Charlotte is 5

Good Morning everyone, welcome to September😄

Time for a new challenge over at https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/

Where the theme is 'coloured image' or you can always go with the anything goes as long as some stamping is involved & you mention which stamps used

Ive made this diamond pop up card for my niece Charlottes 5th birthday, she absolutely loves anything dog related.  Ive used this space dog stamp from art by marlene  and teamed up with space themed papers.

I made my 6x6" diamond fold card from white cardstock and added patterned paper panels.  I cut a piece smaller again for the top and die cut a starry circle into it, this i matted onto silver holographic card and then the front. 

I stamped the image, watercoloured with derwent inktense pencils and cut out, i added glossy accents to the space helmet and added him to the card front.  I die cut happy birthday from white card and matted onto navy paper and then the card front. 

I found some little flying saucer dies in my stash - no idea where they came from but ideal to embellish.  I die cut them from white, watercoloured and added detail with a black fine liner pen and added to the card base to finish.

You can make out the silver holographic mirror card better here, when the light hits it the stars really dance

So colouring in isn't my 'thing' I find staying inside lines very stressful which is why i usually fussy cut everything out and go for unrealistic colours to lessen the pressure of making it look realistic!

Just showing it side on

There is this flamingo in a spaceship stamp on the set too so i made a 2nd version for a friends birthday

Made the same way as the first one, however i decoupaged her spaceship for some dimension.  I love her little legs sticking out the bottom 😀

Items Used:

Studio Light 'Art By Marlene' stamps 'out of this world - walk about'

Paper pad - the works

Star circle die

Birthday & Spaceship dies

Silver holographic mirror card

Derwent inktense pencils

Ranger glossy accents

These are the fab prizes up for 2 lucky winners so do hop over to join in at We Love Stamping

Thank you all for popping by.  I hope you have a good week.  Emma

Id love enter the first card in the following:

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Flamingo Acetate card

Good Morning everyone, i hope you enjoyed the weekend.

Today im sharing a flamingo acetate card i made for my other sister in laws birthday.

Approx size 5x5.  I bought this memory box splash die years ago after seeing cards i loved with it and then never could find a way to use it - so this is its first outing at long last! Thought it was perfect with my funky flamingo stamp.  I used a patterned paper for my insert so that it shows through the acetate and the cut out sections of the die. 

I stamped and coloured my flamingo with oxide inks and cut her out, adding glossy accents to her eyes and touches of glitter.  Die cut sun and stamped my little smile word. 

Showing it side on so you can see the acetate better, i just attached the insert at the top inside so that the light can show through the bottom of the acetate.  

Just a close up on the flamingo. 

Items Used:

Katzelkraft flamingo stamp

Memory box 'splashing puddle' die

MFT sun die

Hunkydory acetate

B&M paper pad 'ombre'

Twinkle stickles

Thank you all for stopping by and i hope you have a goodish week.  Hugs Emmax

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Rainbow Flamingo

Good Morning everyone.

This fantastic flamingo stamp from Katzelkraft has been on my wish list since i first saw it - one of those i had to have!  Anyway stock finally arrived and she came into my hands just before lockdown. 

This is essentially A5 in size but the 2 parts make it the full A5.  So first i stamped my flamingo 5 times in black using my stamp platform and stamped the sentiment.  I then coloured them with oxide inks, adding extra detail with fine liner pens in the same colours to their wings and headdress. I cut to size and stamped some dots around the outside edge with the same inks, rounded the corners and matted onto black.

For the base card its approx 6x6 in size. To the sections that would be seen - the top and bottom edges i added the same inks used to colour the flamingos, then i stamped just the beautiful part of the sentiment all over in grey archival ink.  To finish i mounted the topper panel onto the base. 

Glossy accents to their eyes and glitter highlights & a black iridescent gems to the centre of their head dress and by the sentiment to finish.

Side on - you can see how the topper panel overlaps the base card - almost like an artists easel set up.  This came about as once id stamped 5 flamingos that panel was as wide as an A5 card and i wanted to add a colourful background.  Unusually for me not a single die used!

Items Used:

Katzelkraft flamingo stamp

Katzelkraft sentiment stamps

Stampin up Gorgeous grunge stamps

Oxide inks  - picked raspberry, ripe presimmon, twisted citron, peacock feathers, blueprint

Coloured fine liner pens

CraftUK white linen cardstock

black cardstock.

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you are all doing ok.  Stay safe. Hugs Emmaxx

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3 Flamingos

Good Morning all, i hope you are having a good week.

Today im sharing a fun flamingo's on the beach card.  I cut the circle burst into the card front to give an aperture peeking through to a yellow insert as the sun. 

6x5.5" white card base.  I first cut the circle burst into the cardbase.  I added a patterned yellow paper inside to peak through as the sun.  Torn kraft colour paper for the sand, die cut palm trees that i was sent by a buddy which i coloured with alcohol pens.  3 die cut flamingo's from card that had been coloured with oxide inks and pixie powders.  Stamped greeting. 

Showing the sun aperture better.  I know that in reality my flamingo's are rather big for the flamingo's but hey its artistic license😀

Items used:

Memory box circle burst die (large 98478)

Flamingo die - magazine freebie last year

Palm Trees - make unknown

Birthday sentiment stamp - magazine freebie

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you all have a good weekend. Emma

Alices 3th Birthday

Good Morning all, i hope you've had a good week. 

Today is my Niece Alice's 3rd Birthday,  She is Unicorn and Flamingo mad so i had to make cards with them on.  Purple is also her favourite colour. So we have purple flamingos which she always calls 'Mingo's' 

I first die cut a dark purple spellbinders labels 1 die cut, approx 6x6" in size and folded it in half.  I then die cut the next size down from white card and the next size down from this fabulous purple pattern paper.  I thought it had a bit of a tropical feel.  

I then die cut a smaller scalloped labels 1 and added it to the front with foam tape.  I die cut 3 'Mingo's' from card coloured with violet oxide ink and purple pixie powder.  I added these to the front.

Computer printed sentiments die cut into circles.  I added touches of glitter glue to the background flowers - what little girl doesn't love glitter.

Showing it stood up.  Only the bottom half of the white panel is glued to the purple base.

A close up of the purple Mingo's, i had also cut 2nd wings for them and shaped before adding to the body.

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and onto the second card i made - yep Unicorns.

The glitter unicorn is actually a sticker i found in a discount store, i used a purple pen on his mane, horn and tail. 

White die cut stepper card, i then die cut a cloudy sky paper and added to the front.  I turned the circle birthday sentiment into a shaker pouch.  I added orange card behind to act as the sun, i filled it with orange micro beads and silver glitter.  I added this to the cardfront and then added the unicorn.

I die cut  'Alice & 3' with alpha dies from silver glitter card and purple card and offset,   The number 3 i mounted onto a white circle and then silver circle.

Lots of tiny butterflies cut from orange card.

Just showing it stood up

Close up on the shaker part.  Hopefully Alice enjoys shaking it.  

Items Used:

Presscut stepper card die

MFT birthday circle die

Flamingo die (magazine freebie)

Spellbinders grand labels 1 & scalloped labels 1

Spellbinders circle dies

Memory box mini butterflies

Crafters Companion Alpha dies

Silver glitter Unicorn sticker

Thank you for stopping by and all your comments, I always appreciate them.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  Emma