Bunny Shaker and Cowgirl Party

Hello Nomad friends.  My Favourite Things are having one of their Camp Create events and I was hoping to join in with all 5 of the challenges before close of play on Wednesday.  The first challenge is shakers and I have a bit of an up and down love/hate relationship with these.  Coincidentally Josi had a really cute shaker on the Rubber Dance blog today and her lovely tutorial made me pull on my big girl panties and go for it.

I love this big time.  Hugs and bunny!  What more could you want???   I used a burlap patterned card panel and cut MFT Big Hugs die.  I stamped one of MFT Easter Bunnies on the card panel and also on a scrap of white card.  I coloured and fussy cut the bunny and glued him over the stamped image.  I've used a scrap of plastic packaging for my window and craft foam for the layer.  I used the stripey side of a Kort og Godt patterned card for my card base. 

Inside the pattern is stars and I cut a panel of paper and stamped the bunny again.

I also wanted to enter the Emboss Resist challenge.  I found a scrap of card I had already stamped and embossed with Rubber Dance Buttons and white embossing powder.  I gave it a watercolour wash with Worn Lipstick distress ink, wiped off the embossed areas and cut with two stitch rectangle dies.  I inked all the edges with pink Promarker, inside and out, and glued them on to a base card.  I found a pink scrap that was big enough for a panel and the sentiment strip.  I cut it with the small stitched rectangle die and stamped MFT cowgirl from Saddle Up and Celebrate.  I stamped the sentiment from the same set on the remaining strip.  I coloured the cowgirl with Promarkers and added a little glitter to her hat.  I cut round her feet so I could slip the sentiment banner behind them.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Bunny Hugs is joining the fun at
MFT Stamps Camp Create Day 1 - Spectacular Shakers
Papercraft Challenge 72 - Shaker Cards
We Love Chocolate Baroque August Favourite Stamps Challenge anything bunny....

Cowgirl is joining the fun at
MFT Stamps Camp Create Day 3 - Emboss Resist
Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge 409
Stamping Sensations - Any Occasion

Leathered It!!

Hello Nomad friends.  It's my turn to share some fun Technique Time tips with your embossing folders over at the wonderful Let's Squash It! blog.  Today I am looking at things you can squash that aren't normal paper and card.  Hop on over for an interesting read, but first, my piece de resistance.........

I made this card with a piece of leather I embossed!
Cool or cool??!

I used Darice Ticket 30cm long embossing folder and brown leather

I used a Kort og Godt patterned card base and stencilled with Walnut Stain distress ink through a Prima stencil

 I added the embossed leather.  I cut some arrows from kraft card using Sizzix Movers and Shapers Arrow die and the Jallopy from the same leather, fluffy side out.  I stamped the arrows with Rubber Dance Bird Feet from the Gather Together set using brown archival and edged with brown Promarker.  The large arrow I fussy cut and stamped TH sentiment.   I die cut the Konfirmant sentiment from a scrap of brown card and added more stamped bird feet along the bottom of the card......

..... and on the inside along with TH Pointer stamp.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you enjoy my Technique Time ideas and come back on the 10th for a new Let's Squash It! challenge.  See you there.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Country View Challenge - Monochromatic
We Love 2 Create Challenge 8 - Anything Mixed Media
NSS Challenge 3 - For Big and Little Boys
Do-All Kreatives #56 - Transport + Vintage for Men

Splattered Deer

Hello Nomad friends.  Don't worry!  No deers were hurt in the making of this card!  The title is a bit dramatic but it's just paint splatts, nothing nasty bwahhahahahaaa.  Tried two new dies and a new idea, which turned into one of those WTFwasIthinking moments.  In this case many moments as I tried to paper piece the negative cuts back into the die cut sentiment aperture.......

I took a blue base card and smeared it with Salty Ocean distress oxide ink.  I took a piece of quite dark Kort og Godt patterned paper and splatted with silver acrylic Aztec paint.  Then I cut the Nellie Snellen Winter Scene 2 and Stamplorations Making Spirits Bright die into it.  Then I spent ages piecing back in the tiny piece from the sentiment.  A better brain would have realised this challenge before making it a chore, but there we go.......

Actually liking this very muchly.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
MFT Stamps Camp Create Day 5 - Delightful Diecuts
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 554
Stamplorations August Challenge
Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Summertime Blues

Old McSplendid's Farm

Hello Nomad friends.  Stumbled over Scrappegarasjen Mixed Media Inspiration Day.  This is an online meeting tomorrow, but they've already set three challenges today and we have until Sunday evening to play along.  So happy!!  The weather was looking a bit iffy and my Mojo is really flagging in the heat.  I decided I should do a bit outside before it rained, but walking past my craft room I thought of the first challenge - make something in 5 minutes.  Well, it's only 5 minutes.  Isn't it???   Turned out 5 minutes is an extremely short period of time, especially for time unaware slow crafters.

Anyway, this is what I wanted to make in 5 minutes!!!  Told you I am time challenged, in more ways than one!!!!

I watched the video made for the inspiration for this challenge and she gathered all her supplies before starting the clock.  That's handy cos I would have had to restart the clock at least twice already!!!!   I found a scrap of patterned card, a scrap of Bazzill, some Kaiserkraft corrugated tag and The Greeting Farm McSplendid Farm stamps (NBUS)

OK, so there was the stamping on the Bazzill with brown archival ink, the cutting up of the patterned panel and the inking of the edges with brown Promarker, the fussy cutting of the images and sentiments with more Promarker colour and edging and a little white gel pen here and there, the gluing together and the addition of the wool.  I managed to get the pig tag made in under 5 minutes, and also the hen one, another 5 minutes.  The cow and horse took longer, so didn't make the cut, but isn't it a cute set!!!!!   The cow was going to say Hi, but the Hi vanished, so I restamped a Hey, which I thought was more appropriate anyway........

Thanks for dropping by.  I did get out and do some weeding so that was good.  Now I have recharged with a lovely cup of tea and some freshly picked and cooked beans, so I am heading outside again while the sun is still shinning.  See you soon though.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Creative Fingers Challenge 213
Country View Challenge - Monochromatic
We Love 2 Create Challenge 8 - Anything Mixed Media
NSS Challenge 3 - For Big and Little Boys

A Leap in the Dark

Hello Nomad friends.  I made a card using Stamplorations Retro Stencil and Salty Ocean distress oxide the other day.   Thrifty crafter said don't waste that ink on that stencil, so I sprayed the inky stencil with water, turned it over on a black base card, put a heavy weight on it and went to bed.  Was very pleased with the result when I turned it over the next day.  Then I saw 52 Weeks to Christmas challenge and decided to play bingo with it.

Square card base, rectangle stencil so I smeared the 'unstencilled' areas with Salty Ocean distress oxide.  You can clearly see the difference between the activated oxidised ink and the fresh ink.  I cut Stamplorations deer from blue card, inked it with Promarkers to add some texture and added a swoosh of glitter glue.  Then I cut Papirdesigns God Jul (Merry Christmas) from blue card and added glitter glue for that extra Christmas bling.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
52 Weeks to Christmas July Challenge glitter, reindeer, blue
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 553
Christmas Craft Creations July Challenge - Anything Goes
Country View Challenge - Monochromatic
Stamplorations August Challenge
Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge

More With Triple Love

Hello Nomad friends.  Double bubble today and I'm over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity with a hot and tropical make for the new, bold, bright and beautiful Neon Challenge.  Use your stamps and neon colours to hustle on the hots of summer.  Neon's make me think tropical, and tropical makes me think PINEAPPLE!!!!

I've gone tall and thin and all Carmen's Veranda with the lovely Pineapple and More Hugs sentiment.  I started with a neon pink base card and chopped up some neon orange scraps into triangle shapes.  I arranged them in some sort of order on my card base and stamped the sentiment with black archival.  I masked it and bumped the stamp down a bit to stamp the more love again, mask, and repeat for triple love.  I did think about going crazy and stamping it down the whole length of the card, but my spacing was already a little wobbly by version three so I decided less truly is more.......   I stamped the pineapple on a scrap of neon green and a scrap of neon yellow, fussy cut, pieced em together and added it to my card.

Get out your stamps and your bold bright colours and join the NEON fun this fortnight for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars!  

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
We Love Chocolate Baroque August Favourite Stamps Challenge love this pineapple stamp.  Makes me think of summer and juicy treats.
Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge #408

This Is Me, Coming To You, Across the Miles

Hello Nomad friends.  The second of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge reveal.  Wot Dat??  Where U Bean????  The Card Chain Challenge is an international card exchange I help run.  Make a card, send a card, get a card.  Everyone gets a card.  We are all winners!!!!  Yeah!!!!  This month I made my card using Rubber Dance stamps and it's winging it's way to LaVon in Illinois.

I started with a patterned card base.  I stamped all over with the thin pointy leaf from Rubber Dance Things With Wings using Taylored Expression Cookie Monster ink.  I stamped the girl on a scrap of pink pearlescent paper and a scrap of yellow vellum.  I fussy cut the girl and then just her hair from the yellow vellum, layered them together and added a little green gel pen colour to her eyes.  I used black archival to stamp the lovely Rubber Dance sentiment.

Check out all the awesome cards that whizzed, limped, swam (we hope not so much), and flew around the planet this month.  So many amazing artists in this exchange.  Want to join the fun??  Sign up for August now!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
We Love Chocolate Baroque August Favourite Stamps Challenge love these girl stamps from Rubber Dance.  There are two sets and the images and sentiments work so well together.
Ally's Angels Challenge 48 - Anything Goes