Lawn Fawn Critters

 Wow where has November gone!!!!  Less than 4 weeks till Christmas.     Today I'm sharing my DT card for Die Cut Divas.   

Our November challenge is CRITTERS

Our sponsor this month is Lawn Fawn. They will be giving our winner a $25 gift card to their online store. Thank you to Lawn Fawn for their generous support.

Today I have a birthday card - for a friend's upcoming birthday. 

Aren't these little Parrots so cute!  And that sentiment!!!! The stamp and die set is called Year Twelve.  My Background was stamped in a mid grey ink from Altenew and used a woodblock stamp Happy Birthday background from a now defunct NZ company called Rubbadubdado .  I die cut it with a Gina K Master Layout and added a wider border.  Found some fun striped paper and cut it to a panel to add to the background.   Stamped the stentiment and die cut with a banner die (did a little die surgery as the original die was a bit short.   Stamped and clear embossed the parrots and used my Zig Markers to add colour before die cutting them.  Added the black dots to finish it off.   

And I decorated inside 

This set is so sweet.    

We'd love to see your CRITTER creations in our gallery this month - you have till 9.00pm USA Pacific time to enter.  . Click here to add your card to our gallery.  Just remember to use at least one die cut or embossing folder must be used. 

How much "mess" can three people make?

Let me show you...........

Yesterday I was joined by Helen and Lei for a day of stamping.  With just the three of us, we spread out a bit.... look at all the creativity going on... between the three of us we made over 15 cards.  And I finished off another one today. 

Most of what I did was for upcoming design work so can't share just yet.  But I did borrow some of Lei stamps and made some cards.

 

I'm not sure who makes the stamp. (Could be Inkadinkado)  I went for a very monochromatic look.  I inked up the stamp with Hero Arts Charcoal ink and then added the Winnie and Walter sentiment stamps.  Can you see where I had to fix a mistake?  

 

This card was the other stamp of Lei's I borrowed.  It is by a NZ company called Rubbadubbadoo.  I had stamped it onto cream card and then cut with a Spellbinders die. Sponged with Antique Linen ink while it was still in the die.  To make the outside layer, I drew around the outside of the die and hand cut.  The background PP is from Rosie's Studio.  The flowers are from Prima and the die cut leaves from a Cherry Lynn die.    This is a for an upcoming birthday for a friend.  I have made a little box envelope to put this in and will hand deliver when the time comes.  

 

I had an awesome day with my friends.  We did miss the others but as I had sent out the invite at short notice it was good to catch up with those that I could.  

Hope your weekend was a great as mine was.

 

Happy 25th Birthday to my son.

Yes, 25 years ago my baby boy was born.  I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.

I did this collage and up it up on Facebook today.  He loved it and called me this evening to say thank-you.

I made a card for him as well

I used some Tim Holtz water colour paper ( just love this paper... the best I've found) and stamped the smoother side to stamp the boat from Rubadubbadoo.  I used distress inks to colour the stamp.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts. 

So to our son... Happy Birthday Kieran.

Playing with new stamps....

On Friday I went to Dunkley's Great New Zealand Craft Fair... because no less than 6 stamping and scrapbooking stalls were there.... as well as lots of other stalls... I got some Spicy seeds, some yummy boysenberry fudge and of course some new stamps.... from Rubbadubbadoo and a Tim Holtz one as well as a set of Sizzex embossing folders....

The Rubbadubbadoo stamp set is called Seaside.  I made this lovely card on Saturday for Lily Pad Cards latest challenge ~ to use ribbon.

I used distress inks on the base card and then stamped the small set of shells over and over to form a patterned background.  On another piece of card, I did more distressing and then stamped the larger panel from the set.  I used some Distress ink to add extra colour to the shells.  Added the ribbon and the bow with some ric-rac.

I did manage a few more cards on my day's stamping on Saturday...  my flickr photostream has them all there, I'll be sharing them here over the next few days..

Cheers

Dawn