Summer Cottage Garden and Dove Flying High

A card for Shopping Our Stash's "Summertime" challenge and Allsorts "Garden" challenge:

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, trimmed with a pierced dot rectangle die and layered over a pink rectangle so that the pink shows through the pierced dots.  Then bordered with some floral dp, and added to a yellow card base.

I used the same floral dp to line an envelope:

 

 

It's going to a friend who just bought a new house.

 

Try It On Tuesday's challenge is "Flying High" - something that flies high in the sky.  I made a peace-themed Christmas card with a dove flying high among the stars.

 

I sponged silver ink through a star die, leaving space on the bottom right corner for a stamped heat embossed sentiment.  I covered a piece of scrap cs with double sided tape and added blue / silver gilding flakes.  Then die cut the dove out of it.
 

     

 

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps -
Ink -
Paper -
Size -
Accessories -

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - silver
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Sizzix Delicate Wings dove die, Cosmic Shimmer Blue Ice gilding flakes, star stencil, silver embossing powder

Garden Flowers, Christmas Animals

A twofer today.  For the Sisterhood of Crafters "In the Garden", I used a flower stamp and a dp that talks about gardens, seeds, and growing.

The image is watercoloured, with a bit of splattering around it. The sentiment is heat embossed.  I used a scrap of the dp and a strip of black cs down the side.

The second card is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Pets" and My Time to Craft Christmas "Christmas Animals":

I used coloured pencils for the image, trimmed it with an oval die, put it on fun foam on a nice warm red patterned paper background.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Altenew Charmed, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, black and white cs, Graphic 45 dp
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, clear embossing powder

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SSS Furry Friends, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs, patterned paper
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Spellbinders oval die, fun foam

Deer Eating the Garden

A friend of mine who is a keen gardener moved to an island from the city, and now has to battle the local wild deer who keep coming out of the woods and eating her beloved flowers and shrubs (they can jump over the high fence she built). So I made her a birthday card depicting this!

I stamped the Tim Holtz trees for the woods, then stenciled a tiny bit of a grid stencil to represent the fence and put a leaping die cut deer in front of it.

In the bottom left, I used some small Rubber Stamp Tapestry peg stamps in various colours to create shrubbery and flowers, and put a grazing deer there, trampling the bushes and eating the flowers.

I filled in all the remaining space with quite a large sentiment stamp.

I'm hoping she'll laugh rather than cry when she gets the card!

Linking up with:

Seize the Birthday "Create a Scene"

 

AAA Birthday "A Large Sentiment"

 

Supplies:
Stamps - Rubber Stamp Tapestry flowers, Inkdadinkado sentiment, Tim Holtz trees
Ink - various Memento inks
Paper - white and brown cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Impression Obsession and Memory Box reindeer dies, TCW Sketch Grid stencil, brown coloured pencil, fun foam

Flower Garden Twofer

Sneaking in under the wire for this month's Twofer Challenge "Garden".

 

I used a stamp that looks like one of my flower beds - a bit overgrown and chaotic!

 

Here's the first card, a thank you card:

I stamped and heat embossed the image in white on kraft cs and then coloured the poppies with a white coloured pencil.  I cut the image into three even sections and carefully spaced them on a linen card base.  Finished off by adding a sentiment die cut from a snippet of kraft cs.

The second one is a birthday card:

This time I stamped the image in black archival ink on watercolour paper and watercoloured the poppies in red.  I trimmed the panel and added strips of red cs to the two ends so that it would be perfectly centred on the cream card base.  I popped it up on fun foam for some dimension and added a drop of black enamel to the centre of each poppy.

Thanks, Darnell, for a great theme - perfect for me as I'm a passionate gardener!

Supplies for card one:

Stamps - IndigoBlu flowers

Ink - ColorBox white

Paper - cream linen cs, kraft cs

Size - 6x4.25"

Accessories - white embossing powder, Tattered Lace sentiment die

Supplies for card two:

Stamps - IndigoBlu flowers, PTI sentiment

Ink - Archival Jet Black

Paper - watercolour paper, cream and red cs

Size - 6.25x3.5"

Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam, black enamel liquid dots

A Lush Garden

I'm back with a reminder card for CAS Watercolour's March challenge:

It seemed the perfect opportunity to use a stamp I bought a few years ago.  So good to get it inked up!

The sentiment is part of the stamp - it says "May aging be forgotten when life's memories are remembered."  So I will probably use it as a birthday card.

It's stamped and watercoloured with my favourite watercolours - my Gansai Tambi set.  I die cut it with a stitched square die and was going to just pop it up on fun foam on the card base but it looked too plain, so I added a dry embossed background for texture and interest.

You have until March 24th to enter a card at CAS Watercolour.  It needs to be clean and simple, and follow the theme of "Garden" - not just a single flower but something that represents a garden more than that.

Supplies:

Stamps - Art Impressions Memories Window

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Paper - watercolour paper, PTI Vintage Cream

Size - 4.75" square

Accessories - Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, Lil Inker stitched square die, Sizzix Floral embossing folder

In the Garden

I'm home from a lovely couple of days visiting a friend who lives on a island off the coast of Vancouver - lots of walks with our dogs, some good food and wine, sitting by the fire, and catching up.  It was so relaxing.

Now trying to catch up with a couple of challenges, starting with SCS Free for All "In the Garden" - a project with something you would find in the garden.

I used a NBUS stamp from Penny Black - I've had it for ages (shame on me). It's got spring blossom, a bird, and a butterfly - all things I find in my garden.

Watercoloured, die cut with a stitched square, and popped up on fun foam - pretty basic!

I'll be back tomorrow with more.

Supplies:

Stamps - Penny Black

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Paper - watercolour paper, white cs

Size - 5" square

Accessories - Gansai watercolour paints, Lil Inker stitched square die, fun foam