Baiting Me Hook at Lava Lake

Hello Nomad friends.  Sometimes I can't be bothered to wait for the paint to dry and I ended up with a very interesting, albeit rather volcanic looking background.  But dragons like it toasty so it seemed the perfect place for this fishing fellow.

I started by brayering red acrylic paint onto some photo paper and when it was nearly dry I sponged on some grey acrylic onto a rays stencil and pressed it into the red paint.  Interesting effect and texture when I peeled the stencil off.    I stamped Whimsy Stamps Fishing Dragon on white card, coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut.  Then I added a Memory Box Happy Birthday chippy.

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Carrot Cake - Bunny Hop Post 7

Hello.  Welcome.  Squueeeeeee.  Two of my favourite things!  Bunny and Carrot Cake!!!  The photo doesn't do this one justice.  It is just so cute!!!  

I feel inspired to case myself, which is a rare thing.  

But honestly, cute or cute!!!!

Did I say Squuueeeeee!!  This is Whimsy Stamps Bunny Birthday.  I also used a die from Tim Holtz Mixed Media #3.  Hat and cake coloured with Promarkers, bunny Hickory Smoke distress ink.  A few glitter glue sprinkles and he's ready to party. 

It seems pets is a theme around the blogoverse at the moment and if your pet project happens to involve bunnies then you still have a couple of days to link up to my bunny hop.  There be prizes.  And bunnies.  Lots of bunnies......

Young Teddy listening to the radio

We are cute and we know it!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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AAA Cards Game 113 - Perfect Day hmmmmmm, cake.......

Chick Talk

Hello.  Welcome.  Hope you are having a fun Saturday.  I did a few things in the garden, but it's pretty chilly, so I decided to put together an ATC that I had an idea for.  For a change the picture in my brain became reality quite rapidly, once I located the chicken!!!

I spotted Art Impressions small Birdie stamp and it got me thinking about Janis' ATC with chickens challenge.

I cut an ATC from kraft using a Sizzix die and stamped it with Potting Soil archival ink and Whimsy Stamps Into The Farm background stamp.

I cut a piece of silver mirror card with the ATC die and then used Die-Versions Fence background die.  I used some real straw at the bottom of the card and stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut Art Impressions small Birdie stamp.  The sentiment is also Art Impressions.  

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Queen of the Zombie Ball

Hello.  Welcome.  Zombie chick you shall go to the ball.  

This is Whimsy Stamps Tai and Lisa, all dressed up and ready to party.  

For my background I cut a piece of pink marble card and then added some black and red acrylic paint splats.  I cut Taylored Expressions Spider Web die from rainbow metallic card.  I stamped Whimsy Stamps Tai and Lisa and fussy cut.  I coloured Lisa with Promarkers and Tai with distress inks.  I added some cobweb details to Lisa's shoes.  I used Whimsy Fa.Doodles stamps for the heart on her dress and the stitches on her face.  Tai's hat, the spider in Lisa's hand and the bats were cut using Cheery Lynn Witches Brew dies.  The sentiment is from Cheery Lynn's Fun With Frankenstein die set.  

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Bunny Smooshes

Hello.  Welcome.  Yesterday I spotted a card on the Joy Clair blog that I wanted to case, so I smooched some ink and found some stamps and well, it wasn't working.  Then today I'm looking for a plane or a car or a train and I spotted this bunny and yes!!  Perfect.  So here he is, with carrot flavoured sprinkles.  

This is Whimsy Stamps Bunny Birthday.  I stamped him on Prima patterned paper which had some old adverts on it.  I stamped, embossed, fussy cut, coloured with Promarkers and added some glitter glue sprinkles on his cupcake.  The sentiment is from Gummiapan stamped on kraft card.  

Here's my smooched background.  I used Salty Ocean, Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed distress inks and lots of water.   Love that little rainbow I got.

Here's Kerry's card that inspired me:

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Basilodes pepita

Hello.  Welcome.  PaperArtsy have a metallics challenge.  I have tried freehand embossing on metal before without too much success, but, emboldened by Linda's tutorial, I thought I'd have another go.  

I cut the moth from a gold metal sheet using a PaperArtsy moth die and added detail using some ball tools.  Then I used Whimsy FaDoodles stamps, that I was lucky to win in a giveaway from Mrs A.  Thanks Mrs A.  These are really cool and a great help for those of us with attention deficit LOL!  Lots of different styles and sizes of lines and then some little cuties to fill in the gaps.  In keeping with the metallic theme I went for gold embossing.  Sentiment by Unity.  

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Happy Mail Time

Hello.  Welcome.  If you like happy mail maybe you would like to join the Card Chain Challenge.  This is an international card exchange where you make a card and send it somewhere on planet earth and in return you get a card, from someone else, also on planet earth.  We are hoping to go intergalactic next year LOL.   Here's the card I sent to Sabrina in California

I used a Sizzix embossing folder on my black base card and highlighted with gold ink.  The girl is a Whimsy stamp and the sentiment is stamped and embossed with gold embossing powder.  Both the girl and the sentiment were stamped on snippets from my scraps collection.

You can see the complete June reveal HERE

If you would like to join the fun the July linky is open until 6th July.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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When I Grow Up

Hello.  Welcome.  I was lucky enough to win some stamps at Nordsalten Hobbyklubb last month and one was suitable for their current challenge, card for a child.  

I stamped Whimsy Stamps Fireman and fussy cut part of the image so I could use Sizzix Mixed Media die in the background.  I water coloured the fireman with distress inks and gold and silver pilot markers.  I cut the panel with Simon Says Stamp Stitched dies and mounted on a metallic gold card base.  Thanks to the ladies at Nordsalten Hobbyklubb and the sponsor Bokuben i Førde, for that cool stamp.  Hugz

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