Sunday 3 April 2016

Pile It On! Challenge - Animal Prints or Paw Prints

We have another fun Pile It On! Challenge starting today...and the theme is:

'Animal Prints or Paw Prints'

Our sponsor for this month is A Day for Daisies:
Prize - 3 Digital Stamps!

I'm not really an animal print kind of person, so I went for muddy paw prints! The cute little pup and sentiment stamp are from the 'Man's Best Friend' set by Penny Black...I stamped them both directly on to my card blank, then coloured the pup using watercolour pencils. For the blue panel, I used the 'smooshing' technique placing some 'Salty Ocean', 'Broken China', Chipped Sapphire' and 'Peacock Feathers' Distress Inks on to a craft mat...spritzing with water, then pressing some watercolour paper into the mixture a couple of times (allowing to dry in between the layers). Then I splattered some water on to the top, and removing it using a paper towel to create some lighter patches. I stamped the paw prints over the top using a background stamp from Hobbycraft inked with 'Brushed Corduroy' Distress Ink. I used one of my Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Hillside Borders' dies to cut the wave at the bottom, and a hole using one of my Nesties for the sentiment to peek through.


Here are the challenges I've piled on:
For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the Pile It On! Challenge.

19 comments:

  1. Gorgeous. Thank for joining us over at Craft Your Passion this week. Hope to see you again soon.

    lots of hugs
    Tammi
    Craft Your Passion, DT
    makememories4life.blogspot.com

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  2. Gorgeous. Thank for joining us over at Craft Your Passion this week. Hope to see you again soon.

    lots of hugs
    Tammi
    Craft Your Passion, DT
    makememories4life.blogspot.com

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  3. A lovely card. Thank you for sharing this with us over at Crafting from the heart. Sue DT

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  4. Great card, love the layout and that cute stamp. beautiful colouring.

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  5. A super card for our Birthday theme Helen and great design as well, many thanks for joining us at Penny Black and More challenge.

    B x

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  6. Wow, your card it`s absolutely cute! Thank you for playing along with our Challenge at Crafty Sentiments Designs. We would love to see you again. Beatriz GDT

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  7. Great card - a really cute image and I love the paw print background.

    Thanks for joining us at Cardz 4 Guyz.

    Helen x

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  8. brilliant fun card and it fits our challenge. Thanks for joining us at Cardz 4 Guyz. Caz DT

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  9. sweet fun card. lovely background too. thank you for sharing it with us at TTCRD and good luck in the challenge, Theresa DT xx.

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  10. the image is fun and your coloring is great!
    Regina

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  11. Hi this is a stunning card. Thank-you for joining us at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge 27 Anything Goes. Hugs Jackie DT

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  12. Fun card ! love the doggone wording

    Thanks for joining us at carz4guyz this week

    Joan

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  13. Adorable card Helen. Thank you for playing along with our Challenge at Penny's Paper-Crafty. We would love to see you again ... Anet DTx

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  14. Fabulous card, I love the background and the sentiment is great. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Calendar Challenge,
    Katrina x

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  15. Fabulous card, love the pawprint sky.
    Thank you for joining us at Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.
    Luv
    Debby

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  16. Thank you so very much for joining in our latest challenge at Catch the Bug! I love your project. I hope you will join us again very soon!

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  17. I love how you did the paw prints, very nice! Thanks for joining Catch the Bug anything goes hope to see you again! Dawn Bugaboo DT.

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  18. A cute card. Thank you for joining us at One Crazy Stamper this month.

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  19. Oooo what a super dog card and i'm loving all those paw prints too, thanks for joining us at Penny Black & More this month, Luv Sam x

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Thanks for taking the time to look and comment on my cards! Helen x