Life's an Adventure

Welcome to my studio!  Today my card was inspired by The Library Challenge and the book The Tiger who came to tea.  I was not familiar with this book, but... would not having tea with a tiger be a life adventure?  So I used the sentiment Life's an Adventure with the image of the Tiger.  I stamped the sentiment stamp and the Tiger stamp with Memento Black Tuxedo ink and colored the image with Copics and a white gel pen.  Added some highlights to his whiskers with Stardust pen and to his eyes with Glossy Accents. I was very pleased with my coloring of the image.  I was also inspired by the bright colors of the cover to find a colorful Pattern Paper for my background and a Yellow (color of the table) card stock for my base.  The striped paper was from the Kaiser Craft paper pad called Jungle Bug Collection.  How appropriate? I completed the card with a brown mat underneath the image and added some Orange Dewdrops.  I attached the image at a angle.....such seemed like the thing to do for an adventurous design.  All supplies were from my stash. 

Challenges:
The Library Challenge: #39 The Tiger Who Came To Tea

Double D Challenges: It's a Jungle Out There 

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: August Challenge All about using Patterned Paper

Shopping Our Stash Weekly: Challenge #401 Base It On a Book. 

Crazy 4 Challenges: C4C497 Take Your inspiration from a Book

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Have a Wild Birthday

Hello!  Another card today was inspired by the challenge at The Male Room-Wild and Free.  Actually I started with a discarded back ground from making another card.  I did not like the layout of the trees that I stamped but it works for this card.  I had sponged the background with Distress Oxide inks using  masking for the sun (setting or rising?) before stamping the trees with Black ink.  To finish for this card,  I stamped the running Giraffes and embossed with Gold EP and did the Elephant with Silver EP.   Embossed the Wild sentiment with Clear EP after stamping with black ink.  The Birthday sentiment was done with Gold EP.  Outlined the panel with the scene with a Black Copic and attached to Yellow Card Base.  All stamps from old Mark's Finest Papers stamp sets.  Papers from stash. 
Challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges: C4C 449 Make a masculine card.
Sweet Stamping: Birthdays or Make it a Remake. My card is a birthday and is sort of a remake since I had done a similar card shown below but with different animals.
Cards in Envy:  Yellow & Black card challenge. 

The Male Room: Challenge #92 Wild and Free

On the left is the card from which I had the leftover background.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

In The Wild

Hello!  My card today is a bit more "artsy" than my usual cards.  I was inspired by Simon Monday Challenge to walk on the wild side.  I decided to combine Wild Animals with what I'd call wild and bright colors for a safari scene.   I pulled out a panel from my "save box" that was the result of playing with making watercolor backgrounds with Distress Inks.  I am not sure of the exact colors that I used.  I had smeared inks on an acrylic block, sprayed with water and then laid watercolor paper on the block.  You never know what the results might be.  I then used some old stamps from 3 different Mark's Finest Paper sets and stamped the images and sentiment with black ink on  the panel.  Finished with a gold card base.

Challenges:
Simon Monday Challenge: Simon Says Wild Things.
Tuesday Throwdown: #402 Heatwave -Use Hot Colors
Crafty Catz: #427 Anything Goes with Optional Twist Use something Yellow

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa