The theme for the current challenge on Stamping Sensations this month is ** Animals, Birds or Creatures**. I was fortunate to receive this lovely owl stamp as a gift very recently so of course I had to have a play so that I could pop along to the challenge with this card because it has a large bird and a couple of little mice 😉
Stamps - Lavinia and Inkspirations
Owl Coloured using Inktense pencils
The February theme at We Love Stamping is **ROMANCE**, very apt for this Valentine month and I've chosen to take along an Anniversary card featuring a couple of frogs which have been stamped, coloured and die cut. The large heart background was cut in two shades of pink, as was the shaped sentiment tag. I also cut out a few more smaller hearts for added interest. The sentiment was also stamped onto a piece of white card and then die cut..
Hearts - dies from Tonic - quite old so possibly no longer available
Sentiment Stamp - from a magazine freebie set, also from years ago
Sentiment Tag - from a Sue Wilson die set, again old so maybe no longer available
Frogs - from an unbranded stamp set, coloured using Inktense pencils
Here is my homework for the latest Snippets Playground Challenge. Sarn is in charge this time and she has made a super card from some of her lovely snippets. Of course there is a great prize to be won by the lucky person whose name is drawn at the end of the fortnight.
For this card I decided to use up a snippet of card which I'd coloured using various Pixie Powders and had a fancy to use my Crazy Bird stamps although when I started I had no idea what the finished result was going to be. Once I'd stamped and die cut the birds I decided I wasn't too keen on the outer margins of the die cuts which looked a bit too 'spotty' so I trimmed them much closer to the line with scissors - better!. Next I scrabbled through my box of sundry die cuts, mostly white ones, which I always save because they might be useful one day, and found some leafy branches. I coloured these using Distress ink pens and found some larger white snippets of card to cut the circle and to stamp and die cut the sentiment tags. Another little problem with the birds was that being stamped onto inky card their beaks and eyes were somewhat 'lost' so I stamped again onto snippets of white card and fussy cut the eyes and beaks so they could be layered. I also added a bit more colour to the bird bodies using coloured pencils. Found a snippet of blue card to tone with the birds and then assembled the card - that's it, job done 😉
Birds - Crazy Birds Sizzix Tim |Holtz
Branches - a very old Sizzix die
