Heart balloon die: Poppy
Tag die:
Sentiment stamp: magazine freebee
Also: Copics, Distress inks & Distress Oxide Inks, Sheer Shimmer, Glossy Accents, glitter washi, white paint, , WoS, ribbon
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It's always cause for a celebration when someone moves to a new house!
EF: Sizzix
Sentiment: unbranded
Also: Copics, Distress Ink, cord, washi tape
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The collective name for cats is a clowder of cats. Who said that? Surely it should be a purr of cats? or even a purrrty of cats? I'm sure you can spot your cat in there somewhere.
I made the background behind the cats by masking the image, sponging with Distress Inks, splattering with black Decoart Media mist, and stamping the words randomly. This stamp is new to me.
Sentiment stamps: Little Birdie
Also: Copics, Distress Inks, gold washi tape, black Decoart Media mist, Kindyglitz on some eyes.
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House Mouse & Friends #356 - Anything Goes with option of Something New.
A new-to-me technique of stamping and colouring on a coffee filter. It hardly shows in the photo but the flower has 3 layers and is quite ruffled. It is also the first time I have used this stamp although I have had it for a while. The image is stamped, the background is sponged locally, then misted with Perfect Pearls. The three coffee filters are watercoloured with D.Inks, dried, stamped, cut out, crumpled and applied in layers.
Sentiment:
Also: Distress inks, Copics, Perfect Pearls spray, coffee filters.
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A dabble in watercolour stamping. And a sketch; I haven't done a sketch for ages. (Oops, after posting this, I had to change one of the pearls as I noticed it wasn't quite matching the others. I had made the card at night and hadn't noticed.)
Frame stamp: Grace Taylor
Dies (nesting rectangular): Nellies
Bow die (stacked): Rosie's Studio
Sentiment stamp: Unbranded
Also: Distress Inks, pearls
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cheerful sketches
iSpy #52 the last week of the year.
Every week, Lysha puts up a photographic challenge with prompts for us to look out for, then we share on Lysha's Saturday (my Sunday). It's always wonderful to see how people are inspired.
The prompts for this week were: Needles, colour Black, Great, Starts with R, your choice.
NEEDLES: in my case, knitting needles.
BLACK: I normally have the black candle holder and the black candlestick sitting in the window, but I decorated the candle stick with silver curly ribbon and black baubles and hung a glass beaded (with black) decoration to catch the light. My colour theme this year was black & silver.
GREAT: Known as the giants of the forest, in our backyard we have a young kauri tree that is so far only about 9m tall with a girth of 1m.
FYI: Kauri are among the world's mightiest trees, growing to over 50m tall, with trunk girths up to 16m, and living for over 2,000 years. Agathis australis, commonly known by its Māori name kauri (pronounced "Ko-ree"), is a coniferous tree found in the northern regions of New Zealand's North Island. The largest kauri trees did not attain as much height or girth at ground level but contain more timber in their cylindrical trunks than comparable Sequoias with their tapering stems.
This is for a Guest Designer spot at Sognando challenges, so have a look at the design inspiration, and join us here: sognandoscrap
Frame die: Couture Creations
Word die: unbranded (new to me die)
Also: Copics, D.Inks, Gold interference mist, Opal Dust, WoS.
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New Years resolutions? These birds are in for a surprise I think.
At Critter Crazy it's always about the critters. Get inspired by the design team and join in here:
I was inspired to do this after seeing Janette's best cards and review the past year's work 2021.
2021 retrospective
January 2021
February 2021
March 2021
April 2021
May 2021
June 2021
iSpy #51
Every week, Lysha puts up a photographic challenge with prompts for us to look out for, then we share on Lysha's Saturday (my Sunday). It's always wonderful to see how people are inspired.
I love heat embossing - it was one of the first techniques I learned and the magic still happens. This time I used white EP on the tree and gold EP for the senti, sponged over with Distress Inks, then misted and splotted with perfect pearls mist. I then sponged over the tree and sun to make it stand out from the background, and inked the edges.
Senti stamp: magazine freebie
Also: DInks, WoS on stars, Perfect pearls
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It is curved and fits with lots of Christmas images
