Let's Go Birds

 

You love animals, we love animals - join us with your creations, and check out the design team inspiration, here: critter crazy challenge blog

I love birds, they always seem such cheery creatures.  My friend Gayle has a bird hotel like this one.  

The blue background is digital patterned paper that I overstamped with white paint and bubblewrap.  Other images layered over, some cut out and popped up using 3D foam. Wonky border drawn with black pen.

Digi PPaper Background: Digital Scrapbook   

Birdhouse: Doodle Pantry

Fence image: Digital Scrapbook 

Sign: Digital Scrapbook 

Also: Copics, black pen, Bakers twine, WoS

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Missing You Hearts

 

Blue hearts, for someone I'm missing.

I stencilled using Distress Oxide inks in two colours, sponging in from the edges, and fine splatters.  The main heart has edges inked, the centre of the heart with the sentiment softly brushed with the paler ink (it doesn't show well in the photo).  Coordinating papers for the smaller hearts.  Pearls.

Two different heart dies:    

Corner dies: Sizzix

Stencil: TWC 

Senti: Taylored Expressions

Also: DI's, pearls.

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Strawberry Sweetness

 

I was inspired by a sketch for this card, also made it CAS.  I used a stamp/die set that was a magazine freebee from Practical Publications a long time ago.  I haven't used it for ages and decided it needed some mileage.

I diecut the image three times, once in dark green for the stems & leaves, once in red for the strawberries, once in white for the flowers, then assembled it.    I stamped & fussy cut the bee, painted it's wings with WoS.

Also: Copics, white pen, WoS

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Coffee Perk

 

This is monochrome and CAS.  I don't usually work in this colour range, but the subject dictated (and I do love a latte).  Envelope to match.  Maybe for a man?

Stamp & Stencil set: a mag freebee (it is the first time I have used the set even though I 've had it a while)

Also: DI's, versamark sepia to stamp.

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Dust Bunny Blues

 

Stamped, masked & stencilled, paper-pieced, and hand coloured.

That's how I would like to learn to do housework - in a pretty dress with high heels and sitting down with my feet up!  ... not going to happen any time soon.

Image & Senti: Art Impressions    

Stars: drop-outs from a die

Stencil: Rosies

Also: Copics, PPaper, DI's, white gel pen, Stickles

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Scrap Bust total

 

This is the whole collection of Scrap Bust cards, minus the first one I had made for a card swap and had mailed - which incidentally started the whole thing off!  

This is the box of 50 scraps I started with, plus scraps of black & white.  What a sense of satisfaction when I was able to toss what was leftover at the end.

Thank to all of you for your encouragements and comments along the way!  You are amazing.

Seagull Fold

 

This is a seagull fold chosen by Dawn for our NZ cardswap.  Wow, looks complicated but not.  Lots of photos for this one.  Feathers cut from vellum, the papers have soft sparkle.  I kept the diecuts within the colour palette of the striped paper and used up  various snippets.  Lots of tutorials if you google seagull fold, also an upright version called Finch fold.  Edit: before posting, I added another vellum feather at the bottom right of the front panel - but forgot to photograph it (sigh).

Bird die & branch: Sizzix/TimHoltz

Feather die: Spellbinders

Little bird dies: Craft Creations

The beautiful papers: My Minds Eye

Punch: woodware

Stamps: unknown

Also: gem

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Hamster Birthday

 

Inspired by the Red & Pink challenge.  EF background, diecut panel with inked edges, stamped and fussy cut hamster, stamped senti.  Hamster on 3D foam.

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Star & Snowflake

 

One red, one blue, both CAS style cards, using a new-to-me die.  I never make two cards exactly the same.  I left them plain thinking I can put any sentiment on as needed.

Red Star card: I used a linen textured card under the diecut area and a gem for the centre.  

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Blue Snowflake card: I used a blue pearlescent paper under the die cut and a diamante in the centre.

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Scrap Bust #11 - White collage

 

Scrap Bust - see previous post Scrap Bust #1 for details of the challenge.  

This is the last post in this 50 scraps, 5 cards in 5 days Scrap Bust series.

At this stage the scraps are getting sparse and very small, however I used a collection of scrappy white strips, embossed them with different folders for the background.  Diecut a frame from one of the last big bits left (stacking it with other scraps), adding a stamped flower from my bitz box.  After this card I dumped what was left of the 50 scraps as I had far exceeded what the challenge was.  The flower was  done using watercolour stamping technique touched up with Copics.

Satisfaction... Done & Dusted!

Diecut frame:    Spellbinders

Also: various EF's, inks, Copics, pearls.

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Scrap Bust #10 - Hexi Lineup

 

Scrap Bust challenge description see details in previous post Scrap Buster #1.  (50 scraps in 5 days)

By now the box of 50 scraps is nearly empty/used up.  The woodgrain background is out of the bitz box,  previously made with an EF on grey card and swiped over with white chalk ink.  Five punched hexagons lined up.  

I  put some trees in and hey presto,  a little forest with mountains!  The brown trees are actually bronze metallic card but it doesn't show in the photo.  We don't get snow here in winter.

EF: Sizzix    

Punch: Fiskars

Sentiment

Also: various tiny tree dies, Chalk ink

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Scrap Bust #9 - Scrap Tossed

 

For details of Scrap Bust challenge see Scrap Bust #1 in previous post.

This background is made up of organised-by-colour strips arranged in a random chevron pattern onto black card so it shows between.  My latest fave stamped lady only wearing lippy, matted in black and raised with 3D foam tape, and my other fave stamp of patterned humps.  They just go together so well.  A couple of the papers are overstamped to make it more interesting.

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Scrap Bust #8 - Scribble Thanks

 

Check out Scrap Bust #1 for details of the challenge.

Softer colours for this one.  I cut two panels in a wavy line, stamped one with a new scribble stamp, glued onto waste paper with a thinner strip, then stitched around.   The sentiment is diecut with a vellum shadow.

Scribble stamp: Tim Holtz     

Senti die:

Also: stitching, gold pearls

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Scrap Bust #7 - Weave

 

Details of the scrap bust in previous post Scrap Bust 1.

This is using thin strips woven together onto waste paper.  Using more neutrals (I'd used up most of the brights) and as I was doing it I thought nest... bird  ...  The cage and sentiment (both from my Bitz box) is stamped and gold embossed, the bird diecut.

Bird die: Sizzix     

Cage stamped and embossed: Tim Holtz

Sentiment stamped and embossed

Also: gold pen

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Scrap Bust #6 - Banners Feel Well

Another Scrap Bust, see Scrap Bust #1 for details of challenge.

For this one I layered scraps onto scrap paper, then embossed - another scrapbooking style. I used a diecut frame for the stamped sentiment over a panel that was softly sponged with DI's in the background colours.  I banner cut smaller scraps and stitched them onto a waste strip, added diecuts from my Bitz box too.

EF: Sizzix    

Label Die (stacked): Spellbinders

Stamp:

Also little dies, DI's, stitching

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