Year of the Dog

I’m ready to celebrate the Chinese New Year with my card today. 2018 is the Year of the Dog, so I got out the cute dog from the Mama Elephant Lunar Animals set, ready for some colouring.

I seem to be reaching for my Zig clean colour real brush pens more lately, as I’m enjoying watercolouring. I stamped the Dog with MFT Extreme Black ink, which is fine for watercolour. I can also recommend their black hybrid ink for using with your zig pens too.

I chose just three colours of markers - beige 72, dark brown 62, and light pink 26. I added a little of the beige colour first, blending out with water. I then dried the image with a heat tool and repeated this step 3 or 4 times to get a nice buildup and blend of colour. I then added a thin line of the dark brown around the edge, blending out with water again. Finally, I added some light pink to the cheeks and blended out with water to soften.

Once the image was dry, I added some black gel pen to the eyes, and some white gel pens dots to the cheeks.

For the background, I die cut a rounded rectangle from red cardstock. I used the MFT chevron stencil with versamark ink, then embossed the chevrons with clear embossing powder. I love the texture and shine this gives to the background. I added this to a white card base.

I stamped, in versamark ink, three of the lanterns from the Avery Elle Bunting stamp set. I embossed these with gold embossing powder. I used coordinating dies to die cut the strings and bows from gold metallic card. Unfortunately, the dies are out of stock currently, but the stamp set does come with string and bow stamps. By stamping and embossing these in gold on the background, it would give a similar look. Alternatively, some gold twine would look lovely too.

The year is die cut from gold metallic card, using the C&9th Double Cut Numbers. 

I added everything to the card, using either foam tape or liquid glue. To help ground the dog on the card, I added a grey oval shadow beneath him.

Thanks for joining me today,

Gemma

Avery Elle Bunting

Mama Elephant Lunar Animals

C&9th Double Cut Numbers

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

MFT Oval Shadows Dienamics

MFT Chevron Grid Stencil

Flippin' Super Birthday

Hi there and happy Monday to you :)

Well my card today would have been more suited to sharing nearer Shrove Tuesday a couple 

of weeks ago because this little guy has been making pancakes.....

He's from MFT's Recipe for Happiness stamp set and I just love his expression :)

I couldn't pass up the chance of a pun so I've given him a frying pan and spatula

 to hold behind his back as he's a little embarrassed that he's dropped his 

pancake mid-flip!! I've used a small oval shadow die which I've 

coloured with alcohol markers to make it look like a pancake

For a background I've inked through the English Brick Wall stencil from MFT 

which is currently out of Stock but I've linked to one below that would work just as well.

 For the sentiment I've used the FLIPPIN' from the stamp set and then used the rest of the wording 

from a Lil Inkers set which is out of stock but you could easily use alpha stamps instead.

 When you're using lots of words from different stamp sets it's easier to chop

 them into separate pieces and mount them on your card at jaunty angles :)

    

   

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stay Tuned!!

Hi there :)

I'm having a break from Christmas cards again this week and sharing a card that would be good for a guy, and be good for a lot of occasions too....

The MFT Television die and Stay Tuned stamp set are great for guys cards.... The TV has a retro feel so I had to make mine brown for that wood effect. Love the aerial too, not quite the same shape as our old TV aerial but I do remember having to move it around all over the place to get a decent picture sometimes!!
I have used the fuzzy screen stamp in the set in Hero Arts Charcoal ink on white card and then stamped the phrase in Hero Arts Blackboard ink on top of it.

The pot plant has been made using the MFT Planters dies and the MFT Oval Shadows dies... they make perfect upright leaves :)

I chose a patterned paper that looked like vintage wallpaper and framed the image with a circle cut into the top panel of card panel.... love how the aerial and plant break the circle frame :)

I have left this card blank inside... sometimes its best to keep your options open as you never know what occasion you might need a card for!!

  

Thanks for stopping by, catch you next week :)
Jenny x