You Are Amazing

... at least that is how the British public feels about the little robin.

Hi Everybody!

Yes. yesterday it was revealed that the robin is Britain's favourite bird as voted for by the public!!! What better way to celebrate this event than making a card ... better even as it was also time to create a project for the Inspiration post over at the STAMPlorations Blog.
The thought of robin had me straight away reaching for The Bee's Knees Small Birds set. I had also been watching part of the Inventive Ink class over at Craftsy and wanted to try out some of the techniques ... here is my result ...

Birdie had to get dressed up as robin again. This time I decided to keep it sketchy and give him an orange (SU's Tangerine Tango) chest only to help him stand out from the colourful mixed media style background I had in mind. In the class Marjie Kemper uses DI's and blending tools, I decided to see how far my trusted SU inks (Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point), brushes and dried baby wipes could stretch to create similar effects. I started off lightly dusting some MM and DD on a piece of white card before stenciling part of the ARTplorations Bubbles stencil in DD, part of the Christmas Trees stencil in MM and some of the Confetti Circles stencil in PP before lightly blending the edges with PP. I then stamped my sentiment from the Hashtag Authentic set in black, did the same with the bar code strip and doodles chevrons from the Mixed Media Grunge set before doodling a border and lightly spritzing with TT and black. I then blended PP around the edges of my white base card, fuzzy cut birdie, layered everything in place and added some sequins to finish.

I am entering the amazing birdie at:
Time Out Challenges - Happy is the Birdie that the Sun shines on
Moo-Mania - Anything Goes
Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes with optional twist to make something for a best friend

Next up just a quick reminder ...

... details about the birthday bash can be found here.

As always there is fun to be had before that too, you can CASE any of my/our cards and link up at the Inspiration CASE Playground, short playground, to share your creation with us, enter in the blog challenges, comment on Spotlight Projects and more is already happening over at the STAMPlorations Blog.

GIVE AWAY reminder: I will email a copy of my digi stamp, the sentiment of the butterfly card here, to every new follower of my blog. Anyone who joins between now and 10th July 2015 will get one. Remember to click on the small green/blue squares to the right of the 'join this site' button to join. To claim your free stamp email me at tinkercardsATgmail.com, please replace AT with @.

This is it from me for today. Back soon with more inspiration.

Have a lovely day!

hugs

Monika xxx

from STAMPlorations I used ... (links can be found in the text above)
      

Addicted To CAS Two

Hi All,
as promised I am back with some more inspiration, this time in the form of a CAS card, which is no coincidence as it is my second outing as Guest Designer over at Addicted to CAS.

You might have guessed it, today's code word is: Animal ... and that for me means usually anything catty. :-)

The lovely Joanna from Harty by Heart is your hostess for the next couple of weeks and Create A Smile Stamps are sponsoring the challenge ... which reminds me, I am one of the lucky ones who were able to get one of their exclusive Sunshine Kits. It's still in the post as of the time of writing, but it should be with me soon. I already got plans of what to do with it! :-)

Back to my card now ... it was quite easy to make ... I used a quote about animals to create my own digi stamp to fit my die-cut cat, printed it out and cut my panel to size. I then sponged rainbow colours through part of the Confetti Circles ARTplorations stencil before attaching my black cat and layering on my base card. I loved this concept so much that I made another card with a landscape layout and some stamped stitching to ground the cat.

I am entering my cards at:
Happy Little Stampers CAS - die cuts/punches, the black cat is a die cut (hope it is still o.k. if I complete the link up on Monday, when I am back from my long weekend away)

Well, that's it from me for today. I shall be back with two!!! posts on Monday, one for inspiration and the other one for the ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop. Hope to see you there.

Have a lovely weekend!
hugs
Monika xxx

stencil and stamps used from STAMPlorations:
 
Mixed Cat cutting dies - Xcut by docrafts