Funky Fossil Duck cards

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I challenged myself to make different three cards featuring a lovely duck in an umbrella stamp from Funky Fossil's Rainy Day Critters set.  Three different colour schemes, all pretty and Spring like just like the weather here today.

With Love

Special Birthday Wishes
Hello Spring




With Love
uses an inky stencilled monoprint background with a fireworks stencil and shaded lilac and fired brick DOs with lots of water spritzing to tone down the colours.  Added a die cut doodle frame, paper pieced with some of the half circles coloured with alcohol markers as is the main image which has been fussy cut.  A little snail companion has made an appearance too.  Sentiment heat embossed on vellum.









Special Birthday Wishes
has patterned paper embossed with white and silver super sparkle EP using one element from a scenic borders stencil.  Stamped focal image coloured with alcohol markers and die cut with a stitched circle.  I stamped the little cute companion snail onto the largest die cut cloud and the sentiment words onto the smaller clouds.  All the die cuts were sponged lightly with tumbled glass DI around the edges.







Hello Spring
uses part of an inky stencilled monoprint for the background that I did some time ago using sunflower and basket weave stencils with yellow/orange DOs and maybe some brushos.  Main image has been fussy cut, coloured with alcohol markers, shaped and adhered with thin foam pads and glue.  Used parts of a die cut tree to edge the panel for a lacy border adding some flowers made from the off cuts, a full tree and the companion snail.  Sentiment heat embossed on vellum.
I've used - 6x6" white card bases
Funky Fossil Rainy Day Stamp Set
Funky Fossil Rain or Shine die set (clouds)
Funky Fossil Doodle Frame die
Funky Fossil Quirky Tree die
Funky Fossil stencils: scenic borders, sunflower, basket weave, fireworks
Funky Fossil mixed media Kaleidescope paper pad
Promarkers, various sentiments from stash

Linking up with - 

Four Seasons                                                         Fab'n'Funky
March Spring Challenge                                         Challenge #547 - Hand Coloured Image

    
Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x       

Comments

  1. EmmaTFriday, 18 March, 2022

    3 delightful designs, love the image, the square frame is brilliant, I love that version 2 is dreaming of snails as my brothers ducks love nothing better for breakfast😀 Emmax

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  2. ClurFriday, 18 March, 2022

    A fabulous selection of cards Steph, they look so different despite using the same stamp. I love that cute snail (I can honestly say I never thought I would find myself writing that!) ... but Emma's comment about the duck eating snails made me smile! Clare x

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  3. Darlene Friday, 18 March, 2022

    Oh Steph ... these are all just FABULOUS! Well done! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons Challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back again soon.

    Darlene
    FOUR SEASONS CHALLENGE
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS

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  4. PatSaturday, 19 March, 2022

    Lovely card with such a sweet image beautifully coloured, so glad you joined us for our challenge at Fab'n'Funky.

    Pat xx

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  5. LynzenaSunday, 20 March, 2022

    These are fab Steph👍🏻🙋🏼‍♀️Love ALL the inky backgrounds. That friendly snail keeps popping up definitely must be friends👌🥰💕

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