Easier and cheaper light up card with Clearly Besotted fireflies

 The Clearly besotted stampset is called a Bug's life and I used it to make a light up shaker card!

Yes with this hack you can too ;-)

I'm entering it into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: recycle as I used  "old"Christmas lights in a different way.

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is: Anything goes.

Welcome Baby

 

The new Less is More Challenge is: Pink and Gold.

I thought it was the One Layer week, but luck me eh? I couldn't have done this card with one layer, even if I inlaid the wreath, I felt it needed matting.

For my wreath I've used the Simon Says Stamp Blooming Circle die and cut it from a panel of white, pinks and gold glitter. Now the last one didn't work it didn't cut through mine and I was too lazy to go upstairs to get others, hehe.

I've put sticky tape behind the panel and put all the bits back. I might have used a pale green for the leaves if it weren't for the challenge, so I put the white ones back.

Now I thought with the sticky tape at the back would it hold one to embossing powder? It did, not as good as with ink, but had to try. I've used Wow rich gold regular powder, sprinkled it on and melted it.

For the sentiment I used one I had on my desk, I thought the pink was perfect for a baby girl.  Might add a cute image if I feel it's a bit boring, don't know yet.

Added the panel with foamtape to the card and the sentiment strip also.

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

Wizard Dragon

 

This week I've used the Whimsy Stamps digi: Wizard Dragon.

To me it looked like he just woke up, so I made this eyelids bigger or this eyes smaller , you can still see the original line being black, but I thought it went with the sentiment,

I  have a t-shirt that says this:"I don't drink coffee to wake up, I wake up to drink coffee". I think that's funny even though I don't drink coffee.

I colored the dragon with Copic Markers and made this eyelids darker, much like my own panda eyes ;-)

Matted the panel and adhered it to a cardbase.

you can find the digi here: https://whimsystamps.com/products/wizard-dragon-digital-stamp?_pos=1&_sid=4670682de&_ss=r

#Whimsy Stamps #digistamp #digitalstamp #dustinpikedraws

Hoppy Mail

 

This week the Gerda Steiner Stamps egg hunt continues and I made this card with a Gerda Steiner Digi Bunny with Letter, it's no longer available, but you can get a similar "real" stamp .

I printed it and colored the digi with Copic Markers, then cut it out.

For met scene/backdrop I cut out this stamp like panel, masked the edges to keep them white and applied Distress inks Twisted Citron and Tumbled Glass, then I placed a stencil on top (from Create a Smile Stamps (Happy mail) and applied the same colors, so I would get a faint design.

I made  the sentiment with my label maker.

For more information or to play along the #Egghunt,  see this.

Use your stash 2022 #11 Gold leafing or gilding flakes

AAA Cards Challenge #211: Anything CAS Goes + Spring Animals

 This fortnight we have a new kind of challenge for you: anything CAS goes + the optional twist of Spring animals.  The twist was chosen by Tristan.

Anything goes was chosen by former DT  lady Arlene and I added CAS to the  title as we are a CAS Cards Challenge and we'd open ourselves up to a can of worms...also Spring Animals? hehe...

Anyway CAS Card, Spring Animals if you like, but other than that Anything goes.

For my card I made the background with the Clearly Besotted stencil Around About inside a circle mask, it makes it easier to line up. I've used Distress

inks left on my foam blending tools, but otherwise I would have used Mowed Lawn and Salty Ocean or Tumbled Glass.

My Spring animals are from Paperie ink (Some Bunny Talk), so it the upper sentiment. the Lower one is from Whimsy Stamps (SImple Sentiment Strips). I stamped them on Copic friendly paper and colored them with alcohol markers, Scan N Cut did her magic and I adhered the dandelion flush to the cardbase, mounted the bunnies with foamtape. Then added the white in their eyes and the string to the cans.

For more information or to play along the AAA Cards Challenge, see this.

Moody Unicorns

It's Easter egg hunting time with Gerda Steiner! Look for the #gerdasteinerdesigns and see what all fans have made. I used the Moody Unicorns for this week. I think it's my favorite GSD set and I colored it with Graph-it Markers. The sentiment is from the same set. The background is Distress inks (Candied apple, Carved pumpkin, Mustard seed, Twisted citron, Mermaid Lagoon, Chipped Sapphire, Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry). The shine is Liquid Stardust from Lawn Fawn. Mounted the image with foamtape. #GSD #Gerdasteinderdesigns.

I've entered this card into the March challenge on Gerda Stein's website