I played for ages with the arrangement of stamps for this card - I could have made a much straighter tower by just using the left and right facing versions of the most upright robin alternately, but it looked much more fun this way and I'm sure robins standing in a tower your be pretty teetery!
The robins and sentiment are stamped with a Woodware stamp set and coloured with Promarkers.
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Inkspirational - Tower
Fab'n'Funky - Christmas
Christmas Kickstart - Slimline Cards
.. .'cause I'm having a good time....
Although I suppose I really MUST stop now as the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers only accept three entries per challenge so this is my final Q is for Queen card. Pity, I have more ideas. Although the stamp I need for them is in *ahem* the safe place I put it in.
Maybe this post should have been called "Don't KNOT me now" because we all know what happens when you think you've found the end of the skein and it turns out to be the wrong end!
The design is inspired by a meme I saw the other day. I found a free clip art image of Freddie and sized it to fit my card, then fussy cut it. The sentiment is computer generated and the background is a piece of smooshed card left over from a previous project, stamped with needlework themed images from a recent Creative Stamping stamp set. The "skein" is bakers twine coiled behind the image them looped around so that elusive end is in his hand.
Here is the second of my cards for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Q is for Queen challenge.
I don't suppose the Queen is feeling very fun loving right now, with her beloved Philip in hospital (I really don't know what she sees in the guy) but this image and backing paper were produced by La Pashe in honour of her Jubilee in 2012, and she looks as if she's having a whole lot of fun, as is her faithful corgi. I printed the image, Union Flag and sentiment from the CD "The Best of La Pashe 2012". You can't tell from the photo, but there is just a little bit of decoupage for added interest.
I am also sharing this with CD Sunday Plus - Anything Goes.
WARNING: Snark Free Zone
Well, since I made this card for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Q is for Queen challenge, I thought I'd better prepare the sistahs for the snarklessness. But when I hear the word "Queen", my first thought is pretty much always of this lovely set of Craft Consortium stamps, so it had to be done...
I'm warning you, there are more Queen cards to come but for now here's Edna totally rocking the Bohemian Rhapsody look.
It's a while since I last used this lovely Woodware dragonfly stamp, spring must be in the air tempting me to use it again.
I made a rainbow background with watercolours then stamped the image using Versafine ink. Usually I get a good image using Versafine on this particular watercolour paper, but I think maybe my inkpad needs replacing as I stamped repeatedly several times and it was still blotchy. The flowers and details were OK but not the large solid areas of the dragonflies. However I remedied it AND added extra interest to the card, by stamping again onto vellum, where I got a much better image, cutting out the dragonflies and attaching them over the original ones, sticking down just the bodies to leave the wings free.
A bold sentiment (I think it's an Altenew stamp) finishes it off.
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Stamping Sensations - Colour My World
Just Us Girls - Rainbow Colours
I love this big Christmas text stamp from Uniko, although there is so much going on on it that it makes it hard to use with any other images or embellishments - I never want to obscure any of the lovely details.
I have heat embossed it in black and picked out some areas in gold, then matted it with a very thin black border.
I am sharing it with
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - anything goes/ use some gold
Jingle Belles - Text me Christmas
This little fox is trying to camouflage himself against a tree trunk!
The tree trunk is made using a woodgrain stencil, dabbing clear embossing ink through it and heat embossing with a brown/red embossing powder blend. The fox and the sentiment are both stamps that came with various issues of Creative Stamping. I used my stamping platform to stamp the fox several times in various red and brown inks, never completely covering the stamp with any one colour, so when you see the image in real life it has some quite natural-looking variations in colour.
I am sharing this with
CAS Mix Up - stencil heat emboss
Creative Crafting Uncles - Wildlife
