My Paper Corner

Sharing a card for a couple of Christmas  card challenges. I mostly have other animal Christmas stamps so the dogs and/or cats theme for  CAS Christmas  was limited to an old magazine stamp set of Scottie dogs (I do prefer to call them Westies as that's the breed of dog we have) and they are cute enough for the  Christmas 24  challenge. I dug out a very old set of Marvy brush marker pens and coloured a distress elements stamp with blue grey and repeat stamped over some watercolour paper to create a 'snowy' background.  The two Westies were simply stamped and only their accessories watercoloured with oxide inks.  After die cutting the topper I was really stuck on how to complete the card, took several days of looking for inspiration on Pinterest before finding the idea of using the same die to create the off set side panels. Finishing touch a flag bunting sentiment. I've used - A6 white tent fold card base Bockingford watercolour paper old mag covermount Scottie dog stam

Sharing a card for two challenges.  February sees a stencil challenge at  CAS Mix Up  with heat embossing and the  Butterfly Challenge  has spun the wheel for H for herringbone card with colour choices. I've stencilled a very 'loose' herringbone design to keep the card clean and simple by brushing distress oxides over part of a diagonal geometrics stencil and then heating with clear EP.  The colours were blended together from spiced marmalade (orange) and squeezed lemonade (yellow) for a graduated feel. The geo butterfly was first stamped off the edge of the stencilled panel then again on card coloured with lemon brusho which was cut out and adhered over the top just leaving the wings free. It's been a lovely sunny day today albeit with a bitter wind.   As I was putting this card together this afternoon I had a dancing rainbow 🌈 on my desk from Emma's beaded suncatcher in my window, that definitely put a smile on my face 😊   Showing the shine from the heat embossi