You're awesome fur real

I had so, so much fun creating this little fold out card for my adorable Nephew Rory who was 2 recently. I can't resist using Lions for my creations for him but I felt like I wanted to mix it up so used a few different stamp set from the brilliant Create a Smile range. The lions are from the "Fur real" set, the Lemur is from "Little Lemur" and the armadillo is from the "On a roll" set. 

For the base of this card I used some craft card from Crafters Companion and first cut it at 4 inches before then scoring it at every 4 inches so it was a little concertina of 4' x 4' squares. I stuck the two strips I got from the one piece of A4 card together and then cut one more 4' x 4' square of the craft card to cover where I stuck the two pieces together. I knew I wanted to have a square for each leter of his name and a further one for the number 2 but you could just use more or less card to fit for any name.

The card that I used for the matting and layering are all craft perfect card in various colours. I really like this card as it is not only a good thickness but also has a bit of texture to it and a great colour. I have to say that I have only just discovered this card properly and I am going to be getting it and stocking it in my store for sure so watch this space if you want to get your hands on it. For the layers I cut a range of 3 and 3/4 inch squares, 3 and 1/2 inch squares and the smallest squares are 3 and 1/4 inch. I then layered them all on angles for the inside panels and stacked for the front one.
The letters are just die cut out of the same tonic carft perfect card so the colours all matched perfectly. The happy sentiment die is from Heffy Doodle as is the little birthday stamped sentiment (from the "super dudes" set). The "you're amazing fur real" sentiment is from the "Fur real" set.

The critters are all coloured using the following Spectrum Noir tri-blends:

Lions:
Fur - Gold Brown Blend
Mane - Gold Yellow Blend
Nose - Gold Brown Shade
Ears -  Pale Pink Blend

Lemur:
Fur - Grey Brown Shade, Grey Brown Blend
Ears - Pale Pink Blend
Eyes - Ice Blue Blend
Balloon - Light Green Blend

Armadillo:
Grey Brown Shade, Grey Brown Blend and Ice Blue Blend on his eyes


I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Crafty Rocket - Happy Birthday
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Colour crazy challenge - Anything goes with colouring
2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything goes
A bit more time to craft - Anything goes
A perfect time to craft - Anything goes
Crafty Animals - Anything goes with a critter

To brighten up your day

I had so much fun making this card. I die cut the circles with Heffy Doodle stitched circle dies and then inked the center circle with Salty ocean, Blueprint Sketch and Black soot distress inks. I cut a circle frame out of some brilliantly shiny gold card from Tonic. We were lucky enough to be sponsored by Tonic at my last Crafty Purple Frog Getaway and I have to say I really like their range of card stock. I will be getting a lot more of it so expect to see much more of it cropping up on my blog :D

For my main image I have used another of the brilliant Create a Smile stamp sets, Glowing seaside . It is safe to say I am addicted to these stamps. I stamped this squid in Tuxedo Black Momento ink and then coloured it with the following tri-blend markers:

Squid body: Pale Pink Shade, Pale Pink Blend

Eye ball: Ice Blue Blend

Stars: Citrus Blend

I used some Spectrum Noir gold midas ink and one of the small stamps in the set to add the dotty circles all over the black card blank Then I attached the squid and the gold circle frame on some foam pads so they give some depth to the card. I wanted the Squid to stand out even more so I covered his head in glossy accents. 

The sentiment I stamped in Wow! embossing pad and then used super fine gold embossing powder. For the final touch of texture and sparkle I used a mix of Blue Lagooon and Yellow bird nuvo glitter drops leading away from the squid off of the card.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Patties Creations - Anything Goes 

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes with a sentiment

Cardz 4 Gals - Something beginning with S 

Create a smile Challenge and DT call

I quite recently stumbled upon these super cute stamps from a company called Create a smile. I knew right away that I needed quite a few of these stamps in my life. They really did what they said on the pack and made me smile. So of course I ordered some to stock at Crafty Purple Frog. 

Now I see they also have a DT call! How exciting is that?? I have to try out for it, so as well as my entry for the current sketch challenge I wanted to tell you all about the DT call as well so if you fall in love with them, as I have, you can try out for a spot on the team :)

Onto my card. I created this based on the great fun sketch over on the Create a Smile blog. I used  Heffy Doodles stitched circle dies to create the frame and circle that I put this little guy on. I used ink brushes and mowed lawn along with broken china distress inks to create a back ground. The grass stamp is also in the Fur Real stamp set.

The lion I stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then coloured with the following tri-blend markers:

Mane: Gold Yellow Blend

Nose: Gold Brown Shade

Face and body: Gold Brown Blend and pale pink blend in his ears.

The sentiment is in the Fur Real stamp set and I finished the card by hand drawing the border, dots around the circle frame and then adding the sparkle with some nuvo blue lagoon glitter drops. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Create a smile - Sketch challenge

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything goes

A Bit More Time To Craft - Anything Goes

A Perfect Time To Craft - Anything Goes

Love you to the moon and back

I am loving making backgrounds using the ink smushing technique. For this one I covered a whole back ground for the card to make it look like outer space. I used Squeezed Lemonade, tumbled glass, salty ocean, blue print sketch and Black soot distress oxides

I also added a lot of sparkle to the entire background by flicking wink of stella all over it and then putting some yellow bird glitter gem drops and for that extra special touch I also added some Banana split glow in the dark gem drops, so when the lights go out this card still stands out.

I have combined two of the new Heffy Doodle stamp sets for this card. The cute little spaceman and space ship are from the "Spaced out" stamp set. The sentiment and Moon are from the "You're weird" stamp set. 

They have been coloured with the following spectrum noir tri-blends:

Moon: Ice grey

Space ship: Orange, Citrus green and Ice grey

Spaceman: Orange, Earth brown, fair skin and Ice grey

I put the space man on a action wobble so he looks like he is really moving in space.  

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

Happy craft challenge - Anything goes

Love to craft - Anything goes

Lil' patch of crafty friends - Anything goes

The corrosive challenge - Anything goes

Whatever the weather

The weather here is definitely changing. The wind is picking up and it is raining on and off. The up side to that is that it will be perfect crafting weather :D 

For my card today I have used the adorable "Quack me up" stamp set from Heffy Doodles. I stamped the duck and coloured it with the following Spectrum noir tri-blend markers:

Beak and feet: Orange, Citrus

Body: Gold brown

Umbrella:Pale pink, Earth brown

I used the Heffy Doodle "rain on my parade" stencil with tumbled glass distress oxide and a blending tool to give the rain effect back ground to the card base. I also used the same tumbled glass distress oxide to ink around the edges of the card blank. For the panel behind the duck I did some ink smushing on my glass mat and used 3 distress oxides (tumbled glass, salty ocean and blue print sketch) I wanted to add a bit more sparkle and dimension to the panel so I added some blue lagoon nuvo glitter gem drops in the shape of rain drops. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Brown sugar - Anything goes
Colour crazy challenge - Anything goes
Creative fingers - Anything goes
Pattie's Creations - Things that fly

Card making is my super power!

I am really love this stamp set. It is so much fun to be able to send out little super heroes in the post, and how perfect is this sentiment for fellow crafty friends? The set is called Super dudes and by the brilliant Heffy Doodle.

I coloured my little lady in with the following spectrum noir illustrator markers:

Cape; OR2,LY3,CT1

Pants, shoes and mask: DR5,DR2,CR10

hero suit: TB7,TB5,IB3

Hair: GB11,GB9,GB7,GB4

Skin: FS6, FS9

There is a great die set you can get with these stamps to cut he out if you don't want to fussy cut her and then I attached her with some foam pads so she stands out. 

For the back ground I used some ink brushes and festive berries then squeezed lemonade distress inks along with the Heffy Doodle stencil Zapp attack I then added touches of sparkle with yellow bird glitter nuvo drops.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Tuesday throwdown - colour inspiration

Dragonfly dreams challenge - No patterned paper

Lil patch of crafty friends - Anything goes

Arty Divas - Anything goes 

Through the craft room door - Anything goes