Birthday sheep

Good Morning everyone

I made this sheep themed card for my dads birthday as he keeps a few sheep, i made a couple of similar Christmas cards too which are right at the bottom of the post.

I first stamped the fab sheep and hats from hobbyart stamps and watercoloured with distress & oxide inks and cut them out.  

I made  my double z fold card blank out of card white - i can't remember the exact size but had to use A3 to start with. I used these fab papers from the works which reminded me of a green meadow for the sheep to roam in, for the front layers i tore some of the papers to give a grass like edge for the sheep to stand on. I then added the sheep with pinflair glue gel for dimension.

Sentiment die cut using alpha block dies and a few white seagulls and rabbits which we also see in our fields.  

Showing a different angle - dad loved it so thats good! 

Items Used:

Hobbyart ltd stamps ' CS110D Baa-Humbug'

12x12 paper pad from the works 'nature'

OI Rabbit & seagull dies

alpha dies

Id love to enter this card in the following:

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2024/01/challenge-82-anything-goes-with.html

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/challenge-268.html

https://farmquestgeneralstorechallenge.blogspot.com/2023/12/fqgs-11-december-2023-afcg-competition.html

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2024/01/double-ds-eighth-birthdayanniversary.html

https://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/challenge-182-funnypun.html  - pun in my sentiment

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and while i was at it I made a Christmas version for 3 of my nieces 

This time using Christmassy papers to build up my scene and a little die cut Christmas tree which they have decorated with red glitter baubles -i used a hole punch to make my baubles - the perfect size for the tree.  I added 2 of the front sheep on wobblers which my nieces loved.  A few die cut snowflakes to finish. 

Hobbyart ltd stamps 'CS110D Baa-Humbug'

The works paper pad 'let it snow'

Memory box snowflake dies

Christmas tree die

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I was lucky to also get these fab hedgehog stamps from hobbyart so i made a hedgehog version for my other 2 nieces.  Again papers from the works and i added red stickles glitter glue to all the baubles for some sparkle.  2 of the hedgehogs are on wobblers - these wobblers are new to me - love them, i think i might be wobbling a lot of things on my cards in 2024😁 - such great fun- I only found out they existed from a craft friend in America and a search on amazon and i found lots of them here in the UK.

Items Used :

Hobbyart ltd stamps 'CS321D Christmas Hedgehugs'

12x12 Paper pad from the works 'Traditional Christmas'

Cheerylynn christmas sentiment die

Ranger stickles 'red'

'wobbler'

 Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you've had a good start to the new year, could do with some better weather to perk us up I think!  Emmax

Thank You cards

Good Morning everyone, i hope you all had a good weekend.

Today i am sharing some thank you cards i made for the lovely Christmas gifts i was given.  

This first one i made for my uncle.  Blue card cut to a 5x6 cardblank, i then die cut the memory box circle burst in the middle.  I used yellow spotty paper as the insert to act as the sun.  Then die cut lots of seagulls and a sentiment from white. 

Side view so you can see the insert. 

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Little cat thank you.  Russet card cardbase.  I then stamped and coloured the zinski cat with inktense pencils, i then added a pale sky and grass with watercolour.  Die cut with cross stitch rectangle die.  Glitter glue to finish

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Little 3x4" thank you made from leftovers.  I used the dienamics border die on the front, then die cut the flower into the front.  I then backed with a left over peice of purple brusho card, also cut with the same angle die.  I then die cut the flower overlay from orange brusho card.  Greeting stamped in grey. 

I loved how this one came out in that the stripes are all little stripes of left over brusho card which i then stuck onto white card to make a new 'paper'.  Only trouble is do i then keep all those little strips of paper now!  Card made in much the same way as the one above. 

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Now these next too came about completely from wanting to use up left over die cuts i amassed during last year.  The only extra i added was the sentiment. 

4.5x5.5" white linen card blank. The inverted scallop square i gently inked in blue distress ink.  I then used a scalloped border die to cut the grass from a scrap of brusho card.  The tree, flowers & rabbits had also been cut from brusho/pixie powder colour cardstock. 

and the same as the one above i just swapped the layout to the sentiment above the topper square. 

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4x4" card base, die cut into a octogan.  This one came about again after finding the die cut viola and octogan in my left overs draw.  Again all coloured with brusho/pixie powder mix.  I added extra the hello and little butterfly.  Gems to finish. 

Items Used:

Memory Box dies - large circle burst, darling viola flower, stitched octogens, 

Obsession Impression dies - seagulls, mini rabbits, 

Spellbinders dies - de-lites whimsical tree, thank you sentiment, fall foliage, 

MFT dies - basic stitched edges, 

Sizzix - forsythia build a flower dies, 

Simon Says Stamp dies - thank you sentiment

Justrite sentiment stamps

Paperartsy Zinski art stamps ZN09

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all have a good week and see some sunshine. Emma