Anniversary!

Tuesday was the 15th anniversary of being together with Roy. There were times earlier this year when I really didn't think we'd be celebrating.

As he has always been keen on owls and has quite a collection of them (nor real or stuffed ones!) I thought this stamp, which was free with Creative Stamping magazine, would make a perfect anniversary card for him. I inked it with walnut stain distress ink and pulled the colour out with a water brush, then fussy cut round it. The heart was cut out of some paper from a Simon Says Stamp monthly kit. The little red hearts were punched out of snippets of red glimmer paper using appropriately the SU owl punch! 

I am going to take it across to the Playground to see if I can get a go on the swings! 

Make My Monday - Owls

I am thrilled to announce that I am now a part of the Make My Monday design team - so happy to be creating for them! The theme this week chosen by Laura is "Owls". Now my other half is very keen on owls and indeed has quite a collection of all things "owly" and I bought this stamp from Little Claire Designs some time ago to make a card for him.

 

I brushed inks over white card to get the background, then stamped some leaves around the top and some grass at the bottom to ground the mother owl. The tree and owls were coloured with Promarkers and the owls were stamped again and fussy cut to give a bit of dimension.

I hope you like my first card for Make My Monday and be sure to vist the rest of the team for some wonderful inspiration.

I'm also going to pop over to Pixies Snippets Playground as snippets were used. 

Supplies used:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip

Inks: Soft Sky, Midnight Muse, So Saffron, Old Olive, Gumball Green, Soft Suede

Stamps:  Lovely as a tree ( for leaves) By the Tide ( seaweed used for grass!) Owls and sentiment (non SU)

http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/pixies-snippets-playground-week-124.html

Little Owls!

The challenge at Less is More this week is for a one layer card with the theme of FUR or FEATHERS.  This gave me the ideal opportunity to use a sweet stamp from Little Claire's Designs that hadn't seen an inkpad yet! As it is a one layer card I coloured it with Aquamarkers so there was no bleed though to the inside.But I really do prefer Promarkers and Copics!! I am also entering this into the challenge at CAS-ual Fridays which is for a square card, and Lawnscaping Challenge which is also for a one layer card.