Good afternoon and a very happy Thursday! It's time for a new challenge over on the Lost Coast Portal To Creativity, and this time it's 'Critters' As I have (ahem) quite a few animal stamps, I thought I would use 3, and I've made another page for my tag book.
I started by making some backgrounds with paint, stencils, and my gelli plate. I printed them straight onto the tags which is why you can see a weird 'ghost tag shape on the middle one.
I wanted to have my brick wall at various heights for my cats to sit on. Then I stamped the paw prints all around my tags using the pawprints border stamp. Don't worry, if this stamp come to live with you, yours will be full length. I just cut a couple off the bottom 'cos I stamp it on my cards underneath the cats 'signature' What, doesn't everyone do that???
Then I inked the edges of the tags and went around with silver embossing powder. The black paw prints hadn't quite dried, so we have black and silver prints which I'm quite happy with. I had a bit of a disaster with this on as I hadn't cleaned and masked my sentiment stamp properly.
So plan B it was! You wouldn't have know would you if I hadn't told you!
I coloured my lovely cats with Prisma pencils and a little bit of paint pen. I also added some china marker to the brick wall.
This cracked critter is definitely up to no good!
And this one is quite angelic - apart from his eyes, but then again if you can have yellow stars and wings, the whites of your eyes can be blue!
And here they are again, all together and stitched onto my giant tag.
These are the stamps that I've used.
Lost Coast
And from Carmen's Veranda
You now have until the end of the month to show us your critters. Just link up at the Portal for the chance to win some Lost Coast dollars.
Have a wonderful day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x
LOVE your gorgoeus cat tags, those stamps are wonderful. Great idea with the brick wall! Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteA fab cat trio Sue, I love the idea of a giant tag book and yup the second cat definitely looks like he's up to no good. The third one looks very bohemian hee hee.. Good idea to cut down the brick stamp, I may have to clone that idea.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a super weekend Sue, hope the sun shines for you.
Hugs Tracey take care x
LOL! What a great title for the post. I'm sure the kitties will MORE than like you with these fabulous colors and scenes! They will feel extra special, just like your artwork! hugs, de
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing like a critter to give life to a project they are so cute. Have a lovely creative week. Hugs, Angela xXx
ReplyDeleteI liked these tags both colored and uncolored. They are amazing and the subtle background really pops now that you've added color. Awesome inspiration! Hugs, Autumn
ReplyDeleteLove your cat tags here, they are all SUPER.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Oh, I missed that post, these cats and your tags are funny and beautiful!!! I love especially the face of the middle one teehee :D
ReplyDeleteGreat make as usual, both cute and technically interesting as always :) xxx