Birthday Pony, Encouraging Pony, and Scrappy Owl

Three cards today!  I've been totally indulging myself in the Summer Olympics for the last 10 days but am now back in the craft room (when it's not too hot to be upstairs).  Two cooler cloudy days brought on a burst of creativity!

First up for my sister's 70th birthday and for the AAA Birthday Challenge "Critters" and the Seize the Birthday Challenge "Cute Critters":

Like me, my sister loves horses so I had to put a horse on her birthday card.  The image and the word "happy" are stamped and heat embossed in gold. I die cut "70th", then rubbed gold ink on it and heat embossed it with the same gold embossing powder. I die cut it twice more and glued them together to create lots of dimension. The panel is trimmed with a square die and popped up on fun foam on gold holographic star paper.

While I had the pony stamps at hand, I made a card for one of the therapeutic riding instructors I volunteer with who is leaving us to go off to grad school.  I'm linking it up with the My Time to Craft Challenge "Back to School".

I inked the tree up in green, the pony and rider in brown, and the sentiments in black, and bordered the focal panel with green and brown.

These stamps are made from images by the cartoonist, Thelwell, who did the funniest cartoons of children and ponies - all with very naughty ponies!

One final card.  For Jingle Belles "Holiday Leftovers" (use up scraps) and Snippets.

I used up some little scraps of white and green cs, and a small scrap of dp.  Stamped and watercoloured the image, trimmed with a deckle rectangle die, trimmed one of the green scraps with the next size up of deckle die, and then trimmed the scraps of dp and green cs with plain rectangle dies.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Isobel Craft Collection pony, Chocolate Baroque happy
Ink - ColorBox gold
Paper - white cs, Hot off the Press gold holographic star dp
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - Ranger Princess Gold embossing powder, Spellbinders square dies, unknown 70th die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Isobel Craft Collection
Ink - Memento Cottage Ivy, Archival Potting Soil, Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white, green, dark brown, medium brown cs; mixed media cs
Size - A2

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, green and off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Spellbinders rectangle and deckled rectangle dies