Lovey-Dovey Mushrooms & a bit of sky?

A random lovey-dovey mushrooms card?

For some reason, I thought these two little mushrooms
needed to snuggle up next to each other.

I left the sentiment off, for now, hoping to use it
for any of this stuff: "Miss You" or "Love You"
or "Happy Anniversary" or even simply "Hi Friend!"

And I'm curious,
do you do hybrid?

It's the only type of card I seem to make lately.
(The mushrooms & the heat-embossed background are stamped
the sky is a digital image printed & stitched.)

1...the mushroom stamps: Cat's Pajamas stamp set "Blow"
2...free digi (a bit of sky-cropped from The Graphics Fairy)
3...cheap tricks:distressed heat embossing & a fringed mat...

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The 'shrooms are stamps from
this Cat's Pajamas stamp set:

They got gussied up this way:

1) Stamped in Night of Navy craft ink (SU)
2) Heat embossed in clear embossing powder
3) Coloured with Copic markers in shades of turquoise, brown, & beige.
4) Dotted with White Signo gel pen.
5) Cut out & stuck on the stitched sky background.

The sky background was made using this digital graphic
that I thought you might be able to use sometime for something...

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(from The Graphics Fairy)

...a bit of sky:



PDF on Acrobat here

...which is cropped from this castle image:



Courtesy of Karen-The Graphics Fairy
who has the best free digital things
& such generosity of spirit!
(Please credit & link Karen, if you use these.)


To download these as PNGs or JPEGS:

1) Click the picture you want & it will enlarge.
2) Then right click & select "save as PNG" (or as JPEG/all files)

or click the links to go to Acrobat to download the PDFs

more info on How to Download files types
& terms of use here

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(Old faves: Distressed heat embossing
& fringe-cut mat)



For lack of a better name, I call this heat emboss texture
'distressed heat embossing':

It uses regular old clear embossing powder. Here's how:

1) Stamp Hero Arts Antique Brocade in White pigment ink.
2) Sprinkle on some clear embossing powder.
3) Heat it with a heatgun until you see some areas get darker.

Variation: You can even colour over it with a copic marker to get a
coordinating bit of coloured embossed paper:



The dark brown band is made by colouring over the distress embossed
river rock cardstock with Copic Markers (Dark Bark & Black).

Fringe mat:



Just cut little slits in the mat for texture &
ruffle them a little with your finger to separate.
Cheap, quick, fun.

Hope your day is turning out to be a lovely one,

P.S. This post is pure unsolicited craft-y love. :-)

The Prettiest Bunny Bottom (Tutu Much)

Okay, if you blush easily then whatever you do

don't read this patterned text paper...



It says "and a provokingly short petticoat
to display the prettiest..."

then it cuts off.

So, you might ask,
"to display the prettiest..." what?

I guess, it's the prettiest bunny bottom:



(I did not plan this "cheekiness," honest!)

The text paper is actually Halloween paper with
the story from Sleepy Hollow.

Weird!

The only thing a little bit different with this card from the usual
(other than that accidentally silly text)

is the layered shadow stamp part:

It was such fun to stamp a little differently.

Well, and the tutu is a little out of the ordinary, for me
(it's made by stitching on ribbon):



Whenever I get to make anything mini it gives me the giggles. :o)

Here's the inside of the card:

I don't usually buy stamps (Lately, I stick with the instant gratification of digital images since I'm impatient & usually sloppy at stamping) but when I saw the bunny sets at Cat's Pajamas I knew I had to have them. They just feel artsy on top of being cute...

This clear stamp set has a bunch of dancing bunnies

(even the name of the set is too stinkin' cute):

Tutu Much! heehee

I found myself drooling over
the amazing cards that the
Cat's Pajamas design team made.
All that gorgeous colour!

...make this Ballerina Bunnies card:

• Tutu Much clear stamp set from The Cat's Pajamas
• Archival Black Ink (Ranger)
• Cardstock: Black, Speckle cream, River Rock, Gray
• Spellbinders Nestabilities die Label 5
  
• Misc. patterned papers
  
• Clear embossing powder & heat gun
• Copic markers, Prisma Colour pencil crayons,
  
• White gel pen, Sakura glitter pen, black permanent marker
• Silver thread, needle, paper piercer
• Sticker sentiment from SRM Stickers
• Black & silver organza ribbon
  

Step 1} Cut nesties label 5 die shape. Then trim it (I used two nesting shapes: one for image one for mat).



Step 2} Stamp and heat emboss a bunny, colour her & cut her out. I used Copic markers: Putty and a mix of Warm Gray & Cool Grays.



Step 3} Stamp three more bunnies on the white shape and colour them too. To make a shadow for the star of the Bunny Wabbit Ballet,colour it in with a dark gray marker (I used Copic marker: cool gray no 7).



As you can see from the image above, I overlapped the stamping. Since the front bunny is coloured in with a dark colour it's okay to overlap. Gives a little depth to it. :o)



Step 4} Adhere the die cut mats to some patterned papers.

I just cut a piece of of paper in weird shapes. Though somehow, in hindsight, it ended up looking like a bunny tail. I covered it with a bow, cause it just looked odd!



Step 5} Pierce around the mat, if you want to faux-sew or hand stitch. (You guessed it! I'm hand stitching...)



Step 6} Sew around the mat, if you like. This is silver metallic thread



Step 7} Stitch some sheer organza ribbon onto the bunny's tutu (To give the ribbon a little curl, I melted it very very gently with a lighter first-especially the ends to stop them from fraying.) Add glitter pen to the other two tutus.



Step 8} Assemble the card:

A) Stick the bunnies onto the label shaped mat.
B) Add a little white hello sticker (SRM sticker sentiment)
C) Cut and add a scallop (top & bottom) punched from gray cardstock
D) Doodle on the scallop White gel pen then glitter pen & little black hearts
E) Add a mat (River Rock S.U. cardstock)
F) Stitch on a bow
G) Stick all of that onto a folded card (This one is a piece of black cardstock cut to 6-1-4 x 6-3/4. Scored down the middle & folded it makes a 6-1/4 by 3-3/8 card to fit a really common envelope size from the office supply store).



Step 9} Stamp a few bunnies on light cardstock for the inside of card. [I stamped in light gray ink on River Rock cardstock & coloured with pencil crayons (white and beige)]

...and that's it!

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P.S. These bunny bottom antics are unsolicited. Just stamps I couldn't resist buying.