Midway inspiration at Fantasy Stampers

Afternoon folks.

Boy is it hot out there today. It's a good excuse to stay in the cool and just laze around, just like this kitty on my mid term inspiration for Fantasy Stampers.

This is a stamp I had languishing in the bottom of my coloured but not used box. I loved the stamp but didn't know what to do with it at the time. So as the theme at Fantasy Stampers is Animal Magic I thought it just the job. I kept it pretty CAS just adding a pierced border using my Little B squares on  6 x 6 square white base card. I used watercolour pens to colour this as I did it before I got hooked on Copics, it gives a softer effect.

So hope this inspires you to join in the fun at Fantasy Stampers with your animal inspired cards. Doesn't need to be of a fantasy nature just plain old fashioned stamping.

I shall enter the Anything Goes challenge at Less is More with this card.  As it's Chrissie's birthday today it's a bit of a free for all, so long as its CAS! That's another who shares my birthday, though not quite as famous as Mick Jagger.

It's a bit mad here as Ben and Co have descended to celebrate my birthday, so we went out for lunch by Dearnford Lake, beautiful and a breeze as well! 

Quiet Sunday Afternoon

Afternoon folks.

All is quiet at the mo, Al is playing on his ancient tractor and Ben and co have gone to a Christening in Liverpool. It's just me and the dog and some time to craft.

Doing my DT comments has opened up a world of different challenges that I haven't come across before, it's so good to find them, even better when you feel inspired.

On Wednesday I bought a couple of dies from The Craft Box before class. I pushed the boat out with one from a new company that I haven't seen before, Little B. I had to have a play! I also bought a fab rose die from Memory Box so I combined the two.

The new challenge at colourQ is to use these colours in your design.

Now these colours are from Stampin Up and I don't have any but I used what I had to make this.

As the rose image is actually a die cut I had to work out how to deal with it. I decided to die cut it, cover it in Versamark and then heat emboss in clear. I glued the outline to white card and used Copics (RV93,95,99,YG 03,13,17) to colour the leaves and flowers. I used a Spellbinders die to cut the white circle then a slightly larger one in bright yellow.

I used 2 of my Little B dies to cut and emboss the Kraft square which I mounted on a white square base card.

I shall also enter it in the latest CASology challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a good rest of the day.