CCM #234 Birthdays

Our challenge today at Crafty Cardmakers is a lovely easy one, birthdays. We are happy to see any of your proects to do with birthdays, it doesn’t just have to be a card.

I did, however, go with a card as it coincided nicely with a friend’s birthday.

She is married to a beef farmer and just loves their cows, so I couldn’t resist the fabulous Katzelkraft image of the smiling cow, who looks like she is celebrating something with that cheeky grin.

This was a lovely simple design all on one layer, apart from the pink mirri mat that tones in with her udders and lips, which along with the rest of her were coloured with copics.

The sentiments are a mixture of ones from my stash….. the Smile sentiment I believe was from Crafter’s companion, the ‘it’s’ and the ‘Your Birthday’ are from Clarity.

I am entering Esmerelda (yes I named her!) into:-

2 Crafty Critter Crazies – #26 Anything Goes with an Animal
A Bit More Time to Craft – #92 Anything Goes
A Gem Of A Challenge – #9 Anything Goes
A Perfect Time to Craft – #5 Anything Goes
Allsorts – #520 Birthdays
Angie’s Digital Stamps – #31 Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Challenge – #19 Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends – #3 Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore – #63 Anything Goes
Crafty Animals – #26 Anything Goes with An Animal
Createful Heart – Critter Crazy Challenge #9
Creative Fingers – #164 Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams – Anything Goes
Pattie’s Creations – #158 Birthdays
Simply Create Too – #149 Anything Goes
Sweet Stampers – #32 Animals
The Corrosive Challenge – #5 May Anything Goes

CCM #233 3-2-1

Our challenge this time is a 3-2-1 challenge. We would like to see your creations using 3 of one thing, 2 of another and 1 of a third. For example, 3 patterned papers, 2 diecuts, 1 image. It would be helpful if you could mention in your post what your 3,2,1s are!

My card was created with a premade paper from Clarity, that’s the one right at the back and one I made myself. But as I had several disasters trying to stamp onto a watercolour card I made myself I did it the opposite way around. I stamped the Katzelkraft Cat and Dogs onto the card first and then made the watercolour background around them with two of Jane Davenport’s Mermaid Markers in blue and yellow and lots of water.

The pattern in the background was made with contrasting oxide inks using a stamp from Chocolate Baroque, I think from their Harlequin Fragments stamp sheet.

The sentiment I created on my pc and added a black box around each of the words. I tore the card to look like the cat had ripped the wallpaper as it slid down the wall!

My 3 are the animals, 2 papers, and 1 sentiment.

I am entering this into:-

Alphabet Challenge – C for CAS
2 Crafty Critter Crazies – #26 Anything Goes
Crafting With An Attitude – #51 Anything Goes
Crafty Animals – #26 Anything Goes
Crafty Catz – #460 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers – #164 Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday – #580 Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams – Anything Goes
Fabrika Fantasy – #30 Animals
Imagine That Creative Playground – #5 Anything Goes
Just Us Girls – #486 Movement (the cat down the wall)
My Time to Craft – #396 CAS
Simply Create Too – #149 Anything Goes
Southern Girls – Team Lou Anything Goes
Time Out Challenges – #134 Playful