Woodland Critter Autumn Tag

Autumn here with you today to set you in the mood for fall creating, I've created a sweet little autumn tag using two rather surprising stamp sets.  Though the stunning ornate stag gets most of the attention in the Winterland Wood Stamp Set, I really wanted to use the little pair of deer as a focal image for this project.  This versatile set can be used for so many occasions!

 

I turned to the Blooming Great set for the beautiful skeleton leaves to create my background.  I used Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain with some water to create my Distress background.  Next, I inked my leaves in Fossilized Amber and tapped Rusty Hinge and Peeled Paint along the sides for a realistic color.  I stamped the leaves repeatedly, overlapping in areas.  I went back and partially stamped the Script Background Stamp in the open areas.  

Here is an closeup of the background.  I added a small talk sticker with a sketchy outline.

I stamped the deer on a die cut circle and framed them with other dies, ribbon and flowers.  They overlap a strip of torn sheet music and wrapped twine.  Thank you so much for your visit today and I hope you leave inspired to create your own autumn beauty.

Colourful Festive cards with Giovanna

Hello everyone, Giovanna here, with a bunch of supercolourful cards. I confess, cardmaking is not my cup of tea, but when I start, nobody can stop me! I have a new fave set of stamp, the "Peace on Earth": is a festive one, but for me it can be used all year round, and in this post I hope to inspire you to use it in different ways:

Magical Unicorn Sparkles! I would eat them :-)

And the world...spins!

A bit of classical style:

And can you believe..you get an ice cream (a bit crazy) out of an English pudding ;-)

I hope you enjoyed this post and its thousands of colours!

Products used:

Sparkle and Glisten Christmas Box

On Christmas Eve two deer Sparkle and Glisten are patiently waiting in the forest for Father Christmas to arrive.Underneath their feet they have a box of goodies just for him to deliver to his own very special deer!

I used a Round papier mache box size 12.5cm D x 8cm H (4.92 inches 3.15 inches) for this special Christmas box. I swept a brush full of Snow White paint over the box, and the side of the lid. I painted the inside of the box too. Now of course I added the deer names onto the side of the box, How useful that their names are on an Indigoblu stencil!

The stencil is flexible so I wrapped it around the box and held it in place with masking tape. I wound the tape all the way around to be sure that it stayed in place! I also made sure to cover the stencil words above and below. A make up sponge was perfect to dab some ink into the stencil. Make up sponges come in very useful for many crafty tasks.You can find a good sized bag of sponges quite inexpensively from discount stores.

Next I stamped the trees, deer, and bunnies from the Winterland Wood stamp set in Archival cornflower ink. I fussy cut them all, but left space underneath for a tab. I added white paint to the trees and animals. When it was dry I brushed on FlitterGlu to add some sparkling glitter. I cut slits in the top of the lid for the trees and animals to be slotted into. I folded the tab up underneath the lid and glued them in place. The underside didn't look very pretty, so I cut out a circle of card to cover it, and decorated it with a stamp,

A mixture of modelling paste and glitter made some glistening snow, which I used to cover the top of the lid.

The box could easily be changed into any season, by painting the paste to the corresponding colour of your chosen season. I am going to be making more special boxes for my little gifts this Christmas. I hope you have fun if you make one too.

Products used;

A5 'Winterland Wood' stamp set
'Sparkle and Glisten' stencil
IndigoBlu Metallic Acrylic Paint 'Snow White'
FlitterGlu