And exhale a rainbow

Today’s card featuring a whole stack of stamps from Artist Impressions to create a cottage garden scene.

To make up this card I followed the tut my crafty friend Jenny posted a few weeks back, which you can find here.  You really need to go check out her blog, Jenny does the most amazing cards!

As this is a shaker box card with two interactive elements (it comes flat in an envelope but then opens out plus the shaker part) I am entering it in the current challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Over at TGIF they want to see some repeat stamping.  I have lots on this card to create the garden, a row along the bottom of the shaker element, two different kinds in the wheel barrow as well as repeated flowers in the various pots.

The entire card has been water coloured so I’m also linking it up at Simon Say’s Stamp Work ItWednesday challenge.  I think the water colouring really helps to set the scene of an English cottage garden.

Ingredients:

Embellishments

Craft Consortium Sequins ~ Wildflower Meadow

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor ~ No 10 White

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Broken China, Bundled Sage, Chipped Sapphire, Forest Moss, Gathered Twigs, Ground Espresso, Hickory Smoke, Milled Lavender, Peeled Paint, Pumice Stone, Shaded Lilac, Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose, Tea Dye & Vintage Photo

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Orange Peel Cardstock ~ Baby Blue Medium

Couture Creation ~ Acetate

Fabriano Watercolor Paper ~ 200gsm Hot Pressed

Stamps

Art Impressions Watercolor ~ 4965 Bench Set, 5018 Cobblestone Set, 5008 Flower Set 3, 4875 Garden Wagon Mini Set & 4869 Small Container Set

Challenges

4 Crafty Chicks #413 ~ {Interactive Cards!}

Work It Wednesday ~ Watercolor!

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About to bloom

Sharing a different kind of craft today, a teacup posy featuring a bunch of foamiran peonies I made.

I made this as a gift for a friend for her birthday.  I wasn’t sure what kind of flowers to make, just knew I wanted to make a posy of foamiran flowers but the photo inspiration at Just Us Girls looked like a peony and I had a tutorial bookmarked for foamiran peonies so went with them.  I hand cut all of the flowers and leaves, I just made myself a template from acetate, as I didn’t have any dies.  Each one is also individually coloured to give the flowers a tone toned and more realistic look.  It all took the better part of Sunday but I think it was worth it as they are really pretty and realistic to look at.

Over at Southern Girls they’re looking for flower projects so I am linking up my posy there.  At Always Fun they want to see anything but a card so am also entering their challenge with my very non-card creation.

Ingredients:

Flower making elements

Nellie Snellen ~ Foamiran & Yellow Stamens

Inks & Paints etc

Oil Pastels

Challenges

Always Fun #69 ~ Anything but a card

Southern Girls ~ Flower power

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There are more important things ~ friendship…

Sharing a card featuring a cute freebie image from Elizabeth Dulemba called Potter Bear.

A crafty friend has a bear named Bill who loves Harry Potter and it was his birthday so I went Googling for a bear and Harry Potter and found this fab image.  It was crafty serendipity!  I’ve coloured Potter Bear to look like my friend’s bear, hence why I don’t think his scarf is actually right for Harry Potter, it’s the colour of the scarf Bill wears.

To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I just turned the circle element into an oval to better fit my image.  I made the rectangular element with a stencilled pattern and some glow in the dark Nuvo drops.  I made the stencil from a flourish die that kinda looked like spell magic swirls coming off a wand.  I then added some black with PanPastels to create the rectangle.

Over at Moving Along With the Times they are looking for wild animals.  Although my bear looks domesticated they are actually wild animals so hoping he still qualifies.  As this card was going to a male bear (yeah, I know he wouldn’t know but there’s a whole story behind Bill and making cards that bring a smile to people’s faces is why we craft) I kept it CAS with no embellies other than the chippies to add the sentiment.  So I’m also entering it in the current challenge at Sweet Stampin’.

Oh, and I visited Bill and his Mamma Bear today and he loved his card!

Ingredients:

Copics

I didn’t write them down!

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel ~ Black

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Couture Creations Intricutz Dies ~ CO724694 Sandy Frame & Flourish

Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies ~ LF-110 Ovals

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Chipboard Single Layered Words ~ 2¼" Magical

Make it Crafty Chipboard Twinklings ~ 0.35" Mini Stars

Inks & Paints etc

Nuvo Glow Drops ~ Blue Crush

PanPastel ~ Black, Rich Gold, Ultramarine Blue & Ultramarine Blue Shade

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Raven

Bazzill Orange Peel Cardstock ~ Honeycomb

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Boysenberry Delight

House of Paper ~ Cryogen White

Stamps

Elizabeth Dulemba ~ Potter Bear

Challenges

Moving Along With the Times #76 ~ Wild Animals

Sweet Stampin’ ~ CAS

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