{Technique Tuesday} See you later Alligator

Hello and welcome to Technique Tuesday's May release blog hop. The Design Team are featuring a variety of products that have been released this month. Head on over to the Technique Tuesday Blog to see the full collection and links to all the amazing products that are now available to purchase. 

You should have arrived here from Jung Ahang's blog.

My card today uses the new Animal house stamp set called Alligators and Crocodiles. 

To create this card I first masked of the outer edges of a 4.25 X 5.5 piece of card stock with some post it tape.  I created a little sand mound by just free hand cutting it out using some masking tape. I then stamped my images where I wanted them to be and masked them with some masks I cut out of post it notes. 

Next I ink blended the background with some Distress ink in tumbled glass and antique linen. Once that was done I removed the masks and coloured my images in using copic markers. I used dots of colour to create some texture. I wasn't happy with the inked background and decided to create some texture to the water and sand by colouring over the ink with copic markers in varying shades of blues and browns. 

Once everything was coloured in I removed the masking tape from the border. I trimmed the piece of card stock down to 4 X 5.25 and adhered it to my card base with some foam tape to add some dimension. 

Next up on the hop is Dana Kirby.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you found a little inspiration that will help you create some fun cards to share with Family and Friends. 😊
Tasha☺

{Technique Tuesday} Monkey Business

Hello  everybody!
Today I am over on the Technique Tuesday blog with a bit of monkey business. 😉

Thanks for stopping by😘
Tasha☺

{Technique Tuesday} I'm Bananas about you

Hello!

Today I'm sharing a card I made using the Monkey business stamp set from the Animal house collection. This was such a fun one to play with. Such cute little monkeys with a bunch of fun sentiments. 

For this card I wanted a leafy background. Ordinarily I like creating backgrounds with stamps. But for this one I had the green card stock that is cut out(? I'm not sure how to describe it) I've been hoarding this and some others for years and finally decided it was time to use it. 

So I trimmed a piece down  and glued it over a lighter green piece of card stock so it would pop. I used a stitched mat to die cut this piece down to a smaller size.  I stamped the monkey, the bananas and the sentiment onto some kraft card stock and coloured the images in with Prisma coloured pencils.  I adhered the kraft piece to the green background and then adhered the green piece onto an acetate card base. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today. 
Tasha ☺

Robbies back!

Hello and welcome back. So my friend Robbie the racoon wanted to make another appearance today. 😜

Here he is getting up to mischief again. Seriously... I just love this little guy. He reminds me of my youngest son....always getting into some kind of trouble but then has that cute little "what?" look on his face.  😂

So, I got reallly into this card that I totally forgot to stop and take pics as I was going. 🙈Sorry! Anyway... Luckily it is pretty straight forward so it's easy to just explain.
I started with a plain white 4.5X5.5 Panel of Neenah white card stock and I masked and stamped all my images onto the panel. Next I coloured all the images in with copic markers. (I'm not loving the way I coloured Robbie over there. I think I should have left his face a little lighter in spots so it stood out more. But hey! It is what it is!) When I was done colouring I masked off all the images and coloured the background with some distress ink blending. I used Pumice stone and Tumbled Glass. I added some water droplets and some foot prints. I stamped the sentiment directly onto the panel. I ran the panel through my die cutter with a stitched die to add a boarder. Ans finally I glued the panel onto a white card base.

And that was it. Easy peasy.
Thanks for coming by again. I hope you are having a great day wherever you are.
Tasha ☺

Robbie the raccoon

Hello again. 
Todays card is featuring Robbie the raccoon from Technique Tuesday. 

I love how cute this little guy is, poking his head out of the garbage can. I know that no-one likes raccoons going through their garbage in real life. But in the land of crafting it's all good. 😝

For this card I stamped the images with memento tuxedo black ink onto 100LB Neenah white card stock. I coloured them in with copic markers. Although I have matching dies I opted to fussy cut the images out since I did not any white borders. I inked up a 4.5 X 5.5 piece of white card stock using some distress inks in pumice stone and tumbled glass. I used some water to create the droplets and them used a stitched die to cut my panel where I adhered my images to. I stamped some of the little footprints and used a grey copic marker to add some shadows to ground my images. I stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to a kraft coloured card base. 

That's it for today. I'll have more cards using this and other Technique Tuesday stamps to share in the coming days. So be sure to stop by and visit me again soon. 
Tasha ☺ 

Technique Tuesday - virtual birthday sale part 2!

Welcome Back!

Today is the last day of Technique Tuesday's  Virtual Birthday celebration.  
We celebrate everyone's special day in late March with a once-a-year special offer. To get 20% off your entire order, enter coupon code HB2019 at checkout! Hurry...this offer ends tonight (Sunday, March 24, 2019) at midnight PDT!

As I promised yesterday I'm back to share another card I made with the Sassy Birthday 2.0 stamp set.

For this card I started by stamping the dress and clock images randomly onto some water colour paper. 

I coloured all the images in with some Gansai water colour paints. I trimmed the panel down and attached it to a charcoal card base. I heat embossed the sentiment onto the same charcoal card stock with some vanilla embossing powder and adhered it to the front of the card. 

Thanks again for coming to visit my blog. I hope you like my card. 😌
Tasha☺

Technique Tuesday - virtual birthday sale

Happy Saturday! 
Today, everyone here at Technique Tuesday wants to wish you a Happy Virtual Birthday! We celebrate everyone's special day in late March with a once-a-year special offer. To get 20% off your entire order, enter coupon code HB2019 at checkout! Hurry...this offer ends on Sunday, March 24, 2019 at midnight PDT!

For todays card I used the Sassy Birthday 2 .0 stamp set to create this sweet birthday card.

I started by die cutting the windows and stitched scallop border from a plain 4.25 x 5.5 panel of white card stock. I then stamped my images onto the inner pieces that were left from the window cut outs. I coloured the images in with copic markers. I drew my colour palette from the colours in the striped piece of paper I used for my background panel.  I and then masked them so I could do some light ink blending around them to make them stand out more. I stamped the sentiment onto my top panel and coloured them in with copics too. I adhered the piece of patterned paper to the base of my card and then placed the window panel on top of this with foam tape. I glued the images into the windows. and I finished the card with a few pretty jewels drops.

Thats my card for today. Come back tomorrow to see how I used this same set to create another card. 
Thanks for stopping by and happy shopping! 
Tasha☺

Technique Tuesday

Hello again!
Today I so am excited to share a card I made using the Beau & Beatrice the beaver stamp set from Technique Tuesday. It is the newest addition to the Animal house collection. I just love all the stamps in this collection. They have such awesome sentiments and such cute images.
So without further ado.... I give you my card 😁

Aren't these little guys just adorable? 😍
I used a cloud stencil and some Tumbled glass distress ink to create the clouds onto an A2 white card. I used some stitched circles to die cut the windows from some woodgrain card stock. Once I stamped and die cut the beavers out I used copic markers to colour them in. The sentiments are heat embossed with white embossing powder onto some black card stock. Once I finished assembling the card I added some of my favourite rain drops to the card to just kick it up a notch.

I hope you enjoyed my card for today and I'll be back to share more cute cards with this adorable set.

Thanks for stopping by.
Natasha💖

Hello again.
Today I am back to share another card I made with the Henrietta the hedgehog stamp set from Technique Tuesday that was released this month.  This set is part of their Animal house collection. I absolutely love these sets, they all have a great variety of sentiments with images that are just so cute and easy to work with.

One of my favorite things to do with cards is create backgrounds. Don't get me wrong, I love and hoard pretty patterend paper. I just find it so satisfying to know that I made the 'whole' card. So whenever I see small stamps in sets, my first thought is....Background!
For this card I randomly stamped the mushroom on a 4.25 X 5.5" card panel with Memento's tuxedo black ink. I also stamped the hedgehog and a couple of extra mushrooms. I used prisma colour pencils to colour in the hedgehog and since I didn't want a white boarder I fussy cut it out with scissors. I used zig clean color brush markers to colour in the mushrooms. Once I was done all the clouring I used a wavy stitched die to cut out my panel. Next I used a semi circle die to cut a window out of the panel. I also cut a black boarder to frame the window. I used the inside piece and did some ink blending to make it look like a sky and ground.  I stamped my sentiment before I attached that piece to the card base and popped the panel up with foam tape. I attached the images inside the window as well as some grass I die cut to add some interest.

Well, thats it for my card today. I do hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Natasha :)

Sorry I've been a little prickly.

Hello, hello!

Today I am sharing a fun card that I made with the newest edition to the Technique Tuesday Animal house collection, Henrietta the Hedgehog. This set was so much fun to work with. I just LOVE all the sentiments in this set.

For this card I used the mirror image stamping technique. I first stamped the hedgehog image onto  Neenah white cardstock with Momento Black ink. I then stamped the image onto a solid rubber stamp and then used that to stamp the image again onto my cardstock.  This creates a mirror image. 

I also stamped the mushroom image onto the same piece of cardstock. Once everything was stamped, I coloured all the images in with copic markers. This set does have matching dies but since I created a mirror image I needed to fussy cut them so that they all looked the same.

For the background I covered a 4.25 X 5.5" panel of white cardstock with masking paper and sketched out a hill. I cut the hill out and used the masks to do some ink blending. Once I was happy with the intensity of the blending I splattered some ink and water onto the blending to create the splattered effect you see. I wanted to create a sandy ground for them to be standing on. I then used a scalloped die to cut out the panel in the size I wanted. Next, I stamped my sentiment directly onto the panel and adhered the images onto the panel with clear foam squares. Lastly, I popped the panel up onto a plain white card base with some foam tape.  

I really like the way this turned out, and I'll probably be glad I have this on hand when the need to apologize arrises. ;)

Thanks for stopping by.

I hope you enjoyed my card.

Natasha