How Lucky Is That??

Hello.  Welcome.  Still on the theme of luck.  Checked out lucky symbols.  Rabbit foot!  Never understand that one.  I mean how lucky is it for the rabbit??  And rabbit tails!  Please see previous sentence.  Why does chopping a bit off a rabbit make it lucky??  We got some funny ideas....... 

I coloured my ATC base with distress inks.  Then I stamped Cornish Heritage Farms Little People Collage using Memento London Fog.  I added some lucky 7's, a black cat cut using Sizzix Movers and Shapers die, a PaperArtsy LPC003 hat which I added three horseshoes cut using the smallest Go Create die, a 4 leaf clover and a lucky penny.   I went around the edge with VersaMagic Hint of Pesto.  

Joining the fun at
Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge 127 - Leprechauns and Luck
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Lucky
Stampotique Designers Challenge 138 - Green 
StampARTic February Challenge - A Pop of Colour

Thanks for your visit.  Thank you for your lovely comments.  Hugs

Lucky Cupcakes

Hello.  Welcome.  A happy St Patrick's Day to you all.  Well, you have to get with the mood don't you?  It seems it's lucky and green all over the place so I thought I'd offer up something along those lines as well.  

I have used Double Cupcake Anya from The Greetings Farm.  Coloured with Promarkers and sitting on a lucky horseshoe cut from green mirror card using a Go Create die.  I've used twine to suspend the horseshoe from the Tando Creative chipboard border which I coloured with Emerald Fantasy Prisme paint.  This chipboard is from Work of Parts Come Fly With Me kit.  She was hanging just from the twine but I realised that wouldn't work so I have used foam pads behind.  I've used a piece of brown wallpaper to back my panel.  Lovely texture.....

I have altered her a bit to make her cupcakes more lucky.  I think that was a strawberry on top but it looked enough like a heart that I stamped it lots, cut them out and made lucky four leaf clovers.  The butterfly was coloured with green Wink of Stella and then I added glossy accents.  It really brings out the sparkle.  The sentiment is a Crafty Individuals Stamp, distressed and coloured with DI Mowed Lawn and then mounted on a ribbon.  

 

Just a close up on the chipboard so you can see the detail and also the lovely effect of the Fantasy Prisme paint.  Like cracked enamel.  

My lucky lady is joining the fun at

The Greeting Farm FFF - Twine and Ribbon 

Tando Creative March Challenge - Brown, Green, Yellow 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Lucky
Loves Rubberstamps Challenge 94 - Shades of Green
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Mother's Day or Special Girl

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you are all having a lucky day.  Hugs

Just Around The Corner

Hello.  Welcome.  The weather is rubbish but I am still feeling springy.  It's Saturday so I've been working on my entry for the Cheery Lynn Challenge which this week is Easter.  Also over at Joan's Touch the recipe this week is a circle, peach, teal and layer your butterfly.  I had to check teal.  Then realised this was a friends wedding colours a few years ago.  Oh, that's what you call that colour.  So a search through the stash and I found Bazzill dots in peach and a few different papers from MME Collectable and a piece from Cratepaper that looked teal to me.   My pictures look a bit blue but these papers look blue green in the real. 

I used this sheet of MME which looked like basket weave.  That started me on Easter Baskets and I decided on a rocker card.  I cut a 15cm circle and then Cheery Lynn Spring Flower Burst Doily from the Cratepaper and the angel wing from the Bazzill.

  
I've used Cheery Lynn Designs BAF #1, BAF#3 embellishments, Wheat Heads, Cutie 2, Mini Dimensional Butterflies.  The big butterfly is Crafty Individuals Lacewing Butterfly and the frame for the sentiment was cut using Sizzix Scallop Rectangle die.  The sentiment is an Anita stamp.  I used Wink of Stella clear on the butterfly and the little flower centers are Glitz It Pearlescent glue.  I've also used VersaMagic Ocean Depth ink here and there

Joining the fun at
Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 123 - Easter
Joan's Touch - Challenge 4

Thanks for your visit.  Have a great weekend.  Hugs

Just a Little Fishy

Hello.  Welcome.  The wind is blowing the rain is raining and I am getting a little inky.  Hee hee.  Best way to spend a yukky afternoon.  As I have said next month is a big birthday month for the family so I am trying to get ahead, a very rare occurrence for me!!  I am sure I will get complaints from tropical fish experts about my fishy colours.  Especially from the young experts!   I will just plead artistic license.....

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I have used Distress Inks and an acrylic block to make my background.  I've used at least 10 different colours for this project so I'm not going to list them all.  I used a Hero Art stamp to make the frame.  Wasn't sure if it was a tree, but decided in the interests of this project it was coral and stamped all around the edge in Marigold and Worn Lipstick DI.  Then I used Salty Ocean and The Crafters Workshop Mini Numerals stencil.  Then Seedless Preseves all around the edge. 

 

The fish and the sentiment are both Hero Arts stamps.  I stamped with black archival on white card and fussy cut.  The fish were coloured with Sharpies and the sentiment with DI Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord.  The middle fish at the bottom is mounted on foam pads.  Doesn't really show in the photo but looks quite good in the real. 

Joining the fun at

A Blog Named Hero Challenge 39 - Stencil It

Hero Arts Birthday Challenge - Kids

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - D Is For Distress

ALBC - Are We There Yet

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Water Inspired 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you are warm and dry and getting some quality crafty time.  Hugs

Little Bow Sheep

Hello.  Welcome.  Just wanted to share a little black and white project that was inspired by Teresa Abajo's post over at PaperArtsy. 

 

I stamped my image from LPC003 onto white card.  Added some buttons, lace, ribbons, a flower and a wobbly eye!!  Yeah, it's a little strange.  I figure a sheep bow tie was needed as well.  This art is becoming a little Bizarre.   

 

I used texture paste through Memory Box Honeycomb stencil on matt black card.  I added some ribbon with letters on and the image.  

I was going to use a white card base but it didn't look right so I went with glossy black.  

My card joining the fun at

PaperArtsy

Inky Chicks Challenge 24 - Monochromatic 

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge - Monochrome 

Crafty Ribbons Challenge 80 - Ribbons and Bows 

The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Challenge - Letters, Words and Numbers 

Glad for your visit and your kind comments.  Hugs

Big Shoes

Hello.  Welcome.  Thanks you all for your lovely comments on my post before last.  I had such fun making that card and it seems most people, 8 out of 10 who expressed a preference LOL, would prefer to act their shoe size rather than their age.  Personally, since I have small feet and was quite a precocious 5 year old, I may have to find some bigger feet and act that size instead. 

I've been working on an ATC for Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge.  This week Jenn has set the challenge of Crazy for Coffee.  Knew I should have bought that coffee bean embossing folder!!  So short of coffee themed stash I went to the kitchen.

Tonight friends I have decided to build my ATC from coffee filters.  Natural colour ones of course.  If anyone is interested, including me if I check back for tips, stick your filter layers together before you cut.  Coffee filter paper stretches when wet so I cut, stuck and then had to cut again.  I think I went with 6 layers and am quite pleased with the thickness and strength of my ATC.

I forgot to take a picture before I added my letters but while my stuck together layers were still wet I added some instant coffee powder.  Doesn't that give a nice mottled effect.  And a little Eau de Kaffe as well.  I was going to die cut letters but couldn't find the size I liked and then decided I wanted big letters.  I fussy cut from brown card and went around the ATC edge with VersaMagic Jumbo Java chalk ink.  Did you see that?  Jumbo Java = Big Coffee.  Yeah?

I checked the stash for a suitably crazy looking subject and found Rabbit from Stampotique.  The coffee is coming to get you!!  He looks so worried.  I stamped him in Jumbo Java, just to keep with the theme.  

Coffee Crazed Rabbit is joining the fun at
Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge 126 - Crazy for Coffee
The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Challenge - Letters, Words and Numbers
Inky Chicks Challenge 24 - Monochromatic
Bunny Zoe's Crafts March Challenge - Monochrome
Country View Challenges - Paper Chase

Thanks for visiting and thanks to everyone who voted for my card over at Joan's Touch.  I wasn't lucky last week but am working on this weeks offering.  Take care, be crafty.

Steak and Chips

Hello.  Welcome.  Inspired by Joanne Wardle's one layer card and keen to try out my new Darcy snail stamp I made this.  Next month is a BIG birthday month for my family so I need to try and get a few cards in hand. 

I started stamping the circle die from PaperArtsy SIBM4 in Limelight and the PaperArtsy snail EM04 in Peacoat.  The circles were too pale and the detail on the snail was just a blur.  So I stamped the circles with Peacoat and the snail in black archival.  Then I masked the snail and splatted with Inky Pool and orange.  Wasn't so tidy today and my box of tags was in the firing line.  Oops!!  Ah, well, just call it art.  I did the torn distressed corner thing and then decided to add the bird on a post from PaperArtsy Bloom set and the sentiment from SIDD5.  I had some JM34 flowers left over from this project so I thought I'd use them here. 

Joining the fun at
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Kort o Mania Utfordring 103 - Fargekontraster
ALBC - Are We There Yet
StampARTic February Challenge - A Pop of Colour

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you are having a great weekend and have been lucky enough to see some sunshine.  Hugs