A little bird told us...to be a daring cardmaker

Daring Cardmakers are making cards with birds on them this week.  I had a couple of cards to make so used the dare as a prompt for this one.  The stamp was a freebie with Craft Stamper, stamped onto watercolour paper which had been wet and sprayed with Dylusions Ink Sprays.

This week's dare is sponsored by Ribbon Reel.

Non-Retreaters Cyber Crop

Last weekend, on the Bubblyfunk Forum, there was a bit of a mass exodus as some of the members went off for a crop retreat weekend.  Those of use who weren't going organised a bit of a party back home.  We posted ideas and links to different craft projects and each took part as much as we could.

I made this card as part of a prompt to make 'Something Old, Something New' and also used a technique for Distressed Acrylic using a cuttlebug folder.  

The flower stamp is one from Craft Stamper and the Butterfly stamp is from Crafty Individuals.  There is a fair old bit of Distress Ink in there and the paper is from Crate Papers.

Titania Queen of the Faeries

The SCD (Something Completely Different) challenge this week was to create a Thrinchie (3 x 3 inch square) featuring a crown.  I got my subscription copy of Craft Stamper yesterday and really like the tutorial they had by Liesbeth Fidder called 'Layer upon Layer', so I used this technique to create my background.  The fairy stamp came from Sue in a stamped image swap.  The quote is, of course, from Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: "You spotted snakes with double tongue; Thorny hedgehogs be not seen; Newts and blind worms do no wrong. Come not near our fairy queen".

Background: Distress Inks - Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge

Stamps - dragonfly and crown (Craft Stamper freebies), Flourish - Dimension Fourth

So Tweet!

 Daring Card Makers

"This week it's Vanessa here to set the dare and I really love this time of year because the nights are rapidly getting shorter and the days longer. Spring is in the air, the birds are chirping and tweeting early in the mornings and I'm starting to think about mowing that lawn again!

Your challenge this week is :
Tweetie Pie
Please use a bird or birds on your card and that's it, any kind you like."

 

 

My card is loosely based on Sketch 7 from Kathy's Waffle Sketch File, the stamp is a Craft Stamper freebie, a few flowers and dewdrops and a bit more 'scribbling' round the edges, this time with toning watercolour pencils lightly blended over with water.

 

Something Completely Different - Metal Moo!

We are still making Moos for Something completely different, the theme for this week is to put something metal on your Moo. I wasn't sure what I was going to use, but started looking through the DH's nuts & bolts and screws. The ones at the back door were too new looking, so I went out to the garage where the accumulated junk of about 100 years (I joke not!) are piled up on the work bench, I found this metal button and the little nut in one of the old drawers which were made by DH's grandfather who was a master joiner. I'd been reading the Claudine Helmuth tutorial in Craft Stamper, so the background has acrylics and masking, I also stamped onto tissue paper (another tutorial in CS!) but it is difficult to see that. There seemed to be something missing - Words! I turned to my 'cheap as chips' dictionary, I was going to use 'Metal' but I liked the sound of metallurgy better.



I went back out the the garage (or cart shed, as was it's original purpose) to take the photograph.

Bubbly Scrumptious Weekly Challenge - Vehicles

I was just soooo pleased when I checked out this week's Bubbly Scrumptious challenge because I made this card last week for another challenge but when I read it again, I realised it wasn't going to fit the criteria after all! I knew that something would come up soon that was just right for this card but I didn't expect it to be so soon :D

The background has been distress inked over some Tim Holtz stencilly things, printed papers are digital downloads from Funky Hand, vintage accounts paper is from Stampington and the vintage image is from Art Freebies. The 'One Way' stamp is from Paper Artsy and the key came from a freebie stamp on Craft Stamper. The wooden car was a present from one of my boys, don't remember which, to his dad.