I stamped Willow and masked her so I could stamp the scene on behind (2 stamps!) and then watercoloured the scene. I have used some neglected papers, and apart from a little mistake and so resizing of the elements have followed the sketch with no rotation (I do like rotating sketches!) . Rather than buttons and brads I have used some adhesive gems as I am on a drive to finish up all those bits and bobs that get left at the bottom of baskets! I punched my flowers and inked the edges and added a sentiment (3rd stamp). I did wonder what it would look like as the background dp is not a favourite of mine - but it looks OK!
We are all exhausted here - I spent the morning at Pre-school sweeping the carpark so it is clean and safe for the children to play on. I had to take Beth, who loved playing with the other children, and their favourite game was ... running through and kicking the piles of rubbish we had swept, lovely little helpful things that they are!!! I now have blisters on my hands and the back is worse than ever ... but my halo is very shiny!
Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Willow with flowers, Fall scene; Papermania sentiments
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Eva
Embellishments: punched flowers, gems and ribbon from stash
I had to use one of my new Sugar Nellie's (I am keeping some ogf my new stamps back for these challegnes so I don't run out of new stash LOL!). I watercoloured her and distressed the edges. I love this pack of K and Co and think it works really well with Elizabeth Bell stamps. I have kept it all quite simple so I only added some organza ribbon and punched flowers and leaves.
I watercoloured my Gorjuss girl and cut her out. I used my nesties to cut out the egg, and added adhesive gems and ribbon so it looked like an Easter Egg. I sat the Gorguss one on the ribbon (hubby thinks she is looking very possessive about all that chocolate!!) I used my Fiskars Threading water punch to do the scalloped edge and borrowed Ellie's egg punch to punch the eggs, and added gems to them. Some doodling, a bow and some text finished it off.
I thought I would go for colours I don't normally use on Christmas cards - I got the 12x12 paper stack for about £5 after Christmas. I think it wotks. I added ribbon and punched snowflakes.
I watercoloured the image and inked the edges in a gold based ink. I covered some of the matting paper with lacey ribbon. The image was cut out using my nesties and the tags using my sizzix die. I glimmer misted the cream flowers with tattered rose and added a red rose to the tag. The scroll/swirl is made using my new EK success scroll/swirl punches that arrived this morning. I finshed it off with a stamped swirl and a heart charm.
I coloured the duckling in using Promarkers and matted everything onto pink and green cardstock. I went to town with the doodling (perhaps a bit excessively!!)
I coloured this fab butterfly Tilda in in distress inks, cut her out and attacked the wings with turquoise stickles. I cut out and matted a hill onto the blue dp and matted Tilda so she looks like sheis running down the hill. I stamped some of the butterflies out, coloured and stickled them, and set them off flying. I added stickles to the edge of the circle and the centre of the punched flowers. Lacey and spotty ribbon and a scroll die cut finish it all off.
I have to thank Pauline for these images - I am trying to get hold of this stamp as I love the image. I coloured it in distress inks and then inked the edge up in dusky plum ink. The green cardstock is also inked up. I love these bright papers and to help them stand out I matted them onto pink cardstock. I added a couple of chipboard photo anchors coloured in gold promarker and a gold peel off sentiment. As the card is an order from my mum no ribbon or flowers :(.
I coloured him in and cut him out using my nesties. I find some of the Archiac papers hard to use, so I used them on this as I thought the blues and greys werre like water. I inked all the edges with dark brown ink, and kept the embellishments simple, just buttons with ribbon treaded through, and a chipboard photo corner and clip which I covered in the dp. I an liking putting things at an angle at the moment!
I love this ickle hedgie in the nutshell, and having coloured him I inked the edges and doodled. I used up scraps of my current favourite papers and doodled on and inked the edgesof some of them. I layered it all up onto my favourite colour of the moment - green, and stamped pink scrolls. Hubby got me some glamour mist from the girls as part of my Mothering sunday present so I sprayed some of that over the flowers and added gems. I stamped a sentiment to finish it off. Shock horror - it has no ribbon again (a total oversight!).
I have used one of my latest Magnolia Stampclub. I coloured her in distress inks and distressed the edges. The papers are from a mix of packs, and I used my fiskars threading water punch for the scallop - not used it for ages as it was at the back of the cupboard. Punched flowers again (I love my new punches!) I added a scalloped corner to the image to help it standout from the embossed cardstock. No ribbon again! Do check out the challenge and the DT cards.
OK I sneezed as I was putting her on the paper and she now looks like she is falling over!!! Tried to peel her off, but that was going to happen!
I used my largest scallop circle die to cut the card blank (to get the fold just keep a bit inside the die) and then ran it through the D'vine swirls folder. The folder is cut using 2 scalloped circles and the smallest circle, and I embossed them using the Swiss Dots folder. I cut into the circles and then inked the edges up to create petals. I layered them together and added a flower brad for the centre. I used punched leaves around the edge, and tied a ribbon at the top.
