Have a woofly birthday

Hi Everyone!

Made this quick card a couple of weeks ago for a crafty friend. 

Thought I’d try something different. Just lately I’ve tried to do little videos of how I make things. I really hope it works and this uploads properly. Just in case it doesn’t you can find the video showing how I created the background Here. 

Stamp and emboss the woofly birthday verse from 

Daisy B. 

Draw a Squigley border around the edge with a sharpie pen. 

As you can could see from the video I used oxide inks to create this background. I absolutely love oxides but sometimes find they can make your project look a little dull. So I thought I’d try something different and apply some distress glaze. This stuff is brilliant and can be used for lots of different techniques which I will eventually share with you. Just rub it on with your finger and buff it off with some kitchen roll. 

Applying the glaze gave a lovely finish to the background. 

Stamp and emboss the dog and some accessories from the Tim Holtz crazy collection. I then fussy cut them. You can get matching dies for these stamps - which I do have but was being rather lazy and didn’t want to pull all my does out. 

Colour them in - for this I used Arteza watercolour pens. 

Stick your background onto a 5x7 pre folded card blank. 

Then stick the dog and accessories in place. I then drew a line for the string of the balloon with a sharpie. 

Apply some glossy accents to the balloon and leave to dry. 

I also added some googly eyes. 

Thank you for visiting 

X - Dena -X

Shopping list 

- Card 

- Oxide ink

- Distress glaze

- Sharpie 

- Black ink 

- Embossing powder 

- Googly eyes

- Glossy accents 

- Crafty individuals - harlequin stamp

- Tim Holtz crazy dogs and accessories 

- Daisy B woofly birthday stamp

 

A little birdie told me it's your birthday

Hi Everyone. 

Another post from me today. On a bit of a roll!!

I haven't made a card from Kraft card in a while and I could hear the Tim Holtz crazy birds squawking from my stash of stamps so thought it was time they came back out to play.

Cut a piece of Kraft card to approx. 21x15.5cm and fold in half.

Cut another piece to approx. 13.5x8.5cm.

Stamp the bird slightly to one side in staz on ink.  

I then coloured the bird with spectrum noir coloured pencils, these blend so lovely and seem to work so well on Kraft card. If you don't like the way they blend you can use the spectrum noir pencil blending solution - but I didn't need to on this. 

Using a brick work stencil and pencil colour in a few bricks leaving areas around the edge blank.

Then add some white highlights to the bird.

Using the border from crafty individuals stamp set CI-361 - stamp all around the edge. This stamp is a definite must have and can be used in so many ways. 

Go over the barbed wire with a sparkle gelly roll sparkle pen.

This creates a lovely shimmer.

Stamp your desired wording from the Tim Holtz crazy talk collection. 

Cut each word out and carefully position and stick in place.

Using a fine liner black pen I drew around the edges of the wording to make it stand out a little more. 

Mount onto your folded card blank.

I then used glossy accents on the eyes and applied the clear glaze gelly roll pen to the birds beak. 

Leave to dry.

Thank you so much for joining me.

x - Dena - x

Shopping list

- Kraft card

- Timmer

- Staz on black in pad

- Glue 

- Scissors

- Spectrum Noir colouring pencils

- Gelly roll clear glaze

- Gelly roll sparkle

- White posca pen

- Tim Holtz crazy birds set

- Tim Holtz crazy talk set

- Crafty individuals set with barbed wire border (CI-361)