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

Dr Digi’s House of Stamps ~ Morag the Moo

Challenges

Alphabet ~ C is for Cows

Crafting with Dragonflies #103 ~ Twisted Easel Card

Thanks for stopping by!