Love roo

Hello everyone

I made this card for my sons birthday last month, but just haven't got around to blogging it yet.

When my son was a toddler he couldn't say wallaby, so he called them "wobbalies" and the name has stuck ever since, so when I spotted this roo set from clearly besotted, it had to land in my basket!

Ingredients

• Die -  
• Mama elephant slim line scene builder
• tattered lace basic circle
• Stamps –
• clearly besotted – Love roo
• MFT lets stick together
• Coloured with spectrum noir tri blend brush markers
• Ink blending distress oxide inks
• Chipped sapphire
• Prize ribbon
• Antique paper
• Vintage photo

 I cut out of the panels for the shaped card and ink blended them all.  For texture I splatted each one with the same colours I had used to blend as well as black and white, with some shimmer pen in there too. For the circle back panel i used a large circle and chopped it in half in my trimmer to make a different backdrop.

I put these aside to dry while stamping and colouring all of my images, that I then put through my scan and cut and cut them all out.  I also cut out the word ‘Son’ in two sizes, one in black and the other in white

Now the background panels were dry, I glued them all together to form the card base, and placed my critters around the card to create a scene.  In the sky I adhered the ‘son’ word and stamped the happy birthday to room on the front panel.

He absolutely adored this – its still in his bedroom now.  His very own set of wobbalies! 

I'd like to enter this into

• Through the purple haze - anything goes for him
• Little red wagon - For the boys
• Colour throw down - colour challenge
• Critter crazy - Anything goes with a critter 
• Crafty animals - Anything goes with an animal

Thanks so much for stopping by - it does mean a lot when people leave comments, or follow my on FB, Pinterest or IG.  I really appreciate it!

See you again soon for more makes from the desk of the glittery pink craft rooms

Rachael 

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Frightfully sweet

 Hello friends

A few posts back I said I do not do Halloween as a rule, I do not celebrate it and my son doesn’t go trick or treating.  Not due to religious reasons just because it doesn’t sit comfortably with me.  Having said that, I have had several posts recently about Halloween because the images are just tooooo cute! I saw this MFT one and had to have it.  There is something super sweet about animals dressed up to make a cute scene!

 

Ingredients

• Stamps
• MFT - frightfully sweet
• Clearly besotted  - Alien attack
• Inks
• Distress oxides
• Mustard seed
• Chipped sapphire
• Wilted violet
• Twisted citron
• Black soot
• Versa mark
• Memento tuxedo black
• Hero arts unicorn pigment ink
• Scan and cut
• Gold metallic paint
• White and black acrylic paint
• Shimmer pen
• Glossy accents

 I made this card into a z fold, but with a bottom bar to add the critters too.

I did this by taking a 6x6 card blank.  I folded the front page back on itself (so its like a z shape) and then opened it flat again. I then trimmed 1.5 inches off the bottom to make the bar.

 Before layering I inked the background. I knew I wanted a spooky house in the background so started with mustard seed in this location and added twisted citron across the bottom to add a spooky glow. I then continued blending using wilted violet, chipped sapphire and a bit of black soot along the top. Once I was happy with the blending, I added gold metallic, white, and black paints to splatter across the night sky

For the ground, my critters stand on, this was black card stock I cut into wavy lines added white pigment ink to the top and then layered them together. I used a white gel pen to add dots (I forgot t platter before I had assembled so had to improvise!)

I then stamped and coloured the cute critters from the MFT stamps set and the spooky castle/house from clearly besotted. And cut them all out using my scan and cut.

The bottom bar was added the opposite way around to the main card folds, and everything was then placed and either glues or foam pads used to adhere it together. The sentiment was from the MFT set and was embossed using white powder and a Versamark in pad. Finishing touches were a bit of glitter and some glossy accents.

Phew that was a lot of explaining!

 I'd like to enter this into:

Colour crazy challenge - Anything goes
Love to craft challenge  - Anything goes

Crafters Cafe - Anything goes 

Critter Crazy - Anything goes with a critter

Send a smile 4 kids - Holiday/Celebration

Crafty Calendar - Halloween

A gem of a challenge - Anything goes 

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See you soon

Rachael 

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