WLS March #2 - Wildlife

Good Morning everyone

Time for some mid way inspiration for We Love Stamping with the theme this month

WILDLIFE

I have lots of stamps suitable for this theme but decided to go with an old pink ink one that hasn't been used in a while - this magnipheasant pheasant and stamped a feathery background for him too

8x8" card made from dark green cardstock and nesting dies.

I cut a smaller die from Ivory linen card and using my ombre ink pads stamped the feathers all over it, this i then die cut into frames using the same nesting dies - just because i can and it adds interest and breaks up the solid background.  The outside frame i adhered with 2mm foam tape, the next size down with 1mm foam tape and the middle section i adhered flat.  The green of the backing card peaks through which helps frame and draw the eye to the pheasant.

I then stamped the pheasant onto the same ivory linen cardstock.  Many of you know I dislike colouring in, so this time I decided to use the same ombre inkpads I used to stamp the feathers and small blending brushes and just picked up the colours on the brushes and blended onto the image....I was quite pleased with the outcome and was soooooo much quicker, of course in this case it helped with open areas and nothing too technical to pick out and the linen card adds texture! I added some white gel pen highlights and cut him out.

I stamped some larger feathers from an old SU set, cut out and added these behind him.  I adhered him into place with pinflair glue gel.

Stamped the greeting from the set with brown ink, cut out, matted onto some of the green card and added.

A close up on Mr Pheasant

As the nesting die set I used is round and I didn't want it rocking I cut a small sliver off the bottom of the back panel so it stands up straight.  This works well and then doesn't affect the aesthetic of the front

Just showing the ombre ink pads i used, ive had these for years and years, must be 8+ and they are so useful.  They have a lever that you click when you want to use them so they join together and then when you are finished before storing you unclick it and they separate so that the inks don't bleed together - very clever really.  Ive used them quite alot so they are now beginning to run out a bit and sadly I don't think you can get them any more.  A Co-incidence but i used the brown one of my first card for this months wildlife theme too.

Items Used:

Pink Ink designs

Stampin up 'fine feathers'

Creative Craft nesting dies 'stretched circles'

Kaleidacolor ink pads 'carribean sky, cappuccino delight & desert heat'

Unbranded nesting dies

CraftUk ltd ivory linen card

dark green card

White gel pen

We have lovely wildlife themed prize from aall&create this month

So hop over to We Love Stamping to join in, if wildlife isn't your thing we always have the anything goes option as long as you use stamping 

Thank you for stopping by once again.  Its scary how fast the weeks are passing at the moment. I hope you are having a good month of March. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-134-no-design-paper.html

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https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2026/03/march-2026-challenge-85-anything-goes.html - fur or feathers

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https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2026/03/neglected-stuff-march-2026-challenge.html - pink ink pheasant stamp  & stampin up feather stamps not used in a few years

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https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-187-birds-andor-bees.html

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https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-103.html

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2026/03/march-2026-tb-challenge.html

 

Embossed Baubles

Good Morning everyone

Going on from my last cards using up left over white pearl card off cuts i die cut lots of baubles and used various embossing folders on them.  Teamed up with off cuts of patterned papers.

DL size white base card - made using the same white pearl cardstock as my baubles, i had little strips of black card which ive glued to the back of the top and  bottom edge of my blue patterned paper for a faux mat layer, and then added this to my card base.  After embossing my baubles i very lightly inked over the top with black soot distress ink to just help the embossing stand out a little bit more.

I gently curved the baubles and added to the card with glue gel to give them a bit of dimension.  From snippets of card i die cut the bows and added with a touch of glitter glue to the centre to finish.

Version 2 is a black DL base card and i used white pearl for my faux matting and a different shaped bauble

Version 3 a nice tartan background

and version 4 is purple & pink

and below using smaller baubles for an A6 card

Made the same way with using little strips of black card for my faux mat look, the string and bow cut using the same bow die set too.  Stamped greeting to finish

and a black version. 

Items Used:

Spellbinders dies - baubles - 2011 & 2012 Heirloom Ornaments

bow die set

Cheerylynn Christmas sentiment die

Various embossing folders

Various patterned papers

Ranger stickles glitter glue

Black cardstock

White pearl cardstock

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you have a good week.  Hugs Emmaxx

Id love to enter the following with my first card

http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2021/11/ornamental-my-dear-watson.html

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https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/11/mlccb-40-november-anything-christmas.html

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Magnifipheasant Fathers Day

 Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing the card ive made for my dad for Fathers day - another Pink Ink stamp set😊 My parents have alot of pheasants around them and even a few that visit the bird feeding area & nesting in the garden so i thought this Image apt.

8x8 Dark green base card.  I cut a piece of white card to fit and stamped all the feathers from the stamp set with a Ombre ink pad, i then attached to the base.  I took a brusho&pixie powder background id made on the 6" round gelli plate and stamped the flower from the set in grey around the bottom edge.  I added to the base and added a circular frame die cut from white and green cardstock with foam tape. 

I then stamped the pheasant and coloured with inktense pencils and cut him out.  I stamped some feathers from the set and also a stampin up set and cut them out.  I attached them into the frame adding some real feathers to the tail area as well.  

I then stamped the sentiment and added a stampin up pheasant stamp to look like he was stood on top of the sentiment.  I cut this out and mounted onto dark green card and then the base. 

A close up on the pheasant, I added glossy accents to his eye

Items Used:

Pink Ink stamp - 'magnifipheasant'

Stampin up - 'fine feathers', 'walk in the wild'

Grand circle dies

Brushos & pixie powders

Kaleidacolor ombre ink pad 'cappuccino Delight'

Derwent inktense pencils

White & Dark green cardstock

Feathers

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good week.  Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/06/challenge-600-masculine.html

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http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2021/06/make-it-masculine-604.html

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https://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/challenge-151-dads-grandads.html

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http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/sweet-stampin-masculine-makes.html

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Carabelle stamps

Good Morning everyone, i hope you enjoyed the weekend.

So its time for a new challenge over at Make My Monday  with the theme for the next fortnight being

COLOUR AN IMAGE

Stamped or Digi image

I also decided to combine this with a birthday card for my best mate who is a little quirky so i dug out my paperartsy stamps and had fun.  Now im not really into colouring in, for me its not relaxing more a means to a end.  So i dont really do alot of it.  Anyway i went over board on this one and dug out the alcohol markers, wink of stella pens & distress markers. 

I first stamped all my stamps with black archival ink, making a little scene for the quirky dog.  I doodled on some butterflies.  Then die cut into a stitched square.

 I then added light colour to the background with diluted distress markers.  I coloured the flowers with alcohol markers.  I coloured the dog, sun & butterflies with wink of stella pens.  I stamped a second dog to cut out and decoupage on top of the first.  

Mounted onto a black die cut square and a white 7x7" white cardblank. Glitter glue to finish.

Just a close up on the dog image, its a shame photo doesn't catch the sparkle of the wink of stella pens. 

Items Used:

Paperartsy Zinski Art stamps - ZA09 & ZN19

Carabelle stamps -  Zinouk du jardin

Stampin up stamps -  Work of Art

Wink of stella pens

Tim Holtz Distress markers

Promarker alcohol pens

Black fineline pen

Signo white gel pen

White card as always is craftUK

Diamond Stickles glitter glue

So if you fancy joining in or seeing what everyone else comes up with then please hop over to mmmchallenge  

Wishing you all a lovely week, thank you for stopping by as always.  I really do appreciate it.  Emmax

Carabelle Stamps

Good Morning everyone,

Today i am sharing my first outing of my new carabelle stamps, continuing my new found like of quirky.  Their mermaid set is next on my wish list😉. I have coloured them all with Wink of Stella pens, sadly the photos don't show up the amazing sparkle these pens have and aqua tints.  

One of my new year craft resolutions is to use the aqua tints that have been at the back of my cupboard for years.  They are in large open pots so i was always terrified i would knock them over and the ink go everywhere, so i have decanted them into little bottles with tiny nozzles - much safer for me to use!

7x7" white card blank.  I die cut a square and then stamped my little scene, first stamping of them came out perfectly.  I used a black fine liner pen to add some ground and a few extra little plant tuffs.  I used aqua tints to do a wash of the sky in blue and the grass in greens.  

I then went over the flower stems with a green alcohol pen - just easier than tackling with a brush! I also did the girls skin with an alcohol pen.  I then added various colours of wink of stella to a craft sheet and water coloured the images with them. 

I edged the panel with dusty concord and black soot distress inks to help frame it.  Mounted onto black card and onto the cardblank of which i had stamped the greeting in the corners. 

5x7" card.  After die cutting a rectangle i stamped my little scene, again doodled some ground in.  I coloured the same as above, i went over the lines of the yellow flowers as wanted the feeling of dandelion type heads, fluffy.  Once dry i stamped the greeting, this is where the stamp platform comes in great as i could over stamp the sentiment on the unsmooth cardstock until i had it perfect.  Mounted onto black card and then the cardblank. 

As above just a different sentiment.

6x6 card.  Again i stamped the image (don't know the make), its all in one stamp this - then watercoloured with aqua tints and wink of stella pens.  Mounted onto black and then stamped greeting onto the cardblank.

Trying to show the sparkle, think you can just about catch it on the flower heads. 

Items used:

Carabelle 'Zinouk du Jardin'

Clearly besotted sentiment stamps

Stampin up work of art sentiment stamp

Dovecraft friends sentiment stamp

Wink of stella pens

Spectrum Noir Aqua tints.

I am finding stamping so much more fun with the stamp platform, no more dropped inky stamps or smudging.  

Thank you for stopping by and any comments you leave.  

One of my inspirational craft buddies set up a blog this week, if you were on docrafts you will know her as SomersetSteph, im sure she would love to see you if any of you fancy a peek in a spare moment.   Good Luck with your blog Steph. 

my-paper-corner.blog

Wishing you all a good weekend, hopefully we get to see some sunshine. Emmax

Seahorses & Flowers

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

Today im sharing another batch of cards that are similar to a design i did before which was popular in my box so just a different theme this time. 

6x6 white linen cardblank.  Brusho/pixie powder mix backgrounds, inverted scallop squares left over from another project.  I die cut into them with the memory box collage rings die and then stamped a greeting.  My seahorse is die cut from contrasting inked card, i then embossed the seahorse die into silver rainbow mirri card and cut around the outside, i then slotted the coloured seahorse over the top and glued together. 

Opposite colour combo

All the blues, 

and on to the flowers

I die cut the tim holtz mixed media dies into the inverted scallop squares and then stamped the greeting.  Flowers made up using stitched daisy dies, die cut foliage from silver rainbow mirri card.

Reds and greens.  

and on top little notelet cards

2 little cards. 3.5x6" white linen base. I die cut the white border using spellbinders lonely hearts die set, and then just cut the outside edge die from inked cardstock and off set them slightly.  Die cut sentiments from the same inked card.  I then added viva enamel drops and a white stitched daisy.

The same as above just a different colour combo.  The first outing of the spellbinders die, so just trying it out.    

You might also like:

thank you cards

Items used:

Memory box ring collage die

Cheerylynn seahorse die

Tim Holtz Mixed Media dies

Stitched daisy die

Memory box Massa leaf die

Simon Says stamp sentiment die

Spellbinders 'loney hearts' S4-483

Stampin up - wetlands (sentiment stamp)

Justrite sentiment stamps

Thank you for stopping by.  Also an apology after Steph (thanks Steph) mentioned comments not always getting through since the moderation is on, so i went investigating and found lots of you in the spam bin😢 - so now ive found a spam bin i will keep an eye on it.  Why it doesn't actually send the true spam (very naughty adult content!!!) comments there i don't know!  I switched on the moderation as got lots of weird messages left with links attached and didn't want any of my followers clicking on a link and something dodgy happening!  So i do apologise those of you who've had to come back several times, shouldn't happen again - hopefully! 

I hope you all have a good week and see some sunshine.  Hugs Emma

Make My Monday #51 - Monochrome

Good Morning all, welcome to a new week. 

So today is the start of a new challenge over at Make My Monday

The theme this time is

MONOCHROME

I decided to go with blue and white.  

A5 white card blank.  First i stamped the iris script image onto white card in blue ink and die cut with the leafy frame, keeping the die in place after embossing gently ink through it, so you get a blue frame around the image.  I then stamped the iris twice more and simply watercoloured in and cut out and decoupaged onto the main image.

I then cut a panel of white card bigger than the leafy frame and inked it up with the same blue inks, i then stamped the woodpanel on top to add interest. I added stickles frosted lace glitter to highlight the flower and around the frame edge. 

Close up of the flower, i layered up the flower head with glue gel. 

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque 'Elegant Iris - UA5SP0318'

Stampin up 'Hardwood - 133035'

Spellbinders die 'Branching out - S6-006'

Archival ink - colbalt blue

Distress inks - tumbled glass, salty ocean & chipped sapphire

Please do pop over to join in and see the rest of the DT work.

make my monday

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all have a good week. Emma 

Hollyhock Shaker Card

Good Morning Everyone, tis chilly out this morning.  So today im sharing this birthday card i made for a wonderful friend, using my all time favourite die, hollyhocks by impression obsession. 

First i die cut lots of hollyhocks from white card and then coloured them with wild honey & ripe persimmon distress inks. Die cut leaves from green card, i then die cut 2 mason jars from white card, uisng a knife i cut out the middle of one and backed with acetate, fill with glitter and mirco beads and added the 2nd one to the back, these i coloured with tumbled glass distress ink.  Brick embossing folder from Stampin Up and woodgrain from sizzix to give the jar something to sit on.  I was sad to see this one leave home but knew it was going to a loving home😎.  

Thank you for looking and all of you wonderful people leaving amazing comments, you make my day. Warm hugs Emma x