Just Puddling

Welcome and thanks for visiting - it's great to see you here.

The other day I was given a copy of the latest Papercrafts magazine, and was inspired by a card by Laura Pryor, where she scribbled on water-colour paper, and then misted it with water.  

I cased it and made this card

The card base was randomly stamped with a large snowflake stamp and Versamark.

The feature panel was made with water colour crayons scribbled on water colour paper and spritzed with water, and then sprayed with silver Glimmer Mist. One edge was torn to add texture.

The twine I used is from Layers of Color, and is somewhat different being purple with a gold strand through it.

I added a sentiment panel which was raised with a pile of foam dots.  The buttons were adhered with glue dots.  This last photo shows some of the glimmer on the feature panel.

I am linking this to: 

Allsorts Challenge #142 - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge #170 - Create Your Own Background

Rouge Redhead Challenge #8 - Stamped Background

Thanks for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Pukeko!!

Greetings - I am so glad you choose to come and visit my blog.

The subject of this post is a New Zealand indigenous bird, the Pukeko, also known as a Swamp Hen in other parts of the world.

I love this stylized stamp of these birds which so captures their cheeky nature.

I ran the card through the Flourished Frame folder to emboss it, and stamped the birds inside the frame. 

The birds were then painted with watercolour crayons, mixing a deep blue and black, then to try and give the sheen on the coats that these birds have IRL, I then over-painted them with irridescent blue.

The sentiment was stamped off centre in Memento Tuxedo Black as the birds were the focus of this card.

I am linking this to:

Less is More - One layer card & birds

Crafty Cardmaker Challenge #59 - No Floral Embellishments

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #129 - Bold and Bright - these birsd are both!

Lexi's Creations Challenge #56 - Anything Goes

Lollipop Crafts Challenge #63 - No Embellishments

Stamp and Create - January Challenge - Anything Goes

There She Goes - Challenge #139 -Back To Nature

Truely Madly Crafty January Challenge - Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge - Tic Tac Toe - flourish, image, word

Thank you for call in -= May your day be blessed.

Fishy Beach

Greetings to my cyber visitors.

 I trust you feel welcome - and relaxed at this beach.

I made this from 'scratch', starting with a chalked background. The sky was chalk applied with my finger. The sea, chalk applied with a cotton bed (Q-tip), also using a torn piece of paper as a mask. 

The palm image (by Kiwistamping) was stamped using a watercolour crayon direct to stamp, and then touched up using a brush and colour from the crayons.  The fishing rod (Hastings Rubber Stamps) was stamped using a dye ink.

The sentiment was computer generated and double mounted.

Kindy Glitz was added to give the impression of foam on the wave edges.

The whole was then mounted onto a dark blue base.

A simple card which the photos do not really do justice to.

I am linking this to:

Card Crafters Circle Challenge #5 - Happy Birthday

Chocolate, Coffee Cards Challenge #4 - Glitter Latte

Crafty Ann's Challenge #56 - Lets Think Hot.

Fairy Fun Fridays Challenge #70 - California dreaming

Crafts 4 Eternity - challenge #54 - Recipe
Bugaboo birthday Challenge - Happy Birthday
The Secret Crafter's Saturday Challenge #168 - Anything goes, with blue
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - All that Glitters

Thank you for visiting (and commenting, I love seeing your thoughts.)
 May your day be blessed.

Christmas is coming!!

Welcome - thanks for visiting my blog again.

This week at McMahon Five Design.com Christmas designs are the theme of the releases - I decided to show case the Purrfect Stocking image.

As a cat lover this image had instant appeal - I decided not to colour the kitten, rather to showcase him by surrounding him with colour.

I used Lyra watercolour crayons to paint the image, added some Crystal Stickles for glitter, over painted the holly leaves with twinkling H20's, and used a metallic gold pen for the bells.

This photo shows the sparkle a little better.

I mounted the coloured image onto some red card stock, and doodled some faux stitching around the edge of the white with a red pen.

The finishing detail was this variegated 'eyelashes' yarn wound around the top of the image panel and tied in a bow.

The other design team diva's have made some amazing samples, so please visit them - the links are on the sidebar.  

I am linking this to:

Inky Impressions Challenge #32 - Glitter it up
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #128 - cute
Charisma Challenge #44 - Cutesy
Crimbo Crakers Challenge #2 - Christmas and sparkle -
Forever Friends November Challenge - something old, something new - vintage image and eyelash yarn
Lili Of The Valley Challenge # 120 - Creature comfort

Thanks for visiting - please call again.

May your day be blessed