April Showers

 

Hello, today I'm using a digi from Whimsy Stamps and Crissy Armstrong: I will carry you.

I saw a mouse with umbrella and a turtle with  wellies and a rainbucket hat, so I thought April Showers, bring May flowers would be nice, but as April is almost over I went with a punny sentiment: Thank you for being so Mice as the mouse is holding an umbrella sheltering the turtle from the rain...

I printed the digi, colored it with alcohol markers and then cut it out and mounted it with foam tape. I went for  nice and bright colors as rainy days can be a bit blah.

For the background I masked off a strip and splattered metallic blue and blueish green watercolor paint as if it's raining.

I printed the sentiment on the cardbase, I custom made it as I don't have anything like this from Whimsy.

Adhered the image onto the cardbase.

You can find the digi in the shop: 

I Will Carry You:  https://whimsystamps.com/products/i-will-carry-you-digital-stamp?_pos=19&_sid=4d4563260&_ss=r&_fid=47ae35e68

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AAA Card Challenge #289: Color Challenge

 Hello, this fortnight we have another color challenge.

Use 3 or more if you can, and remember the colors don't have to be an exact match to the  challenge badge, as close as you can get it.

I've used Distress inks on white cardstock to make my own colored card, i've used Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron, Picked Raspberry and Kitsch Flamingo.

Normally the centre of flowers would be yellow, but I went with the same white as my cardbase, so it's not an extra color.

I let the ink dry after  dragging the inkpads over the white cardstock.

Stamped the Get well sentiment from Clearly Besotted (Brushed Greetings II) with Versafine Black ink.

Adhered the flowers with liquid glue. They are from Marianne Design (LR0697)

I look forward to your makes.

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Happy Easter

 Hello, Happy Easter.

Today I'm using a pretty sweet digi from Whimsy Stamps and Sylvia Zet: Springtime.

I thought the bunny  and the little chick are very "Easter".

I printed the digi and colored it with alcohol markers, them cut is to make a frame with the card base.

I don't have a Happy Easter stamp so I left it out and could use it for a birthday o or a welcome baby  as well.

You can find the digi in the Whimsy Shop:  https://whimsystamps.com/products/springtime-digital-stamp?_pos=30&_sid=4d4563260&_ss=r

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AAA Colourful Challenge #15: Apr-May

Hello, this month  our game badge has blue leaves, but I saw ocean.

So for my card I inkblended a panel with  Distress inks (Salvaged Patina and Peacock feathers), let it dry; made it square for the window then diecut a window from the panel.

It's from Gummiapan (Seagrass) and traced the opening on the cardbase. I inkblended more Distress inks inside the lines (Prize Ribbon, Blueprint Sketch and Salty Ocean and splattered water for a bubble effect. Adhered the panel onto the cardbase.

I might add a fish later, but  for the color challenge, this is it

I look forward to your makes, you can enter them here.

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Bunny Beans

 Hello, today I'm using a digi called Bunny Beans from Whimsy Stamps and the Dustin Pike line.

When we were little we played a trick on my younger brother when walking in the sand dunes we saw many a pile of "bunny Beans" and told him they were jelly beans (or kokindjes a licorice in the Netherlands) and he started picking them like it was gold dust ;-) we of course had to tell him at one point not to eat them!

Anyway onto the card: I printed the digi , cut it out and colored it with alcohol markers.

For the back ground I made a mask with the scan and cut as I don't have egg shapes dies, but you could use the Whimsy Stamps nested pierced egg dies.

Through the mask I added Distress inks: Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Spun Sugar, Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold and Shaded Lilac  with whatever was left on the inkblending brushes, just a hint of Easter eggs there for you, didn't want to do them black as if the basket was overflowing, it's Spring and I need Spring colors.

I mounted the bunny with foam tape and adhered him to the cardbase. The sentiment is a nod to the toilet paper roll...

you can find the items in the Whimsy Store:

Bunny Beans: https://whimsystamps.com/products/bunny-beans-digital-stamp

Nested pierced eggs:  https://whimsystamps.com/products/nested-pierced-egg-die-set?_pos=1&_sid=1de409607&_ss=r

Simple Sentiment Strips: https://whimsystamps.com/products/simple-sentiment-strips-clear-stamps?_pos=2&_sid=b977880ce&_ss=r

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#punnycard #sarcasm #SpectrumNoir #Eastercard #EasterBunny #Easter

AAA Card Challenge #288: Sketch

 Hello, this fortnight we have a sketch. As always you can rotate or flip the sketch, as long as we can see it. You don't have to use silhouette stamps either, some of our DT didn't.

I really liked the rainbow circle, so I tried to recreate it with Distress inks and a circle mask. I did  hand the circle off the sides.

I've used Distress inks: Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon.

The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps: Simple Sentiment Strips.

The images are from Nellie Snellen: Sil050 and I stamped both images and sentiment with Versafine ink.

I Stamped the cat 3 times and gave 2 white feet, like my own ;-)

To play along the AAA Cards Challenge, see this.

 

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Bunny Toots

 Hello, today I'm using one of the new digis from Whimsy Stamps and Dustin Pike: Bunny Toots.

I printed it, then cut it out with the Scan n Cut and I also made egg shaped masks on the Scan N Cut, 2 sizes, but ended up covering the small one wiht the digi.

I colored the digi with TriBlend markers this time and mounted it with foamtape.

For the backgorund I've used the mask I  made and applied Distress inks: Dried Marigold, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron,Tumbled Glass, Spun Sugar and Shaded Lilac.

Adhered the bunny on top.

You can find the digi in the Whimsy Store:

Bunny Toots:  https://whimsystamps.com/products/bunny-toots-digital-stamp

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meowy birthday

 

Hello, today I'm showcasing you a birthday card I made for a friend with Whimsy Stamps and a digi from the Some Odd Girl line.

The digi is called Loveable Kitten and I had to color it black to resemble mine and it's actually Charlie's birthday today, or so we think.

I printed th edigi, cut it out and colored it with alcohol markers, then added some details with a white gel pen.

For the background I masked off a circle and in the circle I applied Distress inks: Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers through more circle masks I made with  circle dies.

I stamped the sentiment from the Simple Sentiment Strips with Versafine ink.

Then I mounted the image with foamtape and adhered it to the cardbase.

You can find all the supplies in the Whimsy Stamps Store.

Digi:  https://whimsystamps.com/products/loveable-kitten-digital-stamp?_pos=100&_fid=8c008862a&_ss=c

Sentiment:  https://whimsystamps.com/products/simple-sentiment-strips-clear-stamps?_pos=1&_sid=f8d17c0fa&_ss=r

Circle dies:  https://whimsystamps.com/products/swiss-dots-a2-die?_pos=4&_sid=c1eabadd9&_ss=r

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AAA Birthday Card Challenges #72: Mythical

 Hello, this month it was my turn to choose a theme and I went with mythical beasts, a dragon in my case.

Such a cute dragon too, from My Favorite Things Darling Dragons, doesn't look menacing at all.

For my card I stamped the sentiment with MFT Extreme black ink and coloured it with alcohol markers, then cut him out and mounted him or her with foam tape.

The background I made by masking off an area on the cardbase and applying Distress inks, now it should be two distinct colours, but they kinda merged together, I've used Tumbled Glass and Salvaged Patina.

Splattered with Studio Mow gold glitter spray.

The sentiment is from Studio Katia (MIni birthday Greeting) and I stamped it with Versafine ink.

Adhered the image on top.

I look forward to your Mythical Beasts and you can enter your make here.

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