Sunday, September 20, 2015

GD Quirky Crafts - Quirky Animal Magic

Hello, everyone!  I'm back again today with some inspiration for the challenge at Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog. I'm a guest designer for this fortnight's challenge, which is Quirky Animal Magic. I hope you'll play along! For my card, I chose the adorable Strawberry Mouse by Karen Middleton at Sweet Pea Stamps.  I coloured this little cutie with Prismacolor pencils and fussy-cut so I could pop him up with foam tape.


I made a fun background with some angled panels.  I started by stamping a leaf cluster from Clearly Besotted Leafy Accents clear stamps with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink.  Then I did some ink blending with the same Distress Ink.  I layered red, green, and black cardstock strips (snippets) and some strawberry patterned paper strips (freebie from Cajoline Scrap, thank you!).  I die-cut the Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks in red and added some punny words with my Dymo label maker.  I added a strawberry charm from my stash, tied with baker's twine from DL.ART (I won this, thank you, Diana!), and finished off the card with a number of white sequins.

Thank you to Cazzy and the Quirky Crafts Challenges Design Team for having me as your guest designer!  It was my pleasure! 



I would also like to join the following challenges: Beccy's Place September AG UE; CRAFT Add Some Bling 2/5; Crafty Girlz AG 2/3; Creative Fingers AG 3/3; Cosmic Colours Colour Inspiration (see graphic below) UE (WINNER CHOSEN BY COLETTE)Crop Stop Linky Party #8 Distress Ink sold at Crop Stop 5/5; Cupcake Inspirations Colour Inspiration (see graphic below) 1/3 (SWEET SIX AWARD); Die Cuttin Divas Fun with Puns 1/3; DL.ART Thankful Thursday Coffee/Tea/Beverage Alt. Thank You 3/3; Fan-Tastic Tuesday Bright and Colourful 1/4; Hiding in My Craftroom Freestyle 2/3; Inspiration Destination AG UE; Lil Patch of Crafty Friends AG 2/3; Natalie and Amy's Charming 3/3; Not Just Cards AG UE; Papertake Weekly Animal Magic 5/5; Penny's Paper-Crafty Use a Bow or Christmas 2/3; Pixie's Snippet Playground  All cardstock and patterned paper are snippets 2/3; Scrapbook Blessings Club AG optional Favourite Technique (inky background) UE; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Die Crazy 4/5; Tuesday Throwdown For a Child 3/3; Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 4/5



Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

Cosmic Strawberry



44 comments:

Liz said...

Lovely bright card. The image goes perfectly with the patterned papers. xx

Kuni said...

Lovely sweet card.
Hugs
Kuni

Kuni said...

Lovely sweet card.
Hugs
Kuni

Lisa said...

This is so adorable!! Love the sweet mouse and the background papers!! Fabulous card my friend!! Thanks so much for linking up with the DL.ART Thankful Thursday!! Have a great day :)

Lisa
A Mermaid's Crafts
DT Member DL.ART

MaryH said...

Great coloring with your Prismas, and the shading created a lot of texture to Mouse's fur. He's adorable too. Love the shapes of your pattern strips...brilliant design idea, and a clever way to use up some snippety bits. The dimension of the sentiment and the cute heart charm added a lot of 'charm' indeed. Well done! TFS & Hugs

Fikreta said...

very cute card
hugs

jimlynn said...

Love the heart charm on this! The fun papers are so pretty and so is the design. Love that little mouse so much! CUTE, cute and pretty card.
Lynn

Karen Petitt said...

Thank you so much huni! I think I was already following on Blog Lovin but now on Google too - I have been amazed at how many lovely new friends I have found. Hope you have a fabulous day and evening Karen x

DIANA L. said...

I love how you angled the background papers and that is a super cute mouse.
Thank you for joining my DL.ART Thankful Thursday Anything Goes SEPTEMBER Linky Challenge. Have a blessed day
DIANA L.

DL.ART

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

http://dianamlarson.ctmh.com

Karen Petitt said...

Kitty your colouring is awesome huni! Super cute image and lovely card xx

CA Scrapper said...

Aw, so cute! Thanks for joining our challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas this week.

Leslie

cotnob said...

A fabulous card Kitty, such an adorable image and your brightly coloured background panels are brilliant.
Pauline
x

terrie said...

Such a cheerful card...love all of the strawberry theme paper that you used....
well done Kitty

AO Creations said...

Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Tuesday Throwdown, good luck!!! Amy DT

Taunya Butler said...

SO BERRY CUTE and super ADORABLE - this is one of my favorites of the cards you have made!!! SO awesome and fun!! Love the styling and the details!!! I am such a HUGE fan of yours but I really need to let you know that I won't be around in the bloggy world for the next 10 days - I am taking a much needed break - so except for already written and scheduled Design Team posts I will not be around and that includes commenting!! Please know that it is nothing personal!! But I am excited because when I come back I will be celebrating my 4 year Blogaversary with lots of giveaways all during October!! I did leave some details about that on my blog!! Hope the rest of your September is beautiful and that you keep happy!!! Hugs!!!

Beccy said...

Your card is adorable KT, the little mouse is so cute and you did a wonderful job colouring it in. I love the layout of the card and the fabulous colours too.
Cheers,
Beccy

Virginia L. said...

Beautiful use of pattern paper and colors! Thanks so much for playing Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Die Crazy” Challenge!

Pam Tiedtke, or Pammie Lou said...

Sweet card and wonderful embellishing touches! Thanks for joining us at Tuesday Throwdown challenge!!
Hugs!
Pam
TT DT

Lena said...

Such a happy and fun card. Love the bright colours and fun card layout!
Thanks for joining in the fun at Hiding in My Craft Room.
♥ Lena – DT
Lena’s Creations

Andrea W said...

Delightful card Kitty! The image, colors and details look wonderful together. So glad you shared your creation with us at Tuesday Throwdown.

Kath said...

A fabulous bright, cheerful card. The image and sentiment are perfect together.
Kath x

Monika Reeck said...

yaayy Cute Image Kitty
really great card for a child and that paper ooh so yummy
and nice heart embellishment too
cute cute cute I luv this
hugs, Monika

Di said...

So sweet Kitty - love how well the image, papers and sentiment go together! Clever girl.

Hugs

Di xx

KraftyKoolKat said...

So cute and pretty. Fantastic colouring of the cute image and such a gorgeous background.
Hugs
Cathy
xxxx

Nancy said...

This one is wonderful! I love the sweet little image, and the great combination of papers!
Thanks for joining us at Scrapbook Blessings Club! :o)

Anonymous said...

Very cute card I love the image and colouring. Thanks for joining us at LPCF.
Rose DT x

Sue's Paper Crafts said...

Very cute card, wonderful papers and accents. Thank you for joining us this week at HIMCR.

Sue - HIMCR DT
http://suek86401.blogspot.com/

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

Hi Kitty, I have wrote a comment yesterday, but google has eat it! :(
Pheraps Google was very hungry :D
I said that your leaves are wonderful, they looks great! Love how you have put toghether the angled panels! And the mouse is just a cutie, you coloured him so well, he seems have a real fur! Adorable strawberry charm, too!
The free paper is so sweet, thanks for the useful link! :)

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

And big congrats for your GD at Quirky Crafts! :D

Doris E said...

I just have to say this is a lovely card!!! Quirky DT

Brenda said...

Amazing pencil coloring and such a lovely, happy design! Thanks so much for adding the bling and joining at CRAFT Challenge this week! Brenda

marion said...

very very sweet image and card, lots of hugs and love to you and cuddles to your lovely furbabys, Marion

Sandy said...

Very sweet card! Love all the layers. Thank you for joining us this week at Cupcake Inspirations!
- Sandy, DT Sweetie

Princess Judy Palmer said...

I love all the colors, the layers and all those berries! Such a sweet card!

Cazzy said...

Kitty the pleasure is ours! Love the sweet little mouse and sweet card! Congratulations on winning at NBUS too!

Cazzy x

Cazzy said...

Kitty the pleasure is ours! Love the sweet little mouse and sweet card! Congratulations on winning at NBUS too!

Cazzy x

Helen said...

A great card - thanks for joining us at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog.

Helen x

Charity Morris-Chamberlain said...

Oh my word! This card could not possibly be any cuter! I LOVE it! That mouse image is so precious and those papers are amazing too! I also am in shock that you colored the image with colored pencils as I couldn't tell at all! I thought you used alcohol markers. Superb card! Thank you for playing along in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge! Have a blessed day!

Charity - DT Member - Word Art Wednesday
http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com
http://collectivecreativity.blogspot.com (my personal blog)

Cindy said...

Too cute! Thanks for sharing with us at SBC.

Elizabeth Hart said...

Adorable and love the litle hanging charm. Thanks so much for joining us this week at the Creative fingers Challenge, Elizabeth (DT)

*Vicki* said...

Such a super sweet critter and a really fun design!! The colors look amazing here!! Thank you for joining us this week at Cupcake Inspirations!
- Vicki, DT Sweetie

Naki said...

Aww, this is so sweet! Love that little mouse, your coloring is amazing! Thanks for joining us over at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge!

Judy McKay said...

Cute little card. Love the image. Thank you for joining us at Not Just Cards this month. Hope to see you back here again soon. Judy DT

Colette said...

Cute card Kitty! The little mouse is so adorable and I love the little heart charm. Thank you for playing along with Cosmic Colours this month. xx