Retirement Teacher

Hi Everyone, I hope you are all OK after all the awful extreme weather, worldwide, we have had in the last few weeks. 

My simple CAS card today, was for our nephew in law, who has retired from his Head of Creative Arts Teacher post. Although they have asked him to go back for 2 days a week! He has been very busy in the last 2 years helping his sons who have bought houses to do them up too. I think he deserves to take his time now. 

Anyhow, I typed the sentiment in Silhouette and cut the sentiment sheet and background. The image was then cut 3 times, I cut out the Retirement in 2 colours to match the pants and background paper. I had paper pieced the pants in Photoshop, so printed that out and fussy cut it as I forgot to add it to Silhouette duh! I then coloured him with DI's, added 3D glaze to his specs and layered the retirement pieces. All were added to the sentiment paper and to the card. 

I have shown you the insert, before printing. The apt Teacher resignation verse is from Craft-U-Print free verses.  I hope it's large enough for you to see.

image - Weekend Walter  Dr Digi 

inks - Distress Inks, faded jeans, chipped sapphire, abandoned coral, candied apple

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 dp - Dawn By Design 

verse - Crafts-U-Print

insert mugs - Hugware

 

Trees and apples!

Hi Everyone, today's card is for the Dragon's Lair FB progressive challenge, we had this lovely scene to play with, I added another image. I think the trees could be used as a background quite often.

both Dragon and trees images - Dragons Lair Designs

coloured digitally in PS

dp's and sentiment - Dawn by Design

dies - Tattered Lace

As this is a "garden card?" I decided to show you a plant we have that has such a fabulous name to show off it's fabulous show of flowers.

It's a "Salvia" who's name is "Hot Lips", isn't that a wonderful name. It's a wonderful plant too, flowers from now until the frost and stays about 3 feet high with pruning in March. I've done a closeup to show the "lips"

Birthday card

Hi everyone, I had a FB post from my niece in China, they had gone out for a meal and she was enjoying it when she noticed "something" in her bowl.

Anyhow on to my post and what you are here for.

 I had a birthday card to make for one of my Great Niece's and I came across a sketch that I really like, so the design is of this sketch, I haven't entered a challenge for a while, so this one is for the Try Stamping or Not - on a Tuesday!

The image is a digi by coloring book pages. Isn't she lovely? The DP's and elements are by Dawn by Design, (The inside alpha is also from the kit.)  I paper pieced, coloured and added embossed "eleven" to the banner in PS . I added some Magic glitter to the gold spot border. The inside alpha is also from the kit.

http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/challenge-232.html

Easter rabbit.card

Here's an Easter card I have made with an Elizabeth Dulemba image, I love the expression on the rabbit. I think the rabbit is a she, just look at those eyes :)  Anyhow, I coloured her in PS and paper pieced her blouse and some of the eggs in the basket, I used DP's from ellesdesigns.

I learned something new this week and am I thrilled, oh! you don't realise. I was like a kid in a toy shop. LOL.  Dawn by Design has a tutorial that I followed and have achieved making my own background with "splatter" brushes and an egg shape, hers has a butterfly as an example, but of course once I knew how to do it, I had to try different. I used the PS brushes using colour dynamics, so that there were different colours each time I added the "misty brush" I bought from DBD, (well I had to do it properly didn't I?) as well as the shape dynamics Dawn showed how to use in her tutorial. So all you girls who are struggling with PS, go HERE and learn something "simple" to play with.  I can see me doing more of this.  I used the "brush" only to do the green area, love the effect.  Then to play more I added texture by adding a "cross stitch" effect PS Action from Atomic Cupcake, which I'm not sure is still available. To finish the card, I decoupaged the Rabbit and the basket added glitter to the eggs and the sentiment, oh! yes that is from Summertime Designs, added 3D gloss to her eyes.

maybe? you can see the eggs background clearer here?

I changed the exposure of the closeup so you can see the eggs,
splatter brushes and the cross stitch I added to the background.

About Elizabeth Dulemba, you know I love her images, so thought I would add a link, seeing as I use her images a lot and they are all free and also, you may not know about her. 

This is from her latest Newsletter, she has had a couple of children, using her images, enter them into the Gallery, Aw! Bless them.  AND you get a free image with every newsletter.  Go on get the children colouring her images :)

HERE

CALL FOR ART!
    Have you or your children colored or created something using one of my Coloring Page Tuesday images? If you post it on a blog, you can also post it to my gallery and maybe I'll share your creation next week! 
(It doesn't have to be a card - I like 2-year-old scribbles too!)












http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/58-animals.html  Animals - Yep! a Rabbit

http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/fan-tastic-tuesday-challenge-29-use.html  Patterened paper - Yep! I used, my own plus another

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/challenge-cute-and-fab-tutorial-from-kat.html Cute and tip - Yep! Cute card and I linked to a top tip tutorial

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/challenge-210-once-upon-time-bring-on.html One upon a time Bring on the Fairy tale or Fantasy Yep! This is a fairytale rabbit!

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/animals.html  Animals - Yep! a Rabbit

http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/challenge-69-easter-bunnies-chicks-etc.html   Easter Bunnies Chicks etc - Yep! - Bunnie


http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/welcome-spring-challenge.html  Welcome Spring - Yep! Easter Bunnie