ATC: Vera Lane 'Magazine Eyes' swap

Hello!

Today I'm showing an ATC made for a swap with the Vera Lane Facebook group.

The theme is 'Magazine Eyes'. 

Here is my make:

The background was made from a snippet of white card. Modelling paste was randomly applied  through a Tiny Dots stencil, then Tim Holtz Distress inks in Peacock Feathers, Crushed Olive, Mustard Seed and Memento Bamboo Leaves were blended to provide the colour. A hand drawn border was added.

The digi images I used are Whimsical Bird Lover (girl), Birdy (birdhouse and post) and a free doodle border for subscribers to the  Vera Lane Facebook group.

All were coloured with Spectrum Noir markers, then fussy cut and attached on foam pads. Bird Lover's eyes were replaced with magazine eyes. The sentiment is from the  Whimsical Bird Lover set. 

I'd like to enter these challenges

Pixies Snippets Playground - Week 231


Digi Choosday: Week 22 Think Summer

xoxo

ATC: Put a Bow on It

Hello. Happy May!



Week 207 at Wicked Wednesday has the theme 'Put a Bow On It". 

I made this ATC:

I used my new Aurora Wings digi stamp Cat in Spring Flowers - one of my prizes from a recent win at Wicked Wednesday! The stamp was printed onto white card and coloured with Spectrum Noir markers. It was attached to a black ATC card.

I made a tiny pink ribbon bow from a snippet of ribbon and added it to the cat's neck.  My intension was to put a tiny bell there as well, but try as I might, I couldn't find the bells anywhere.

Here is my lovely cat, Casey, having a lazy day reading the Sunday magazines. (Yes, Parsnip...I know it's Monday, but it takes him all Sunday just to read the paper!)

xoxo

I'd like to enter these challenges:

Wicked Wednesday  Week #207 Put a Bow On It

SUYP  Challenge #5 - Furrything Goes

Pixies Crafty Workshop Week #227

ATC: Ribbon Tag Matryoshka

Yay!....Mama Babushka helped me be the winner at Wicked Wednesday this week!


And ... I was in the top picks at  Pixies Crafty Workshop for week 225

This week at Wicked Wednesday the ATC Challenge #205 has the theme of "Ribbon Tag". 

Here is what I made:

 

I love Babushka Dolls or Matryoshka. Their bright colours and smiling faces always brighten my day. 

To make my ATC and ribbon tag I used digital papers and a template. The digital papers were part of a set from Pixel Paper Prints called Matryoshka Nesting Doll, and the Matryoshka Doll Template was from Striped Elephants.

The ATC card was covered in patterned paper, both front and back. Space was left open at the back for the tag to be concealed. A thin strip of pink heart patterned paper was glued along the bottom of the ATC and sticky glitter strips added either side. The edges of the ATC were inked in black.

The doll was paper pieced according to the template, and the face of the doll from this set was attached. Paper piecing is such a good way of using up snippets of paper! Stickles glitter and gel stickers were added to the doll's outfit, and glossy accents gave her eyes some shine. The doll was attached to the ATC on foam pads.

The tag was die cut from card using an Xcut Tag die. Patterned paper and a strip of pink paper and glitter strips were added, as on the main ATC.The tag edges were inked in black. A smaller doll was paper pieced and decorated, then glued to the tag. The word 'hi' from the Paper Smooches  'Scripty Sayings' set was stamped  and ribbons were attached.

I like the idea of a smaller Matryoshka coming from within the larger one :-)
The back of the ATC and tag were left plain:

I'd also like to enter 

Pixies Crafty Workshop Week #225

The Crafty Addicts Challenge #13 Girly/Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Lets do the Polka

xoxo

White Space

The challenge this week at Less is More #270 is a colour challenge. It is: White space but not  WHITE 

Here is the card I made:

The scribbly flower was stamped in black ink onto book paper. It was then coloured in a puddle of distress ink (Rose bud and Spiced Marmalade) and water. Once dry the flowers were glued onto snippets of black card and cut out. The same was done with a piece of torn paper for the sentiment. 

The sentiment was stamped and was heat embossed. I cut a piece of Kraft card to 12cm x 17 cm as the background of the card and assembled the flowers and sentiment using foam pads to add a bit of dimension. The main flower was finished with a pearl centre.The kraft card was attached to a white card base.

I'd like to enter this for the following challenges:

 Less is More #270 Colour Challenge
Pixies Crafty Workshop Week #223

xoxo

Snippet Squares

Here is my Pixies Snippets Playground card for this week.

I used two long, thin, left-over strips of white cardstock to create the squares.



The white card was inked with Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade distress ink, then cut into small squares and die cut using a 4.5 cm scalloped square die from XCut. This left even more snippets - lovely little frames that I might try to incorporate into another card.
The images were stamped onto each square in Ranger Jet Black Archival ink. The stamps are tiny ones from two sets; one from Craft Sensations and the other from The Works.
The tricky part for me was glueing the squares into place on the black background - I'm someone who can't draw a straight line using a ruler! .... and BTW, I can't walk in a straight line either :)
Once the squares were in place, I glued the strip along the bottom edge and finished it off with a gold, mirror-board die cut statement.
The black card was then mounted onto the card on foam pads.

CAS Card: Citrus

I made a very simple card today.

The background was embossed with Decadent Blooms - a free folder :)  from this month's Papercraft Essentials magazine (issue 131). A small strip of card was embossed for the ribbon and coloured with Crushed Olive distress ink.
Using the Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped circle die, I cut a circle and, using a blending tool, coloured it in Crushed Olive and Dandelion.
The 'Thank you' sentiment was die cut from a scrap of white card using another free die from Papercraft Essentials magazine (issue 128).

I'm entering this card into:

 Less is more - colour week challenge 

Pixies Crafty Workshop Snippets Playground Challenge - week 219

Thanks for looking!

Snippets: Watercolour card

Today I made this simple card using a small piece of watercolour paper.

I'd like to enter this at Pixies Snippets Playground for week 218

 

Watercolour paper was stamped and heat embossed with a Hedgehog and Pots Dinkie stamp from LC Designs. Watercolour pencils were used with a water brush to colour the stamped image. The finished piece was mounted on black card, which in turn was mounted onto card passed through a flower-design embossing folder. All was attached with foam strips to a shop-bought greeting card base and the sentiment stamped and mounted. Gel stickers were added.

Thanks for looking!

Tag: Animals and Insects

So... I've seen some blogs where a project is entered for several challenges. I thought I might try this for a change today.

Here's the tag I made using snippets of left over card.

Tag background: Balzer Designs 'stick flowers' stencil, Inkylicious ink dusters, Memento inks. When the background was inked, I splashed some water, let it sit, then dabbed it up with tissue to create the water stain effect. I inked the reverse of the stencil, sprayed with water, then stamped and brayered it onto the non-inked part of the background. 

Images: These Inkilicious Twinchie bee stamps (I think these are now discontinued) were heat embossed with Black Sparkle powder onto scraps of white card.  Bee body was coloured with watercolour pencils, and wings with crystal glitter. They were fussy cut and attached to tag with pop dots.

Flower: Prima flowers with inked edges and black crystal gem. Leaves cut from white card with Spellbinders Foliage dies, coloured with distress ink and shaped. Pearl stamen and natural fibres attached.

The back of the tag was covered in book paper, aged with distress ink and stamped with a flourish stamp from Inkylicious Elements 1 set.

The challenges I am entering are:

Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge  Week 7 - Animals and Insects

Pixies Snippets Playground Week 217

Thanks for looking!