Goat birthday

Good Morning everyone

I made this card for my mum to give dad for his birthday.  Its using this goat stamp from aall&create - his horns are magnificent and he actually looks very much like my dads ram(sheep) 'Duncan' 

A6 (4x6") white card base.  I first stamped the image  three times onto white with blue ink and watercoloured 2 of the goats with distress inks and cut out

I found this old paper pad in my stash that matched the colours id coloured the image perfectly.  I added a yellow tone paper to the base and added a little stripe of the red & blue paper across the middle having matted onto white.

 From the uncoloured image i die cut with a rectangle frame die.  I added the frame to the card front with 2mm foam tape and adhered the goat image flat into the middle.  I then decoupaged the coloured goat on top with glue gel so it looks like he is bursting out of the frame.

Sentiment added to finish

Showing it side on

Items Used:

aall&create stamp #619 'Mountain goat'

Very old kanban paper pad (13+ yrs)

Distress inks ' wild honey, vintage photo, aged mahogany, tumbled glass, evergreen bough'

Versafine clair ink 'medieval blue'

MFT frame & nesting dies

birthday die

aall&create stencil #167 'organic orbs'

Altenew stencil 'leaf burst'

Thank you all for stopping by once again. Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter into the following

https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2025/03/neglected-stuff-march-2025-challenge.html - the paper used is 13+ years old, frame die 4+ yrs.

**

https://aaabirthday.blogspot.com/2025/03/game-71-masculine.html

**

https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-92.html

**

https://daisychainchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-94-animals.html

**

https://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-107-boysmen.html

**

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/03/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper-march.html

 

Creative Artist March - Bee Awesome

Good Morning everyone

Its time for a new challenge over at Creative Artist Mixed media blog where its anything goes with mixed media

Ive decorated a little mdf hexagon and gone with a summery bee theme...I did see a couple of honey bees out this week in my garden so things are beginning to warm up for them.

Approx Size 6x6"

See below for how i did the background.  My bees were stamped onto white card and the wings onto white vellum.  I watercoloured the bees bodies and cut out, i cut out the wings from the vellum and adhered below the bodies to hide the glue.  I curved their bodies and adhered into place with pinflair glue gel to give them a 3d appearance - leaving the wings free

Stamped sentiment onto white card and matted onto black, after alot of arranging and trying out i decided it fitted best in this corner and trimmed the edge to fit the edge of the hexagon.

I first added texture paste through a hexagon stencil, once dried i added acrylic paints - yellow, green & fuchsia pink. 

Once dry I dried brushed on white gesso

and then a light layer of fuchsia pink cadence dora paint which has amazing shimmer to it.  Im trying to step away from always using my gold tone finish.  I went with pink as a good contrast to the yellow of my bee

I had some scraps of mirror card that i had coloured with green and pink alcohol inks which fitted the tone here perfectly - but a real nightmare to take a decent photo of mirror card - trust me in real life it is lovely and bright!  I stamped the little honeycomb stamp onto it with black stazon ink, cut out and adhered. They catch the light adding another texture & dimension to the finished project.

I used a grey inktense pencil and added shadow around the hexagons on the background to really make them stand out.

'Bee Awesome' stamped onto white, cut out, matted onto black and added after working out best placement with the bees - this took longer than it might have!  

When trying to work on layouts i will often adhered it all with a little repositionable tape on the back and stand it up on my desk so I can keep looking at it - this is especially good when something isn't quite working.....when the answer finally arrives and usually it is only a little thing that can take a project from not working to Yes thats it! 

Items Used:

Pink Ink stamps  - 'queen bee'

Chocolate Baroque stamps - 'honey bee'

funky fossil mdf hexagon

funky fossil hexagon stencil

texture paste

Cadence dora paint

pebeo acrylic paint

papermania white vellum

silver mirror card

alcohol inks - pink & green

Do hop over to Creative Artist Mixed Media to see what the rest of the DT has created and to join in

My brother took our mum & I to 'The lost gardens of Heligan' this week, it was a beautiful spring day and quite a few bees were out among the spring flowers and with all the birds chirping it was lovely.  If you are ever in Cornwall its definitely worth a visit.     

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-2025-stencil-fun-challenge.html

**

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-96-anything-goes-featured.html

**

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/miucb-76-anything-goes-optional-layers.html

**

https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free.html

**

https://www.stampingsensations.uk/2025/03/march.html

**

 

WLS March#1 - Hello Spring

Good Morning everyone

Today is the start of a new challenge over at We Love Stamping

The theme this month is HELLO SPRING

but you can always go with the anything goes theme as long as you use stamping

A6 white linen cardblank.  I took a piece of white linen card and stamped the crocus stamp twice with 'monarch' versaclair ink which was a Christmas present.  The colour reminds me of the purple crocus you get but i decided to colour the actual crocus yellow with my inktense pencils and cut them out....I have both colours of crocus flowering together each year.

In my paper stash i found a piece of paper with co-ordinating colours so die cut into 2 small cross stitch rectangles, matted onto purple and added top and bottom of the cardfront.

I die cut the base image into a cross stitch rectangle and decoupaged the cut out crocus onto the base image which i had put a light wash of blue around the image.  I matted the panel onto purple and then added the card front.

'Think spring' die cut from a snippet of gold satin card and a few pale green gems added to finish.  I used green gems as a contrast to the yellow and purple and pick up on the stems and leaves which are green.

You can see the gold satin better at this angle - nightmare to get a decent photo of it .  My crocus have been enjoying the spring sunshine we've had this week.

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque stamps 'spring is in the air'

Sue wilson die 'think spring'

Derwent inktense pencils

MFT Xstitch rectangle dies

Bobunny paper (very old)

CraftUk white linen card

Purple paper

Gem gems

Versafine clair ink 'monarch'

Do hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and see what the rest of the DT have created with our spring theme

This months prizes are these 2 beautiful penny black stamp sets.

Thank you all for stopping by, I hope you all have a lovely week. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/2025/02/bring-me-flowers.html

**

https://carlinskaartenparadijs.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-80-maart.html

**

https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-2025-crafts-galore-encore.html

**

https://thecraftingchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/aspettando-la-primavera-waiting-for.html

**

https://2sistersontheblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-95.html

**

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/spring-season-march-2025.html

 

Kitty-Bea bunting

 Good Morning everyone

This week my 2nd youngest niece is 7.  At the moment she is really into garden birds so instead of a card I made some bunting with her name on and lots of lovely birds. 

Trying to get a decent photo of this not been so easy.  This is it hung up - ive left the ribbon long on one end so that they can adjust it if need be for hanging up, then they can trim the excess.

As Kitty-Bea has an unique name its always nice to make something with her name on it.  She also has an abstract art style so the funky colours of these digi birds are ideal for her. 

They are Mixed Media Birds clipart from etsy shop Double Helix digitals   I printed onto digital printer paper, cut them out and sealed with mod podge.  I flipped some of them before printing and printed at different sizes so that i could have them looking at each other like a pair etc...

I made a box using feather printed kraft card and used a tag I had left over from the bunting

I used a couple of beads on the ends of the bunting for some interest. I die cut the cross stitch effect fishtail banner dies from 350gsm kraft card.  I found a very old paper pad in my stash which has some of Kitty-Beas fav colours and went well with the birds. These i die cut into a smaller banner and adhered to the kraft card.  Circles die cut from the off cuts and alphas die cut from white and kraft card, matted together with a drop shadow and covered in glossy accents to give an enamelled finish. 

As well as the panels with the alpha's on I added a blank panel each end so i could add a bigger bird.  I added bronze effect eyelets and used organza ribbon to join it all together. 

Ive used different birds on each panel.  Although they aren't real to life colours you can easily tell by the shape and stance of each bird which type they are based on.  Kitty-Bea is lucky that where they live they get alot of different garden birds.

I added a small touch of stickles glitter glue to each bird just to add a little sparkle as what little girl doesn't love sparkle

Items Used:

Double Helix Digitals - Mixed Media birds clip art

MFT Xstitch fishtail banner die set

Stitched circle dies

Memory box Alpha dies

Very old paper pad from create&craft

Craft UKltd kraft card

Ranger glossy accents

Stickles 'diamond'

Thank you for stopping by once again and all your previous comments, I really do appreciate them all.  I hope you have a good week.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/02/love-those-pretty-papers-february-2025.html

**

https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free_02003369360.html   

**

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/cut-it-up-challenge-324-tie-it-up-use.html - have used ribbon

**

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/crafty-catz-challenge-688.html

**

https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-175-feb-2025-things-with-wings.html

**

https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2025/02/kick-off-challenge-225.html - all papers are from a pad that is 10+ years old

**

https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/2025/02/98-mit-flugel.html - with wings

**

WLS #2 Feb - CAS

Good Morning everyone

Its time for the half way post for We Love Stamping

Where the theme this month is CAS (Clean & Simple)

But if thats not for you we always have the anything goes option as long as you include stamping - either traditional stamps or digi stamps.

approx size 5x5"  I found this cat in my previously stamped and coloured drawer - It had been watercoloured with my inktense pencils and cut out.  I die cut a piece of white linen card and stamped the cat image off centre in black and also stamped the cat-i-tude stamp just beneath so it looks like the pot is stood on it.

On the base image i watecoloured the leaves and then added the cat in pot with glue gel after gently curving it in the middle, also decoupaging the leaves.  I then die cut my base card from kraft card and adhered the white panel. Glossy accents added to the cats eyes to finish.

Showing it side on so you can see the dimension of the cat and leaves.  I curved the leaves and glued part on flat so that the tips curve upwards - giving a lovely shadow and adding a bit of interest to a simple card. 

Items Used:

Katzelkraft stamps KTZ295 'Cats on books'

Funky fossil stamp 'Feline magic' by Olga Heldwein ('Catt-i-tude stamp')

Nesting dies

Derwent inktense pencils

CraftUK ltd white linen card

Kraft card

These gorgeous stamps are the prize this month so do hop over to join in at 

We Love Stamping

Thank you all for popping by once again and all your amazing comments on my mums birthday card last week - she loved it. Its half term this week so im sure i will be crafting up a storm with my nieces at some point. I hope you all have a good week.  Keep warm. Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://scscards.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-love-andor-hearts.html - anything goes option

*

https://creativeinspirationchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/creative-inspiration-challenges-23.html

*

https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-610-stitching-real-or-faux.html - stitched effect dies

*

https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-91.html - #2

*

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-95-anything-goes-with.html

*