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Tuesday 1 May 2018

One end is moo, the other, milk


Sharing a fun card featuring Morag the Moo (love that name!) from Dr Digi’s House of Stamps.


This card was inspired by the current theme at the Alphabet Challenge, ‘C is for Cows’.  I’ve needed an excuse to colour up this cute bovine and this challenge along with the birthday of a friend who makes potato stamps of Aussie bugs to decorate Christmas cards were it.  I’ve coloured Morag in water colours and fussy cut her before popping her onto the scene I created on the front of the card.  And, yep, that’s a swarm of blowies off to the side!

Some grass and flower border die cuts and Morag had something to munch on under the sun I pieced together from a La-La Land die using essentially the negative pieces.  Aleene’s True Snow works a treat for fluffy clouds, more die cuts, which I used to cover the straight edge of my sun.

Between my bovine friend with her shock of long hair and flying pests I am thinking I’ve gone pretty wild on this card.  I might also go for a more offbeat interpretation of that prompt with my sentiment where I’ve let my imagination go wild with all the various things that can be said so succinctly in cow!  So I’m entering it in the current challenge at Time Out. 

This card is also a twisted easel to enable me to play along at Crafting with Dragonflies.  Haven’t done one of these for a while and it was fun.




To prop up my easel I created a sign for a cattle station by colouring Morag again in all black, scanning her back in and flipping her before squeezing the station name ‘MOO’ between the two.  I wasn’t up for fussy cutting any of this and my Silhouette isn’t even set up on my new computer so I opted for a wooden rather than black metal sign and printed this up, including the interpretation into English of the cowlish ‘moo’, on a piece of woodgrain cardstock, which I then inked up in lovely brown distress inks.  Tim is so right, you can never have too many browns!

I added in some Tim Hex Fasteners for the nails on the sign and finished off with a cow bell.  Well, OK, so Tim doesn’t have any cow bells and I didn’t have any in my stash either so I repurposed one of his Christmas bells.  I was going to try and flatten it with a hammer until I spoke to a crafty friend who suggested the safer option of running it through my die cutting machine and it worked a treat.

Ingredients:
Dies, SVGs & Templates etc
La-La Land Crafts Dies~ 8034 Grass Border, 8212 Sunburst & 8013 Tulip Border
Noor! Design Dies ~ 6002/0199 Clouds
Embellishments
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Fasteners ~ Hex
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Tiny Bells
Inks & Paints etc
Aleene’s ~ True Snow
Derwent Watercolour Pencils ~ 14 Deep Vermillion
Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors ~ No 10 White, No 20 Black, No 33 Orange, No 35 Carmine Red, No 36 Wine Red & No 43 Mid Yellow & No 90 Gold
Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, Fossilized Amber, Frayed Burlap, Gathered Twigs, Ground Espresso, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo & Wild Honey
Papers
Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow
Bazzill Fourz Cardstock ~ Tropical
Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Pinecone
Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Meadow
Fabriano Watercolor Paper ~ 200gsm Hot Pressed
Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Daffodil Delight
Stamps
Challenges
http://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/challenge-108.html

Thanks for stopping by!

8 comments:

  1. Mooooo - cowlish for wow, how fabulous! Love your little cow and his wonderful paddock full of grass - it has rained somewhere then! It makes a great easel card and your flattened bell is super as well! Great idea to flatten it on the Big Shot! Thanks for sharing with us at Crafting with Dragonflies and hope to see you back soon!

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  2. Great card, he is a very cute cow. Thank you for sharing with us at Alphabet Challenge.
    Crafty hugs
    Lesley

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  3. What an Awesome Card and your scene is Amazing love the Blowies that finish it off! <3

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  4. Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Alphabet Challenge, good luck!!! Amy DT

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  5. I love the title, Emily, and your whole post about how you made your adorable hairy cow card! Wild, indeed, and very delightful! Thank you for taking TIME OUT to play! Hugs, Darnell

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  6. Great card. Thank you for joining the challenge at Crafting with Dragonflies. Hope to see you again next time.

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  7. Very cool card design - I love how it opens to reveal that very punny sentiment! Thanks for getting wild with us at Time Out! Jill

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  8. THank you so much for trying this fun card type with Crafting with Dragonflies!

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