Gail: Conversations With a Crocodile

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1. Your Name (plus contact email): Gail Tasker  craftynomad@gmail.com

2. Your Online Name you want me to use:  Gail aka ionabunny

3. Your blog URL:  https://craftynomad.blogspot.no/

4. Project Type (card, ATC, etc):  Card

5. Project Title:   Conversations With a Crocodile

6. LCD/CV stamps used with website links:  Misc. Anthropomorphs

7. Project Tutorial in the form of a summary or step by step instructions:

8. Materials List:  White card, distress inks, water colour pencils, refillable water brush, a black pen. 

9. Project Photos:
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Hi, Gail here.  Maybe you know me better as ionabunny.  I am super excited to be a guest designer here today.  I was lucky enough to be a winner at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and I used my precious dollars to secure Lost Coast's Misc. Anthropomorphs.  Have had my eye on these for a while.  Such a quirky set and I decided to turn them into a cartoon style card.  I have done a couple of these HERE and HERE, in a style inspired by Shirley.  So here's another one, but not quite as cute as the first two.  Squeamish people look away now.........

I know!  Terrible!!  But they just seemed to suggest their own comments.....  Except the very dapper parrot.  He is wisely keeping quiet.  Or maybe it's just all beyond him......  I stamped the images, added the boxes, speech bubbles and comments using a black pen, and coloured with distress inks and watercolour pencils.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Sue Blog Post

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1. Your Name (plus contact email):
Sue Davies   suedavies1310@yahoo.co.uk

2. Your Online Name you want me to use:  Sue

3. Your blog URL: http://suetheiron.blogspot.co.uk/

4. Project Type (card, ATC, etc):  Journal page

5. Project Title: The Birds

6. LCD/CV stamps used with website links :Mini Whimsical Birds 2 http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/whimsicalbirds.html

7. Project Tutorial in the form of a summary or step by step instructions:

8. Materials List: 7x7 white card, aquatints, tree stencil, bird stencil, coloured card and thread for matting and layering, white and black card for stamping, white and black embossing powder, black gesso, MDF trees, Pebeo paint, googly eyes.

9. Project Photos:
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Hi, I'm Sue, and thank you very much for having me as a guest designer this month. Halloween may be over but you can never beat a good Hitchcock film, and with this in mind, this is what I made.

I love these Mini Whimsical Birds, and with one eye closed, and in a certain light, I guess they could be scary! Mmm maybe not lol.

I made the background first by just painting a piece of card with Aquatints then dropping water over the top. The circle is a mask for the moon. The moon was the bane of my life, I kept painting the white part black and vice versa. I knew it looked wrong but I couldn't work out why!

Next I stenciled in the trees with black gesso. I'd given up on the moon by this point, painted it all over in white and started again. I've put some spooky eyes in the trees with a white paint pen, just to show the birds what spooky should look like!.

Boo! I think Hitchcock would be proud of these little guys. They've been embossed and painted, and what they lack in scaryness they make up for in googly eyes!

These are some MDF trees that I've painted in very un-tree like colours. I also photographed them deliberately out of focus just to make them look scarier - does that sound convincing, I didn't think so...

All put together...

and from the side. This will go in my journal once I 
a) Move out of the garage and back into  my craft room, and
b) Find my journal. Last seen in a box marked 'help me'

All good Hitchcock films need a scary quote.

Mine was typed on my old typewriter, (which now has a new ribbon) Look at that face, are you scared yet lol.

I had such fun making this, and thank you once again for having me xx

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