Today I am honoured to be joining the team at The Day of the Month Card Club as a guest designer. The theme this month is:
**Alpaca Day**
If I am honest, that was a bit of a blow as I didn't have any Alpaca stamps, but after a quick internet search for a digital stamp, I found a cute set on Etsy. They are actually Lamas rather than Alpacas, but I hope nobody minds.
I bought these metric storyboard dies from Heffy Doodle's closing down sale. They were one of the few places that sold dies for metric A6 sized cards, so I had to acquire some of those that I didn't have. I think they are reminiscent of the Waffle Flower postage stamp dies and I thought the digital images would fit well. That's the beauty of going digital with your stamps.
I sized the images to fit, then printed them on card and used the dies to cut them. I inked the die edges with CP chiffon ink and coloured the images with polychromos pencils.
The sentiment is a hot foil plate that I thought would just press into the card, but it actually cut it. I coloured it with the same ink and backed it with black paper. I used a couple of tiny gems to fill in the Os.
I do hope you will find time to join this wonderful challenge. Go and check out all the inspiration here.
I am also sharing this at:
NBUS Challenge 65 - The frame dies and digi stamps are NBUS
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today, I really appreciate it.
22 comments:
Great fun Hilary.
B x
Quick thinking, and cute cute card. Congrats on the GD.
Congrats on your GDT spot ,love the storyboard die and cute images. Thank you for your lovey comments, very thoughtful and much appreciated.
Carol x
Hilary, llama or alpaca, these guys are SO fun and cute! Congratulations on your win and guest spot!
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Hi Hilary, I do like the lama's or alpaca's. They are look a likes, I think.
Your card is so lovely.
We are enjoying places in your country.
From Salisbury, with love!
GerJanne
What a great card!
Love this cute card Hilary, and I love that you 'found' a suitable image set, and used them so beautifully
Blessings
Maxine
Very fun and cute card Hilary, it’s a great storyboard effect!
Pauline xx
We can't tell the exact difference anyway, so they're alpacas... *laughs*
And they're so cute and I love your card design, very creative!!!
Glad to have you as our guest designer this month.
These llamas/alpacas are adorable, Hilary! I don't know the difference. Love the bright colors too!
Gorgeous card Hilary. Might have to try and join the fun. I love alpacas. Nearly bought myself one for my 40th birthday. Hugz
What a fun card, love the images and yes, digis come into their own on cards like this. Love the images and the perfect sentiment. x
What a cute fun card with great design!!
The images are really cute and fun - lucky find! I totally agree - resizing is aa digital stamps luxury, and I'm glad you got the idea and used it to get this design rocking. I love the fun colors on this as well. Great card, Hilary!
I'm behind on my commenting, Hilary - sorry! Just adore your llama/alpaca collage - how fun that you could find something similar to the WF dies. Those images are so darling & you've colored them beautifully! Thanks for the inspiration at DotMCC - I'm sure to play along.
Fantastic fun card and images, works so well with the die. My parents neighbour has a couple of llama's- vicious things and no way as cute as these ones you've used:-)
Oh, fun! Yes, wouldn't you know it would be something you don't even come close to having in your collection, but you pulled it off through your cleverness. Hilary, I can't hope to catch up with comments, but I'm enjoying scrolling through and viewing/reading blogs when I have a chance. It's been a lovely visit today. Congratulations on your guest spot!
So fun and cute card.
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Congrats on your guest design spot! Great design and very cute images for your wonderful card!
Congratulations joining the design team. Your card is so perfect for the theme too. Great job resizing the images for your fantastic layout. Really adorable card.
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