TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY - #TSOT450

I hope in these uncertain times you are staying safe. Crafting is great to help with loneliness or boredom and we'd love to see you joining in with us here at Try Stampin On Tuesday.  Here's our sketch for you this week with the option theme of jungle fever.

My card uses Animal Outing stampset from Stampin Up. The giraffe was coloured in with some SU blending pens and Tri Blend from Spectrum Noir.  The background for the butterfly wings was made with some Tim Holtz distress inks and I used a Tim Holtz die to cut out the butterfly.  I cut it in half and added some coloured pearls.  The little butterflies are also SU dies from That's The Tag.  The happy birthday sentiment is from my stash.

I'm adding this into the Allsorts Challenge this week which is anything in the animal kingdom



 

GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECT - #GDP225

A colour challenge over at the Global Design Project this month 





I wanted to do a valentine that I could maybe give to my husband - we will be celebrating 35 years this year ! - where does the time go?  I wanted to use the SU Animal Outing and especially the giraffes as my husband is 6'5" and affectionately known as Jolly Tall (which was a character in a children's book when my children were little).

I stamped the first giraffe and then stamped again on to acetate so that I could reverse the image and have them kissing. I added a retired SU heart embellishment between them.  I cut this out with a heart framelit. I only have Flirty Flamingo in a maker pen so I added it to some non stick paper and then used a watercolour pen to add a soft wash of ink over the heart.  I've taken a bit of poetic licence by using SU Stampin Blends in Daffodil for the giraffe.  I used one of the sentiments from the same set for another heart and inked it in the same way.

For the background hearts I used the SU Hearts decorative mask and sponged it in Real Red.

 

STAMPIN UP ONLY CHALLENGE - #SUOC227 CASE THE CATALOGUE

Something a bit different from us this week at Stampin Up Only Challenge as we CASE a card from SU'S current catalogue.

I started my card with some of the new DSP from the Come Sail Away series.  I wanted something that looked like a map and this was pretty close.  I've used Animal Outing for my main panel colouring in the Rhino with some SU watercolour pencils.  Lots of sponging around the edges and multiple layers of the leaves - even the little frog made an appearance.    I used a stitched framelit for the sentiment and added some Old Olive baker's twine and a heart.