Seize The Birthday - Add A Silhouette

Hellooo!  We've got a new challenge at Seize The Birthday, hosted by Cathy, and she wants us to Add A Silhouette.

I used an image from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous CMS329 Theories, words from CMS325 Glorious Bouquet, and marks from CMS362 Media Marks.  The background was a Distress Ink mop-up piece.

We've got some more fabulous inspiration for you from the rest of the team and our Surprise Party Guests, so pop over to the Seize The Birthday blog and play along.  If silhouettes aren't your thing, you can still play along with any birthday-themed creation.

Visible Image - Christmas In June

It's Christmas in June at Visible Image, and for my non-card Design Team make I've created a home decor piece using the Christmas Robin stamp set along with the Ye Olde Christmas stencil.

I started off by priming a canvas board with gesso, then stencilled with gold paste.  The stencil flipped up a little on the lower part, smudging it slightly, but I decided to embrace my mistakes ;)

Once all that had dried, I spritzed the canvas with Distress Mica Stains.

On some kraft card I stamped out the large robin and branch,

and some holly leaves (I knew I would need that strip of card one day!)

I used a Tombow pen to add shade to the leaves, and a Zig Clean Colour pen for the red berries.

I cut my images with the coordinating Christmas Robin die set, then arranged them on my deco piece.  I had to cut some extra leaves to camouflage the worst of the stencil booboo.

The Robin word was stamped onto red card,

and the red splashes were created by dropping some Peppermint Stick Distress Mica stain onto the canvas.

You can pick up the stamps, dies and stencil here at Visible Image.  Have fun creating!

Seize The Birthday - Fancy Fold

Hi guys, we've got a new challenge for you at Seize The Birthday - Fancy Fold, hosted by Barbara.

I've cased a design I saw on the Unity Stamps website using one of the Angie Girls stamps, seeing as I was using Aria Girl.  The background is made with Tim Holtz Flower Field, the foreground 'flowers' are done with Dottarific pens and the sentiment is from Stamps Away.

Pop along to the Seize The Birthday blog for some fabulous fancy fold inspiration from the team and our surprise party guests, and join in the fun.  If you don't want to make a fancy fold you can still play along with our Anything Goes theme.

Visible Image - Picnics/Summer

 

Hello!  Our theme at Visible Image this week is Picnics/Summer, and my brief is Clean and Simple.  I took my inspiration from this vibrant summery meadow filled with creeping buttercups, and from an earlier card I made, which you will see below.

I started by stencilling Fossilised Amber distress ink through the Sixty Four stencil, fading it out as I got further down the card.

I used the Precious Life flower for my buttercups.  After stamping one off the bottom of the card, I masked the flower head and leaves, then stamped another, masked that as well then stamped the third, where I had to bend the stem in order for the door to close.  

Then I added the sentiment in the central white space, along with a flick of colour to the petals and leaves.

I resisted the urge to add splatters :)

The trimmed panel was adhered to a buttery yellow card.

And here's a pic with the other card that I never shared when the stamp set was first released, which was also my inspiration, but there wasn't enough 'white' space for it to be CAS, hence my new card.

You can get the stamps and stencil, and many more, from the Visible Image store here.  Happy stamping!