Sending you monster hugs

The Monday And Wednesday Challenges over at Simon Says Stamp are all about Halloween.

In the Netherlands it’s not big, or small even, I kinda like Halloween, but as such I don’t have many supplies for this occasion.

So i rummaged through my Simon Says Stamp supplies and thought I could adapt these baby party animals.

I stamped them with Tattered rose Distress inks on watercolour paper.

I tried to mask off their bellies, but that wasn’t very successful, so instead I used a bit of kitchen towel to wipe the belly off, most important on the mummy, the rest could have stayed, in fact I restamped it in Versafine after coloring and left the Dracula belly.

 

I drew in details to make them Halloween dressed up baby animals.

Watercolored them with Distress inks and after it dried I restamped it with Versafine to get the details. I went over my pencil lines with the finest multiliner I have 0,05mm

Stamped the sentiment from Lawn Fawn (monster mash) onto the card base.

Mounted the panel onto the card base with foam tape.

For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge, see this

For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this

Warm Wishes

Today I was introduced to a new challenge blog, and it's their first challenge, so I thought I'd show my support ;-)
it's the CAS watercoloured card challenge: autumn.
Also entering it to the Addicted to CAS challenge, which is watercolor.


For my card I used brown tones, as deers are brown and autumn in Holland is brown and gloomy ;-). Copper embossingpowder from Wow!

It's also cold here, altough I heard it's snowing in Canada already!, so the sentiment feels in place.

I used a deer die to cut out the shape from Inkadinkado masking paper. Mine is not very sticky and peeled up in places, and the color went underneath, most apperent at the legs..
I used cold pressed Schut watercolor paper in 140lbs, that

I mounted with foamtape to the cardbase.

Fun thing it I still have the deer image in masking paper, so I could make a revers, so  a white deer and brown surroundings, but I thought this would be much more CAS.

The deer die is from Yvonne creations (ycd10029) and the sentiment is from Marianne design (EC0148)

For more information on the CAS watercoloured card challenge, see this
For more information on the Addicted to CAS Challenge, see this

Pine landscape

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #193 double challenge

I have to admit the colors stumped me for a while and the sketch also.

I just had an aha moment whilst I was rummaging through my supplies.

To make it work I had to rotate the sketch 90degrees clockwise, do you see it?

Iused the mint for my front panel and out of it I die cut the  Craft Emotions pine landscape, which is just about the width of a card.

The orange and purple/burgundy I thought could be sunset, of course the trees wouldn’t be green anymore, but I call upon my artistic freedom haha.

I stamped the sentiment in Electric lime from Ranger, as I thought black it too stark, and I wasn’t sure if silver embossing was aloud; so I went tone on tone, the stamp is from Hero Arts (cl 728 deer 4x6)

Mounted the minty panel with foam tape, the Inking was done on the card base.

For more information on the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge, see this

Ink blended African sunset, fall colors....with video

Work it Wednesday’s September challenge is to use : yellow, orange, red and or Brown, so I used them all ;-)

I was picturing one of those African sunsets  you see pictures of all the time. I don’t have any silhouette elephants or giraffe stamps sadly, but yeah the idea was the sunset, not specifically an African one ;-).

I used a bird silhouette stamps from Joy! Crafts and Distress inks on my card, the sentiment is from Technique Tuesdays.

I used Distress inks:  fossilized amber, ripe persimmon, fired brick and aged mahogany and for the sun mustard seed.

Made a mask for the sun with a die and Inkadinka do masking paper and proceeded to do a lot of ink blending. In hindsight I think the fos. Amber was a bit too dark, I should have used mustard seed instead, you live and learn, still like it, but the sun doesn’t glow as it could have.

I used Versafine black onyx and the Misti to stamp the image and sentiment, I double stamped them to get a really nice black print.

ATG gun tape to attach the panel to the cardbase.

For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday, see this

Wax paper resist let it snow

The challenge over at Less is More this week is to use lilac and turqoise.

So for my lilac I first chose shaded lilac, but it was too blue so I added a layer of wilted violet on top and for the turqoise I chose peacock feathers.

I inkblended it on top of a panel I used an embossingfolder and waxpaper to create a resist.

Made a video for it too last week, so pop on over if you want to see how that works, I used more and other colors on that video though.

The sentinement is from Avery Elle and I used Ranger dye inks grape soda and Caribbean coast to stamp in.

Some diecuts of snowflakes in glitterpaper,  more or less in the same hue and some Ranger enamel accents in white as falling snow.

For more information on the Less is More Challenge, see this

In a nutshell

I got 3 of theses cute woodmounted stamps, second hand, so not sure how old they are, but they're still cute and work still, so I don't care lol. This one's called in a nutshell from Penny Black.

I thought this little hedgehog in a walnut shell was too cute and it reminded me of a baby in a crib, so that's how the card was thought up.

I used Memento ink to stamp the image onto Neenah solar white card and colored it with my Spectrum Noir markers.

The photo didn't pick up the really light blue on the flower, sorry.
the "welcome" is from Uniko's home sweet home set and the diecut "baby" is from Simon Says Stamp.

The challenge at Virginia's view is #24: focal point, and personally I think the little hedghog is the star here ;-)

For more information on the Virginia's view challenge, see this

Cat on the moon...

..could be a Halloween card, but it's a birthday card!

I made it for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: anything goes with Spellbinders, and the

AAA cards Challenge #74: masking.

I used a Penny Black stamp called Cat on the moon. I stamped it with Memento ink onto Neenah solar white cardstock and on some Inkadinkado masking paper.

I cut out the shape and those itsy bitsy stars..that wasn’t easy ;-)

I masked the cat and stars off and used an ink blending tool at first, but I was peeling off ste stars and the corners of the moon, so I switch to a brush to put on a layer of Distress inks tumbled glass and broken china.

Removed the masks and colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers and then stamped the sentiment

from Clearly besotted (brushed greetings II), also with Memento ink and with the help of the MISTI as I wasn’t  going to mess up now ;-)...I didn’t lol

I cut the panel smaller with the help of a rectangle die (Could have been Spellbinders, butI don’t have any) and mounted it with foam tape to a card base.

For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this

For more information on the AAA cards challenge, see this