I'm continuing on with my Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary week today! First, I wanted to share this heartwarming video about friendship...
So moving to me! :o)
My card for today was inspired by the duck residents at Edgar's Mission -- ducks like Phantom [who can be sponsored in their Best Buddy Program!], Lorne Duck, Lone Ranger [who is also in their Best Buddy Program!], Huey, Louie, Dewey and Joy, Selena Duck, Candy, Miss Puddleduck, Boris Yeltsin, Manuel, Dawn Fraser, Dame Edna, Daffy and Xena, Sir Francis Drake, and Robinson Crusoe! I was also inspired by Quick and Quack -- there's some very important information in their blog post, so please click on over to read!
Here is the card they inspired!
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I had so much fun making this card! Last week, I received a gift of several stamp sets from Kelly and Mike at Lawn Fawn -- thank you so much, guys, for the snail mail surprise!
For my card today, I wanted to use stamps from the #awesome stamp set in a slightly different way than they were intended. To create my 'photograph', I used the adorable duck image and cloud from the Hello Baby stamp set. I chose to do all of my colouring with Prismacolor pencils because I knew I wanted to draw the grass myself, and I thought pencil crayons would be more forgiving than markers. I also just love the look you can get with pencil crayons! :D To hang my picture, I pulled the Fanciful Frames stamp set from my craft stash so I could use that super-cute hanging nail image -- I love that little stamp! To add a finishing touch to my card, I did a little hand-stitching with embroidery floss. :o)
When I got the surprise from Kelly and Mike, I wanted to create projects that really featured their stamps, but I couldn't help sneaking a couple of their stamps on Monday's card! There's a stamp with three dashed lines in the Hello Baby stamp set -- my immediate thought was to use that stamp with the cloud or umbrella images, but that stamp also works great for faux stitching! If you're a Lawn Fawn fan, stop by on Sunday to see a few more projects!
Hope you got a smile here today! I'll be back tomorrow with one more Edgar's Mission inspired project! :o)
Today I'm continuing with my Edgar's Mission week -- a kind of tribute, I guess you could say, to Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary, a place that has quickly come to mean so much to me. The card I made today was inspired by the lambs at the farm sanctuary! This video featuring Peter Pan the lamb gave me smile pain -- he's sure to make you smile, too! Just seeing his happy reactions to Pam Ahern's touch melts my heart. :o)
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I was also moved by this blog post about Smudge, and animals like Charity, Alan Marshall, Bubbles and Babe, Berni, Tinker Bell [I believe that's Tinker Bell who appears in a part of the video above!], Lizzie, Lucky Phil, Peter Parker, Helen and Bea, Popeye, Olive Oyl, Brutus and Swee'Pea, Coco, Merlin, Dorothy, Tattslotto, Miles, Sunny, Phoebe, The Flintstones, Buttercup, The Andrew Sisters, Panda, The Rainbow Lambs... Really, every animal is an inspiration to me.
Here is the project they inspired!
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The lamb is from the same stamp set I used for Monday's card -- On The Farm from Stampendous. I just love those stamp images! I also love adding some hand-stitching to projects -- even if it's just a little, I think it adds a lot to a card. :o)
For a little while now, I've been thinking about doing theme weeks on my blog. I don't have it in me to blog every day or very often [normally, anyway], but I thought that if I did a theme week where I could also talk about something I really care about beyond the craft projects, I might be able to pull off 3 or 4 posts during that week...just because I care about trying to help spread the word about animal causes. :o)
When I first heard about Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary several weeks ago, I knew I wanted the first theme week to be about them! I'm so moved by what they do for animals and what they stand for. Their message is one of compassion, cruelty-free living, and kindness towards all animals. I first heard about them because of Leon Trotsky's story, and I spent hours reading their website soon after -- I loved them immediately. Even though I'll probably never get to visit Edgar's Mission, it's one of those places that I'm just glad exists in the world.
Their blog warms my heart every time I visit -- it's beautifully written and has many photographs of the Edgar's Mission animals that will make you smile and turn your heart into a puddle of mush.
Earlier today, they wrapped up their Raising the Roof appeal, which was a fundraiser for their new forever home -- they're moving! They had special thank you gifts that supporters could choose from. One was "Be the apple of Polly's eye!", where they will plant a fruit tree in the pig paddock for each supporter who chose that gift. It makes me so happy just thinking that we'll get to be a part of the new Edgar's Mission in some way! And so, today's project was inspired by Polly. :o)
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I tried to colour the pig to look like her, but I don't think I captured her look very well! I didn't have quite the right colours of markers, and then I got really carried away with the shading! Heh heh. I took the shading too far, folks. Maybe this is Polly after a good roll in the mud? :D She has grey patches around her eyes, but I think I coloured them a little too large! Even with my not-quite-accurate colouring, this card was made with a lot of love. :o) You can see some Polly pictures here, here and here! The slideshow on their homepage also has an adorable picture from her 4th birthday party [click on photo #9!].
I have a handful of much-loved farm animal stamp sets in my craft stash already, though for a while now, I've wanted stamps that have a little more detail in the illustrations of the animals. I found exactly what I was looking for in the On The Farm stamp set by Stampendous, which is where my Polly image came from! I also ordered the super-adorable Cowlik Birthday stamp set, which was on my wishlist!
I love these stamp sets!! :o) I really wanted to feature the On The Farm stamp set for my Edgar's Mission week, so I got a bit antsy waiting for it to arrive in the mail [it got here this past Friday!].
I don't want to leave without sharing some very important info:
- You can help support Edgar's Mission by visiting their online shop, where they also have links for making donations! All pricing is in Australian dollars [AUD].
- Here is a quick link to their donation page. There are more donation options, which you can find here!
- If you'd like to make regular monthly donations, visit this page!
- If you'd like to sponsor a member of the Edgar's Mission family, check out their Best Buddy Program! For just an extra $5, you can get your Welcome Pack by snail mail -- just check the "Postal Buddy Pack" box when signing up on the individual animal's page!
I could not possibly leave without sharing this ADORABLE video from Edgar's Mission, featuring Polly and some of her precious pals! A good heart-warming is only a click away. :o)
Just makes me happy to see them happy! :o)
Stopping in to share this summery card today...
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I love crafting with cardstock die-cuts, although I sometimes have trouble using up those tiny little die-cuts that come in a lot of packs. When I made this card, I wanted to push myself to use a bunch of the tiny ones! My photo doesn't show it that well, but I stamped the "a wave" in light blue ink, then in a darker blue ink -- I wanted to give it a sort of shadow effect. This little lady appeared in Handmade Cards.
Hope you got a smile here today and that the weather is warming up where you are!
There's a challenge over at the CARDS blog to create something using product that's over a year old. I've been cardmaking for about a year now, so I just looked through some of my earliest supply purchases...and gave myself the tsk tsk of shame seeing how much product I haven't used yet! Goodness gracious. ;o)
I decided to use some fun October Afternoon stuff I had left to make this card:
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Quite fun to make! Aside from the red cardstock and paper clip, the materials I used are from the Hometown collection. The file folder shape is a die-cut that came in the collection, and I just attached folded cardstock to the back to create the card base. I love doing that -- it's a quick way to make fun shaped cards! :o) The "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" is a journaling card that I cut so that I could arrange the pieces at different angles. The crossword and lady are pieces that I cut out from patterned paper from the collection. I love doing that, too -- it's a fun way to use patterned paper! :o)
