Go Wild On Your Birthday

What?  You've never seen a blue and white zebra before?  Really??  Me neither, but I thought, why not - after all, I'm in a monochromatic mood.  And that means I can play along with CAS Watercolour Challenge, Something Blue,

and while I'm at it, I'm also playing along with The Library Challenge - I'm going with the stripes.

And then there's Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, Masculine

and finally, Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes.

We're having miserable weather for June - even the teapot was trying to keep warm!

Not Just For Christmas

This month's Twofer challenge is all about Pets, so I couldn't resist playing along with these two cards.

My first card was inspired by the current challenge at The Library Challenge - 101 Dalmatians.

I used one of my new stamp sets, Hashtag Walkies, and set to work with a black paint pen to create two faux-dalmatian coats.  Then I masked the images while I sponged the background and stencilled the sentiment.

I also made a Christmas card, and found two new-to-me challenges to enter:

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Feature A Creature and

The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes + Christmas

The background was in my stash from my attempts at a Jennifer McGuire technique using alcohol inks, which I won't be trying again!  But waste not, want not.  I stamped the image onto the background, then again onto cartridge paper.  I used Distress Oxide re-inkers two watercolour the images, then fussy cut them and stuck them into place.  The Season's Greetings sentiment is from Layered Holly.

Toffee tiptoeing through the, erm, daffodils!

Here's Lookin' At You

I've not been playing in many challenges lately, been a bit busy with my new stamp release.  But I did find time to play with some new Jane Davenport stamps.  I'm entering this first card into a new-to-me challenge, The Library Challenge, where each challenge is inspired by books.  This week's is Memoirs of a Geisha Girl.  I think you can see where I got my inspiration ;)

The smaller Jane Davenport face stamps are perfect for 'selfie' cards.  I added a mirri smartphone diecut (Kelly Purkey - maybe discontinued?) for a bit of shine, so it's going into Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Sparkle and Shine.  The tiara is a Crafty Individuals stamp and the patterned paper is from Craftwork Cards.

I've also been enjoying stamping, stencilling and doodling with the small Jane Davenport faces in my journals, so this next one is going into Simon Says Monday Challenge - Let's Doodle.

I doodle-stencilled the flower, then doodled the hair and around the stencilled word 'found'.  Here's a close-up.

I think I need to play some more ....
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