Critter Collage

To see the Stampin Sisters in Christ post please scroll down to the Sunday post!

Are these not adorable critters? I thought so! I just thought they were adorable and wanted to showcase them with less is more color. So I just kind of played around with the images a bit. I used chalks for the first time in ages and then used my Copics to enhance some of the details. I do like how they turned out except for the lips on the frog (what was I thinking?!). 

I paper pieced the mushroom for a different, but also muted look. The background was created using one of the stamps from the set that I stamped with bleach. It took some trial and error. At first I was trying to stamp the critters with bleach but that did not work. So then I changed to making it the background. Worked out much better in my opinion. 


Well that is about it for today. Thanks for looking and for the comments!






Card Recipe:
Stamps: Little Critters - from GinaK designs
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Fresh Asparagus, Chocolate Brown and Sweet Corn
DP: Basic Grey - Porcelain - for the mushroom
Other: SU chalks and Copic Markers, MS border punch, spellbinder dies


Challenges
Mark's Finest Papers - Bleach Technique - on the green background
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Anything Goes
Card Cupids Blog - Anything Goes
Basic Grey - Used Porcelain Paper for the mushroom
Easy Craft Project - Use green
Karens Doodles Challenge - use green
Wee Memories - Woodland Friends

Horse Valentine

This card is for my son the farrier. I love making cards for him because I love using the "Out West" stamp set from Theresa on GKD. This one was a little harder because I did not want to "bling" it up. This was also done for the challenge on GKD's StampTV. I am also posting this for for a a challenge for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. The awesome card-stock was also from Gina's pure luxury line. I stamped the image with bleach on the brown. I got the cute little cowboy boot charm from Stamping Bella a long time ago, forgot I had them. So here is tonight's card - hope you like it!