CAS - Cats and Spotty Dogs

Good morning blogland ladies, another day and another post.  This time for the CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge and The Simply Less is More Challenge Cats and/or Dogs.

I used a spotty dog digital image from The Digi Stamp Boutique for the card and printed the sentiment and coloured dots on the computer,  The dots on the dog were coloured with promarkers and glitter added to the flower.  An insert was added with dots and an image of the dog

here is another version but using the cat digi from The Digi Stamp Boutique, The dots were over stamped with a flower in picked raspberry DI to make it a little more feminine and a little more glitter was added.

 

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Not a good day for the photographs today, or maybe it could be because I dropped the camera earlier, hope it's OK!!

K is for Kakemono and Kimonos

Good morning all, over at the Craft Barn the Alpha Challenge the letter is "K", this past week has been a good week for getting things done and here is my "K" dictionary page completed. The word I was going to choose was kimono but there have been a few kimono pages already so my "K" word is kakemono - a Japanese hanging scroll, with a few kimonos thrown in for good measure.

The scroll was made using a piece of thick hand made paper which I put through my Big Shot with some corrugated card to give it a reed mat effect.  Thin strips of bamboo with beads on the ends were added top and bottom along with some gold and silver cord, the ivory lookalike stamped disk and a tassel.  The stamp (Aspects of Design from the Stamp Man - Oriental stamp sets) was stamped onto vellum paper and coloured with watercolours with a little gold highlighting the butterflies in the kimono.

The definition was highlighted by placing stripscof stamped bamboo around it.  The various stamps were stamped and coloured with watercolours and the letter "K" stamped, coloured and added to the page.  The scroll was placed over the stamping, which I got rather carried away with, dropping the panel stamp before lining it up so the second panel is lopsided but the scroll covers it well!

Once again thank you all you lovely ladies who have left me comments, I am off now to post this and have a look at what you very talented ladies have done with the letter "K".

Fairy Tiffany with a midway reminder

Good morning blogland, followers, friends and passers by.  It's the midway reminder over at the Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge, pop over to see the other fabulous DT creations using images from our sponsors Milk Coffee Stamps.  Here is my DT card using a Milk Coffee digi stamp, the other DT cards and this month's challenge can be found HERE.

This month we have a noughts and crosses challenge for you, you have until the end of the month so why not enter?

 

 

For my card I used the Die cut, Flowers and Ribbon line.  I started by cutting out a shaped card and covering it with patterned paper (from my stash don't know where it came from) I also cut out 2 fancy shaped die cuts for layering.  The image "Fairy Tiffany" was printed, coloured with promarkers and fussy cut ready for layering onto the card.  Using my Silhouette machine I cut out two vine swirls and the roses, the vines were coloured with promarkers and the roses with worn lipstick DI.  The roses were rolled to form the rose and the petals were shaped to give interest.  The two shaped mounts were edged with DI and layered onto the card, next came the vines, fairy, roses and then two ribbon bows made with pink and yellowy green ribbon.  The fairy's wings were shaped and a 3D sticky fixer placed behind to give some lift, the leaves and some of the stalks were also shaped to fit over the roses.  Lastly I edged the bottom of the card with worn lipstick DI. 

The Rhedd & Rosie Challenge this month is fantasy/mythical, so this is also my card for their challenge.  The challenge is open until the end of the month too so you still have time to enter and their DT cards are amazing if you need some inspiration.