The Four Seasons Challenge May - Fluffy on the Lily

Hello everyone! It's a new month and that means it's time for a new challenge at the Four Seasons challenge blog! Hard to believe it's May already, how time flies!! This is our last month of Spring challenges for the year and hope you will join us with all your new spring themed creations! As always we have a fabulous mood board but it's optional to use. 

I always like to use the mood board for inspiration and had several ideas in my mind yet it took me a while to actually get started on this month's DT card. As I finally sat down to create a card with a May Day "basket" which was one of the ideas I had, I remembered this little cutie from Whimsy Stamps and he surely has been neglected for many years so I scratched the May Day basket card idea and made this card instead. This is "Fluffy on the Lily" illustrated by Sylvia Zet for Whimsy Stamps. I have it in rubber but it is now available in digital format from Whimsy Stamps and no longer as a rubber stamp. 

Below is the optional mood board for May.

I stamped the image on Canson watercolor paper with Versafine Onyx ink then used Distress inks and Zig Clean Color markers for coloring. I created a little scene by using a brick wall stencil and a grass stencil. I inked some cardstock with Twisted Citron and Rustic Wilderness ink, cut it out using a hill die and then stamped the words which is also a retired stamp from Whimsy. 

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The sentiment in black is from the Tim Holtz's Small Talk sticker book. I embellished with a couple tiny butterflies and stickyback pearls. Then I found this twine already tied in a bow on my desk intended for a previous project but then didn't use. I thought it was a perfect finishing touch here so I added it. 

You have until May 25th to join us this month. Hope to see you there :)

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I'd like to share with these challenges:

• Sweet Stampin - Animals
• Fab n Funky - May Flowers
• Simon Says Stamp - AG

Wee Freddie

Good morning!

Time for a little Whimsy inspiration here on my blog, and I decided to color up the cute stamp  "Freddie" from the November release. Such a cutie and I had so much fun coloring him!

 

After coloring with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils, I fussy cut the image. I left out some of the thin lines when fussy cutting, that's why the little heart is attached right at the end of the tail and not at the end of the thin line as seen on the actual image. 

The sentiment is from a Wee set also available at Whimsy Stamps (Flower Fairies). I thought it was perfect to use with Freddie too. It wasn't originally planned to fussy cut the image, but after choosing this pretty paper, that matched my coloring perfectly, I didn't want to cover it up, that's why I decided to cut it out. Unfortunately this paper is  no longer available, it was also from Whimsy. I finished off by adding some extra flowers to the top (which I cut out from this designer paper) and I added some hemp twine. The sentiment has been popped up with dimensionals. 

Playing along here:

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew- Anything Goes
Everybody-Art-Challenge- Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes 

ABC Challenge - Y is for Your Choice 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything goes with Patterned Paper
Craft-Dee BowZ - (January) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Crafting from the Heart -  Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes
One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes

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