Here be Foxes ... Sunday Stampers #243

Hello Friends!

And a very warm welcome to my new followers and those lovely ladies checking in from WOYWW, thank you for all your kind comments and for taking the time to visit.

Here, as promised, is my finished tunnel book on the animal theme set by Hels for this week's Sunday Stampers Challenge - and this was a challenge as I really don't have many animal stamps in my stash! (Apologies for the awful photos there's something weird about the light here today)

And some close ups - can you spot the squirrel hiding in the trees?

Here he is...

A shot showing the construction

Sort of showing the spritzing on the background

I came across the idea for this tunnel book in Cloth Paper Scissors' Bucket List issue and thought it would work well with the Gorjuss foxes stamps (I had originally intended to do a small canvas - but liked the idea of the Gorjuss girl peeping at the foxes from behind the trees; the 3D nature of this project was ideal for giving the depth I needed to make the peeping idea work).

This was a fiddly but fun project (which owes much to the amazing engineering properties of the paperclip here - click on the photo to enlarge and you'll see what I mean!) and would make a lovely and different card for some one you love VERY much (it squashes down to about an inch thick - but perhaps one for hand delivery!)

Top tips for this one

• use a bone folder to make your accordion folds
• to make the folds even start in the middle and then fold each half in two, then each quarter and so on
• crease each fold both ways - this stops the cardstock curving in on itself
• work out your page designs on scrap paper first then flip over and transfer your design to the back of the cardstock

And now for the details...

Stamps

Girl and foxes - Gorjuss "The Foxes"
Woodgrain - Kaisercraft woodgrain
Sign - Stamps Away C1081
Squirrel - Habico Vintage Corners

Inks

Background - Distress Inks (DI); Scattered Straw, Peeled Paint, Bundled Sage, Forest Moss spritzed with water to give additional texture (I wanted the look of dappled green light coming through the forest)

Woodgrain - DI Gathered Twigs
Inking on trees - DI Tea Dye
Girl and foxes - Memento Rich Cocoa
Sign - DI Antique Linen to tone down the bright white cardstock and Papermania pigment ink
Text and brad - Adirondack Alcohol ink Pitch Black

Markers

Copic Ciao and Sketch, Promarkers

Other

Kraft cardstock, super smooth white cardstock, Dovecrafts Back to Basics Vintage Christmas 6x6 paper stack
Spruce tree die - Marianne Designs Creatables LR0136


I'd love to know what you think...

Have a lovely weekend

WOYWW #192

Hello again Worldwide Workdesk Wanderers and welcome to my workdesk here at Moonshine Manor.

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So what's going on? Well... the tag I was working on last Wednesday is finished (you can find it here if you're interested) and I am currently working on my project for this week's Sunday Stampers Challenge. The theme is animals (so I'm struggling for stamps straight away!) A quick browse through my stamp catalogue showed that I didn't have many options on this one and have ended up using a Gorjuss stamp called "The Foxes" - for obvious reasons!

On the desk you can see the end of the planning/construction stage of a sweet little tunnel book which I am just about to illustrate with various stamps and die cuts, at the moment it is held together with paperclips and lo-tack tape, one sneeze and it's so much scrap paper! Please do come back on Saturday if you want to see it finished.

At the back of the desk you can see the art journal page I started at an art journaling class I went to for the first time last night. The Class is held at Crafty Bunch in Telford and run by Kaz Hall (The Little Shabby Shed) who designs for Dylusions. I had a fabulous inky time, making my first pages with a Dylusions ink background. I can't wait to go back next month and I will post a pic of the pages when they're finished.

That's all from me I'm off around the Workdesk World now - thanks for stopping by!