Challenge #74 for the Squirrel and the Fox

#74 is to be inspired by a song or movie 

Well, there was a movie made for this, but it is really the song that I was inspired by -  as soon as I saw this image! Kenny K, our sponsor, generously gave the DT some images to play with, and I chose the little General!

 He is very English - a right, proper gruff old soldier! The song began to play in my head straight away so I had to ditch the film I had originally chosen (A 1950's movie by Steve Martin and Jerry Lewis called At War with the Army) and adopt this one.

The lyrics to this song are

Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler,

If you think we're on the run?

We are the boys who will stop your little game.

We are the boys who will make you think again.

'Cause who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler,

If you think old England's done?

Mr. Brown goes off to town on the eight twenty-one,

But he comes home each evening and he's ready with his gun.

So who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler,

If you think old England's done?

Written by Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner in 1969!

Kenny K are the sponsors and are offering

Prize - 5 free digis from their store

Now, I am making this card for a friend who happens to be yes, English, but is now living here. He is the partner of a good friend and  he had a birthday on the 24th so, Happy Birthday Rowland!

To make the card a bit masculine, I used SU's Hessian ribbon and some old onion bag waste behind my gold shimmer card and straight onto the black card blank.

I used the red frame to highlight the image,which has been printed onto white XPress Blending card, and coloured with Copics.  The sentiment is computer generated and die cut with SU die, and mounted on red SU card.  Both the top of the gold card and the border of the sentiment are fussy cut but the stars are punched using an old SU punch. He is a 3 star General you notice!

There are a few dimensionals in there and lots of double sided tape! The image is also fussy cut and mounted into the frame, which sticks over the top of the card a bit and the 'ribbon' sticks out the sides and I fringed it a bit to make it look a bit frayed.

Another photo using the black side of the photograph stand hubby made me - decided you cannot see the black card (lol) so just turned the stand around and rephotographed with the white background for the one above. 

I will enter this in the following challenges:
Brown Sugar: For the Boys - closes Friday 1st Aug
Fairy Tale Challenge: use a digi stamp
KennyK's Krafty Krew: Anything goes - twist - sports: the General is going riding!!!
Sister Act: Anything goes

Challenge #70 - Let's Hear it for the Girls (Midway) for the Squirrel and the Fox DT

Make it Crafty have sponsored the Squirrel and Fox Challenge 

for the whole month - so we are having more girls in the 

Let's Hear it for the Girls 

Challenge!

In fact, MIC has a challenge running too for this fortnight - a colouring challenge:

MIC Facebook Challenge: Something Girly

MIC Easy Colouring Challenge: Pink and Brown

MIC Hard Colouring Challenge: Curly Hair

So, why not combine with both and colour up a girly image and enter both competitions. 

Obviously you can win great images from the folks at MIC !

My card is for new parents and uses a MIC image!

The hair is curly and brown too, and there is lots of pink in there as well!

My sentiment is computer generated

There are some old embellies from my stash used too - the nappy, the face and the button (which says 'It's a Girl) - like it when I get to use old stash! The image is coloured up with Copics and there is a lot of SU Calypso Coral ink been smooched around as a background on the diecuts. The card used is SU black and a commercial blank from Regal Press. 

Change of light settings!

I will enter this in the following challenges:
2 Sisters Challenge: Baby - closes 1st June
Crafting at the Weekend: Anything Goes - closes 28th June
My Time to Craft: no DP - closes 13th June
The Outlaws Twisted Thursday: Anything goes - to 4th June

The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge #70 - Let's hear it for the Girls!

The Squirrel and the Fox: #70 - Let's hear it for the Girls! 

This theme opens up lots of good ideas for various projects and we cannot wait to see what you come
up with for us this time. It could be for little girls, big girls, old ones and young ones and for all sorts
of reasons as well.

*****NOTE - THIS CHALLENGE WILL RUN FOR 4 WEEKS*****

Yes, for just this Challenge we will be running for 4 not 2 weeks

Our Sponsor for this challenge - Make it Crafty - with a prize of a $10 Gift certificate to their store.

MIC are also offering a Bonus Prize -

use a MIC image to go into a second draw to win a $10 Gift certificate to their store.

I used an image from MIC that can be found HERE

This speech bubble is from an SU set - stamps and dies - and I coloured it using my SU Markers so that I got the two colours onto the stamp. 

The image is so great to colour - I used the Copics - and some gold Smooch on the bracelets and buckle.

Some SU black and Pumpkin Pie card. The image was printed off onto XPress Blending card and die cut with a Spellbinders Label (9, I think). I thought I was clever to remove her arm from the die before putting it through - a bit of fussy cutting!

This is for my lovely Granddaughter who is living away from home (in NZ) at the moment and we miss her a lot! She is a very Special Person and definitely a girl and boy, can she sing up a storm! Beautiful voice. She loves to wear orange as well!

I will enter this in the following Challenges:
Addicted to CAS: Off the edge - closes 23rd May - my edge is the edge of the frame
Crafting at the Weekend: Anything Goes - closes 26th May
Inkspirational: photo below - closes 23rd May - my inspiration is the stance and the orange and black colours

Challenge #69 for the Squirrel and the Fox - Mother's Day

Welcome to the latest challenge for The Squirrel and The Fox, this fortnights theme is:

MOTHERS DAY

This fortnights sponsor is Doodle Pantry 

and they are offering one lucky winner a $10 gift certificate to spend in their store!

They also supplied us with images and I chose this set called Bird Mothers. 

It comes with several images and sentiments and also includes some digi papers,and so, for the first time ever, I printed out two digi papers onto SU Whisper White A4 card. WOW they are lovely. The blueish one in particular has a real pearly look to it.

This card was made from seeing something similar but not quite in a magazine, and by trial and error making my own up. It required me to 'rock and roll' the die in the Big Shot and try not cut too far. The die I used is the SU Starburst Circles.

The back is about 10 cm wide and has two strips either side which were folded in to be glued to the front piece. The front piece was about 8 cm wide and had a flap on the bottom glued to the back of the back! I printed off the two sheets of digi card and used the same die to die cut the strip and then just glued it to the back.

The sentiment is from the same sheet of stamps - such good value for $2.50! I ran around the edges of my insert with a Copic marker, and added a button and ribbon threaded through as a pull, and used a small circle stuck to the back to strengthen it.

The bird image was fussy cut and coloured with Copics and the branch is one of my favourite things from MFT Dinamics lately! You will be seeing more of it! I do love it even if it is a bit fussy to work with as you have to add all the leaves if you want them green. I suppose I could die cut it in white and colour it in.......anyway, it has two little birdies sitting under the nest irl, but I just wanted my birds and nest to show. The digi paper on the front piece is the pearly one! The card is a piece of blue Bazzil. 

I don't have a Mum or a MIL anymore to hand this to, but there are lots of lovely Mum's out there who I know will not get a card for a variety of reasons so this one will be donated to the cause.

EDIT: Sorry this is late - £$!!%^ Blogger!!!

I will enter this in the following challenges:

Crafting at the Weekend: Anything Goes - closes 26th May

My Sheri Crafts: Mothers - closes 9th May

Brown Sugar: Patterned Paper - closes 8th May

Cut it Up: must use die cuts - closes 14th May

Joy Ride - with the Squirrel and the Fox!

#68 - Use a die cut or punch 

Our fabulous sponsor for this is the one and only  -  Kenny K

 

Prize - 5 digi stamps

You can tell what my diecuts are! Tim Holtz Gadget Gears!!

This is the Kenny K image I chose to play with today (supplied to us by KK - many thanks!)

This was printed off onto XPress Blending card, and then coloured with Copic pens, and die cut with my new Stampin' Up Square dies. I also sponged around a bit of Momento ink for the sky and the ground. The whole is backed with some SU Real Red card. I have added a bit of sparkle with Stickles and Smooch gold.

The background papers/card are both SU - and the card blank is folded SU Black card. The gears are cut from some scrap card.The yellow card has been embossed with a TH folder called gears also.  I have added a mount of the Real Red card and a strip of silver zigzag for a road surface - has to be bumpy, doncha think? The blue background is old DP and the metal gears are also TH embellies.  The sentiment is from SU- Rev Up the Fun - and black Momento ink.

I will enter this in the following challenges:

Come and Get it Challenge: For the Boys

Dragonflies Dreams: for the Boys! - closes 3rd May

Eclectic Ellapu: Pink team for the boys - winners on 3rd May

Scribble and Scrap: Anything Goes

I'm late for Squirrel and Fox Challenge #67 - All creatures great and small

So sorry -got behind! Here I was thinking I was up-to-date too! Well, that is a name for a potato here in Tassie and now I feel a bit like one! A potato, that is!

(My sentiment is computer generated)

My card for the Squirrel and the Fox today is a Get-well card and relies on a play on words (pun) to work. My image is from our sponsor for this challenge - Oak Pond Creations. 

They are offering 3 digi's of the winners choice from the store as their prize.  

This small owl really does have his head on sideways! It took me awhile to realise this and it wasn't until I had coloured him up (yes, Copics) that I saw that his feet were not feathers on the side - I had to go back and colour them in differently!

So, I printed out and coloured up another head and put this onto a little wobbler! 

He is green because he is feeling really, really sick! (You can tell by his eyes)

I didn't know what background papers to use and I was flicking through stuff in the scrap paper basket and came across this off-cut from a SU DP; the colours matched, and it has a sort of "Ooooo" feel to it as well - a bit crazy, so thought it suited the idea I was creating. I made it the day a close relative was feeling the effects of too much alcohol from the night before! Self-inflicted illnesses always amuse me - unless it is me that is suffering of course! Not for quite a while thank goodness - perhaps I am learning!

You can sort-of see the wobbler here - the head wobbles in a tight wobble when you flick the owl's ear. 

I will enter this in the following challenges:

All Sorts: no flowers to be used! (nope,none there....)

My Time to Craft: wildlife (yes, and I am sure it was wild the night before too!)

My Creative Moments: Word play - hope this will be owlright???

The Outlawz Challenge: Animals

Challenge#66 for Squirrel and Fox....

.......which is to be inspired by a book! We were given images from our sponsor, Paper Shelter to help us create and I really liked the one I used, which reminded me of Mary Poppins - especially where she is dancing with the Sweep!

Now, I am not sure if I have confused the book with the film here but I do know that Mary Poppins was written by a woman P L Travers, who was born in Queensland, Australia but emigrated to the UK and lived out her adult life there as a writer and an actress.  I think the Nanny character Mary Poppins arrives floating on an umbrella, so think I am pretty OK!

The Paper Shelter images are so sweet and easy to colour up.

I made my card following the instructions from a magazine, as it has a peep hole and I wanted to make one of those cards - however, the instructions were out and I ended up having to make my own pattern from the bits I had cut up and joined together. It was either that or throw them out and I was not having that!

Image coloured with Copics

The card has an inset piece and a piece at the back that slides across when the card is shut, so that first there is one message when the card is shut, and when you open it, there is another message in the port hole. If you want to make it better email me for the correct measurements!

 I think also there is a better way of making it so the holes all line up perfectly - but have yet to quite figure that one out!!

You can see here that the inset is smaller than the card - there is a fold at the back and another piece of card added to create the back of the card.

I used SU card, papers and inks, and sentiment stamps but coloured the image with Copics and fussy cut it out to attach it. 

I will enter this in the following challenges:
Digi Galore: Anything Goes
Just for Fun: Anything goes
Sunshine Mail: Anything Goes

Challenge #65 for the Squirrel and the Fox

Autumn is here and the challenge at TSAF is to make either a Spring or Autumn card - as I live in the Southern part of the world, Autumn it is! The weather for the last few days has been brilliant - warm, blue skies and sunny days! I do love Autumn here!

We were given some images to choose from by our wonderful sponsor this challenge

who are offering 4 free digi's to the winner!

(PS, they are having a new release starting on the 7th)

I chose an image called Autumn Collage and used Copics to initially colour it and then added TH Distress inks - Antique Linen and Tea Dye and then added some Smooch for a bit of sparkle. 

You can see some of the glimmer here on the leaves - I put it on and then sort-of polished it off so only just a bit remains. I then fussy cut around the image and then cut it into three and mounted it onto black card.

I added some other mounts in yellow and blue card from a mat stack of brights by DCWV. This is then put on a base of white card from Blue Edge Crafts.  The sentiment comes from SU - Loving Thoughts. 

Another look at a different angle out of the full sun. 

I will enter this in the following:
Passion for ProMarkers: Butterfly kisses
Through the Craftroom Door: anything Goes
The Crafty Blogger: Nature
Love to Create: Anything Goes

Challenge #64 - Spooling at the Squirrel and the Fox

Over at the Squirrel and the Fox they have asked us to use SPOOLING in our challenge!  "What is THAT?" I thought.

One dictionary says:
noun

1.

any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.

2.

a small cylindrical piece of wood or other material on which yarn is wound in spinning, for 
use in weaving; a bobbin.

3.

a small cylinder of wood or other material on which thread, wire, or tape is wound, typically expanded or with a rim at each end and having a hole lengthwise through the center.

4.

the material or quantity of material wound on such a device.

5.

Angling. the cylindrical drum in a reel that bears the line.

I am taking the meaning from number 4 as my meaning of SPOOLING and so I will use RIBBON!!!

Make it Crafty is sponsoring this challenge.

Make it Crafty is supplying two prizes for this challenge: 

One for the winner and and one for those using an MIC image.
How good is that!

Both prizes are a AU$10 voucher to spend in the online store.

I printed off the image onto XPress Blending card and coloured it up with my trusty Copic pens. However this time, the image was not trimmed from the sheet of card, but the card itself was folded to create a card. This way I had a very CAS style card! It has already been sold for would you believe a 50th Wedding Anniversary - I had to add an inner with a message Congratulating the happy couple! I was told - not fussy and a nature card, so I showed them a few Anniversary cards but they picked this one from the other pile! 

There are several bugs and I tried to highlight them with smooch! Can you find the snail and the butterflies?

Hope there are lots of those for you - Happy Day's that is; the sentiment comes from SU's set by the same name.  My ribbon (SU) was threaded through the card and I cut the slots with a small punch SU had put out several years ago but which is now discontinued. If you look carefully you will notice that the card above has the sentiment stamped directly onto the card - and that it is crooked. I had to quickly find a way to cover the mistake and so I die cut a label and stamped that, and then gently added some red ink to the edges and added it to the card with dimensionals. So, it is no longer a one-layer card but it is still CAS. 

So, that is my card for the Squirrel and the Fox Challenge 64.  You should go visit the site and see what the other girls on the team have made - it will astound you; so much talent in this team! I look forward to seeing what you can create when SPOOLING!

I will enter this in the following:
CMC Copic Challenge: Anything Goes
The Kraftyhands Challenge: Spring flowers - our poppies come in spring and get blown to bits before they can give a really good show, poor things!
The Outlawz: Flowers
Di's Digi Designs: Tic Tac Toe: mine is digi/ribbon/flowers