Mama Elephant GD Call

Playing with the Mama Elephant Potted Pretties tonight for the Mama Elephant Guest Designer Call.  I recently bought some Copic Express It paper and tried some Copic coloring. I love how it turned out!  The background is a Kat Scrappiness Diamond Wire Die, I liked it because I thought it looked like a trellis and the plants went well on it. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

🌵Lisa🌵

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Hi everyone.  I'm playing along this week with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  This week is anything goes but also to use Wplus9 stamps if you have.  

I chose to use 2 stamp sets that I have from Wplus9.  They are Paisley Patterns and Fresh Cut Florals.  I just adore floral stamps and dies.  I stamped a random pattern on my background using the Paisley Patterns stamp set with a variety of different Papertrey Ink colors and then I layered the background with an intricate die from Kat Scrappiness.  That frame is called the Wood Grain Framed Wire die and I've been using it a lot lately.  It just seems to go with everything!

I made a focal point for my sentiment using 2 more dies from Kat Scrappiness called 

Stitched Scalloped Oval and Stitched Fishtail Banners.  I heat embossed a partial sentiment from Fresh Cut Florals onto the fishtail banner and adhered it to the scalloped oval.  I die cut the word "you" from the Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABC's die set and added it to the oval focal point.  

For the last added touch I die cut some flowers from the Fresh Cut Florals and arranged them on the top corner of the oval.

Here is a picture with all of the supplies used.

Thanks for stopping by today to check out my card!

Have an amazing day!

I already am!

🌺Lisa 🌼

Crazy Bird

Good morning everyone! 

It's my turn today over on the Kat Scrappiness blog and I've got a fun card to share with you.  This month Kat released a great new die called the Wood Grain Framed Diamond Wire and it really is a unique die that can be used in so many different ways.  Make sure to check out the other projects by the DT members to see how they have used this fun die.  

Today I decided to use the die as an interesting background and a place to showcase my crazy bird and computer generated sentiment. 

I started by stamping my Tim Holtz Crazy Bird on to some watercolor paper with 

Versafine Onyx black ink and coloring him with 2 colors of distress ink.  I rubbed some Squeezed Lemonade and Peacock Feathers on to an acrylic block and I used my water brush to pick up the ink and color my bird.  After I was happy with the results I hand cut him out and put him aside to dry.

  

Next I die cut the Wood Grain Framed Diamond Wire die out of some black cardstock and adhered a piece of black striped patterned paper behind it.  I really love the look of the wire die over the striped paper.  It adds to the "crazy" look on the birds face.  

I glued the wire die with the patterned paper to an A2 sized white card base with some 

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.  

For this card I wanted to add a sentiment with a crazy font so I generated a sentiment with my computer and hand cut it out.  I trimmed down the words into 6 different strips and inked the edges of each strip with some Black Soot distress ink.  

The only thing left to do was to pop up my bird and sentiment strips up on some foam tape. 

I love how this card turned out and the Wood Grain Framed Diamond Wire die 

gives it such a unique look.  

Thanks for joining me today, make sure to check out these great products in the shop and don't forget to use code Lisa10 to get 10% off your order at checkout!

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Have a great day, I already am!

🐦Lisa 🐦

Products Used:

• Crazy Bird
• Black Soot distress ink
• Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
• Peacock Feathers
• Squeezed Lemonade
• Versafine Onyx black
• Wood Grain Framed Diamond Wire