In the garden

Good Morning everyone, i hope you had a good weekend - boy did it rain!

DL card (approx 4x8")  I cut a scalloped edge (yep its not very even/straight - i blame the heat when making it😀) I then got stamping with my paperartsy flower stamps & carabelle Zinouk in the garden to create a scene.  I added a little water colour and doodled in some ground for them to stand on.  I wanted the middle sunflower to have a longer stem to when i stamped it i didn't ink the very end of the stem so i then took a fine liner pen to extend it to make a nice tall sunflower.  I stamped some dragonflies.  

I splashed some of the inks i used to colour my images onto the background too - i know im doing that alot at the moment but for me personally it just softens all the white without having too busy a background.

I then stamped the flower heads and zinouk onto white card, i then watercoloured the heads with wink of stella pens so they have a lovely shimmer.  I then cut the coloured flower heads out, using a craft knife to cut around the inside design part, i then used glue gel to decoupage them over the ones on the main panel.

I cut Zinouk out and left her uncoloured so she stands out in a bright colourful garden, i gently curved her to add shape and attached with glue gel.  I did give her more of a smile with a fine liner pen as she is a bit moody otherwise😀

You can see the depth on my flowers better here, i added a piece of paper similar colours to those on the front to the inside after cutting it with the scalloped edge die.

Items Used:

Paperartsy stamps Zinskiart ZA38

Carabelle Stamps SA60158 'Zinouk du jardin'

Lavinia dragonfly stamps

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

MFT scalloped edge die

Wink of stella pens

CraftUK smooth white card

Ombre pattern paper

Thank you for all stopping by once again.  I hope its a good week for you. Hugs Emmax

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Rare Breeds

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing a birthday card i made for one of my brothers birthdays.  On his farm he likes to work with rare breeds and has been a little part of a revival in a few of them. His dairy herd is a mixed bag of breeds and his 2 donkeys like to run with the herd too.  He has just taken on 2 pigs of a lesser breed.  

This lot of Katzelkraft farm animals sure are a mixed bunch and very rare indeed with the lilac & green cow, purple pig and orange yellow donkey.  Mr Cockeral is a bit hyper and into everything and the lime, orange & pink duck has just lost the plot😁  

7x7 scalloped card blank.  On a piece of white card i stamped out my animals, i didn't bother masking them as knew i would be decoupaging the front ones so that would hide any overlapped stamping.  I also stamped out the cow, pig and duck onto another piece of card.

 I coloured them all simply with distress oxide inks. I then cut out the extra ones. 

I mounted my topper onto black cardstock and added a die cut white frame with foam tape.  

I cut a piece of white card smaller than my cardfront and embossed with a hessian effect embossing folder and lightly inked over the top with pale blue ink, i then attached to black card and my card base. 

I then added my extra animals with glue gel with the duck right at the front out of the frame.  I computer printed my sentiment to say 'Rare Breeds.......Oh Yes Indeed'  in a funky font and cut out wonky, mounted onto black card and attached to the card front. I doodled in some borders and added glossy accents to the eyes to finish.

A close up of the motley crew.  My brother actually has geese and not ducks but no goose stamp in the set so went with the fabulous duck instead.

Items Used:

Katzelkrafts Farm animal stamp set

MFT frame die

Crafters companion hessian 8x8 embossing folder

Distress Oxide inks

Thank you all for stopping by once again, i hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Emmax

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Splat Well Soon!

Good Morning all and welcome to another new week.  

So today im sharing more splats and neon.  

A6 white card blank.  I then cut to size white cardstock, layered on die cut splats in neon and then dry embossed with rain drops.  Inked the edges, wrapped with 3 colours of neon ribbon.  Stamped sentiment cut into a stitched oval and inked the edges.  Neon glitter gems to finish.  Making for fun funky get well card for all ages. 

Similar but different, debossed rain drops this time as i put it in the embossing folder the wrong way but it adds another interest i think. 

Items Used:

Justriste sentiment stamps ' CR-03815'

Papermania Neon cardstock, ribbon & gems

Creative expressions raindrop embossing folder

Thank you for stopping by and all your comments last week.  I hope you all have a good week. Emma 

Neon Splat flowers!

 Good Morning to you all.  I hope you are having a good week.  

So today im sharing some fun funky cards using neon and splats.  After looking for something in my stash and came across what i had left of my neon cardstock that papermania did in a range a couple of years ago, it seemed to be shouting out to go with my new splat flower die. 

White A6 cardblank, grey leather effect pattern paper, wrapped with neon ribbon.  I then die cut the splat 4 times, once in white and then again in the pink, orange and green neon, cut up the neon ones and layered onto the white one.  Neon gems to finish. Stamped sentiment die cut into a tag and tied on. 

As i had die cut 3 neon's i had enough for 3 cards. 

On uploading i noticed the stray cat hair in the photo on this one!  With 3 molting cats at the moment those pesky stray hairs get everywhere😊

Items used:  Justrite 'graceful sentiment' stamps CR-02147

Neon cardstock and ribbon - papermania

Neon gems - papermania

Splat flower die from china

If you like this you might also like:

Neon floral card

retro neon card

Thank you for stopping by and all your comments on monday.  Emma