ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - #499

Welcome back to another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and our Any Occasion challenge.  I thought this card might help cheer up someone who needed a pick me up.  

I love this little set from Anita Jeram for Colorado Craft Company called Paint Town.  I stamped the little guinea pig first and then masked them completely to create the background.  The city scape is a stencil from Sizzix called Cosmopolitan #2.  I added a night sky with Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide ink and some ink splatters for stars.  I used all Tim Holtz Distress inks for the other colours.  

I'm adding this into the following:

Creative Inspirations - AG 

Ellibelle - Wednesday - AG 

The sisterhood of crafters - card of encouragement 

Shopping your stash - hot hot hot red 

Allsorts - Animals 

Sweet Stampin - use a stencil 

Cards4galz - create a scene 

Craft Rocket - animals 

STencilfun - AG 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - MAKE YOUR MARK #476

Welcome back to another challenge at ATSM and this time we want to see your use of pens, pencils, ink to create your project.  I spotted this lovely set by Anita Jeram in my stash which I hadn't used in a while. It's called Paint Town. 

I created the background with lots of watercolour reds and oranges leaving a gap to stamp the little creatures.  I then used a paintbrush to colour them in - all inks used are Tim Holtz Distress Oxides.  The little sentiment that goes with this set is just perfect and makes for a fun card.   

ONCE UPON A TIME - BEAUTIFUL OOPS

Welcome back to another challenge here at Once  Upon a Time.  We have this great book cover to inspire you this month.  

My card uses one of the great sets by Anita Jeram called Paint Town.  I thought that little guinea pig was just perfect for my card. I used Tim Holtz Wild Honey Distress Oxide for my background leaving a white edge around the stamped image.

 I added lots of water colours to show the ink oozing out of the paint pot.  The oops words were Tim Holtz word die cuts and the sentiments came from Colorado Craft Company stamp set.  Now all I need to do to use this card is forget someone's special day lol! 

ONCE UPON A TIME - MARCH 2023

How fun is this book cover for our challenge this month at Once Upon A Time.  I loved all those squiggles and they reminded me of a Tim Holtz Embossing folder I  had in my stash.  Once it was embossed I went over it with a Stampin Up pastel chalk to bring up the purple.  The stamp set is from Anita Jeram called Paint Town and I added the word Purple to the end of the stamp with some Tim Holtz letter dies. 

COLOR MY HEART DARE #512

I love these soft colours for our challenge this week at Color My Heart.  Just perfect for my little watercoloured scene of these cute Anita Jeram stamps.  The sets is called Paint Town.  

Even as a DT Member I don't have any of the inks suggested in our prompt.  But as long as you use the inks you have and keep as close to the colours as you can you will be fine.  

I used Tim Holtz Distress and Oxides for my inks.  I used Salty Ocean for the background blue, Dusty Concord for the purple, Mermaid Lagoon for the darker blue and Antique Linen for the animals.

Guinea Pigs

I'm having another play with Anita Jeram's stamp set Paint Town and wanted to use these lovely little guinea pigs.

My colours were inspired by Global Design Project which asked for the following colours.

Mice just want to have fun!

I'm playing along with The Paper Players today and following their sketch for my card.  I wanted to use the mice from the Anita Jeram set Paint Town. 

I started off with some watercolour paper from Tim Holtz to stamp my mouse.  I used SU Real Red for the paintbrush and Tim Holtz Distress inks for the rest.  The paper is some very old SU paper and I simply added the great sentiment from the set.  

A quick and simple card you would think but you should see all the ones that went wrong before I finally was pleased with this one lol!

Anita Jeram - Paint Town

I'm having another play with my new Anita Jeram set and was inspired by the colours in the As You See It Challenge. Although I don't have those SU colours I used Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, Kitsch Flamingo and Saltwater Taffy.  

I love this little guinea pig and he seems to be the only one I've inked up so far so I need to play with some of the mice.  I've added him here with a great splat stamp from Creative Expressions set Circles of Time.  It was just what I wanted to showcase the colours.  I added a touch of sparkle with some coloured gems.

I'm also adding this into the following challenges:

Through the Craft Room Door - AG 

Creative Fingers - AG 

Creative Moments - Cute 

Addicted to Stamps - Any Occasion 

Anita Jeram Stamps - Stargazing and Paint Town

Colorado Craft Company has another release of Anita Jeram stamps and I do love these.  I was lucky enough to get a set of the Stargazing in the UK as apparently it's sold out of some places in the US.  I warn you though - you will keep humming the tune from Coldplay.

I kept this card simple with some water colouring on Tim Holtz Watercolour card stock - using Distress Oxides in Chipped Sapphire, Unchartered Mariner and Black Soot with just a touch of Wilted Violet.  The grass used Bundle Sage and the bunnies were coloured in with Frayed burlap.  I added the stars with silver embossing powder and that finished off this lovely card.

I'm adding this into the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - make your own background 

Polkadoodles - AG 

Addicted to CAS - kids Anita Jeram is a children's author

Creative Moments - Cute 

For this next card I used the other new set Paint Town.  I loved the words that went with this set and thought they were great for us crafters.  I've kept this one simple with the little guinea pig and his paintbrush.

I'm adding this into the Daring Cardmakers CAS challenge.