Miss You

Hope everyone is self-isolating or social distancing properly so we can beat the virus down. These two critters are missing all of you, big time. They are from Clearly Besotted and are Copic colored. As you can see, they're waiting patiently for all this to be over. Linking to AAA Cards for their Along the Edge game.

Bunny Twofer

Twofer Card Challenge wants Spring Animals...aren't they all? Anyway, bunnys came to mind instantly...mine are from an older Art Impressions set which appears to be discontinued. Stamped a bunch of the bunnys front and back, Copic colored them and fussy cut them out.

 

Used a Mama Elephant die to make a gatefold (literally) card.  Created the background with an MFT cloud stencil and a Kitchen Sink layering set for the rolling hills. Added some additonal grass with MFT's stencil and a few flowers with some paste and white gel pen. Attached the bunnys, front and back to the top of the gate (do bunnys climb...oh well, the whole card is a fantasy). Stamped the sentiment, cut it into a strip and laced it through the fence stiles to keep the card closed.

Stamped, white heat embossed and watercolored the Simon Says Easter Egg background stamp. While it dried, diecut 3 white and 1 black Simon Says "happy" and "Easter" words. Stacked them with the black, offset on the bottom. Fussy cut the, now dried, background and attached it to a dark grey cardbase. (What would I ever do without grey.) Cut a slit in the background with a craft knife to accommodate a bunny head and arranged the rest of them and the sentiment on the card.  Done.

Not My Circus

Today we're playing with Less Is More's color challenge... red, raspberry and grey. Chose to use some new EBE products, expecially this darling elephant. The ovals are alternated in red and rasperry though the photographer struggled to differentiate the colors.
    

Erin Go Bragh

Are you feeling lucky? Happy St. Patrick's Day.
I'm playing with CAS Watercolor today...can you guess the theme? The background is a combination of  a Brutus Monroe stencil and a Stamp Market stamp. This leprechaun image is really Charlie Chaplin from Kindred Stamps but I altered him a bit.  Watercolored  the EBE pot 'o gold  with Altenew metallics and the little guy with Mijello Mission paints. Handwrote the sub-sentiment before adding the diecuts which I think are both retired.

Martini Anyone?

Most anyone who has a cat or dog recognizes the dreaded cone that is attached to our fur babies when they have an issue. I've often thought it was designed by a bartender and, apparently, this little guy thinks so, too. Anyhoo, it a good one for the Day of the Month Card Club where it's also their 1st Blog Birthday. 

It's an older unmarked stamp set but it fit so well with the "National  Puppy Day" theme I couldn't resist it. No unusual techniques were used in the design of this card. Also linking this to the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers-Booze theme. 

For those who follow me, my mojo is returning by dribs and dabs since our bout with the flu (NOT Covid-19)...we both are beginning to feel human again. Thanks for all your kindness and care.

Update: The stamp set is from Skipping Stones but I've been told they may be out of business.

Happy Birthday, Time Out

Many happy returns of the day to Time Out Challenges...so happy to help celebrate their 6th Birthday with this card.

So I DecoFoiled a background with rainbow colored foil (wished it showed up better in the photo). Cut Simon Says' circle sentiment and number dies to make it personal. Attached the cut panel and circle to a black cardbase with foam tape then fit the teeny-weeny positive pieces back into the letters (fiddley is a nice word for it). Stamped the "th" into the appropriate aperture and called it done. Happy, Happy Birthday, Time Out and thanks for providing me with tons of fun the last few years.

Pastel Poinsettia

CAS Christmas is having a 2nd Birthday Celebration and chosen Winter Flower as it's theme. Decided on, what else, an Altenew pointsettia in a pale colors with some Hero Arts pine needles. Stamped the layers and further defined it with a tiny brush. Dry embossed the flower and debossed a frame. Stamped a EBE sentiment and colored it in then added Nuvo glaze to it and the center of the flower. Done.