Frida Kahlo/Mexican - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

It was odd when I read the title of this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge as for the past 2 weeks my little one has been learning about the life and work of Frida Kahlo in his Art lessons and I had been listening intently.  Mexico always conjures up images of bright, bold colours which I love so you might need your sunglasses to see my creation today! Ha!!!

I didn't even know that toucans were native to Southern Mexico until Google told me - the power of Google!!!  Of course I had the perfect stamp set in mind and I began by creating the background using my distress inks through a stencil.

My image was stamped, die cut and coloured with my Chamelon pens and I added glitter to the party hat and glossy accents to the beak.

You can see a lot more inspiration from my fellow DT HERE and I hope you will join in with this fun challenge!

It's an exciting week for me in the blog world next week with lots going on so watch this space!  

Have a lovely weekend,

Shabneez 

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Toucan Do This Stamp & Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Celebrate Sentiment Die

Time for Tea Designs Quilted Square Nesting Dies

Time for Tea Designs Clouds Stencil

Chameleon Pens

Distress Oxide Inks Pads

Time for Tea Designs Beautiful Blender Brushes

April 2020 Elemental Challenge - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

My eldest son celebrated his birthday this week and it was odd having a lock down birthday but we made it as special as we could with family Face Time and a home made chocolate orange birthday cake among other treats.

As it's the first Friday of the month the Daring Cardmakers have an Elemental Challenge that I have chosen.

I'm still on my mission to brighten people's social media feed and so I've made a cheerful card that has elements of Spring on it.

I've created a masked stencil background and added my Time for Tea Design stamped images that I've coloured with my Chameleon pens and fussy cut.  

I added some die cut grass to give a little texture and some die cut flowers in the grass to finish!

Below is the mood board from which you need to choose at least 3 elements (colours count as 1).  I chose the scalloped background, colours, rabbit and flowers.  The question is what will you choose?!  You can see lots more inspiration from the Design Team HERE.

Have a lovely weekend whatever you do.  I'm hoping to make a start on the garden.

See you next week,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Hip Hip Hooray Stamp Set

Time for Tea Designs Cloud Stencil

Time for Tea Large Circle Masking Stencil

Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink

Chameleon Pens

Sizzix Magical Unicorn Die Set

Everything else from my stash