Saw something in a blog and it inspired me to make this card. Mine is not a CASE but a general idea from what I saw. Had fun painting the stamped image with my metallic watercolours. They add a soft sheen to the image but it isn’t truly evident in a photograph. I fussy cut the image out and popped it up on the card front. Added the Gina K. sentiment on the side a few gems for some bling. I did two of these but the second one moved slightly in my misti when I restamped the sentiment so it was spoiled.

Who would have thought that lime green and pinks would work as colours for crazy birds but they do. Made this for the challenge at Cards and Candles in progress – Wait? What? Doing something in an unexpected colour and to my mind crazy bird stamps are perfect for a challenge such as this.

Adhered a dark pink panel to card front and then a smaller stamped panel to that. I first coloured the smaller panel with oxide ink and then randomly stamped over the top in a darker colour using stamps I’ve had forever and with no idea who designed them or how I acquired them. Using some scrap cardstock I stamped crazy bird images using the smaller set of Tim Holtz stamps. I then die cut them with the corresponding set of dies. After colouring them using oxide inks I popped them up onto card front. I added the wings, eyes and beaks separately for additional dimension. Once I had them placed where I wanted them I stamped the hello in black and outlined it with a Sakura gelly roll pen. I also added some glossy accents to wings eyes and beaks for shine.

Using a piece of purchased embossed paper I added it the yellow card front. Then I cut the flower part using a border die and a piece of scrap left from another project. I had inked this with various oxide inks and sprayed it with water for more effect. I stamped the duckling image and Sentiment from a Simon Says set called Showers and flowers.

After colouring the image I fussy cut it out and popped up on top. I thought it fit the theme at the linked blog. It makes me smile.

I had one piece of my marbled paper left over and decided to use it for this card. Adhered it to the card front on the left side. Then I took some scraps and cut out the diamond shapes using a spellbinders set. I moved the center pieces to the opposite colour for added interest.

Using a small seahorse die I cut out the smallest one and patted it onto my versamark pad until it was sticky all over. Then I dipped it into verdigris embossing powder and heat set it. He was adhered to the teal background and the diamond shape popped up on top. The penguin is from a Lawnfawn set that came with dies so I stamped, coloured and cut him out and added him to the lighter green background piece with diamond over top. Stamped the sentiment and tiny bird are from 2 Inspired by Stamping sets. It was missing something so I tried spattering some ink spots over the top. Don’t think I did a very good job and my mask moved so I got a few spots where I didn’t want them.

Sometimes I get on a kick and several cards get made because one gives other ideas. Saw a card on Pinterest and followed it to this link,
( http://handmade4cards.com/birthday-cards/handmade-birthday-cards-will-love-give-anyone.html )that gave me an idea so this is my version of that.

I cut the strips using a diagonal die from Avery Elle and PP from Gina K. Then I wove the pieces onto the card front. Stamped the sentiment using a Concord & 9th stamp and cut it with a die from the set that came with the stamps. Tied a small bow from ribbon in my stash that matches the polka dotted pp.

When making my black and white card yesterday I stamped and heat embossed some extra card stock with the same roses background stamp so I could make other cards later. I cut off a small piece to use for this card and basically made the piece into 2 1/2″ squares. I did the opposite by stamping on black card stock and heat embossing in white then cutting them into the same size as the black ones. I rounded two opposite points on each piece and arranged them on the card front.

After adhering them in place I added a white round button to the centre. I stamped the sentiment in versamark ink and heat embossed in black using the scripty sayings incentive stamp from Gina K. Added 2 black gems to the bottom. I sort of got on a roll with the black and white and made another card using up some PP I haven’t used much.

Made for 2 challenges: Double D black and white
http://daranddiane.blogspot.com/ and the Modsquad use a stencil
http://modsquadchallenge.com/use-a-stencil/

I started by stamping the roses using a background stamp from Gina K, in versamark which I then heat embossed with fine detail EB powder. Cut this piece down and adhered to black card front. Using a small piece of scrap I then stenciled the butterflies, again with versamark and heat embossed this time in White. Stencil is one I’ve had for a long time and unfortunately do not know by whom or from where. In the beginning I didn’t think to keep track of those details so have a few items that I can’t identify properly. Picture below.

I cut this piece down to fit at the bottom of the other piece and glued it down. Then I added a small strip of ribbon around the card base. As well I stamped a butterfly image from a StampinUp set I have again in versamark and heatset that. I fussy cut it out and added to middle of the ribbon. A few small gems were added for some bling.

Inspired by the watercolour challenge at Double D blogspot.

In playing around with the diagonal stripe background stamp used in my last post I actually messed up my first stamped image and couldn’t restamp it as I wasn’t using my Misti. Didn’t want to waste the piece but the lines were a bit thick and dark so I went over them with a silver pen using a ruler to guide me. After that I watercoloured the entire piece using Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink. Then I had the idea of using a stencil, made by a stamp buddy as a gift, in graduating sized dots with Nuvo Glimmer paste called Blue Topaz. In the jar it looks very blue but when added over the top of the green it changed to what you see here. I really liked the result. After leaving it to dry overnight I had to decide how to use it. I picked the Cedar Waxwing bird stamp from another GKD set called Snowbird Stamp and die bundle and stamped it in Amalgam ink. I then watercoloured this image using my metallic shimmer paints from ColorArt. Die cut it out and popped it on top using dimensionals. The sentiment came from another GKD set The Wetlands and I die cut this, sponged the edges in the same green and popped it up at the top.

This is made for the monthly challenge at Gina K Designs Ombre Ink blending. First I stamped the stripes in Amalgam ink using the GKD Diagonal stripe background stamp. I then sponged over the top with 3 different tones of violet Distress Oxides to get the ombre look. Using a diamond stencil I added Nuvo glimmer paste and let dry. After trimming the panel down a bit I adhered two purple strips of ribbon on one side and then adhered everything to the white card base.

I took the sentiment stamp, from the GKD stamp set called Lettered and Lovely using VersaMark ink. Heat embossed this with a Recollections Tinsel EB. I traced around the stamped image faintly in pencil so I could fussy cut it out into the stamp shape. Added this to the card front with dimensionals.

Another of my new turnabout creations using Lovely Blossoms, again using some Distress oxide colours. I added some Gina K ribbon and then adhered it to the sweet Mango card base. I die cut the butterfly and glued it together before popping up on top of ribbon. Added the sentiment from the Wreath Builder set.

This was inspired by the butterfly at this challenge. Fun challenge and fun card to create.