One of the collaboration groups I’m in is having a special event going on all this week, called C.A.S.E. the Creator. Members of the group are assigned to each other, and we have to create a project inspired by one of the projects made by our assigned partner. I am going to be C.A.S.E.ing Liz, and I chose to take inspiration from the adorable hedgehog mug she created.
As I’m primarily a card maker I took inspiration from Liz’s mug to make a card. I don’t have a hedgehog stamp so instead I decided to use a sheep that I felt worked well as a comparable focal element. The sheep is from Clearly Besotted’s Ewe Are Awesome. I have an older, now retired version of the stamp set, but there’s a current version here.
Liz used vinyl to create get hedgehog, which she layered up. I decided to replicate this by paper piecing and I used a number of snippets to create my sheep. Taking inspiration from Liz I wanted it to have a white body and teal wool. I used MFT Black Licorice Hybrid ink to stamp the sheep on its entirety onto a snippet of Neenah Solar White. I then stamped just the head part also on Neenah, followed by the wool of the body and the head on a snippet of teal.
After stamping everything out I decided to add colour and dimension using my alcohol markers. I used light greys to add dimension to the white areas, with darker greys for the hooves. I also added a touch of pink to the inner ears and nose. For the wool areas I used three shades of teal to add shading and texture by adding in c shapes.
Once I had completed all the colouring I fussy cut all the pieces out. I then used a brush tip, water-based marker to edge all of the fussy cut pieces. This hides the coloured core of the paper and makes them look more finished. I then used glue to layer the pieces together to complete the sheep.
Moving on to my card base I worked out where I wanted the sheep positioned. I took the grass stamp from the Ewe Are Awesome stamp set and used Altenew Volcano Lake to stamp two clusters on the card base, so that I could position the sheep between them. I also stamped the first part of my sentiment, using stamps from Love From Lizi’s We Are, with Versafine Onyx Black ink.
Liz’s mug uses yellow for the scripty second part of the wording, as well as an accent colour elsewhere. Initially I had been planning to use yellow too, but I decided to switch to pink as my accent. I’d already used some pink on my sheep, and it is a colour that goes well with teal. I took a snippet of pink card and die cut it with the Awesome die from Memory Box, then added glue with my glue pen and adhered it into place. I then adhered the sheep into place, completing the card.
It took me a while to decide what to do for this project, but I couldn’t help but keep going back to Liz’s adorable cup. It is so cute and a great inspiration point. I’m pretty pleased with how the design translated into my card. I think it’s clear to see where I got inspiration, yet still has my own feel to it. What do you think?
Love,
Lady Joyful
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Challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More – Make Your Mark (edit – where it got honourable addict!)
Creatalicious Challenges – Anything Goes
HLS Anything Goes With Dies – Use Dies
Moving Along With The Times – CAS
Pixie’s Snippets Playground – Use Snippets
Polkadoodles Craft Challenge – Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Anything Goes
STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge – Anything CAS
The House That Stamps Built – Anything Goes
Lovely ❤️ ❤️ Thank you for joining in the Polkadoodles challenge 😊 Good Luck!
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Aww this is just so adorable!
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This is adorable!!! The little sheep is super cute and he looks fabulous with his teal coat! So fun! Thanks for playing with The House That Stamps Built.
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What a sweet little lamb — cute CAS card! Thanks for linking up to Repeat Impression’s Anything Goes Challenge this week!
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Hello… Thanks for sharing your lovely little sheep card with ‘Moving Along with the Times Challenge Blog’; it fits perfectly with our ‘clean and simple’ challenge theme. Hope you can join us for our next challenge.
Diane Louise (DT member) xx
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So funny and cute! 🙂
Thanks a lot for joining us at Creatalicious! 🙂
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Lovely card, thanks for joining us at MAWTT, xxxx
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Cute as can be! Thanks so much for joining us at The House That Stamps Built!
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Aw Charlotte – this is gorgeous! So cute and a super video as well. Send that sheep’s coat for Dudley please – he finally had a puppy cut today, and then some!
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Thank you 😊 I bet he looks really cute! And I’m sure that he’ll feel cooler like that – I hear it’s quite warm over there!
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Lovely green sheep – recently I did a pink sheep – then a blue llama – and why not?
Thank you for sharing with Addicted to Stamps and More!
Susan
Addicted to Stamps and More
Calling All Crafters! – My personal Blog!
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Thank you! It’s fun to play with different colours, isn’t it? I do struggle sometimes though with not just doing realistic colours!
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How cute is this fun little lamb, Charlotte! SO much fun! Paper piecing always gives a great extra interest! Thanks so much for sharing at HLS Anything Goes with Dies this Month.
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WOW. I adore this adorable card, that sheep is just so cute. Thank you for sharing with us at Polkadoodles. HUGS Fleur xxx
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Aw what a cute little image, just love it! Thank you for sharing your beautiful make with us over at Polkadoodles and hope you will join us again.
Take care,
Ann-Marie (DT)
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A wonderful card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes + optional spots and/or stripes” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
(DT Simply Create Too)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy these past weeks…
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