Kitty birthday shaker card

Today is the birthday of a kitty loving friend and this is the card I made for her. The square die as well as the Little cat agenda stamp set is from Mama Elephant. The sentiment on the inside comes from Lawn Fawn's Tiny tags birthday sentiments. The die cut letters are from Marianne Design.

Entry for #68 Inky Paws challenge - color theme

My entry for the current Inky Paws Challenge which is a color challenge;

I used one of the DT cards as my inspiration and created this one with stamps from the Newton Unwinds stamp set. Newton is colored with Zig clean color real brush markers and I added a little white details with a Signo uniball pen. I have such trouble using this pen but after a tip from superb color artist Sandy Allnock on her YouTube channel, I finally got it to work. The trick for me was to barely touch the paper with the pen, then the ink flows. I however need lots more practice to get that to work but thanks again Sandy!

The background panel is cut with an MFT stitched scalloped frame die and the yellow circle is cut with Lawn Fawn scalloped die and MFT circle stitched die. The banner die is also Lawn Fawn.

I finished off with some Nuvo drops in yellow.

Challenge
Inky Paws Challenge #68 - Color challenge

Out of this world glittery birthday card

The last card with the Lawn Fawn Out of this world stamp set and with the themes for the challenges from Lawn Fawnatics (color rainbow) and The Male Room craft challege (space);

The background is a water colored panel. I used a two star dies from Lawn Fawn to diecut the stars and shooting star and placed a gold glitter paper underneath. The panel is also framed with a black scalloped diecut frame from My Favorite Things.

All stamped images are colored with Zig clean color real brush markers with the addition of Stickles for a bit of extra glitter.

Challenges
Lawn Fawnatics challenge #25 - Color inspiration (rainbow)

The Male Room challenge #81 - Space/science

Out of this world birthday

Another card with the Lawn Fawn Out of this world stamp set and with the themes for the challenges from Lawn Fawnatics (color rainbow) and The Male Room craft challege (space);

The background is a water colored panel. All stamped images are colored with Zig clean color real brush markers with the addition of Stickles for a bit of extra glitter.

Challenges
Lawn Fawnatics challenge #25 - Color inspiration (rainbow)

The Male Room challenge #81 - Space/science

Shoot for the stars pull tab slider

I've been wanting to use the Lawn Fawn Out of this world stamp set for a while and all of a sudden two great challenges comes along that gets you moving. Lawn Fawnatics is running a "rainbow" theme and The Male Room craft challege is having a space theme so this is what I came up with;

The background is done with distress inks in various colors. The images are colored with Zig clean color real brush markers. The sentiments and stars are heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I also used some Stickles for a little extra bling. When you pull that tab...

...up comes our little astronaut. The string is just taped on the back of the images and follows along as you pull the tab. All dies are Lawn Fawn; Slide on over to create the slider, Puffy cloud borders for the clouds and the Stitched rectangle for the panels.

Here's the card in action;

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Challenges
Lawn Fawnatics challenge #25 - Color inspiration (rainbow)

The Male Room challenge #81 - Space/science

Three ways out of this world =)

Space cards in three way with Lawn Fawn Out of this world stamp set.

It's a beautiful day

For these two floral cards I used Altenew's Beautiful day stamp set. The images are stamped with Altenew inks (yellow) and My Favorite things (green). I heat embossed some images in the background and colored them with Zig clean color real brush markers.

The red ink is Lawn Fawn's Lobster ink (very red). The images are fuzzy cut and mounted with foam tape.

The gold mat is from a craft fabric.

The pink in the large flower is Altenew ink. Finished off the card with some clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh.

The gold speckles is chunky gold embossing powder from Stampendous.

Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Floral frenzy

Persian motifs with perfect pearls

I wanted to try heat embossing on craft and the paint with Perfect pearls following the inspiration from a video by Jennifer McGuire. I used the Altenew Persian motifs stamp set.

Here is used the Perfect pearls colour Copper mixed with water and then painted on. The diecut sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and the stamped one from Mama Elephant.

Same idea, only different sentiment and matted with a dark brown panel. The diecut sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and the stamped one from Mama Elephant.

I of course also did a couple with Distress Oxide inks and then painted the flowers with water and lifted the ink. After they were dry I went back in with Perfect pearls mixed with water.

The diecut sentiments is from Lawn Fawn and the stamped one from Mama Elephant.

Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Floral frenzy

Birthday wishes from the air

Love this cute stamp set Up in the air from My Favorite Things. Colored the images with Zig clean color real brush markers. The panel is diecut with the Wonky Stitched rectangle and mounted on some patterned paper from Lawn Fawn.

Plane in sunset happy thoughts card

Another card for a challenge using My Favorite Things rays stencil and the stamp set Plane and simple from Lawn Fawn where also the cloud border die comes from.

The plane is colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.

Challenge
I'm entering this into Cupcake Inspirations color challenge where the colors are pink, blue and white.
Cupcake Inspirations - CIC442 Paper inspirations

Puppy/kitty balloon birthday card

I have as a goal for this month to enter some more card challenges so I found a couple I wanted to participate in. Cupcake Inspirations is having a color challenge (blue, pink and white) and Seize the Birthday always have a "Anything goes" birthday challenge so I thought I'd combine those. Here is the card I made;

The stamps are from My Favorite Things - Up in the air. The stencil is also from My Favorite things. The cloud border dies are from Lawn Fawn.

Everything is adhered flat except for the side panels of the cloud borders.

Challenges
Seize the Birthday

Cupcake Inspirations - CIC442 Paper inspirations

Distress Oxide lifting with Perfect Pearls

Trying out the distress oxide ink lifting technique demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire in video not long ago. Instead of just ink lifting with water, I also painted in some water mixed with Perfect pearls.

Flowers are from Altenew stamp set Persian motifs. The butterflies are from a set from Slöjd-Detaljer and from Marianne Design. The dies are from Gummiapan.

The stamps are from Altenew dahlia stamp set. The die is Lawn Fawn and the label sentiment is Mama Elephant.

Butterflies are from Slöjd-Detaljer and Marianne Design. Diecut is Lawn Fawn and the label sentiment is Mama Elephant.

Ink lifting an ink blended background, adding Perfect pearls

I saw this video with Jennifer McGuire where she demonstrated how to ink lift from a background that had been sponged with Distress Oxide ink. When you paint the heat embossed area and dab off the color, you get a white chalky area. Really cool effect. I wanted to try and add something cool to this so after I've done the first step of just painting with water and then lifting the ink and drying my panel, I went back in with water mixed with perfect pearls. You got such a cool effect;

Here I used Perfect pearls with copper.

Die cut sentiment is Lawn Fawn. Stamped sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

Another version where I used ordinary Perfect pearls.

Die cut sentiment is Lawn Fawn. Stamped sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

Here is another version where I used craft cardstock instead and simply painted the flowers with Copper Perfect pearls. Love the effect!

Newton unwinds, Inky paws sketch challenge #67

I saw that there was a new challenge in the Inky Paws Challenge blog and I wanted to partake. The theme this time is a sketch challenge;

And this is my take on the sketch;

I used the stampset Newton Unwinds. Love those kitties with yarn balls. The kitty is colored with Zig clean color real brush markers. The tag I used an embossing (can't remember the brand) folder with paw prints and then I inked it with distress inks in rainbow color (from the top Festive berries, Mustard Seed, Peacock feathers, Salty ocean, Dusty concord). I die cut the tag (Nellie Snellen) after I inked and embossed so the paw prints are then pushed back into the paper. The tag is not completely flat but it looks a bit different. 

I cut a tag from yellow cardstock (Lawn Fawn) and heat embossed the sentiment in white. With the grey layer, I white heat embossed the yarn from the stamp set in the four corners. The largest mat is from Lawn Fawn patterned paper Rainbow plaid.

To finish off, the tag is foam mounted as well as the kitty. I also added some Nuvo drops in black and a black and white bakers twine from my stash.

View from the side.

Challenges
Inky Paws Challenge #67 - Sketch

Rainbow cats celebrating

Time for some cute Mama Elephant kitties from the stamp set "Little cat agenda". They are colored with Zig clean color real brush markers. Background is done with Distress ink. The dies are from Lawn Fawn as well as the sentiment that comes from Meow you doin' stamp set.

Mama elephant cuties.

Close up of the party gang.

Party gank from the side.

Challenge 
Cupcake Inspirations - CIC 441 - Pets challenge