Noah's Big Red Ark

When I saw the children's book title for The Library Challenge #77 - Big Red Bath ....   I remembered I had a long ago stamped and clear embossed image in my stash... so I dug it out and coloured it up with coloring pencils... I haven't made it into a card, I'm not sure what occasion I would use it for.

Thanks for stopping by,  have a Wonderful Creative day, cheers

Sweet Surprises for your Birthday

Another card from me today - 

A shaker card when it's not a shaker card... 

because I glued all the hearts in place except the large red one.

This jar stamp works well to make a shaker card.... I stamped and clear embossed the image on a white card panel and also onto a piece of foam sheet (cut the same size to make it easy to cut the foam opening in the correct place)...cut out the openings and lightly watercoloured the jar, then scrounged through my die cut hearts for small sizes - had to cut a few extras and decided to glue them in place on the actual card .. so it looked like the jar was full of love....to get them in the right place I traced a pencil line around the inside of the jar opening.   Easy Peasy!!!!  Anyway to finish I stamped and clear embossed the matching sentiment.

I am playing along with The Library Challenge - #76 - Jar of Hearts

Hope you're enjoying your week, stay safe

Card Recipe 

Stamps:  Practical Publishing - Sweet Summer  - jar and sentiment
Dies:  various small hearts from my stash
Inks: Versafine - black, Versa Colour - Raspberry
Other:   clear embossing powder,  clear acetate, foam sheet

Joy

"Butterflies" - Spark Joy ..... for me, so I thought to keep my card simple with an embossed background on metallic cream paper onto a cream card. Then a simple shiny gold die cut "Joy"  and a fussy cut gold embossed stamped butterfly on cream card, finished off with a single green gem.
Green is so not my go to colour hence the single green gem.... My inspiration for the challenge at The Library #27 - Spark Joy by Marie Kondo.
Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it... happy reading and card making

Just a Note

Finally got around to making my card for The Library Challenge #26 - The Note by Zoe Folbigg.
I've used the book title and the colours on the cover as inspiration for my card... I stamped my floral note image in grey  and used Distress Oxides to water colour it - I stamped an extra pen, ink bottle and flowers and fussy cut them.  Then I die cut an oval in some matching red DP and assembled the elements, to finish I stamped the sentiment and attached with foam tape.
Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it, happy reading/card making

... She is Fierce

Well I love this series of books, but I didn't have a clue how to begin...
until browsing through a magazine I came across these little golden dragons...
and I decided to fussy cut one and then hand drew a simple line drawing of a girl
of course I had to use red so gave it a frame onto black card
and to finish a stamped sentiment, I thought fitted beautifully.
I am playing along with The Library challenge - book cover and colours - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.   Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it.... happy crafting

This is where the Story begins

Well I started this challenge #24 at The Library weeks ago with an image of a yellow scooter - well that didn't work well.... so after some thought I imagined the life cycle of the butterfly - the beginning - a tiny egg and finally a gorgeous butterfly - so that's my interpretation of the book title and I've also used the colours - Aqua and Yellow.
For my background I scribbled aqua gelatos on my plastic sheet and spritzed it and my card with water and smooched - worked fabulously.  Then I die cut my butterfly in black and yellow and pieced it together,  used pencil to give the yellow some depth and an embellishment for the body. Next I die cut a leafy twig from scrap green smooched card.  To finish I stamped the sentiment and assembled the card, added a few green gems on the leaf as tiny eggs.
Thanks for visiting, I really appreciated it - happy card making

The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn

Challenge 23 at The Library is Anthology - 'pick a previous book challenge' to be inspired by.... so I chose one from September - Challenge 17.
I have this large stamp... the woman looks like she's contemplating something as she sits gazing from her window - she certainly looks like she's had a few, so sad, but what might she have seen as she spies on her new neighbours.... I think I'd better borrow this book from the library, it sounds interesting.
Anyway I stamped the lady and framed her up with a die cut to look like a window and printed off my wording on the computer.

Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it and happy crafting

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

Last week I played along with a new challenge blog (for me) - The Library Challenge and I thought what a unique way to be inspired, so I'm joining in again with challenge #22 - The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.   I didn't make a card just a little artwork inspired by the book cover -- I also included a little image of a winter home where maybe our boy, Billy in the story lives.
I love to mix up stamps and have done that here - masking off parts of stamps ... can you see the Tim Holtz bird stamp I used for my snowman, hand drew in the rest and used coloured pencil to add some slight colour.  Then stamped my house and trees from parts of other stamps.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your Christmas and New Year

 

Time to Celebrate

A male themed card for the challenges at Shopping Our Stash #383 - Happy Birthday Dude and at The Male Room they are celebrating Challenge #100 with the theme Celebrate.
From my embossing folders stash I found this clock background where I had inked the folder with Distress Ink, next I chose matching blue card and die cut my 'celebrate' across the bottom and trimmed these to fit my white card and fitted the negatives in place on the die cut.  Then I stamped and fussy cut my clock, used Dimensional Magic on the face and silver gel pen around the clock and to finish the card added a card strip with the rest of the sentiment.
I am also joining in with the challenge at The Library - inspired by the book by Jack Finney, From Time to Time...  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

 

Shopping Our Stash # 383 - Happy Birthday Dude