Totally Papercrafts #36 The Great Outdoors

Morning everyone...
can you believe it's OCTOBER!!! Wow! What happened to September?
I think I lost a week, or two!!

It's time for another challenge over at Totally Papercrafts -
(thanks to everyone who joined in with the 'magic' last week)

our host today is Emma and the theme is...

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Lots of scope for you to have fun with this one,
and if you need inspiration check out the fab work of my teamies.

Here's my card, using the cute picnic ants image from our sponsor
Digital Delights.

I used some gorgeous DP from Kaiser Craft called La Di Da.

The strip at the bottom with the flowers is so pretty, you can just make out that it's all glittery.
From this picture it looks like the image is layered onto black card,
but I used my nesties to make a frame and the picture is underneath,
so in real life it has a more 3D look.

Stamp - Digital Delights, Ants Picnic, coloured with Copics.
DP - Kaisercraft, La Di Da
Butterfly Sentiment and Card Candy - Craftwork Cards.
Ribbon from my stash.

Back to School

I used to love the summer hols when my girls were younger -

having them at home
and making up lots of fun things to do.
I know it's not everyone's idea of bliss though -
so hang on in there if you are starting to feel frazzled -
only another 4 weeks to go... lol**

The thing I like about challenges, is that they make you try something different
and push you out of your comfort zone.

This card certainly did that, I'm not really sure about using the bright colours,

but that was the challenge over at Allsorts

'Red, Blue & Yellow'

I also used the great sketch by Emma at
Sketch Saturday
and followed Stampin' for the Weekend's

'Back to School' challenge.

I used this cute Digital Delights stamp of the school bus.

I wanted to make the characters look like they were sat in the bus,
so I cut out an extra bus layer and used foam pads to 3D it.

Stamp - Digital Delights School Bus & Sentiment, coloured with Copics.

Design Paper - Papermania Basics - Vibrant.

Buttons from my stash.

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