeting.

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Wildflowers

 

I love this watercolourish look, even though it isn't watercolour at all!  It's just a stamp inked with various shades of blues & greens, how pretty is that?  The stamps are all IndigoBlu - flowers,  dragonfly & sentiment, and embossed.

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Deer Tartan

 

A card requested by a friend for an outdoorsy deer hunter son, so ... masculine.

A tartan background paper diecut in an arch - I thought it would look like wallpaper.  The deer die is Crate Paper, nice and simple cut from a snippet of black card.  The sentiment is cut with a shadow in the colours of the tartan and shadow drawn with Copic marker as the yellow looked a bit boring otherwise.  The panel is matted onto blue leathergrain card, gold dots are snippets/drop-outs from other dies.  I love these tartan papers and have been saving them for special cards.

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Waving Hello

 

WE love critters, we love seeing your critters - show us your critters!

Check out the design team's work, and join in here:  crittercrazy

Welcome to our next Challenge at Critter Crazy Challenge 

with our theme "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter."

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

I diecut the crabs and layered them, diecut the background panel and underlaid it with glittery sea.  Stamped and diecut the sentiment, attaching it with a silvery thread tangle, added black beads for eyes.  Doesn't it make you want to go for a swim?  Lie under an umbrella with a book?  I love summer.

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asyoulikeit-favourite-season-why  Summer is a  time to recharge and just enjoy being.