skating by with my addiction

card in a box

skating by style

my name is cow

i have an addiction

i love cards in a box

sailing away

another card in a box with a sailing theme

i have been making a few of these for the palmerston north night markets

i have a stall there

plenty of fussy cutting here and the yauchts were coloured using black stazon and an aqua painter with the ink from the lids of the ink pads.

cheers ears

autumn card

i am loving the colour challenge over at just add ink this week 

soooo not my colours but i love a challenge :)

 

with all those autumnly colours i thought why not a autumn card 

using a leaf die i have had sitting around for just such an occasion

i placed them in a card in a box to get a 3d effect

 i sponged the outside using a stencil from the sheet of card that i cut the leaves from 

to make the coloured card i inked up a glass mat with the challenge colours,

spritzed it with water to smoosh it all together

and then laid the paper on top of it.

i dried it quickly with a heat gun

and then die cut what i needed out of the sheets

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bliss

i don't generally do clean and simple

i am more of a crazy and colourful kinda chick

so when i saw the challenge at casology this week

involving the TROPICAL theme

i had to do a picture that has been 

playing around in my head for awhile

so here is my idea-still not quite right but this can be a work in progress-a beginning of an idea

i have been playing around with the smooshing technique

-basically put i splodged ink all over my glass cutting mat, 

spritzed with water,

 jiggled with the ink to make them all run nicely together

and then plonked a piece of paper on top of it.

simple really and a very cool random technique

my girl's dress was made using the bow tie punch

hat with an oval

hair and arms with the bird punch

waves were just randomly torn out of dsp

sentiment done with the rotary stamp

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just add ink #249 just add sketch

wow!

this is pretty cool!

a guest designer for february at just add ink!!

welcome welcome welcome

here is the sketch and inspiration for this weeks challenge

here is my take on this months sketch

i love a bit of colour in my cards

(actually it should really be LOVE!!)

so i couldn't resist adding a bit to this sketch

even though i tried to be more subtle by using watercolour pencils 

 to make my card i used a hexagon punch as a stencil and drew the shapes onto watercolour paper.

then i coloured them in with watercolour pencils-a different colour per hexagon

and used an aqua painter to blend them together.

to make the lines i used stampin up's rows of tiny pearls

the butterfly was made using the swallowtail stamp and stamping with versamark onto vellum and then embossing with white embossing powder.

all i did next was punch out the middle of the butterfly, added some glitter, bling and silver cord

hope you like

and see you next week!!!!

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water colour love

i am having laods of fun playing with the sanded pencil technique

this involves using my water colour pencils

 and softly rubbing them against sand paper 

to produce a fine coloured dust 

that gets moved over wet water colour paper.

 i made this card today using that technique and inspired by a challenge over at just add ink to use watercolours

 it is made using the square punch and the corner punch mainly 

with the heart from the owl punch 

and the love die from the embellishments framelits.

 can you see the cool texture that the dust particles leave on the paper?

keep your eyes peeled for another card coming soon using the same technique

go here for the tutorial at split coast stampers

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i love butterflies

this month for the creative crew 

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i was inspired by a beautiful picture 

on my pinterest board

to make something similar in punch art 

using the theme of your 

favourite product from the catalogue

mine, of course, are the punches!!!!

 i used watercolour pencils for the background on water colour paper then added the other elements.

 not entirely convinced about the face

but this is my third attempt at a face so i have left it now lolol

 the grass was made using a stamp from gorgeous grunge and about five different colours of green and one brown and then i cut the edges with my fringe scissors

hands were made from the bird punch-the branch part.

butterflies are the bitty butterfly with dazzling details

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punch art easter cards

it will soon be the occasion to eat chocolate, contemplate a man's death and holiday

easter, of course!!!

 here's a card i have made for a swap i do with the card girlies over at essential baby

feel free to join us any time

 we had to make 4 cards following a sketch

although mine was a loose interpretation of it i must say lol

and use any of the following-string, ribbon, wool or fur.

 i also had ago at watercolouring as i generally suck at it but i am quite happy with my bunnies this time.

 grass was done using the fringe scissors

flowers and trees were made using the scallop circle punches and the trio flower punch with some sequins

hope my swap buddies like

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rainbow dreams

i love rainbows

they are something very special

here's card i made based on a sketch challenge from retro sketches

 i used my aqua painter to paint the rainbow using a variety of su inks onto whisper white

i also coloured the background with the aqua painter too and stamped the love hearts from million dollar moments

 the bows on the kite tail are made from the triangle punch

 clouds are made with whisper white covered with coffee filter paper covered with crystal effects and glitter

kite is made using the triangle punch

hope it lifts your spirits to face the world today

cheers ears

natural cards

now as you may have guessed my cards tend to be a bit bright and bold... not much subtle going on unless you count subtle as a truck lol. so i thought doing a card swap using natural elements in it would be good for me and it would also see me using up all those colours that i seem to have loads of like browns and greens i used one of my favourite stamp sets 'inspired by nature'. this set is just beautiful and i have used the grass side. the lovely niamh is modelling it for me with her cutest cheesey grin lol!!! first i coloured the background using water colour crayons in the rich regals colours which i washed over with an aqua painter. then I have layered different colours of grass onto watercolour paper using a mixture of earth element inks.after it had all dried i glues some yellow seed beads onto the grass to add texture and a bit of bling lol the finished card was then stuck to some white gloss and card stock. i tied some twine around and tied it all together with some buttons from my collection. I also added the 'live with passion' phrase to the side. these cards are for my essential baby cardmakers swap for november so i had better post them off shortly. cheers ears