Crafty Individuals - Mini challenge

Hello everyone.

Hope you are having a good day.
I am on a "roll" with my stamping at the moment and have been using my Crafty Individuals  designed by Alice Palace. They are a series of animal stamps and I have submitted my projects into the Crafty Individuals July challenge - Mini masterpiece.



For my first project I used  Dog and banner, as a gift for a friend who likes Bulldogs.

 

The face of the bull-dog has been stamped onto a 4.5cm. wooden heart from ArtCuts and coloured with watercolour pencils.

The background is coloured with a VersaMagic inkpad.

 

I have stuck a small peg on the back and then a strong piece of magnetic tape, so that the notepad can be stuck onto the fridge. Useful and cute!

 

 

 

This is the card to go with it.

 

 

 

 

My second project is a  duck brooch.

Again, this has been stamped onto a wooden shape and coloured with water colour pencils and the feet are tiny hearts. I went around the body area with a white Wink of Stella pen to give it a slight shimmer and then put Glossy Accents over the duck.
The background has been coloured with a VersaMagic inkpad, through a strip of tiny sequin waste.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the duck is very cute, such a comical creature.

 

 

I really like these stamps as they are suitable for male and female cards according to how they are coloured.
Must get the others out again. One has two rabbits on it  and the other has two skinny runner ducks.

                                     Hope you have enjoyed my projects and please visit again.

                                                                        Bye for now.

                                                                            

                                                                              Carole

Crafty individuals challenge September - Anything Goes

Hello.
 Just a quick post as I am entering the Crafty Individuals challenge for September.
Left it a bit late, but hey ho!!

I bought this stamp recently and thought it would make a great card for winter birthdays or Christmas.

 

 

I have embossed it with silver and coloured with pearl paints. I then die cut the frame around it.

The photo doesn't really do it justice as the pearls look very pretty against the black.

Must finish as I need to get this sent.
Bye for now
Carole

Crafty individuals challenge-Face Value

Hello to anyone reading this.

I've been a bit slow in posting anything recently. Seem to have so many things churning around in my mind, so can't concentrate on actually getting anything finished!

But... I have actually managed to do a couple of challenges this month, very unusual for me.
I just hope I  get them in before the deadline!




The first is the Crafty Individuals Face Value challenge, and I am submitting the card below.

 

 

I think this image is so pretty and it is one of the first stamps I purchased from this company.

I have stamped it first and then embossed it with a Sizzix heart folder, swiped over with  Victorian velvet distress ink.

 

The other embossed panel is a Tim Holtz border, again swiped over with the distress ink, before embossing.

I like the effect this technique gives to the background.

 

The little flowers are also Crafty Individuals, a freebie I was kindly sent with my last order. They are very pretty and very detailed.

 

Hope you are having a good day and bye for now.

Carole