Christmas Robins

Good Morning everyone. 

  Thank you for all your amazing comments on my butterfly card.

Today is a Chrismtas card using the lovely robin paper cut die, you will be sick of seeing acetate i know but these are acetate cards again😊 - ive lined them with colourful inserts and they are totally flat for posting - very rare for me!

6x6 snowfall acetate card blank.  From white pearl cardstock i die cut the robins, i coloured with with oxide inks - vintage photo & campfire for the robins and then pistachio around them. I added sizzix biodegrable glitter to the robins tummy's.   Stamped a greeting and then glued the panel to the front of my acetate card.  I then raided my very old paper stash and found some suitable for the backgrounds to my robins to use for the inserts. 

Trying to show the shine of the glitter, i also added stickles to the mistletoe.  Looking at this photo reminds me that i added black acrylic paint to the back of the robin's eyes, once the robins were glued to the acetate i used a black paint pen and added a little dot to the inside of the acetate where the eyes are. 

and version 2 - made the same way just a different sentiment & paper for the insert.  I made several of these as ideal for batch making 

Items Used:

Creative expressions paper cuts die 'under the mistletoe'

Hunkydory snowfall acetate

Various sentiment stamps

Various patterned papers

Sizzix biodegradable glitter 'caramel toffee 663870'

Tim Holtz oxide inks - cracked pistachio, crackling campfire, vintage photo

White pearl cardstock

Ranger stickles 'crystal'

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I can't believe its half term, its scary how fast this month gone by.  I hope you all have a good week.  Hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the following:

https://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com/2021/10/crazy-4-challenges-c4c607.html

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https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2021/10/peace-on-earth-christmas-challenge-2.html

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https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-scrapflower-estudio-time.html

 

Happy Mothers Day

 Good Morning everyone, i hope you all had a good weekend. 

Today is the card i made for my Mum for Mothers day, usually i go full on flower power but on seeing this Robin papercuts die thought it would be ideal as she also loves all her garden birds and has loads at the bird feeding area outside the kitchen window, including a few pheasants.  The die is Creative Expressions papercuts under the mistletoe so for Christmas but i think it works just as well all year round and you could easily cut off the mistletoe and you don't just see Robins at Christmas!

Approx 6x5.5" card.  I started with white pearl cardstock, cut to size and then die cut the robins from the front of the card. I then added colour to the robins with oxide inks.  I used a blue paper for my insert to act as the sky for my robins, rounding the top corners.  I die cut a flower from teh same blue paper and foliage from the white pearl card coloured with oxide inks so it all ties nicely together.  Stamped sentiment and large gem to finish.

For the insert i just added a little glue to the front panel and the back so that robins are loose and have movement but protected by the insert from too much damage. 

I can confirm she loved it

Items Used:

Creative Expressions Papercuts die - under the mistletoe

12x12" blue ombre paper - the works

White pearl card

Justrite sentiment stamp

Oxide inks campfire, black soot, pistachio & citron (to make the brown i added a little back to the campfire which i used on their redbreast)

At the bottom of the page is the gift ive made mum, but if you don't like spiders you might not want to look😁    Thank you all for stopping by, i hope you all have a good week. Stay safe. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

http://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2021/03/challenge-79-use-dies-andor-spring.html

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https://thelibrarycraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/02/challenge-78-garden-birdwatchers-bible.html

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http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/03/challenge-452-make-it-feminine.html

And this is the gift ive made for mum.  Its for the garden, to go on the shed i thought, a giant 4" beaded spider and a web for him built around a hanging basket bracket, ive added more light catching beads into the web to glint in the light.  Just for something a bit different. 

Its not quite anatomically correct.  I used the large red and gold glass beads and then diamante beads in the legs.

Ive wrapped half hard black wire around the hook adding in a mix of black and silver beads.   Ignore those loose wire ends, once its in place and its decided on the length drop of the spider i will adjust and wire it in properly.