99 Balloons - Daring Card Makers DT

Happy Friday!

Not one but two blog posts in a week - not sure what happened there?!!!  I'm up on the Daring Cardmakers blog today where the theme is '99 Balloons'.  Now even I couldn't manage that many but with a little masking I managed to add some extra balloons to my stamped image.

I've used a favourite Time for Tea Designs Stamp set that has an adorable array of cats on it and one just happened to be holding balloons.  I coloured in the image using my Chameleon pens.  Being as the cat was going to hold a fair few balloons, I decided to do a sky background using a stencil and distress inks to show the cat floating in the air.

For the balloons I decided to use my new Nuvo Jewel drops as they dry transculent and give a realistic look to them.  It was a little challenging to take a decent photo but you can see the raised effect created above.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the same stamp set in white and matted and layered on black card to finish.

You can see a lot more inspiration for the challenge by my fellow DT HERE so I hope you'll join in and we look forward to seeing all your balloon themed cards!

I'm teaching tomorrow and on Sunday I can look forward to my son's birthday party.  He's ever so excited!

Enjoy your weekend and see you again next week,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Mew Are Pawsome Stamp set

Chamelon Markers 

CrafTangles Create A Scene Stencil

Nuvo Jewel Drops

Ranger Distress Ink

Momento Black Ink

Ranger White Embossing Powder

Everything else from my stash

Pets! - Daring Cardmakers Challenge

Happy Friday!

The highlight of my week was catching up with a very dear friend for coffee.  We first met when we were both expecting for the first time over a decade ago now - seems like such a long time when I put it like that!  I rarely take time out during the week but I'm so glad I did and I made up time lost at the end of the day after the boys had gone to bed.

It's my turn to choose a challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers this week and I've gone with pets.  I would like to see cats, dogs, goldfishes, snakes, spiders or any other pets you care to think of on your creation.  Plenty of inspiration from my fellow DT members HERE.

This card is one I've done a tutorial for over on the Create & Craft Member's page.  I've used Chameleon pens to colour in the image taken from the Time for Tea Design stamp set.  The set is called Mew Are Pawsome just like the sentiment on my card!  I added a fun element to the card by  die cutting the paw prints - they're cute don't you think?!

If you happen to be in or around Enfield this weekend I will be there at The Range ton Sunday from 11am doing another one of my Trimcraft Christmas Demos.  Last one next week!

I hope you have a lovely weekend whatever you do and I'll see you again next week,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Chameleon Pens

Time for Tea Designs Mew Are Pawsome Stamp and Die Set

Mixture of dies for the pawprints from my stash

Everything else from my stash