WLS May#2 - All creatures great and small

 Good Morning everyone

Time for some midway inspiration for We Love Stamping where the theme is 

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

I went with one of the smallest creatures (mouse) last time so this time its one of the largest creatures and this fabulous whale stamp from aall&create, this is another one thats been neglected for a while too so good to get it out.  I have teamed it up with one of my brusho/pixie powder backgrounds - I have a draw full of backgrounds as I often have sessions making them when i don't feel like properly crafting... plus I make such a mess using brushos that its good to get lots made at once and then one lot of clean up!

Card Size approx 5x7" die cut from navy blue cardstock, I felt the rounded corners on this die set picked up on the curve of the whale nicely. I die cut my brusho & pixie powder background to fit the card front, then stamped the whale stamp with blue versaclair ink and then used a circle embossing folder - this to pick up on bubbles in the water. I then lightly inked over the top with chipped sapphire distress ink to just help the embossing stand out a little bit more - not too heavy as i still wanted it to be in the background.  I used posca paint pens on the background stamping to add a little bit extra colour, using yellow and white on some of the hexagons.

I then stamped the whale onto a pinky patterned paper which is not a very realistic colour I know but a nice contrast to the background!  I added some white pen highlights, curved her body and adhered into place with glue gel.

I then die cut some seaweed bits from green holographic card off cuts that were on my desk.  Sentiments stamped onto white with the same blue ink and adhered into place - these sentiments come from a ZinskiArt mermaid set but fit well i feel.

You can make out the mica of the pixie powders in the background better here and the holographic seaweed, both shimmer & dance when the light hits them like the sparkle of sunshine on the water.

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and version 2 which is more muted

Made almost the same way as the first one but this time i started with a background made using oxide inks so very muted.  I die cut an old tim holtz holey die into the background and matted onto silver holographic cardstock.  The whale was stamped onto card that had been sprayed with blue & purple ink and bright pink mica spray.

Hard to really show off the holographic but you can make it out more on the bottom of the photo, with the matt finish of the oxide background it really shimmers and dances - i went with this to give the effect of bubbles in the water

Items Used:

aall&create stamp #390 'sea life'

Funky Fossil 'ZinskiArt' stamp set 'Making waves'

Funky Fossil stamp set 'weird fish'

Sizzix circle embossing folder (very old!)

? Nesting dies

Dawn Bibby die set DBC0371 'Into the deep' embellishment set

Brusho Powders

Cosmic shimmer pixie powder

Chipped Sapphire distress ink

Distress Oxide - shaded lilac, cracked pistachio, tumbled glass & iced spruce

Versafine Clair ink 'Medieval blue'

Silver & green holographic card from Aldi

Navy cardstock

We have these lovely stamps from aall&create as the prize this month so hop over to We love stamping to join in, as well as the all creatures great and small theme we always have the anything goes option as long as you include stamping.

Id love to enter card one into the following:

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/05/challenge-136-not-square.html

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https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2026/05/critter-crazy-challenges-110-anything.html

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https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2026/05/challenge-105.html

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https://creativefriday.blogspot.com/2026/05/creative-friday-411-jedes-tier-ist.html - all animals permitted

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Sun, Sea, Sand #2

Good Morning everyone

Mid way though July so time for another sun, sea, sand inspired make at We Love Stamping

or you can always go with the anything goes option as long as some stamping is involved 

This time ive just gone with the sea

Ive used this lovely printed acetate from Stamperia for my card front, so it gives a lovely glossy finish with its sea print.

I stamped the aall&create whale scene onto white card with greeny blue ombre ink pad and die cut into spellbinders labels 4 shape.  I added stencilling to the background with pale oxide inks & stamped some bubbles.

I stamped the whale again onto more white card this time with a dark blue ink, watercoloured with pink and peach distress inks so that it contrasts with all the green//blue, cut out just the whale and decoupaged onto the base image with glue gel.

I stamped some shells with the same pink, peach & lilac inks, cut out and arranged onto the card front along with some real shells ive collected over the years.  Stamped sentiment and some stickles glitter glue details to finish.

This is really thick weight acetate so I just used it as the card front and used plain white card for the back, i scored a flap at the top of the white card to which i attached the acetate.  I rounded the corners with my corner chomper which easily cuts through the thick acetate & 300gsm cardstock together - the rounded corners pick up on the rounded edge of the die cut

This months prizes that you could win 

Items Used:

aall&create stamp 'sea life'

Chocolate baroque stamp set 'seashell collage'

Visible image stamp set 'swim deep'

Lavinia stencil

Stamperia acetate - clear prints (SBA415) 'Vagabond in Japan'

Distress Inks ' picked raspberry, shaded lilac, 

Kailiedacolor ombre inkpad 'Caribbean sea'

Thank you for popping by once again.  Its scary how fast the weeks are passing and that next week the schools break up.  Emmax

Id love to enter:

https://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/07/inkspirational-challenge-320-designers.html  - Ive used stamps from aall&create, chocolate baroque & visible image

https://starstampz.blogspot.com/2024/07/challenge-60-anything-goesin-or-beside.html

 

Happy Whale

Good Morning everyone

Today is a bright and fun birthday card using the aall&create sea life stamp set.  Ive given him a very sparkle background with wink of stella pens

A5 navy cardblank.  I cut a piece of white card to fit my card base and made a background with wink of stella pens & water in blue, purple & green.  Once dried i stamped the whale stamp.  I added some extra detail with a black fineliner pen.  I then used a paintbrush and water & dabbing with a tissue to remove some of the ink from the circles, hexagons & swirl around the whale. I stamped some extra details with oxide inks.  I then stencilled on some circles with oxide ink & small dots with gold paint and edged the whole panel with gold starlight paint. 

I stamped the whale  again onto white, watercoloured with distress inks, cut out the whale & added over the top of the main one with glue gel.  Die cut sentiment to finish from white and navy cardstock. 

A close up on the whale

Trying to show the gold paint - it really has an amazing shine and shimmer and lovely for little stencilled accents.  Sadly the photos don't really pick up the sparkle of the background either.

Just showing it side on

Items Used:

Aall&create stamps 'sea life'

Grunge stamps

circles, little dots stencils

Sentiment dies

Imagination Crafts Starlight paint 'rich gold'

Kuratake wink of stella pens

Distress inks - lemonade & honey

Thank you all for stopping by.  Hugs Emmaxx

Id love to enter the following:

http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2021/05/422-stencils-on-project.html

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http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-challenge-add-some-

sparkle.html

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https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2021/05/challenge-50-sponsored-by-tnt.html

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http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2021/05/challenge-601-sand-and-sea.html

 

All at sea

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing 3 cards i made with my Christmas present - these aall&create stamps - love the sea theme.  Here i just used backgrounds id made before and left the creatures white so they stood out against the colourful backgrounds.

A thank you card for my Uncle

A6 white cardblank.  After picking my background - this one is oxide inks (pistachio & ocean) i die cut the scalloped frame die, on the middle panel i then stamped the image in black and then die cut the tim holtz die from the middle - i thought the little holes could be bubbles.  I then attached a piece of silver mirror card to the back and attached to the middle of the card.  I added foam tape to the back of the frame and attached that.  I stamped the image twice more and just cut out the octopus on one and just the hat on the second one and added colour to the hat.  I then added them to the base card.  Stamped sentiment to finish.

Showing it stood up - please ignore my face showing in the mirror card in the background - getting a good photo was not easy😁

Version 2 is using the whale stamp exactly the same way for a little hello friend card

Version 3 - the seahorse stamp is much smaller so i used a smaller scalloped frame die for a 3x5" card.  This background again from the 'pile' is brushos and pixie powders so has a lovely shimmer. Glossy accents 'water drops' added to embellish. 

Items Used:

aall&create stamps #390 sea life

Sentiment stamps

Tim Holtz Mixed Media die set

Scalloped frame die set

CraftUK ltd white card

Brusho's & Pixie powders

Oxide inks

Glossy accents

Thank yo all for stopping by and all your amazing comments on my mums birthday bee card.  Stay safe. Hugs Emmax

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Id love to enter the following with the octopus card:

https://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/challenge-146-animals-dt-call.html

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http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/01/week-607-something-new.html

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http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/01/challenge-448-thank-you.html

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http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/sweet-stampin-thank-you.html

http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2021/01/challenge-126-for-january.html