Extending your stamps

I was so enamoured with Julie's fun extension of the dog on the Z-fold, I had to try it. I have a friend who loves dachshunds and I wanted a special card for that special Birthday.

I didn't have the Ellen Hutson stamp, but I did have a small dachshund (from Hero Arts) in the The Stamping Village Happy Birthday set. 

I used the sentiment from the same set which was from Dare 2B Artzy. The balloons were from Ellen Hutson Wish Big set.

This took some extra skill and precision to repeat the body with those first 2 little cupcakes!

My entry to ... 

... The Card Concept #138c Dogs of Summer I went with the colours and the theme. 

... A Blog Named Hero : Cute

Delicate Tags

I had some uncoloured Delicate Flowers from my previous card.  Decided to change up the colours and make it soft and light. I wanted to keep the background light so that it would not overpower the sweet tags, so I coloured some embossing paste with the same colours as the tags and flowers.

I seem to be into fussy cutting these days! 

My entry to ...

... The Color Throwdown #599

... Fusion - Relaxed Living

Woohoo!

I have quite a few friends becoming grandparents ... and so I'm in need of more cute baby and kids cards.  So I have a few new cute sets and I'm combining different sets.

And a second one with the same set ...

And one with the 2 together.

My entry to ...

... CAS on Friday - Animals

... AAA Birthday : Use a Stencil

... Twofer Card Challenge : Critters

Sweet Birthday Wishes

I was challenged to make some cards without flowers ... and to make it fun.

Started quite CAS. 

Then I thought I'd add some more fun.  The hat was way too big for the bird (fits the hippo perfectly). So I drew another black line to make it smaller - thanks Marilyn for the tip!

Which do you prefer?

My entry to ...

... CAS(e) This Sketch #338

... Addicted to CAS : Pink & Purple

Peek-A-Boo Card No 1

I can't believe I missed these Peek-A-Boo cards by Jennifer McGuire. Just delightful.

So I took some challenges ...

• a sketch
• a colour combo (blue & yellow)
• a theme (birds)

and made my own. :)

Slow action ...

Or fast ...

My entry to ...

... CAS(e) This Sketch Challenge #307

... Less Is More Challenge : 8th Birthday Colour challenge

... Addicted to CAS Challenge : Birds

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Interactive Card

Cube Builder No1

I love the inspiration photo and colours from the Altenew July Inspiration Challenge. I thought it was a great one to try for a masculine card.

So I took out my new, never been used before, cube builder stencil and started playing. For the first try I kept to one tone cubes in layers. I added extra black lines to the black stripe paper, and white gel pen to the "Big" sentiment.