Fishing Ted

Today's card featuresa cute Funstamps stamp called 'Fishing Ted' that I picked up last week in a charity shop. I stamped him on to watercolour paper, then coloured him using watercolour pencils. I paired him with papers from the 'Fresh Florals' pad by Craft Sensations...distressing the edges, and adding some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a blac gel pen. The sentiment stammps are from the 'Birthday Buddies' set by Paper Smooches.

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Anything Goes
• Inspirational - Layer It (Layers of papers)
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Seize the Birthday - Anything Birthday
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

PBSC November - Anything Goes (Optional 'Make a Scene ')

It's the first Saturday of the month, so that means it's time for a new Penny Black Saturday Challenge...where the theme is:

'Anything Goes'

or

'Make a Scene'

As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome 1-2-3 Stitch:

Prize - a $20 voucher!

I used a stamps from a couple of different clear stamp sets to create a snowy Christmas scene. The snowman and hedgie stamp is from the 'Snow Much Fun!' set and the robin is from the 'Wintertime Cheer' set. I stamped them on to watercolour paper, coloured them using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut them out. For the background, I started with a piece of snowy sky paper from the 'Christmas' pad by Craft Sensations, then added a couple of die cut trees (cut from snippets of white card using Happy Little Stampers dies), a snippet of white card (with a torn edge) for the snowy ground, and a gold star (left over from making these tags). I matted it all on to some kraft card, added the critters on top using 3D foam pads, then added it to a white card blank. The sentiment stamp is from the 'Scribbly Christmas' set by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.