Smooches!

I don't often get the chance to make a birthday card for a two-year-old... so was thrilled to pull out my Chubby Chums set from Paper Smooches, and went to town stamping (and fussy cutting) cows:

I started by stamping and fussy cutting out the seven cows!  I added a little colour with my Copics.  Then I cut out a cloud stencil from scrap paper and ink blended some Broken China Distress Oxide ink lightly over it to create my cloudy sky.  I used my Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside dies to cut some green cardstock for the grass.

I glued down all of my herd, popping up a couple with 3D foam squares.  I'm thinking that my little great nephew will know how to make a "moo" sound!

Paper Smooches Picture Perfect Challenge

I'm feeling quite pleased with myself... I needed to make a valentine for my husband, and became determined to participate in the current Paper Smooches Sparks challenge which is based on an inspiration photo.  The photo doesn't exactly have a masculine feel to it... but I at least managed to use all of the colours, turned it into a valentine and hopefully managed to keep it somewhat masculine.  Here's what I came up with:

Here is our inspiration photo:

I've had these little shiny gold clothespins for a while, so they've supplied the gold accent, and I used a little Wink of Stella on my cow, but it doesn't show in the photo.  I think my husband will like it!

Patterned papers are Head Over Heals, Bo Bunny; Stamp set is Chubby Chums, available at Paper Smooches; Cardstock is CTMH;