From "Wallrus.."

The newest Online Card Class starts this coming Monday:

The Pre-class gallery is open, and participants are encouraged to share their work.

I went looking through my blog posts, and couldn't find this card.  I made it in January for one of my nephew's birthdays.  It features a great stamp set from the now defunct "Freshly Squeezed Stamps." It was kind of a build-a-bear set, with the makings for bears, penguins and walruses (if that's the correct plural!).  I had fun making the walruses different, using only three color families of Copics (coz that's all I had!).

I also included a bookmark with this card:

TTFA!

Happy crafting,

Caroline

Supplies:

Paper Smooches bookmark dies and border dies

Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Copic Markers

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

Cardstock and alphbet stamps, CTMH

Flower Soft "snow"

Baker's twine

Happy Birdday to Ewe...

 Still in the birthday card-making mode.

Here's one I sent to my mum this morning.

She LOVES sheep. Usually stuffed or pictured, vs. running around on the hoof. She does a lot of knitting--not sure if that had anything to do with it.

Anyhoo! 

I purchased this OWH set of cute critters and matching dies back in the summer, with that little sheep in mind for my mom. She attended the Copic certification workshop with me in June, so she'll appreciate the colouring!

Here's the card:

 Water-coloured the background with Distress Ink minis. The sky was sponged on. The grass created by swiping the edge of the inkpad onto the paper, making streaks that were then spritzed with pearlized water to mix and soften them.

I cut apart and mixed the sentiments to create the birthday message, and added a few seagulls to the sky so it made sense!

I sent my mom's birthday gift off earlier (it's the latest book in a fantasy series she follows), so I thought I'd include a book-mark with the card.

This months Simon Says Stamp card kit had just the right ingredients! 

I used my trusty Paper Smooches book-mark die as a base and played around with the papers and stamps from the SSS kit.

Here's the result:

Here's a close-up of the stamped panel. SO MUCH fun to create a bookshelf scene...

And I used the washi tape in the kit as part of the tassel. My mum was a librarian, so she'll love the whole name/date/sign-out thing...

Happy crafting,

Caroline

P.S.:  I'm linking the BDay card up to Seize the Birthday, Anything goes option.

Supplies:

White daisy, Colonial white, Lagoon cardstock, CTMH; Black textured cardstock, Wasau Papers; patterned paper from the SSS kit; water-colour paper, Tim Holtz/Ranger

Hero Arts  "Missing You" stamp set and matching dies

"To thine own shelf be true" stamp set from Simon Says Stamp

Paper Smooches bookmark dies

Stitched rectangle die from Lil' Inker Designs

Ribbon and twine, Michael's

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink pad, Tsuneiko

Distress Ink minis, in Tumbled Glass, Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Antique Linen, Evergreen Bough: Ranger Industries

Copic markers

A Quick and Silly Post...

You all know I just cannot get enough of that cute little zebra/zebrette? from Paper Smooches' "Zoo Crew."
A friend had a great zebra-print scarf on at work this week, and she lent me a book for my trip "state-side" for American Thanksgiving. I thought a zebra book mark would be a perfect little thank-you.

Back-ground paper created with parchment-coloured card-stock and random stamping with the "dictionary4me" stamp from The Stamps of Life.  Zebra coloured with Copic markers; eyes accented with Liquid Glass. Fonts are from various Sizzix strip dies.

Punny sentiment high-lighted with some Stickles glitter glue.  Scrabble letters from CTMH's "Cruisin" paper pack (retired).

Enjoy your turkey, all my US buds!

Happy cooking and crafting,
Caroline

More {BOOK} Marks

I posted one of these bookmarks earlier today, but ended up playing/making more later on, and thought I'd include the group.  The crab is coloured with my new Spectrum Noir pens from Crafter's Companion (thank-you, Stacy!). I am still getting the hang of the alcohol markers. The bear was coloured with regular markers, and I managed to get him pretty "hairy-looking," so I am going to enter him in the Twin Touch Markers Challenge TTC19, "Getting Hairy," HERE.

All images are from the Chubby Chums stamp set from Paper Smooches. The crab is sitting on some torn pearlescent card-stock from Wasau Papers. The green tulle ribbon is from American Crafts, available at Paper Wishes. Denim twine from The Twinery.The Twinery.

The bear was coloured with CTMH markers, with the new "hair" technique I learned from an on-line tutorial. He is accessorized with some woodgrain washi tape from WeRMemory Keepers (also available from Paper Wishes). Ribbon, the Chocolate & Cocoa collection, from CTMH.

The chick was featured in the post before this one, but a close-up (of his polka-dots) never hurts.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and take a peek!