A Bird Duet Cards 23 and 24

I have been working hard on using up those 3D bird stickers. Here is a duet you might enjoy...
These are true snippets card. I had snippets of this DP that were exactly enough to cover the two cards. The border is a K &Co which is my VOS item of the day.
Card 23

The owl ribbon was bought in a sweet little papercrafting shop in Whitehaven, Cumbria. My cousin's dear wife told me about the shop and took me down to have a look about. I ended going back three times that week to continue looking and shopping. It was one of those shops that had a lot of lovely, hidden treasures.
Card 24
 My married daughter had a giggle over this card as soon as she saw it...she could hardly stop giggling long enough to ask me why I wrecked the card by having the sweet little owls poop out their birthday greeting!  hahahahaha
I never noticed that when I made the card but now that she has pointed it out...hahahahahaha  She then kindly told me that she loves owls so much that I can give her this card for her birthday...that she wouldn't mind the sentiment...cuz then she could show all her girlfriends and giggle some more! Sigh...

I added different sized rhinestone bling to the flower centers on the floral DP. I know that enamel dots are in vogue at the moment...but bling is what I have in my stash, so bling it is.

I have really been enjoying my 50 card challenge as I have been creating more  cards than my usual slowpoke self. Some are inky, some are coloured images, some are easy peasy, some are not! My finished cards baskets are filling up and that is a good thing (as Martha would say).

****************These are cards #23 and card 24 of 50. I went on a consumables spending freeze until I made 50 cards (Sook Wang tape and heavy weight card stock exempt).***************

Recipe:
Card Base - hand cut from my stash
DP - unknown snippets from my stash
Border - I think it is K&Co from my stash
Bling - diamonds from my stash
Ribbon - bought last summer in Whitehaven, England
Doily - Martha Stewart from my stash
3D stickers - owls and tree stickers from my stash

I am entering this card in the following challenges
1. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - must cover card with paper
2. Artistic Inspiration - Inspired by a Song My song is Little Bird by Annie Lennox
3. Sister Act - Anything Goes
4. MFP Speedy TV Simple Salutations - use a sentiment on your card.

What...Window screens??? Card 22

Well, it is back to the cogs...This time I inked them with a variety of chalk inks in blue, green, purple, silver and black. I then wiped them with silver coloured Viva Gold. I like the overall look of this technique as the cogs look like old oxidized metal.

This time I combined the "oxidized metal"cogs with some plain black cogs. I used pop dots to raise some of them forward. I was happier with how the cogs turned out on this card. Third time lucky!
I chose a denim looking woodgrain paper for the bottom half of my background...cuz it reminded me of blue jeans. Wish I had thought to look in my mending basket and cut off a hunk of blue jeans to make a bow or a ribbon strip to run horizontally, overtop of the screen...oh well...next time, I guess!

While organizing my room, I found some hunks of window screening. I uses this on my scrapbook layouts about 15 years ago.  I remember I thought it was so cutting edge...hahahahaha

I moved it into my masculine cards drawer and you will see it resurface now and again till it is all used up.  My scraps campaign is paying off as I am noticing a small dent in my bits and bobs, and also see a slight reduction in the number of card bases and envelopes I have on hand. I have been making an effort to make both 5 1/2 inch square and 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch rectangle cards. I seem to have hundreds of the latter so may have to start making many, many more of those type.

****************This is card #22 of 50. I am on a consumables spending freeze until I have made 50 cards (Sook Wang tape and heavy weight card stock are exempt).***************

Recipe
Card base and envelope -  from my stash
DP - snippet of Forever in Time black clock paper, snippet of 12x12 blue woodgrain  from my stash
Card Stock - snippets of white and black card stock for the die cuts
Dies - Spell binders Sprightly Sprockets and also S/B Petite Circles
Stamp - PSX  (the date on this stamp is 1999)
Screen - a snippet of window screen from my stash
Viva Gold - silver paste from my stash

I am entering this card in the following challenges
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - must cover card with paper
3. The Cheerful Stamp Pad - #87 Sentiment
4. Moving Along with the Times - No image
5. A Song In Your He(ART) - Gift of Wings (I think that exploring things that are creative and move, leads to a sense of wonder)
6. Paper Issues - The World is a Circle

Flowers Galore - Card 21

In keeping with my goal to use up 365 flowers this year, I thought it was time to show another card of blooms. The flower ticker at the top of my blog is my reminder to stick to my goal, and I must say it is spurring me on to keep creating cards that showcase them.

I bought these flowers at Michael's, a short while before starting my consumables freeze. They are NBUS (never before used stash) but stash never the less. Old or new, it feels good to use up some of my flower stash. So 14 more flowers added to the ticker today!!!

The tag is from a Michael's clearance after Valentines Day. It is from a package of four tags that I found for 80% off. Now that is a sale!

I managed to use a couple of snippets (the pink hessian, the hot pink border and the kraft mat behind it) so I will popping by the playground to visit my pals at Pixies Crafty  Workshop.

Here is a bit of a side view that perhaps shows the depth of the floral bouquet. Some of the flowers are two layers deep...others just single flowers.

Recipe
Card Base and envelope - 5 1/2 inch square textured card from my stash
DP - Hip Hip Hooray AC  from my stash
Card Stock - snippet of Kraft from my stash
Fiber - snippet of hot pink hessian from my stash
Tag -  from my stash (Michael's originally)
Flowers - from my stash (Michael's originally)
Butterfly - was in the flower package from my stash

****************This is card #21 of 50. I am on a consumables spending freeze until I have made 50 cards (Sook Wang tape and heavy weight card stock are exempt).***************

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - must cover card with paper
3. Use Your Stuff - Patterned Paper #138
4. The Butterfly Challenge - Bingo; butterflies, diecuts, designer paper...this is stretching it a bit as I did not use the diecuts to create this tag...but the manufacturer did!