Nicecrane Design images...

...with ideas & freebies from magazines.

How often do you pick up a magazine because you were attracted by the cover gift but then never actually use the gift?

I think it is something that many crafters find themselves doing.

Well, today I bought two magazines whilst out shopping with Mum - Simply Cards & Papercrafts and Quick Cards made Easy. These are two magazines that I buy regularly but I was particularly attracted to the fact that "Simply" had a set of IndigoBlu stamps as the cover gift...

...and I rather like this brand. I had also seen the head with the flowing hair before and seen it used with gilding flakes to great effect.

 

Ignacio had sent me a set of animal digi images...

...and I had already used the cute little 'Hedgie'. However, I had also been colouring a couple of the other images...

 ...as you can see here. Both had been coloured using Spectrum Noir pens. What I needed was an idea for using the completed images.

 

As I was browsing through "Quick Cards" I came across some instructions for a multi-fold card which I thought looked interesting...

...and so with a bit of scoring, folding & cutting I had my base card. The magazine showed lots of examples with panels of PP stuck in strips all over the card but that wasn't what I wanted.

 

Then the penny-dropped.

 

I had been looking at the freebie stamps and the more I looked at the 'head' the more I saw grass and shrubbery. So just inking up the hair...

...I repeat stamped across the bottom of the card using alternating Adirondack ink pads in "Latte" and "Pebble". I also stamped the sentiment from the freebie set in Adirondack "Espresso" then cut it out using a deckle-edge blade on my paper trimmer.

 

The edge of the sentiment panel was inked with Ranger Distress Ink in "antique linen" before being mounted on the left-hand front panel of the card using 3D foam pads...

 ...the image of the bunnies with the banner has also been inked with antique linen and mounted on the inside back panel (the banner can be used to write the message in). I then rough-cut the field mouse...

...and mounted it on the right-hand front panel. Once again using 3D foam.

 

This is the finished card...

...although it is very dimensional, it actually folds very flat which makes it ideal for posting.

 

 This set if digi-stamps is one of Ignacio's new sheets over at Nicecrane Designs. "Animals Around Us" is a lovely sheet of images that were a delight to colour. If you would like to see what some of the other DT members have been up to, do hop on over to the Nicecrane blog. There is such a variety of work to be seen vintage images of large flowers, oriental images, vintage postcards...children, animals, buildings...there is so much to see and inspire.

 

So I'm feeling quite chuffed with myself at the moment. I've made use of a magazine freebie. I've tried a new style of card using the instructions from another magazine and I've used some more of Ignacio's adorable images.......................................