A catch up Post

 I played along with a few other challenges in January and never stole time to blog about them so, here are a few. 

This tiny pooh bear is from all night media called Pooh's Heart. The sentiment here is a reverse printed one from Simon Says Stamp, its framed with a piece of Vellum run through an Anna Griffin Layers cut & emboss set. this is up on foam pop dots to give it some wiggle room over the ruffled May Arts ribbon. that printed paper in the background is an old one from Basic Grey.

Pooh was painted with Daniel Smith paints. Did you know the copy right for Winnie the Pooh hit its expiration this week? ( it did) so, there are brand new Pooh stamps so far I have seen at Unity Stamps ( I have ordered some for me) (you can find those here  and here if you are curious.) This card was jump started by this card from Marilyn seen here. 

This one was done when Ardyth was featured stamper, I had loved this card she did here with the vellum gate fold and then later came across this CAS bird card and it all kind of morphed in my head.

On my version, I used a Mama Elephant mod heart die to cut a window into the card front and then used some textured vellum from K & Co. to cover that. The bird here is from the Tim Holtz Feathered Friends die set cut from some previously dyed watercolor paper that had been dyed ( years ago) with left over Paas Easter Egg dye. ( it takes a while to lose the vinegar fumes so, I still have a stack of this in various colors to play with in the file cabinet) I did rub some salvaged patina oxide over some edges of the die cuts on the bird to help define them. The eye is a tiny recollections pearl and the sentiment is from Impression Obsession. 

Last week Kathy was featured stamper and a few weeks ago the Clean and simple challenge was do to something with "getting healthy" for the new year, and I had this lipstick sentiment out for that and then never got any farther with it. flash forward to last Sunday. Kathy has a lot of Snoopy in her gallery and I came across this one. And decided I could use that as a jump start for the colors of mine. This Snoopy is from Stampabilities called Operation Bowl. The sentiment here is from Inkadinakado. They were both stamped with some Versafine on the Neenah and the color was added with water color paints. that panel was cut with a Pinkfresh studios blanket stitched rectangle die. The red pre made base is a sparkly one. 

The Clean and Simple challenge last week was to put a heart on it. So this D.O.T.S. heart was stamped on some Arches watercolor paper with red versafine and painted with Daniel Smith paints. That panel was cut with a Spellbinders hem stitched rectangle die which decided to come un tapped before it went all the way through the big shot so, luckily the see through parts were still OK and so I cut this down to the very edge of that in a paper trimmer. The pink base here is some pre made Stardream and so, it is also very sparkly in real life. That's about it from me, thanks for stopping by.