silly birds

 

This time at creative knockouts it's anything goes with this image silly birds on a wire from patties creations

I have to admit I was in a bit of a hurry with this card, it was for a grandson's birthday which I nearly forgot, otherwise I would of done something a bit different like maybe them hanging upside down

I put the image onto a word document and put a frame around it then printed the image I coloured the image with copics then adhered to a striped backing paper then onto a dotty paper then adhered it to a white slime line base card I was going to put wobbly eyes on the birds but the smallest ones were to large you couldn't see the whites of their eyes, stamped the sentiment and adhered it to green dotty backing paper 

Spring

 Well it has been a trying couple of months for me so have not posted for a while.

The challenge at creative knockouts is spring is in the air, not so here in NZ we are heading into Winter the image I am working with is positive vibes from Streamside Studios. 

This perhaps isn't so spring like but there was heaps to choose from I think I got side tracked

I decided to keep this one plain and simple found the crocus wreath on the net inserted the girl and sentiment inside the wreath coloured her with copics and distress inked the edges Embossed the band of card then adhered all to white base card I have not  added any more to it nor done a sentiment inside I will leave that until I decide who to give it too

Rock hunt

It's been a while since I posted on here, life got in the way

During the Christmas School Holidays we took three of the younger grandsons on a rock hunt, they were told they had to bring a water bottle sun hat and a back pack that they could carry it back to the card themselves, one got inventive  and made two trips to the car, so the other two followed his lead we loaded up the card with kids gear and food and went to the Pareora river bed which is about 30 minutes south of Temuka while driving when we went past a paddock of sheep we said what funny looking cows they were, cows were sheep pigs in their sty's were chickens horses were reindeer so we had three in the back telling us what they really were, shaking their heads thinking we were nuts one asked don't you know what they are. By this time we were at the river.

Imagine the boys delight and excitement when Pop took them to these rocks, they couldn't believe what they were seeing one thought they were from the dinosaur era, so it was up to pop to explain it all. One rock was not as old it had the conch shells and the rock was a bit green, I told the boy it wasn't a fossil must be sheep's toe nails so that is what it got named. They all had a full back pack and some loose ones in the back of the car one of the boys made his own rock garden with them and it looks good the other two didn't hear much about what the parents thought, but we had a lot of fun and a bit of a picnic

Just goes to show you don't always have to spend money to have a good time. The boys have already asked when we are going back

These rocks pictured are my rocks we are going to redo our fish pond and I am going to put them there

Celebrations

 This time at creative knockouts it's all about celebrations with this image almond blossoms from alex syberia designs

The theme for the card swap group I am in was to use the packaging of a parcel and I used packing foam I thought it made a lovely background so decided to do it on this card I also did a bit of crayon resist 

I printed the image onto white card and one onto plain paper to make a mask I rubbed white crayon randomly on the card then put distress ink on the foam and dabbed it onto the card I coloured the image with copics (I still haven't quite mastered the skill of flicking so my lines are a bit thick) I stamped the sentiment with distress ink also I then adhered it to a aqua coloured card that looks blue in the photo and adhered to white base card 

I don't normally make my cards this plain but I rather like how it has turned out

Just for you

 This time at creative knockouts I chose this image calla lilies from Twinkle Lane Designs I know we associate Lilies for a bereavement  card but they don't need to be with all the different colours you can get 

A few years ago (before Covid) I got this die cut out of china, as I was into edged cards, this one I never used  I cut it onto a white base card and then a while later decided the orange card looked ok under it and so it sat, then I found the ribbon and adhered it to the card and still it sat then I got the lily Digi and decided to colour them orange after a bit of a hunt I found it again

So I printed off the stamp with the sentiment coloured it with copics found some more of the orange card lucky me it was the same, cut it out fancy, adhered to front with foam squares I then fussy cut the pot of lilies and also adhered them with foam squares

Think I will use this image a lot

Snow much fun

 This week at creative knockouts the theme is snow much fun using our own image As we don't have snow where I live I decide that a funny snow card is what I would do I don't really know if this is appropriate on this site so I apologise if this offends any one We have a friend who's sense of humour is very much like ours so it is always a surprise when we swap cards I don't know where they find the card they give us, This is my card for them

The image was already coloured the Backing Paper was from my stash of Christmas papers it was adhered to green card I cut the snowflakes on the cuttle bug  I did them in groups of three glued them together pressed them into a glue pad and covered them with Glitter on the inside of the card I have put some white card with a strip of the backing paper down the side I will also put some glitter in the inside of the card so it will fall out when open... Faux Snow 

Time to be merry

 This week at creative knockouts is Time to be merry with an image from mirtillamente   called christmas tree  it is a great image and one that my grand children will also like to colour in 

Here in new Zealand we have a summer Christmas so I try to do non traditional Christmas cards.I coloured the image with copics adhered it to red card then a green card I then punched a small hole in the corner and tied a bow, I put the candy cane which is a button, onto the bow before tying it off  I then found the striped  backing paper adhered to red card then all onto a white base I adhered the image on a slight angle because not every thing has to be straight or square