Birthday Jackson

 

16 years old already! J loves playing games and is very competitive whether on the computer, playing boardgames or cards.  I refuse to play monopoly with him, but am happy to contest anything else.  He will play anytime, anywhere with anyone who will keep still long enough.  Games are his universe.

For his name, I covered card in wide adhesive packing tape then diecut letters which are lightly stacked.  The silhouette is distressed by sanding and stacked.  A selection of game pieces. sprinkled. The card base is top fold, and inside I made a stepper to hold a gift card as he loves getting interactive cards from me.  So far I have managed to surprise him every time.

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Birthday Fishes

 

A fishy story.

Background masked and colour blended/brushed with blue for the sea.  The whale and little fishes stamped in grape ink.

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Fun Ride

 

Clean and Simple.  It was so tempting to add stuff, but I'm so glad I didn't; it only has a little smudge of blue & green colour behind the image. Tim Holtz stamp sentiment, unknown wheel, Distress inks, Stickles.

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Right Here Heart

 

Texture and contrast, stencil & paste, tearing, and inky splatter, topped off with gems.  Lovely fun.  

Galentines, valentines, missing you - whatever your need it to be.

Mulberry paper torn in a rough heart shape, overlaid with diecut heart frame.  The background is a pasted stencil with splatter.  Gems echo the shape and a popped up punched sentiment.

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Hook Line Sinker

 

A valentine card for my husband, not mushy, simple & heartfelt.

I used pink & red DOxI's to blend areas where I wanted colour when I stamped.  I stamped onto a post-it note and cut out for a mask, which covered the image so I could stencil some of the background, also DI.  I coloured the eyes & lips with Copics and used Glossy Accents.  For the heart I used Glossy Accents and sprinkled some frosty glitter on.  This is one of my fave border dies, diecut from patt paper.  White pen highlights.

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Hearty Hugs

 

These gals are out to have Fun.  

These cute Ewes are stamped and shaded with Copics, partial fussy cut with paperpieced balloons stamped on patt. paper.  The 3D EF is We Are Memory Keepers, hugs stacked die is Simon Says Stamp.  Designer paper cut in wedge.  Also heart sequins for pretty.  All from stash.

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Remember to Play

 

No matter what the weather, if you feature a creature you can join us here: crittercrazy

We would like to see what you can create

I stamped, coloured and masked a stamped bunny from Colorado Stamps, then made a watery background using metallic watercolour paints.  With some lovely splatters and puddles, and a bright paper pieced umbrella, I finished off with rounded corners and droplets of Stickles.

The Colorado bunny stamps are some of my favourite characters to work with.

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and inside...

Boy Girl Twins

 

I am so pleased to be a guest designer on  Ellibelle's I Spy Challenge: I Spy... new beginnings.

Check it out here: simplyellibelle and select I SPY.

We'd love you to join us with your new beginnings!  

Babies are wonderful new beginnings.  My friend asked me for a twin card that had blue and pink on it (guess what the grandbabies are?).

So I knitted these teeny, tiny bootees in 3ply wool from a pattern for cardmaking by Sue Corbin that I've had for years.  I used a Cuttlebug EF, yarn, ribbon, gems.      

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Feline Better

 

A card to make someone smile I hope.

Stencilled background using DI's, cat stamped.  Also stamped onto kraft card and fussy cut.  The sentiment & paw is also stamped and cut out, edged with ink, set onto orange card.  Stickles on eyes and white pen.

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Love Lives Here

 

A bit of colour blending, paperpiecing, diecutting, stamping, heat embossing.  What more could you want?  Stacked geese... watchgeese.

The background card is sponged & colour blended with DOxI's, splattered with water, dried and diecut with a stamp frame (...), then subtly stamped with stars (Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous)and embossed with sparkly clear EP.  Houses stamped and fussy cut from snippets of scrap patterned paper.  Geese (TimHoltz) diecut and stacked from snippets of white card.  Sentiment stamp is magazine freebie.

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Sympathy Butterflies

 

I love to see things with wings on sympathy cards.  It aways feels like such a lovely symbol of freedom and release.  

Here I let the EF do the work, adding Stickles and pearls (which symbolise tears).  Stamped sentiment on strip with a row of pearls. EF is Craft Concepts Flutterby.  I like the white on white too, although it is quite difficult to get something interesting.  I use texture and dimension to make shadows and I like to make it so people want to touch.

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Split-Colour Robin

 

Made for a NZ cardswap; theme is using the split-colour technique or spotlight technique.  I chose the split colour.  Check it out, lots of fun but really need a stamping tool of some kind.  It gives a two-fer, because you have two pieces of card (white and coloured), stamp and clear emboss one, and stamp and colour the other, then slice them and swap them over to reassemble.  

You really need a biggish stamp and probably best to keep it fairly simple.  I screwed up my first attempt as it was too fussy and then I smudged it ... started over with this new stamp.   SO new stamp, new technique.

This is a statement stamp and worked well.  Colouring with Copics, gold heat embossed sentiment, gold pearls to embellish.  I made a coordinating envelope.

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Happy Geese

 

Start the new year with a critter creation!  We'd love to see what you make.

Come and join us here to celebrate: crittercrazy, all you need is a critter as the focal point!

Did you know geese eat as much grass as a sheep? and apparently they make good watchdogs alarm systems (does that make them watchgeese?)

A bit of ink blending with Distress Inks, spritzed with water and also silver Shimmer mist, layered onto brushed silver card.  I stamped (I think it's Kaisercraft) the sentiment in two colours to match the background and layered with silver too.  Diecut geese with a touch of Copics, and pearls to complete.  I do love pearls.

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