Rainbow kitty tree

The latest release from Mama Elephant was so cute. My favorite however had, hands down, to be Oh Kitty Tree. Here I have colored it again with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers in pastel colors. I first heat embossed with Versafine Onyx black ink and clear embossing powder.

For the gold details I've used Kuretake Gansai Tambi Starry colors.

The panel is die cut with the Wonky stitched frame from My Favorite Things.

A meowy christmas to all!

Oh kitty tree in green and brown

Last weekend I got the new Oh Kitty Tree from Mama Elephant and immediately wanted to take it out for a test drive. There is a challenge going on at Cupcake inspirations right now, color challenge, and the colors are brown and green. So, this is my take on it.

The kitties and sentiment are heat embossed in black (Versafine Onyx black + clear embossing powder) and then I colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. Some of the details are done with the Starry gold colors from Kuretake. The background I stamped with some of the small stamps in the set. I used Lawn Fawn ink on craft card stock.

The panel is popped up with fun foam to add a little extra.

I can't get over how cute this stamp is. I'll be sending lots of kitty cards this Christmas.

Challenge
Cupcake Inspiraction Challenge 454 - Color brown and green

Sublime birthday shaker

Used one of my ink smooshed backgrounds to create this shaker card. I used a Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle and also a rectangle to create the frame. The frame is popped up with foam tape and the panel is inset.

 I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to color my images. Some are inside the shaker and some on the clear plastic piece. I used some sequins from Neat and Tangled to fill it up. Love the sound of a shaker card =)

Wedding mermaid popup box

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for a couple that likes partying and sun and swimming. She really liked the scalloped box popup card so I decided to go with the Lawn Fawn set "Mermaid for you" with a couple of drinks and sentiments from Newton's Nook Cocktail mixer stamp set.

Ahoy matey pirate box popup

It's vacation time and we've been away in Italy for a couple of weeks. It's been great, lots of sun and swimming in the ocean. But, I was definitely missing crafting. I also got really obsessed with getting the Lawn Fawn die Scalloped box popup and checked quite a few videos. When we got back, I could not wait any longer and took a trip to my local store Pyssloteket and acquired said die. This is the first project with it, using Lawn Fawn's Ahoy Matey stamp set;

I love when the card pops up. For this one I used papers from KaiserCraft Beach Shack collection and also a silver glitter paper from Pow.

All images are colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.

The panels with the blue anchor paper has got some distress ink in Blueprint Sketch.

The sentiment "Happy Birthday" is heat embossed on black cardstock.

This is what the card looks like when it's closed. The sentiments are stamped with Lawn Fawn inks.

This is the back of the card with a little place to write a personal message.

Challenges
The Male Room - #90 - Include an unexpected item
Lawn Fawnatics - #33 - Fun folds

Light up my world

Using Lawn Fawn You are sublime stamp set. The background is inked with distress ink. I also heat embossed some bubbles with glitter embossing powder (hard to see on the photo...).

Challenges
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

Happy birthday kitties

Just loving the cute little cat agenda stamps from Mama Elephant. I wanted to use the grid window die with ink blending so I decided to use both positive and negative part of the die cut and this is the outcome;

Here I used the a white frame and put the ink blended negative pieces into it. The sentiments are from Lawn Fawn Tiny tags sentiments and Tiny tags sentiments birthday add-on. The background is inked in rainbow order, I tried to do the same with the kitties accessories as well =)

The sentiments are heat embossed in gold.

Here I used the positive grid window die cut of the inked background and put the kitties inside. I thought it looked a bit empty of the inside so the card base have been inked with a stencil of kitty paws from Newton's Nook. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn Happy happy happy stamp set.

A little close up.

And an even closer look at the

Newton chilling on the beach

Loving the new stamp set I got from Newton's Nook.

Happy village for Pyssloteket

And now it's time for a new blog post at Pysslotekets blog. Today I'm blogging about Lawn Fawn's set Happy village. I have no idea why this set started such a craving but it really did. I created three cards ranging from simple to interactive;

Read more at Pysslotekets blog.

Happy village pivot pop-up

The Lawn Fawn set Happy village really created a huge craving and I've been creating with it for a while now. I wanted to make a pivot pop-up card using these cute little houses and here it is;

I used papers from the Perfectly plaid Spring collection and the stamps and dies from Happy village. The "Bon voyage" comes from another Lawn Fawn set called "Plane and simple".

Challenge

Lawn Fawnatics #27 - 3D cards

Newton is taking a bath

I received #happymail from Newton's Nook the other day with stamps and stencils. I decided to use them directly for this edition of the Inky Paws challenge which is a sketch challenge;

This is how my card turned out. I used stamps from Newton's Summer Vacation and the Ocean waves stencil. The window die is from My Favorite Things. I used Zig clean color real brush markers to color the images.

The window is mounted with foam tape for a little dimension. I added some clear droplets from Pretty Pink posh for some extra detail.

The scuba kitty also have some Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on them for some extra glitter.

Challenge
Inky Paws Challenge #70 - Sketch challenge

A little birdie told me...

Using the super cute "Newton's birthday flutter" from Newton's Nook I created this card. Tons of masking for the balloons but it was fun.

I used Zig clean color real brush markers to color the birds and balloons. The clouds were made with distress ink with a diecut cloud border (using a Lawn Fawn cloud border stencil).

The black and white is washi tape (from IKEA no less *smile*)

This is the inside of the card;

And here you can see the card in action;

Finally done with my #newtonsnook #newtonsbirthdayflutter card. Poor birdie 😉 #papercrafting #cardmaking

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Challenge
Seize the Birthday - Birds
Inky Paws Challenge #69 - Birthday theme

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