Hi everyone,
Today is my darling husband’s birthday, so I would like to share the card I made for him. Back in January I ordered a few Lavinia woodland creature stamps as I know he loves that kind of thing. I made him a moonlit scene Valentine card using the cute woodland hares and my new Press to Impress Art Board heart stencil; so I decided for his birthday to do a more spring-like take on a similar theme by making a daylight scene with budding trees, green foliage and woodland creatures emerging from hibernation … and to introduce him to the Wallace Family!
I used my heart stencil, circle and hill masks and Distress Oxide inks to create the sky, sun and land. I stamped my skeleton trees using first and second generation stamping, then stamped my hedgehog, birds and hares - all using Versafine and VFC. I stamped mini leaves round the edge of my heart using Distress Oxide at the top and darker VFC at the bottom, then stamped my sentiments. I highlighted my hedgie with a white gel pen, and my sun, hills and trees with Sakura sparkle pens. I matted the finished panel onto green linen cardstock and then onto a 8” square base card, and finished off with a few heart gems. I also stamped hedgies on the inside of the card and on the envelope 😍
Stamps: Lavinia The Wallace Family, Wild Hares (Large), Skeleton Tree Scene, Birds, Mini Leaf 1; sentiments - Crafter’s Companion Magical Sentiments;
Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass, Rustic Wilderness, Squeezed Lemonade); Versafine (Onyx); Versafine Clair (Rainforest, Pinecone);Sakura sparkle pen - yellow;
Tools: Press to Impress Art Board stencil (heart); Lavinia hill mask; home made hill and circle masks;
Gems from my stash.
Challenges I would like to enter:
Craft Rocket #90 - Use An Animal
Cutie Pie #169 - Beginning With B
(Birthday, Birds, Bunnies)
Dragonfly Dreams (March) - Something to Make You Smile (2nd entry) - TOP 3
Dream Valley #265 - Add Some Bling
Elliebelle’s Crafty Wednesday (March) - Spring Is In the Air
Get Creative #109 - Use Green
Incy Wincy (March) - Nature and Scenery
Little Red Wagon #644 - CAS
My Time To Craft #477 - Animals
Simon Says (Monday) - Add Some Green (2nd entry)
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Bit O' Green
Stamping Sensations (March) - Stamp Something for Spring (2nd entry)
Use Your Stuff #443 - Masculine
We Love Stamping (March) - Anything (Stamped) Spring (2nd entry)
I have scheduled this post in advance so we can spend the day together … so hoping the weather will be kind.
Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
16 comments:
I love your card, thanks for sharing it with us at the Craft Rocket Challenge Blog.
Hugs Ilonka DT
I'm so pleased you managed to squeeze the whole Wallace family in Pauline because they are adorable and a super Springtime creation for hubby's special day. Lovely to see you at Stamping Sensations and We Love Stamping again, thank you.
B x
As soon as I started my DT turn at We Love Stamping this card attracted me attention, it is fabulous, very clever idea it looks fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing with us at We Love Stamping, good luck xx
Wow, this is such a lovely image and so great colored ! Thanks for joining our CAS Challenge this week @ Little Red Wagon and i hope to see you back again soon.
Imke ~ MY CRAFTY PLACE
This is so cute and beautifully stamped. Happy Birthday Graham
A gorgeous card Lorraine, I love the scene you've created and that little hedgehog is so sweet.
Lorraine x
Hi Pauline I love this beautiful creation that scene in a heart looks amazing something I could never do but I so enjoy seeing it a top notch make
hugs
lorraine x
What a gorgeous stamped scene and lovely birthday card for Hubby, I hope you both had a lovely day celebrating x
Lorraine
This is just so lovely and a fab scene. Thanks for sharing with us at We Love Stamping challenge.
Goodness, Pauline, what a CUTE card!! Where do I begin!! Love these fresh spring colors, the animals are so cute and I just love the design on it! What a special birthday card!
So nice to see you linking up again at my Crafty Wednesday challenge!
Also, saw your question on my post about how I stencil around a digi. I usually just eyeball it and hope not to get any stenciling on the image. But if I want to be sure not to get any ink on it, I'd tear up a post it note and stick the pieces onto the image to cover it up in a quick way.
Simply fabulous. Xxx
What a wonderful card. So cute with the little porcupines and all the different masking techinques are flawless. Thanks for sharing with us at Use Your Stuff
A gorgeous creation, you can see it is made with love. I bet he was delighted with it. Thank you for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations. Vee xx
What a beautiful scene you've created on your card Pauline. Thanks for jining us at Get Creative. Tristan DT.
I am evidently behind on doing my Stamping Sensations commenting round, just saw your gorgeous card linked up there too! Thank you so much for sharing there as well, Pauline!
I like the lovely scene you created Pauline. Thank you for entering the (Nature and Scenery) and/or (Home and Food) Challenge at Incy Wincy Designs.
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