I was swinging, on a vine, in the air!

Sharing a fun card I made today featuring stamps from the Cheeky Monkey set from Clearly Besotted.

Over at Animal Friends they are looking for special card forms which inspired me to make a slider card with those cheeky monkeys.  To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.  I computer generated the sentiment and printed it before I stamped the branch stamp from the Cheeky Monkey set to form one of the elements from the sketch.  I couldn’t resist adding a second cheeky monkey into the corner of the card.

For my colour choice I’ve used the inspirational ones from CAS Colours & Sketches.  My cardstock is right, with my base Stampin’ Up Early Espresso with a second layer of Always Artichoke, which also forms the vine on which my cheeky monkey is swinging.  I still don’t have any Stampin’ Up inks, other than Basic Black, so had to improvise with Distress Inks in colours that were as close as I could get Early Espresso and Always Artichoke for the branch and leaves.  My monkeys bring in the third colour, Pumpkin Pie, this time with an approximate match using Copic markers.

Ingredients:

Copics

Monkeys YR02, YR09, YR12, YR15, YR18, YR20, YR61

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Clearly Besotted Dies ~ CBDCH057 Cheeky Monkey

Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts ~ Slide on Over

Inks & Paints etc

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Forest Moss & Ground Espresso

Papers

Papertrey Ink Cardstock ~ Stamper’s Select White

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Always Artichoke & Early Espresso

Stamps

Clearly Besotted ~ Cheeky Monkey

Challenges

Animal Friends #44 ~ Special card form

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #197

CAS Colours & Sketches #198 ~ Colours

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Come and watch us sing and play…

Today I’m sharing a CAS card featuring a Cheeky Monkey from Clearly Besotted.

I’ve made up this card following the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch, using ink to create the various elements.  I stencilled the two stripes and then used stamps from the Clearly Besotted set for the rest of the elements.

I tried some mirror image stamping, while it wasn’t an epic fail it wasn’t the best result either.  I just couldn’t get a good clean imprint of the stamp on my flat stamp to then transfer to the card.  In the end I had to outline it again with a marker to give it the same black outline as the right way round monkey.

My colour scheme comes from Hand Stamped Sentiments, I just swapped out Tim Holtz Distress inks for the Stampin’ Up! ones as I don’t have any of the latter.  I am not loving watercolouring with Reinkers, I am clearly not patient enough to let things dry as I have a lot of colour run!

I’ve gone with CAS and non-feminine images as this card is heading out to a male friend, a big kid at heart who tends to go a bit bananas even when it’s not his birthday.  Over at Creative Craft Cottage they are looking for projects for men or boys so I am entering my card there.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil ~ Mini Collection Set 15

Inks & Paints etc

Molotow Paint Marker ~ Signal White

Tim Holtz Mixed Media Archival Ink ~ Black Soot

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Mustard Seed & Squeezed Lemonade

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot & Fired Brick

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinker ~ Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Mustard Seed, Seedless Preserves, Squeezed Lemonade & Tea Stain

Papers

Archers Paper ~ Smooth Watercolor

Stamps

Clearly Besotted ~ Cheeky Monkey

Challenges

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #185

Creative Craft Cottage #69 ~ For The Men/Boys

Hand Stamped Sentiments #244 ~ Color

 

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And people say we monkey around…

I’m sharing a cute card featuring Cheeky Monkey stamps from Clearly Besotted.

I blame my crafty friend, Jenny Dix, entirely for this card (go check out her awesome creations on her blog for some inspiration).  She made a shaker card with these same stamps and I had to have them and then I just had to make a shaker card with them.  Although my card doesn’t follow the same layout it is ‘CASed’ from Jenny’s you can find here, so I am entering mine in the current challenge at Little Red Wagon.

To make up my card I’ve followed the sketch over at My Time to Craft, turning the rectangular elements into shaker panels.  I’ve got four monkeys on my card as this will go out to a colleague from my little team of four.  With my four little monkeys I am entering this at Unicorn Challenge.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Clearly Besotted Dies ~ Cheeky Monkey

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Thinlits ~ 660994 Birch Trees

Embellishments

Green Sequins from LSS

Green & Gold Stars from LSS

Prima Alphabet Stickers ~ Romance Novel

Queen & Co Pearl ~ Sunflower Yellow

Inks & Paints etc

Spica Pens ~ Blossom, Gold, Lavender, Lemon, Melon, Red, Sand & Sky Blue

Tim Holtz Archival Ink ~ Ground Espresso

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean & Twisted Citron

Tim Holtz Distress Reinker ~ Tea Dye

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Gathered Twigs, Ground Espresso & Spun Sugar

Papers

Bazzill Fourz Cardstock ~ Spice

Echo Park Playground ~ Grass Stain

Moxxie All Hallows Eve ~ Sharp Dressed Man

Ribbons & Trims etc

Green Grosgrain Ribbon from stash

Stamps

Clearly Besotted ~ Cheeky Monkey

Challenges

Little Red Wagon #353 ~ CASE A Card

My Time to Craft #326 ~ Sketchy Time

Unicorn Challenge #12 ~ Animal Kingdom

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