Flowerful Boot

I started with the sketch:














Image: Bugaboo
Coloured with Copics
Butterfly dies: Memory Box & Kaisercraft
Sentiment stamp: Mama Elephant
EF: Cuttlebug
Also: Glossy Accents, Enamel Accents, Kindyglitz

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Rhiannon's Post - Squeal

This is Rhiannon's post using Nonna's blog because I don't have my own one. I am 9 years old.  I love to craft at Nonnas and I have my own desk in her craft room.

I used Nonnas cuttlebug machine to make the trees. I stamped the mouse on the background and on another piece of blue paper to cut out.  Squeal is a stamp and I used glitter glue for sparkles.  Squeal is very little and looks like he is lost in the forest.

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(Nonna's note: Rhi does all the work herself and specially loves to use the cuttlebug for cutting and embossing.  She is meticulous in her work and is now designing her own images to use. She is my Crafting Buddy, and even though we live in different cities, we craft like mad when we get together.)

Natural Beauty

Nature and its Beauty is the theme at Incy Wincy, check out the design team, enter yourself, here:
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Image thanks to our sponsor Sasayaki Glitter, find it here:
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I wanted her in a glade and this die is perfect for that. I cut it twice, once in floral paper and once in pink card, (and slightly offset them so the pink showed),  adhered it with 3D foam.  Some homemade punched flowers with inked edges, and a butterfly - what a lovely day in the garden.

Image: Sasayaki Glitter
Coloured with Copics
Frame die:
Butterfly die:
Flower punch: Martha Stewart
Leaf punch: unbranded
Perfect Pearls (silver), gems

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Birthday Croc

At the Crafters Café we have a TWOFER!  Two challenges in one, so you can do the sketch OR the Colour Combo (blue-green-yellow) or both!  Check out the design team's work here: crafterscafe













Our sponsor Lia Stamps provided this super birthday croc, here:
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 Croc looks like it's having a real belly laugh... maybe because of the giant candles, or the tiny cake?  I think it would be one chomp and it's gone.

I masked the background and coloured the croc by sponging with DI,  took it off and reverse masked to colour the background.  Then spritzed with water to get blotches.  The hat and cake are painted with D.Oxides.  The candles are edged with black, the flames are actually diecut bodies of bees coloured with DI.

Image: Lia Stamps
Coloured with Distress Inks
Sentiment stamp: Rubbadubbadoo
Flame shaped diecut (bee): Elizabeth
White acrylic paint splatter, white gel pen, green sparkly pearl, green string

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L'oiseau ephemera

At 2CraftyCritterCrazies we do animals all the time for every challenge,  whether feathered, finned, furry, prickly, slimy or hairy.  Check out the design team and join in the challenge, here: 2craftycrittercrazies


Our sponsor this time is Linda Simpson (thanks Linda) and see her work, here: lindasimpsondesigns


Image: Linda Simpson: Les beaux oiseaux ephemera


It had such a beautiful vintage spring feel so I went with that and rummaged through my stash box, finding a scrap of ecru cotton lace, a flower I'd crocheted, some pearls and a soft rose coloured ribbon.
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Woof!

Sometimes, especially in summer, the grandkids and I lie on our backs on the grass and look for cloud shapes.  Here is a cute doggy scene - guess what he sees in the cloud shapes?

Image: Ikes Art
Fence Die: Tim Holtz Alterations
Woof & bone stamp: Inkadinkadoo
Also: Copics, white pigment pen

I printed the dog, then coloured it with Distress Oxide Inks, sponged then spritzed.  He is cut out and stuck with 3D foam.   The sentiment and the bone 'clouds' are heat embossed.

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Micey Birthday

I challenged myself to use orange because it is not a colour I like working with, but I love to work with dots, stripes or checks - here I use all three!  I cut the image with a circle die, then the black as a frame so it sits out.

Image: Bugaboo, printed on dotty paper
Image also printed on kraft card, mouse coloured with pencils then cut out
Circle dies larger: Spellbinders
Circle die, smaller: Couture Creations
Flourish die: unbranded
Sentiment:
Nuvo crystal drops, black DecoArt mist

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Pheasants

We love the birdlife visiting our wild garden from time to time.  At the moment (autumn here in NZ) we have mum, dad and three half grown pheasant chicks.  They are such a pleasure to have around, along with the quail couple and their five babies.

Image: Pickled Potpourri
Coloured with Copics
Background: Distress ink
Scored border
Square of washi glitter tape







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Poppy

Use no more than 3 colours - that's the challenge at Incy Wincy - don't forget to check out the design team's work and leave a little love - here:
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Thanks to sponsor Sheepski for this beautiful drawing of poppies, get it here: Sheepski poppies-image-no-116



Image: Sheepski - poppy
Coloured with Copics

Honeycomb die: Tim Holtz
Bee die: Elizabeth
Sentiment stamp: Hero Arts
Gold heat embossed
Also: gem, vellum





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Mailbox Flowers

Make your own flowers - that's the challenge at the Crafters Café.  The design team have some flowery inspiration for you, here: crafterscafe














Sponsor:  DigiStamps4Joy, here:  digistamps4joy

I printed the digi and diecut into a tag, made another tag from green patterned paper, both inked edges. They are tied together with a beautiful taffeta ribbon.  The flowers are punched and the leafy vine is diecut.



Image: DigiStamps4Joy
Diecut tag: Ultimate Crafts
Diecut vine:
Diecut sentiment: Ultimate Crafts
Flower punch: unbranded
Black enamel, black gems, ribbon

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Winnie Wishes

Not everyone has a mum to honour but we always have a special lady or two in our life.  I'm sure every woman enjoys being appreciated and a little pampering is always good. 

I pleated the washi tape and then put a straight band of it along the top to make a frill.

Digi: Polkadoodles Winnie
Coloured with Copics
Die: Couture Creations
Sentiment: freebie from internet
Sentiment die: spellbinders
Washi, gems, Kindyglitz


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Shamrock Balloons

This is for our daughter's 11th wedding anniversary.  They got married on St Patricks day, (her birthday is St Georges day) to make it easy to remember ...  but somehow I don't think that strategy worked!

The backing paper is green but has photographed mud.   It looks way better than that in real.  The W of S on the balloons almost makes them look 3D.

Image: Scribbles designs
Senti Die: Poppy Stamps
Panel die: DieNamics
Sequins, Wof Stella (on balloons)

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Bold

I have been playing with paint chips lately and thought I'd share another card.

I stamped the sentiment in red ink and heat embossed it clear.

EF: Cuttlebug
Sentiment: Kaisercraft
Green cotton string



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Somebunny Special

Some more woodland creatures.  I love these cute drawings and they are lovely to colour.



I die cut the band and sponged it with DI. The bunnies are coloured with Copics.

Stamp: freebie from mag.
Die: unbranded
Sentiment stamp: MFT
Nuvo drops

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Landscape

I have been having a play with paint chips after being inspired by some online.  I just googled paint chip card making and WOW zillionz of them.

Anyway I made this for my March cardswap buddy Val, who lives in Otago and has a big dramatic landscape outside her door.

Curvy stitched dies: unbranded
House curve die: freebie with mag
Sentiment stamp embossed: Rosies Studio
Pearl

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Ffoxy

I think this is an awesome fox!

The background is dragged DI (peeled paint) direct to paper, stamped over with sentiment.  The fox is stamped, coloured and cut out.


Fox Stamp: free with mag.
Coloured with Copics
Senti: Rosies Studio






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Ultraviolet flowers

Incy Wincy has the Pantone colour of the year - ultraviolet - for the challenge this time - check out the design team and the instructions for this challenge, here: incywincydesigns






Thank you to A Day For Daisies for this wonderful image, get it here:  adayfordaisies-garden/flowers-in-bottles





Image: A Day For Daisies
Coloured with Copics
Bottles and flowers touched with WoS
Sentiment stamp: Fundamentals
Various papers, scrap of tulle and waxed string from stash

(Click on pic for a closer look.)


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Mouse Knight

It's "old stuff/recycling" time at the Crafters Café, here at:
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Thanks to QKR who provided this wacky image: mouse knight  here at qkr-stampede






The box and the buttons are recycled.  I bought some cosmetic sponges (for inking on cards, of course) from the dollar shop and they came in this box which was too good to throw out.  The buttons are from Grandma's old button jar which I inherited.




I have some small cross stitch projects (for cards) which I take with me to do at meetings and get-togethers with other crafty friends, and this is the perfect size  (to put the aida cloth, the embroidery cottons, needles and a small pair of scissors) into my handbag when I go.  I coloured with Copics, and sponged the background with Distress Inks.    Also silver pen, white gel pen.

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Mermaid Serena

The Crafters Café has a recycling/upcycling challenge on now - check it out now:  crafterscafe















The sponsor who provided this image is: cuteasabuttonstamps Mermaid Serena


This is how it started off: 


I wanted to keep the sparkly box as it was so the contents can be seen easily and it's so girly. I decided to give it to one of my granddaughters to keep her hair ties in, so I prettied it up with layers of doily and coloured Serena in mermaid colours (which just happen to be her favourite hair tie colours).


I added pearls - I'm sure all mermaids wear pearls.


Image: Cute as a Button - Mermaid Serena

Coloured with Copics

White diecut: unbranded

Purple diecut: Spellbinders

Also: Wof S, pearls

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