Friday, 9 August 2024

Cute Critters for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and JoAnn has chosen
 cute critters as this fortnight's theme.


You can always play along with our anything goes birthday challenge too.


Our party guests Karen and Darnell, along with my team mates have some adorable critters to inspire you, so I hope you can play along!

I went with a realistic cute critter, a koala.
The background is a mixture of broken china, uncharted mariner, tumbled glass and rusty hinge distress spray stains.
I need lots more practice with these as I had to have quite a few goes to get the effect I wanted!

The koala is double layered for dimension.

I'm linking up to these challenges:




Little Red Wagon, make it masculine


Simon Says Stamp Monday, happy birthday
Supplies:
Paper Rose koala in tree die; distress spray stains; Poppystamps birthday blowout stamp; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting,
Cathy x


18 comments:

Pat said...

This is beautiful Cathy and the ink sprayed background makes a brilliant background to the wonderful silhouette koala in the tree, perfect in black..a fabulous birthday card. The second time we visited Australia we managed to see koalas in the wild quite close up beside the road going to Cape Otway Lighthouse which was great! x

Chrissy said...

Love your background and the sweet little Koala..fabulous card..
Thank you so much for joining in with our challenge at Little Red Wagon, hope you will play again..
Luv CHRISSYxx

Brenda in IN said...

That koala is so sweet. Your background is beautiful . The sprays give a great mottled look of sky and grass.

Barbara said...

Of course this challenge needs a koala! Nice job and a great design. Wonderful background and a silhouette of the koala is just perfect.

Linda said...

Beautiful background to show off your cute little koala bear, Cathy. Have a great weekend.

Colleen said...

Wow, what a great silhouette of the koala in the tree and the magnificent background too!!

Darnell said...

Practice makes perfect, Cathy, and this certainly is! I love the colors and the effect you achieved as a background for this wonderful koala silhouette! Hugs, Darnell

Vicki Dutcher said...

THIS is an awesome card! I am in love with that die cut :)

Vicki Dutcher said...

Thanks for joining in at AAA Birthday too

Nancy said...

I think the background looks good and I am a sucker for all things Koala so I love this card.

The Crafty Den said...

I love your CAS design Cathy and the background is gorgeous. Your koala is very cute and looks great as a silhouette style image. Thanks for sharing with us at AAA Birthday challenge this month. Hugs, Denise x

kareN stampZ said...

That's adorable - my favourite Aussie critter and my only remaining childhood well loved toy I still own - she resides in my craft room - so lovely to see one on a card.

JoAnn said...

The silhouette of the cute koala looks great with that fabulous background. Great card Cathy.

shirley-bee said...

Gorgeous card,Cathy! Koalas certainly are cute. I love the background too, reminds of a dark opal.

Ashwini Rao said...

With all that verdant green and blue, that background tells me that there's plenty more for the koala to feed on! I love that silhouette die cut as well. Great card, Cathy!

Catie Cuddles said...

What a gorgeous card.
Thank you for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More challenge.
Happy crafting!
Catherine x DT

Glenda J said...

This is so fabulous Cathy! Love the background and the koala is perfect.

mugdha gujarathi said...

This looks amazing.. Love the ink sprayed background. Thanks for joining in Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge.