4 Legged Friends

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Challenge #136

4 Legged Friends

Our challenge theme '4 Legged Friends' has been chosen by me.

Are you a cat or dog lover or both?  I am both but these days just have 2 adorable cats, Bree and Jeeves.  They are Russia Blues and brother and sister, the perfect companions for us these days.  

I can't remember who designed this stamp, pretty sure I got it from Crafters Companion and it is by Sheena Douglas but not a 100% certain.  I masked the 4 legged friends once stamped and then stamped the background circles.  Next remove the masking and coloured the image with Copics.  A simple card to make but I do love how it turned out.

Summer

  International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over and join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #135

Summer

Our challenge theme 'Summer' has been chosen by Jennie.

Sharing a happy sunshine easel card today.  Oh how I love Summer with blue skies and lots of sunshine, just wish for a bit more than we are having at the moment :)   At least it is warm enough to have the heating turned off and save the pennies just now.  Have a feeling this winter if things don't sort themselves out it will be our log burning fire that is doing the majority of the heating in the house.  

Say it with Flowers

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Challenge #134

Say it with Flowers

Our challenge theme 'Say it with Flowers' has been chosen by Josephine.

This really was a labour of love :) :) :).  I coloured this digitally using Procreate more as a learning exercise so see if the way I do things could be improved LOL.  Learnt a couple of new things along the way which was great.  The image is made up of around 20 individual layers which I merged together at the end.  Last but not least, I added a quote by Victor Hugo.  Alas I cannot take any credit for the beautiful flower initial design as this is from a flower painting found on Google search.  I used the painting as my bottom layer as a shape and colour guide, this layer was then deleted when I was happy with my end result.

3 of Something

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Challenge #133

3 of Something

Our challenge theme '3 of Something' has been chosen by me (Mimi) :).  I just love bees and could not resist making this card after sitting outside in the sunshine and seeing my first bee of the year - so happy winter is over and warmer brighter days are here.  So to everybody who enjoys the sunshine, a bit of toast with honey etc. I hope you will always 'Bee Happy'

Had a bit of fun with the card, nice and simple but I do think yellow and black is such and awesome combination.  The card was made digitally where I had a rather enjoyable time plying with textures for the background paper before adding the digital stamp of the honey bees. Simple sentiment and then the addition of shadows to the layers to give a more dimensional look to the card.  

Things With Wings

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Challenge #132

Things With Wings

Our challenge theme 'Things With Wings' has been chosen by Christine.

This beautiful owl really was a labour of love :) I made it for my daughter's birthday as she loves owls, this one now hangs in pride of place in her lounge.  I bought the design from 'Laser Cutano Shop' and it is made up of 7 layers of different cuts.  I used 3mm Poplar Ply which is incredibly light for the bottom 6 layers which I then wood stained in different shades.  The top layer was originally cut using the Poplar Ply but, and this was my fault, I ended up having to use MDF which is stronger.  As I had made the design 39cm high instead of the original height of around 60cm the width of the the lines on the top layer were incredibly delicate and the Poplar did not work.  

Landscapes

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Challenge #131

Landscapes

Our challenge theme 'Landscapes' has been chosen by CraftyGirl.

I had a ball creating this landscape :) :).  After a very early wake up at 4 a.m., a game of Wordle and a couple of games of Suduko my head was wide awake.  What else to do but get a coffee and do some digital colouring.  This card colouring was created using Procreate and my finger (couldn't find my Apple pen and not in a mood to hunt for it lol) and finished off using Illustrator and Photoshop.  Love how it turned out, just luckily came together just like the picture in my head, hope you like it too.

Include an Animal/Crazy Critter

 

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Challenge 155 - 

Theme - A/ G with an option of Include an Animal/Crazy Critter

 

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :) 

How adorable is this wee chappy using one of the images from Ike's Krazy Kritterz Set 2.  I coloured the image digitally using Procreate and then completed the end design using Illustrator.  I just love the colour combination of this card, hope you do too :) :) :)