moxie fab world tuesday trigger- home sweet home

It's tuesday trigger time again and this weeks the pic is sooo cute! so with a bit of thinking and a couple of Fiskars punches including the new jenni bowlin jester punch i created this card.

I used several brands of papers, a some odd girl clear stamps coloured with copics. you can buy the stamp at Mad 4 Markers and i also used some doodle bug twine.

dont forget to have a go with the tuesday trigger Here.

Tara:)

Pokemon nails

I have finally finished off zoes nails. I promised her i would paint them for her and i did. pokemon and pokeballs. she thinks she is the ants pantz now!!! and they actually look ok. I think i might just have a go on mine now. i am thinking Doctor whos TARDIS. i just brought some polish from Dolly polish a few weeks ago and it is called"ïts bigger on the inside" and when on your nails it is exactly the same colour as the blue box itself.
you got to love franken polishes!!!
anyway here are zoes finished nails.

Tara:)

I am cheering from the rooftops for Zoe!

Guess what?
Zoe got an....... wait for it........

In the latest lawnscaping challenge! I am so proud of her. And she was so funny about it too!
You just have to love Autism! Zoe is just so positive about everything. and when i showed her that she came...well i said 3rd as she did not quite get the whole gnome thing........ she was really excited and said to me "mum. i am glad i came third. 3 is my lucky number" how great was that!
I also want to big up lawnscaping. as they included Zoe to their competition. thanks lawnscaping. it really means a lot to me .

Tara:)

Paper Smooches Sparks challenge 23rd - 7th March

This week Paper Smooches Sparks challenge has a real ocean feel to it. i know the picture for inspiration is a clock but i love the seaside feel to the pic.
Here is the picture.

and here is my card.

To create this card i first made the background by wetting a piece of white cardstock then with a blending tool striped broken china and iced spruce distress ink on the wet card, then dried it with my heat gun.
I cut and trimmed it them placed on my blank card. I then stamped and coloured with copic markers the pelican and log from Paper smooches surf and turf stamp set.
Next i got some cardstock inked it with broken china and iced spruce distress ink, then with a Fiskars boundary waters border punch, punched out the waves,cut and layered them.
I glued on the pelican and log, and fish in his mouth. them with distress inks i dyed some silk ribbon to make a seaweed effect on the side of the card.
so head on over to the paper smooches sparks challenge and have a go!

Tara:)

kissing stamps....

There is a great challenge over at lily pad cards at the moment. It is all about kissing stamps.
Whats this you ask? well it is when you ink up a largely block stamp (a stamp with a lot of area you can ink) and then get a finer image stamp and ink that too. once both inked you press the finer lined inked image into the stamp with the blocky image. stamp on card and both images appear on the stamp. you can google this technique and there are a few videos about. Anyway i thought i would have a go and enter the challenge. It took a few goes but i finally got a balance of colours and stamping images to make a stamped kissing image.

here is my card.

I used a Hero arts stamp called poppy background and inked up with  mustard seed distress ink. i then used a script stamp and inked up with festive berries distress ink. i used these inks as they stay wet for longer and this makes it easier to stamp.you have more time!
I then created the patterned background behind the pic by using a A5 piece of white card, blended mustard seed,wild honey,festive berries,and fired brick distress inks on to it with my blending tool. once blended i flicked water onto it then some biscotti perfect pearl spray mists on to it to get a watermarked effect. boy oh boy does the perfect pearls mist smell!Yuck! but worth the effect!
i used a fiskars border punch-kaleidoscope  for the border added some ribbon and then stamped the sentiment. which was from lawn fawn.
and done.
i love the effect i got, except i totally forgot that the script is backward!!! never mind. you cannot really tell as it is so swirly anyway!
Tara:)