…it’s also the reason they hate birds

I’m sharing a quick CAS card featuring a couple of Tim Holtz’s crazy creatures, one of his birds on the outside.

And a cat on the inside.

Over at Less is More they are looking for frames on your project so I decided to frame both images and sentiments on a bit of Kraft cardstock.  For some added interest I cut my frames using wonky stitched dies.  I deliberately didn’t add any other embellies as this card is headed out to a guy.

As I have two animals on my card (how awesome are Tim’s crazy critters for male cards?) I am entering it at Fairytale Challenge.  I was originally going to go just with the cat and have it and the sentiment on the front of the card but decided I wanted to play in the current Simon Says challenge so added in my bird (they want to see things with wings).  Very glad I did add it in as I really like how the colours came up against the Kraft.

Ingredients:

Copics

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Die-namics ~ MFT-839 Wonky Stitched Rectangle Stax

Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies ~ 660954 Bird Crazy & 661209 Crazy Cats

Inks & Paints etc

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Various colours

Papers

Arches Paper ~ Watercolor

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Core’dinations Smooth Cardstock ~ Kraft

Pion Design Palette ~ Blue I

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS212 Bird Crazy & CMS251 Crazy Cats        

Challenges

Fairytale Challenge #165 ~ Cards with animals

Less is More #321 ~ Recipe (use a frame)

Simon Says ~ Things With Wings

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…you’re lucky enough!

I have a fun card to share today featuring one of Tim Holtz’s Bird Crazy stamps.

I’m guesting over at The Paper Girls where their theme is ‘Luck of the Irish’.  I wanted to be able to use this card for a birthday (recipient is Irish) so I had to think of a way of mixing the two.  Hence the rather corny joke, here’s the punch line.

Over at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers Edna has turned green with envy and is looking for projects with lots of green.  My sentiment isn’t snarky, just corny, but there’s plenty of green on my card so I am linking it up there.

As this card is going out to a guy I’ve kept it fairly CAS, which is the current theme over at the Crafter’s Café.  I did the green swipe under the sentiment to kind of mimic grass and to help ground my ‘chicken’ and clover.  And there isn’t a water stain over it although that’s what it looks like in the photo, it’s actually clear embossing powder, in real life it just makes the sentiment and green swipe shine.

At Hanna and Friends they are looking for projects featuring luck, which mine does with my lucky four leaf clover.  Although frankly I think it is more an unlucky one given it was the second take of my little shaker clover.  The cut file set I bought had four clovers, two of which were three leaf shamrocks and two were four leaf clovers.  Stupid me wasn’t paying attention when I selected one and cut it out of my base, top sheet and acetate or when I filled it with shaker mix and got tape round all those fiddly bits.  No, wasn’t till I went to place it on my card I realised I had a three leaf shamrock not a four leaf clover.  Given my sentiment I had no choice but to start again.  Not happy Jan!  I guess I’ll just chalk it up to good practice on making little shaker elements.  Once I did get it all together (and right) I have to say I was pretty happy with the result.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Lori Whitlock SVG ~ #75118 5 Clover Shamrock Set

Embellishments

Little Things from Lucy’s Cards Lucky Dip ~ Luck o’ the Irish

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Inks ~ Alcohol Blending Solution, Citrus, Gold Mixative & Lettuce

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber &Gathered Twigs

Papers

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White

Couture Creations ~ Acetate

Creative Memories Cardstock ~ Green Metallic

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Garden Green

Yupo ~ 200gsm White

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS212 Bird Crazy

Challenges

Crafter’s Café #168 ~ CAS

Hanna and Friends #268 ~ Luck

Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers #79 ~ G is for Green with Envy

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But a birthday, I always feel, is a great occasion…

I needed a male birthday card so I turned to my trusty Bird Crazy stamps from Tim Holtz to make one up.

For inspiration on my layout I used the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  To create the line element I stamped out a sentiment from the Crazy Talk set.  I didn’t want to leave the background completely white and the ink splatters theme at Creative with Stamps gave me the idea of adding a party popper.  My placement of my ink splats wasn’t so great though as my party popper is at a bit of a funny angle for my crazy bird to have really popped it!

Because I am invariably terrible at picking colours the colour scheme for my card comes from the current challenge at Stampin’ Royalty.  I didn’t have the Stampin’ Up colours so I’ve substituted.  Unfortunately mint seems to mean every type of green known to man but on screen at least Tim’s Cracked Pistachio seemed to be a pretty good match.  You’d have thought navy blue would have been easier to match but my Chipped Sapphire had a tendency to turn a bit purple when dry so I added a bit of Dina Wakley Night in Archival Ink to darken up my blue.

I popped my somewhat drunkenly placed party popper off the page with a 3D Zot and added in some baker’s twine for the pull string as my only real embellishment on my card.  Loving a CAS crazy bird for a male birthday card!

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil ~ THS021 Speckles

Inks & Paints etc

Ranger Archival Dina Wakley Media ~ Night

Ranger Archival Distress Palette ~ Black Soot

Spica ~ Mint

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Chipped Sapphire, Cracked Pistachio & Mustard Seed

Papers

Bazzill Classic Cardstock ~ Nautical Blue Dark

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ White

Papertrey Ink Paper Basics ~ Stamper’s Select White

Ribbons & Trims etc

Gorjuss ~ Baker’s Twine

Stamps

Activity Village Free Colouring Pages ~ Party Poppers

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS212 Bird Crazy, CMS236 Crazy Talk & CMS237 Crazy Things

Challenges

Creative with Stamps #4 ~ Ink Splatters

Freshly Made Sketches ~ Sketch #245

Stampin’ Royalty #338 ~ Colour (Blue, White & Mint)

 

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Art is an abstraction

I’m sharing a fun card I made using Tim Holtz’s Bird Crazy and Crazy Things stamps.

My card design follows the current sketch over at CAS Colours & Sketches with my two circular (sort of) elements being my bird and my scribble.  I’ve cut the scribble out of designer paper scraps, which I’ve also used to cut the glasses to fit with the challenge theme at Less is More.

Edna is looking for quilting or paper piecing at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers so I’ve gone to town on the layers on birdie.  For something different I’ve coloured him with watercolour pencils and softened the look by stamping in Ground Espresso rather than a black ink.  I added in the glasses (which sadly didn’t fit on the birdie I chose) as the friend this is going out to wears them.  The somewhat snarky sentiment is a nod to the fact he is a few years older than me although, truth be told, I’ve forgotten what age he actually is.  He is an art teacher though so the artistic theme fits nicely.  I was going to go with an ink splat but have no idea where those dies went I even managed to lose the packet from the dies I used while making up my card, perhaps abstraction isn’t just in my card theme!

Ingredients:

Derwent Watercolour Pencils

Head, Hair & Wings 45 Mineral Green & 47 Grass Green

Beak & Feet 6 Deep Cadmium & 10 Orange Chrome

Body 32 Spectrum Blue & 35 Prussian Blue

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Thinlits Dies ~ 660954 Bird Crazy, 660953 Crazy Things & 660980 Festive Scribbles

Embellishments

Rub-ons from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink ~ Ground Espresso

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Frayed Burlap & Old Paper & Vintage Photo

Papers

Arjo Wiggins Curious Metallics Iridescent Cardstock ~ Cryogen White

Kaisercraft Kaleidoscope Collection ~ Scrap

Prima Craftsman ~ Scrap

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Frost Film

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS212 Bird Crazy & CMS237 Crazy Things

Challenges

CAS Colours & Sketches #171 ~ Sketch

Less is More ~ Designer paper in a CAS style

Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers #58 ~ Q is for Quilts

  

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