You're Not Alone.....(insert scary or happy noises here!)

Hi! With what was possibly the weirdest title for a post...I shall begin!
I wanted to tell a story, collecting together some of the stamp sets I had and creating something just a little more unusual.
Don't you sometimes find that you can't get the perfect sentiment? well, this was definitely a case in point, but the story began with snow caps..or duck feet to be exact.
I was sifting through some of my Avery Elle supplies and came back to this die set; 'Snow Caps Elle-ments'

I wanted to do something fun with the cable car but kept looking at the snow cap parts to go on the mountains. At the same time I had the Storybook set out too.

I looked at the duck and then the snow caps suddenly looked like duck 'footprints'. So I started playing with the dies and doing some colouring

By using the leftover cut out parts, I created a stencil and coloured through with copics/Shin Han markers. When you place them back together and shift the top layer down slightly, you get a fab effect

I ummed and ahhed for a while and realised that the card would only make sense with a sentiment and so I needed to make my own using the tiny alpha set Elle's Alphas

Truth be told, I hadn't time to line them all up exactly, so a slightly random placement obscures any slightly out letters! 

I trimmed out some grass from patterned paper

Lastly, I added a couple of cloud outlines to give the idea of a sky without actually adding in more 'clutter' to the card

Add a little glitter around the clouds and all done!

Hopefully the title makes more sense now- it's either a card to cheer someone up because they're not alone, or watch out...you're not alone!!

Just another aside- the Winnie & Walter section of the store has been restocked- you might find the ones you've been waiting for. I created some cards with this set for the Rerun challenge over at the Winnie & Walter blog so thought I'd share one or two here to remind you to check that section out too!

Well , have a lovely Tuesday- and don't worry, you're not alone, you've us lot to keep you company!!

Keren xx

Stuck Duck

Hello! How are you today?
With the onset of wintery weather and SNOW (except we've still not any yet!), my mind went to a snowy scene as I wanted to use Storybook characters with the Snow Caps die set

The great thing about the Storybook set is that you can create your own breeds of animals. I wanted to create some mallards as the scene's main characters. 

One has got stuck in the ice (hence the 'stuck duck').

Now obviously his friend had raised the alarm and sent for Air Sea Rescue who ingeniously thought of commandeering the local cable car and simply lowered the rope down whilst 'stuck duck' wound it around himself.

The rescuing rabbit simply tucked the rope under his paw, and let the motion of the cable cars winch the shivering duck to safety.

Ha!

To complete the wintery effect, I've added a printed snowy acetate sheet onto the front. I secured it on the reverse of the front and also at the front bottom left which was then neatly hidden by the sentiment from Weather It

Once you start thinking 'scene' and allow your mind to wander a little (or..ahemm, a lot!) then your card will take shape pretty quickly and you'll use the shapes you have in the sets to define what you create. I used the line shapes in the die set to be the snowy silhouettes and added the frozen pond with inked vellum. 

Do have a go by grabbing a few dies and stamps together and trying to be creative with what you have on hand. The patterned paper details were all using the Everyday Collection

Well that's enough daftness from me.

Hope you get chance this week to be creative!

See you next week,

Keren x