Chicks to Penguins and a Robin

Good morning peeps.

Over at Twofer, Darnell and the team are in avian mode, two cards, two different layouts and occasions using the same image. Well my first thought was my Stampingbella chick stamps that I've used in the past to create Christmas cards by turning them into robins and penguins so here is this years take!

My first card was influenced by the challenges at LIM and AAA and a card featuring cats and baubles I found on the Stampingbella site. I know cats and birds don't usually mix but just give it a chance!

AAA want cards to feature twinchies, mine is slightly smaller but I think it fits the bill. I took one of the Stampingbella Bubble Chick images and added a bauble fixing freehand and turned the chick into a festive robin. I think his photo was captured after those cheeky robins from a couple of years ago found the Christmas tree and broke the string on one bauble and ended up on the floor!

I used a scrap of DP for wallpaper adding the sentiment from Woodware at the bottom of the die cut square. A small piece of gold twine was added to the bauble and then added to my twinchie on pads, a little Copic shading completes.

My second card is a birthday card using a few odds and ends from my scrap box and a couple of penguins that were left over from this project. I have been trying hard to use up all those leftovers this year, recycle and reuse, however my box doesn't look to be getting any emptier!

The background panel is a leftover from a smooshed one from whenever and the grass strip was also languishing in the bottom of the leftovers box, awaiting re use. The two penguins on balls were the ones from the stash, so I only had to stamp the large one and a spare ball, which started life as a bubble, on some scrap bits. Once the grass was added to my blue panel, I used a die to neaten it all up and added the footy, soccer for my US friends, playing penguins. I think they need a little more ball control, don't you? The sentiment strip and panel was then added to a white linen effect A6 base card.

Here are both of the cards featuring the same Bubble Chick, masquerading as a cheeky robin and as a failing footballing penguin!

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Just a Note of Thanks

Good morning folks, its time for a brand new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This week our theme is:-

KEYS

Well the first thing that sprang to mind was of course an actual key, then it went to key of the door. I knew I had a couple of small key stamps somewhere but could I find them? Anyway I had to think laterally then, musical keys, but how was I to do that, but then I thought of keys on a keyboard, well piano or computer. I did a search through my stash and found a set of music themed stamps that were free in a mag a while ago and came up with this, based on a card I think I remember but I can't recall where, typical me.

I think it will go to my music loving daughter who is coming to the end of her school term and will need a few thank you cards for her TAs.

I added a splash of Blueprint Sketch DI across the top third of my white A6 base card with a watercolour brush, then added the stamped and fussy cut keys together with a few stamped notes from a Uniko set and the sentiment from the same freebie set, when it was dry.

A very simple design.

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Masculine

 

Penguin Merry Christmas

Morning all.

Today I'm sharing a card for the new Male Room challenge where I'm their GD!

So a chance for you to get an early start on your Christmas stash! I was very good earlier in the year and have made quite a few cards but the late spring has found me fettling the garden rather than adding to my Christmas stash! Those weeds wont weed themselves!

Anyway, for this, I used one of the cute penguin digis from LOTV. I printed off a load last year and this little chap was languishing in the to be coloured box on my desk, as was the striped background. I made a batch of these strip backgrounds as its much easier to do loads at once and had this left over. They are a great way to use up all your scraps, of which I have tons, colour sorted in filing trays, sad I know, but easy to find the correct colour and Covid has given me plenty of time to tidy up my stash!

The layout is one I use a lot, in fact I probably made some like this for last Christmas, fussy cut, Copic coloured, penguin, background and a die cut white frame on an A5 white base card. The sentiment is part STAMPlorations die cut sentiment in white card and fun foam and an ancient Woodware stamped greeting.

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Christmas Cuties

When life gives you lemons ....

Good evening folks.

Time for a brand new challenge over at HLS CAS. Here's my card based on the theme.

This card uses a stamp set I've had for ages and has remained uninked, it's from Avery Elle and I love the large fruit images and the matching sentiments.

I started by inking up the lemon outline with Altenew's Pure Graphite, stamped two and heat embossed with clear EP on MM paper. Using Mustard Seed DI smooched onto my craft mat, I added the colour in a watercolour style, adding the detail with a Zig Water Color marker. For the leaves I used a mix of green Zig pens, then fussy cut them all out when dry. 

On one of the lemons, I stamped the sentiment with the same ink as before and heat embossed with clear EP.

On a panel of white card, I stamped the graduated dots using a Uniko stamp and Squeezed Lemonade DI and the fussy cut lemons were added, minus the odd leaf.

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Color Hues #21

I can't believe we are into July already, half the year has just whizzed by!

Anyway, 1st of the month means there's a brand new challenge over at Color Hues. Here's my card based on the new colour combo.

With it being July it could only be

Not being American, I didn't go down the 4th of July route but went with this cute lighthouse stamp that is part of a much larger collage stamp from Woodware called Sailing By.

To ensure I didn't get any unwanted stamping, I used a black watercolour brush pen to ink up just the parts of the stamp I needed.

The scene was coloured with Copic markers, pens for the sea and lighthouse and re-inkers and a sponge for the sky. To keep within our rules, I added a fussy cut strip of kraft card edged with grey Copic marker, across the bottom for the lighthouse to sit on. A few strokes from a white gel pen on the water gives the illusion of waves breaking.

To complete, I cut a frame with a couple of Avery Elle pierced rectangle dies, stamped the sentiment and then popped it up over a linen effect A5 card base.

So where will you go with these new colours? We'd love to see what you come up with.

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