Showing posts with label Birdie Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birdie Brown. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Jingle Belles - The Man with the Bag

 


Whatever the man in red is called in your part of the world, Lauren and Stef would like to see Santa 'front and centre' on our creations for their new challenge.


I was delighted to discover this Birdie Brown Skinny Santa when I was hunting-out a digital image last week. I miss Yoshi's stamps and am glad I bought this set before she closed her digital store. 

I decided to amp things up a little and so used one of my Gel prints as a background. 


Here's hoping that your week is going well, happy crafting! 

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Naughty or Nice Challenge #34 - A Christmas Carol versus Frozen

We've got a great challenge for you this month over at Naughty or Nice!


The challenge is to make a traditional OR a modern Christmas card and we're leaving the choice of which style, theme or colour combo all up to you!

I broke out an old Birdie Brown digital image for my card; what could be more traditional than Santa? I like to think that this guy is doing a bit of festive disco dancing.


My teamies have created some gorgeous cards for this challenge but we do seem to be a little light on naughtiness this month so if you think you can put that right please head on over and make some trouble!

Saturday, 7 December 2013

Let's dance!

There's only one thing better than one dancing Santa... and that's two dancing Santas!!!


I love this little Birdie Brown fellah drawn by the super-talented Torico, he's such fun! And because he is a digital stamp I could flip him to create a mirror-image. CUTE!
 
Happy crafting everyone!
 


Saturday, 23 November 2013

There's a Santa loose aboot this hoose!


This isn't the card I was planning to share today, but having spent ages carefully colouring and masking and paper piecing I'm sorry to say that card is an epic fail!
So here instead is a happy dancing Santa from Birdie Brown. For anyone not in the know Torico has decided to close her Etsy shop at the end of November. I love her cute and whimsical style and so had a little spend last week!


 
For some reason I find myself humming the old Maynards Wine Gum Advert tune whenever I see this Santa. As the kids at school would say: 'that's a bit random Miss'. I've discovered that the ad is based on a song called 'There's a moose loose about this hoose'. If you want to hear the original tune AND watch a super cute video of a toy moose in various locations around someone's home click here!
 
Anyhoo, have a lovely weekend, and please wish me luck with my 'epic fail card' as I will try all over again tomorrow!

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

The diet starts here!

I wanna be in that LBD at Christmas time!

 
I need a 'sentiment/saying/punch line' for the inside of the card and so would love to hear your ideas and witticisms please.

BTW, this super adorable image is by Torico and it is available from her Etsy Shop until the end of November.

Happy 'humpday' everyone!

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Three...

How can it be Wednesday already??? Who stole Monday and Tuesday???

One good thing about it being Wednesday is that it's 'nosey nosey around blogland' day with the lovely Julia over at Stamping Ground for WOYWW. I'll grab a cuppa and join the fun asap.

As you can see today my workdesk seems to be covered by catfood boxes. I'm not on commission for Whiskers, nor has my cat taken total control of my desk! I've simply discovered that these boxes are great for storing stamps etc. When I get the opportunity I'll cover them or paint them, and rearrange my storage. Does anyone else use slightly 'odd' things for storage? I'd be interested to hear your weird but wonderful storage solutions.
You can also see my list of cards that still need to be completed - it never seems to get any shorter! The stamps that are on view are for future projects...

This week the Less is More challenge is:

Three of anything: three colours, three images, three stamps, three words, the number three.... or in my case three bears.

These little sweeties are obviously missing Goldilocks: life is so quiet without her eating their food, using their furniture and sleeping in their beds.

I wanted to try my hand at colouring with pencils on a textured paper, but I'm not that pleased with the result. Usually, I like texture to show through my colouring but I think this is a bit distracting much! Anyhooo, you can still see that these bears are adorable. Because they are digital lovelies from the very talented Torico I could make them larger/smaller and flip them to give each it's own personality. You'll notice that Momma bear is carrying a few extra pounds bless her!

Happy crafting everyone!

Saturday, 14 July 2012

You are my sunshine.

 Hi peeps, hope your Saturday is bright and sunny!

Here's a little card that I made last week for my Mom. She's had a rough time with some tummy problems recently, and has been feeling low. Mom loves sunflowers, so I thought I'd surprise her with this little beauty from the super talented Torico at Birdie Brown.

The image is paper pieced from scraps. I used Distress inks and Envelope Pattern Design Block from Hero Arts to create her little straw hat!

I'm linking up with OSAAT - Sun
and The ABC Challenge - Surprise

Have a happy day everyone!