Diamond Dog

For the Dirty Dozen Challenges we needed to choose which of our cards was our favourite each month.  This was mine for the Diamonds and Pearls Challenge.





I decided to try a new for me fold, the Diamond Fold.  You can find instructions for it here on Splitcoast.  So that was fun, I like trying new techniques.  It looks great folded up too, the hills all match up properly, but it's very "springy" and was too hard to photograph that way unfortunately.
And I also got to use this cute set again and my copics, so that’s why I chose it as my favourite, it was just fun to make!


Ingredients :
Stamps : Friends fur ever,french foliage, teeny tiny sentiments
Card : sahara sand, black, white, subtles dsp stack, neutral dsp stack
Ink : stazon, baja, crumb cake
Other : copics, linen thread, mat pack, white pen


Kathy

Scotty Candy

 

This week at Freshly Made Sketches we have a fantastic sketch by Tui.

 

My girl’s and I saw this cute Friends Fur-ever set when the US Stampin Up catty first came out and it was the one set we all really badly wanted.  When we didn’t end up getting it in the Australian catalogue we were SO disappointed!

So when I saw a competition on Michelle Zindorf’s blog to win it a couple of months ago I just had to enter and amazingly I actually won!   Yay!

My girls have had lots of fun playing with it but I hadn’t used it yet.  When I saw this great sketch I decided to “channel” my inner-Zindorf and create a brayered card with the cute scotty dog.

 

 

I brayered celery then olive for the grass and pool party, turquoise and NQN for the sky. I then used choc chip and olive markers for the tree. I actually used copics for the dog and balloon and also added a little shadow to the tree too.  The dog and balloon are on dimensionals and I made the balloon shiny with crystal effects.

Now that I may have you looking at the balloon you might notice a mistake (like I did after I had taken the photo)!  I had tied the linen thread to the balloon but it had fallen off while I was taking the photo I guess.  Anyway I didn’t realise till it was too late, it is fixed now (but you’ll just have to imagine it’s tied on properly) :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Friends fur-ever, thoughts and prayers, perfectly penned

Card : white, basic gray, black, going grey textured, red

Ink : stazon, memento black, celery, olive, pool party, turquoise, NQN,  choc chip and olive markers

Other : brayer, neutral brad, ret. ribbon, linen thread, copics, white pen, nesties

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created with this sketch as inspiration.  They are all gorgeous!  Then give this sketch a try yourself.

And I just want to finish by thanking Michelle Zindorf for her generosity.    She is the absolute QUEEN of brayering and freely shares her talents with everyone on her blog.  She has inspired me greatly.  Thanks for the gift Michelle :)

 

Kathy