SWEET STAMPIN - THINGS WITH WINGS

Our challenge for you this month at Sweet Stampin is Things with Wings.  I had to have a play with my Tim Holtz crazy birds stamps and dies again.  I started off by using a stencil from Visible Image called Words of Support with some Distress Ink.  The birds were all coloured in Distress Inks .  I used the matching dies to cut them all out.  Glad I don't have to try and fussy cut them - it's not one of my strengths!

 I added some googly eyes from Stampin Up.  The banner was cut with an old SU die and I added some Nuovo Dots in pink to the edges and to the card.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

International Art and Soul - cards for men

Let's craft and create -171  no patterned paper

More mixed media - AG 

happy little stampers - use dies

TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY - #TSOT 476

For our sketch for you this week at TSOT we are joining up with Double Trouble Challenge blog again with their theme of Off The Edge.

I had great fun making this card - I started off by using the brick stencil mask from Stampin Up and some Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide Ink from Tim Holtz.   I made the front of the card slightly smaller than the inside and layered it with some Cajun Craze cardstock with some washi tape from my stash on the outside edge of the inside of the card.  Hope that makes sense. 

My bird and cat are from Tim Holtz Crazy Birds and Cats and I inked them up with TH Distress Inks - used the matching dies to cut them out and sat them on a same piece of washi tape.  The little ball of wool comes with the cat stamps and I added some twine to run it to the cat.  Some googly eyes finished off this wacky card!

 

TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY #TSOT

Here's our challenge for you this week over at Try Stampin on Tuesday  For this challenge show us your favourites...could be colour, stamp, die, technique. The possibilities are endless and we want to see and hear about your favourite things. This challenge is also a throw back challenge. This week we are throwing it back to Challenge #65.

I've used some of these Tim Holtz stamps which are my favourites - the Crazy Birds From Bird Talk and  the cats from Cat Chat.  Both stamp sets come with the matching dies.

I've used a mask from SU for the bricks - on the card stock I've used it as a stencil with some Tim Holtz Distress inks.  On the inside panel I've used it with some SU Embossing Paste coloured with Chocolate Chip ink.

  The bird and the cat have been coloured with SU water colour pencils.  I've used a framelit from Colourful Seasons for the layer at the bottom using some retired DSP.  The sentiment comes from the Cat Chat stamp set.

I'm also adding this into the following challenges:
 Inspired By Challenge for their Critters 
Retro Rubber which is anything goes 
Try It On Tuesday - Stencils

Delighted my card was chosen as a Top 5 on Try it on Tuesday

 

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A great sketch this week again at Try Stampin on Tuesday and I chose to go with the optional extra of the colours Orange, Green, Purple which spoke Hallowe'en to me.

I wanted to have another play with this mad bird from Tim Holtz.  I did stamp a couple of images of him before I was happy with this mainly orange one.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Spiced Marmalade but went over it with the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen in Harvest Moon.  These colours Spectrum Noir pens are really good but they are quite dark so will change the colour of your ink.  Beware!!! 

For my background I've used a couple of papers from Stampin Up.  The leaves in the middle are from Some Sail Away - DSP - it is a black and white paper but I've used some inks to colour it - Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade, Bundled Sage and an old Memories Ink in Violet.  I added some of the gorgeous Noble Peacock DSP to the sides and layered it behind the bird and the sentiment.  This shiny paper is just so lovely to work with.  The sentiment is from a very old SU set Bitty Boos.

Now - who do I send this one to?  If anyone likes Halloween cards let me know and I'll pop it in the post to you!

I'm adding this into the Cardz 4 Guyz challenge also which asks for spooky  
as does Pearly Sparkles Challenge