Nature Lover

I absolutely love God's beautiful and fascinating creation...especially birds! I'm sitting here working on cards and watching baby owlets on a live feed owl video cam.
I enjoy using both real looking bird images and whimsical birds on my cards. My favorite whimsical images are Tim Holtz Crazy Birds. Here is a birthday card using the TH mini set. I also used the TH accessory stamps and dies to add dimension and character.
First I added some distress ink splatter to the kraft cardstock base. I also punched a border and added it to the edge. I stamped the bird image on watercolor paper and colored it with Distress Inks. I stamped and colored a 2nd imaged to cut the eyes, beak and wing from. I stamped, colored and cut the hat and balloon as well. I popped up the eyes, beak, wing, hat and balloon, added twine to the balloon, and added the matted stamped and embossed sentiment. I stamped "Happy Birthday" inside. These little guys have so much character!

I'll be submitting this card to the following challenges:
A Perfect Time to Craft          Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge Blog    Anything Goes
Crafty Friends Challenge Blog   'B'   bird, balloon
Crafty Gals Corner      Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps    stamped image and sentiment
Stamping Sensations     Anything Goes (stamped image)

He is Risen!!

Challenges inspire my creative juices and get me busy making another card!!
This week's  Easter card fits several challenges.  For this card, I used a stencil and distress inks to create the background using spring colors. I wanted to create the feeling of the palm leaf strewn path that Jesus rode the colt into Jerusalem on.  I used punches and dies to create all the elements...the lace border piece, the flowers, the cross, the leaves, and the background piece for the sentiment. 'He is risen' sentiment is from a Stephanie Bernard set and 'God is Love' is from an AC Bible Journaling set. I stamped the 'God is Love' in black Versafine ink then heat embossed it with clear EP to make it stand out from the background. I added platinum liquid pearl to the flower centers and to dot the 'i's in the sentiments. I stamped 'Easter Blessings' on the inside of the card.  Enjoy and Happy Easter!! 

 

Challenges entered:

Mustard Seed           Easter

Come and Get It      Easter

Addicted to Stamps   Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends   Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations       Anything Goes

Altenew April Inspiration Challenge

I ran across an Altenew photo inspiration challenge so I whipped up a card I needed for a friend graduating. We were given a photo on the blog for inspiration. I chose to represent the nature aspect of the photo, as well as using the yellow and dots of color in the background. I used a Tim Holtz stencil and Distress Ink to create the yellow sunburst background. I used another stancil to add the dots at the bottom. I added the splatter with Mustard Seed and Black Soot Distress Ink. The butterflies are from a Recollections set called Color Splash Butterflies as is the sentiment at the top. I popped up the bottom butterfly and the "Congratulations" to add dimension.. The bottom sentiment is from Anna Griffin's Lovely Letter-press stamps. I finished the card with a strip of ribbon from my stash and mounted it on a black cardbase.

 Thanks for looking at my card!   #altenewchallenge