E is for Earth Bound Animals

Hello, thanks for your visit. I hope you are well.

Today there is a new challenge over at Alphabet Challenges.

For the letter E we have Earth Bound Animals.

Please pop over for any details and to see the fabulous

inspiration created by the dream team, sorry,  I meant

the design team. 

For my card, I have again partly CASEd a card in the 

Creative Stamping #03 magazine, using a stamp from the

Go Wild set of stamps -manufactured by Crafty Individuals.

For the background I used a Circles embossing folder. 

Lightly blended Worn Lipstick DI partly over the card.

I used the leaves, sentiment and llama stamps from the set.

Added a paper sentiment. 

If you like animals and you enjoy stamping I highly 

recommend this Go Wild set.  

Please stay safe, alert and well. Happy crafting.

More Than One Fold

Hello, thanks for your visit. Today we begin a new challenge at 

Cardz 4 Galz - #123 More than One Score (Fold)

Please visit the blog for the details and to see the 

fabulous inspiration by the design team. They sure have 

enjoyed this challenge, lots to different types of folded

projects/cards.

For my card, I CASE'd the example given in a magazine

which also had the free set of stamps I used. 

Creative Stamping Magazine #3 - Stamps are Go Wild-

Manufacturer is Crafty Individuals Stamps. 

This is called a Bridge card - it is kept in position by,

in this case, a piece of acetate.

Please stay safe and well. Happy crafting.

#128 Use A Real Stamp (no Digi)

Hello, me again, thanks for your visit. Today we begin

a new challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenges

Challenge 128 - Use a Real Stamp (No digis)

For more details and to see the cards made by the DT

please pop over to the challenge blog.

For my card, I made a white easel card with blue and

beige card for background mats.

The main image is a Sloth stamp which is part of a

stamp set - Go Wild- which was with Issue #3 

Creative Stamping magazine.

I used Brushed Corduroy DI to stamp the sloth

and the leaves. I used pencils to colour the branch

and the sloth.  Please stay safe everyone. 

Z is for Zoo Animals

Hello, my best wishes to all my visitors. During these

uncertain days of the Coronavirus, please say safe and well.

I am even more thrilled for you to visit me. Today we 

begin a nw challenge over at Alphabet Challenges

I can't believe we have again reached the letter Z -

the challenge is Z is for Zoo Animals.

There are more details and wonderful inspiration from

the design team over on the blog, it's worth a visit.

I had a lot of fun with my card.

Last May I bought a new set of stamps - Zebras -

 from Hobby Art when I was at a Stamperama craft event.

I decided it was time they saw the light of day and some ink.

I couldn't work out how to create a card, 

after some thought, I stamped every stamp onto 

copy paper and played with them as if they were jigsaw pieces.

Once I had settled on my design, I created the background

 with Distress Inks, then inked the stamps and created this card.

I know the perspective is not perfect but I promise I will improve. 

Thanks  for visiting. 

Cute Animals

Hello again, this being such a difficult time, I am finding

my crafting and blogging to be such a benefit. Being able to 

share my crafting with my friends all over the world, is a 

way for us being able to get through this dreadful time together. 

Please stay safe and stay well. 

Today we begin a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz

Challenge #118 Cute Animals

More details available on the blog, plus cute inspiration 

from the design team.

My card is a small round scallop card.

A die cut circle of pretty paper and a strip

 of paper from my stash.  

Die cut Kraft circle and a heart edge round die cut,

stamped with the cutest elephants stamp from

Little Claire Designs (No longer available).

Coloured with prromarkers, pencil and Distress Ink.

Stamped leaves and flower from my stash. 

Such a small card and such a long post. Please

everyone do take care, and please stay well.

Stay indoors and use up your stash and Craft away.

Critters

Hello, today we have another challenge at Make My Monday.

Challenge #116 is Critters - either animals, birds, insects. 

Please join us and check out the inspiration from our DT.

For my card, confession straight up, I have so few 'critter' stamps,

and those I have are very much Christmas orientated.

My card this challenge has been constructed from  

magazine freebie papers, with additional black and bronze card

from my stash. A die cut for 'Hello' and a few black gems. 

Always handy for a quick card. Have fun whatever you do.

Include An Animal

Hello, welcome to my blog, I hope you are well.

Today we begin a new challenge at 

Sparkles Monthly Challenges

Jacky has chosen one which provides a huge variety

for you to choose  to create.  Your project is to 

Include An Animal

Please check out the blog, the DT have had fun

creating their cards to inspire you.

My card consists of papers and toppers from a set by

Creative Crafting World  -

The toppers were all hand painted by the amazingly 

talented lady, who sadly is no longer with us --

Pollyanna Pickering.

Have fun creating.

Wild Animals

Hello everyone, thanks for popping by. Today we begin a new

challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz. Sue has chosen ---

Wild Animals.

Please pop by the blog to see the few rules and of course

not to miss the super inspiration from the DT.

Lucky for me I found in my stash a sheet of zebras,

waiting to be decoupaged.  I remember buying this 

years ago, just goes to show, all our crafty bits are worth keeping. 

Card and  patterned card are also from my stash. 

Have fun with the Wild Animals.

C is for Cows

Hello again, welcome to my blog. Today we begin a new

challenge at Alphabet Challenges

Janis has chosen for the letter C - Cows

Please pop to the blog to see how the DT have created

their inspirational cards. 

I have used toppers and papers from Creative Crafting World

The artwork of Pollyanna Pickering who sadly was lost to us

after a very short illness. 

I hope you like my cows, have fun ladies. 

Fantastic News

I have been so excited and thrilled, and can now share my news. I have long admired the challenge blog Alphabet Challenges, so when I saw there was a DT call, I crossed my fingers and applied. I am so delighted to have been offered a place on the Design Team. Many thanks to the team and hello to my fellow new team members this week. We are coming in for the last letter of the alphabet Z - for Zoo Animals. I am always so happy to get an opportunity to use one of the four large aninal stamps I have from La Blanche bought ages ago on QVC. This is of the leopard. I added some corrugated card to the main card, to give a rustic background. I watercoloured the card with TH Distress Inks Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters. I then stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa, the large stamp of the leopard and leaves. I used watercolour pencils to colour the leaves. I then made two leaves (Sheena Douglass) to add to the end of the card, to place the Scrabble type letters. I re-stamped the animal again, coloured the light areas with Distress ink Old Paper. Tore and distressed the edges and adhered to the corrugated card with silicone. I do hope you like my Zoo animal, I am so looking forward to visiting your blogs to see your Zoo Animals. Please be sure to pop over to the blog for the DT have made some fabulous cards, to inspire you.

I am also entering this crd into the Animals challenge at Dream Valley Challenges

An Animal Challenge

Continuing our month of NATURE at MAKE MY MONDAY, this week we would like to see Animals.  Any size, pet or wild, the choice is yours. Please rememebr this is not a samping challenge so you could use any of your CD's or decoupage sheets to make a card. Also any form of a project is acceptable, a card, a tag, a scrapbook LO. Please check the rules on the challenge blog. Also the remainder of the team, have some really cute animals for you to see. I look forward to visiting you to see your animal choices.
I was fortunate some time ago to buy 4 x La Blanche stamps of African animals, I decided to stamp the Zebras for this challenge. All of the colouring was completed using several TH Distress inks as watercolours.
I stamped the Zebras first onto white card. The watercolour technique I use is achieved by, stamping your chosen colour either onto a white tile or an acrylic stamping block with a piee of white paper underneath, which helps you to see the ink on the see through block. I use a large brush, spritz some water onto the ink.
I then covered all the lower area, below the hills with Peeled paint, the mountains with Frayed Burlap, the foreground with Bundled Sage, the grass was stamped with Forest Moss, using some grass stamps I bought on E Bay. Once dry I then re-painted some areas to give more shading.
The sky was first watercoloured with Mustard Seed, dried, then Dried Marigold, at this stage I made a circle template, punching out a circle onto a piece of card, plced over where I needed it. Stamped the top part of the Zebra's head onto a post it note, covered the area within the sun. I then used Barn Door, less diluted than the previous areas, to paint the reddish sun. removed the mask and template. Once dry, I added more water to the Barn door and smeared the sky. I allowed this to dry then brushed over all of the sky with clear water to dilute over strong colours. the birds stamped when dry, are from Inkylicious.I have added the details of how I achieved the background, as requested by craft a scene, I hadn't originally for I thought it ight be just a bit too much information to read, however, I realise there are some who may be wondering.
I am also entering this card into Craft-a-Scene, I don't know whether it will be okay for sadly I don't have any Scenescape stamps which is their main aim.
Crafty Anne's Challenge Blog - Let's Think Hot!

Wild Thing

This week at My Time To Craft they have challenged us to Wildlife Reserve, terrific, another chance to use a favourite stamp of mine by La Blanche. I have a set of 4, but this is my favourite one.  I stamped the leopard onto white card and used several chalks to colour it. I glazed the eyes and the nose to make them look more life-like.  This is an A5 card which helps to show it is quite a large stamp.