My gorgeous girl turned 17 today … still can’t believe she’s reached this age already and that I’m old enough to have a 17 year old!
I made a fashion and green themed card for her.
It’s certainly a little different than my usual style with these fun fashion sketches but I thought it would be suitable for my fashion and textiles loving girl!
I used the Expressions in Ink dsp and some little templates from a little booklet I’ve had for ages. Then I made it up! I added in some cotton fabric and a bit of old olive ribbon.
I was going to add sewing but in the end I decided against it.
I added the happy birthday sentiment die stacking the green twice and then the white twice with the white slightly offset so it was a little like a shadow.
I finished off with a few gems. I considered adding Mayas name in gold or the word daughter but in the end decided that it would be too much for the already busy card.
I did video making the card so if you fancy watching me make it check it out on YouTube.
Once again I have a project that was made and sent onto the recipient a while ago but as it was die cut based I figured it would be perfect for getting ahead on my design team work! So it is a 7×7 card for my Auntie who turned a special number but didn’t want it recognising! Personally I think the number is a good one to celebrate but she didn’t want to so I kept the numbers off the card! Lol!
Instead I went for special dsp which is the Expressions in Ink with the gold foiling in it and then chose lots of the gorgeous Pierced Blooms in coordinating colours to add as embellishments. I did want a big sentiment though so I chose a Stampendous stamp I’ve had a long time and using the stamp platform used coordinating inks for an ombre look.
I raised this stamped panel up on foam so I could tuck the flowers and leaves under and on top to create dimension.
I also added some gold die cut leaves in to coordinate with the gold in the dsp. I finished with the large pearls as embellishments.
Inside the card I added a strip of the dsp, another cluster of a flower and leaf and a small sentiment strip and then decided to add another stamped ombre sentiment. This time the Happy Celebrations set.
I used the remaining piece of dsp (it was a half sheet 6×12) on the front of the envelope as 2 strips down either side.
Love the colours and the touches of luxury with the gold on this card.
Hello! Another day, another design team contribution. This is my creation for the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes Birthday challenge and I once again have been delving into the pouches of half used supplies. Now this one uses flowers cut from the True Love dsp, a strip of Expressions in Ink dsp and a card from an old Memories and More pack. A bit of an eclectic mix … but I think it works well together … along with die cuts and the sentiment of course!
Those flowers are of course fabulous and although you can colour them, I decided black and white was just fine against the background of the card and with the strip of gold foiled stripes.
I did raise them up to give dimension and underneath I slid in some of the Splendid Stems die cut from black.
I decided to die cut the Happy and stack it three times for dimension and then added back in the pink from the background with the Biggest Wish birthday stamp.
I finished off with the black gems from my stash to keep with the drama of the black and pink.
I used Old Olive as the contrast colour for the mount on the square piece (one of which is a triangle as per the original design on sheetload of cards) and added the sentiment and the die cut from the same Old Olive cardstock. I did also add a panel of the pale Papaya shimmer vellum underneath so that gives it a fancy frame!
Both cards are very similar with the colours and the leaf die cuts but with different papers they look different enough for me to be happy (I never like making the same card more than once).
For the envelopes I used some leftover strips of the cardstock to add a little panel on each.
So off to see what other birthday creations the team have been making … and I encourage you to come and join in on the challenge.
A few weeks ago I cut up papers and did stamping with the intention of making a sheetload of cards challenge but then never really finished it (plus messed up the cutting for the template!) So I shared the four I did at the time and put things aside for another day’s play.
Well I decided to grab the pouch that had all the bits and pieces in it and have a go at making some more and managed four more.
Two are pink and two are peach … but all make cute thank you cards!
These pale Papaya ones I used the flower images I had stamped and die cut. As I don’t have Pale Papaya ink I used a mix of retired colours (Crisp Canteloupe and More Mustard) and some Calypso Coral as these all worked with the Pale Papaya.
I mounted both of these onto the Mossy Meadow card blanks I had made. This gave a nice frame to the cards.
The pink ones I actually have a mix of pinks going on as I ran out of the Polished Pink cardstock so had to use a random other bright pink from the stash.
As these also had the pop of Pale Papaya in the patterned paper I used the same peachy themed colours for stamping the flowers … and one of them also got a few of the smaller flowers stamped in Melon Mambo.
Love how summery and bright these cards are… perfect for saying a cheery thank you!
I love too the gold foiling in the papers … really makes them special.
So this project was inspired by my coming across the Forever Greenery foil laser cut pack that I hadn’t really used much of and the Expressions in Ink dsp piece that happened to catch my eye when I was putting some stash away … Next thing I knew I was making 9 Christmas cards!
I mean that Green foiled dsp is so pretty and then with those die cuts on top it doesn’t need much so I just stamped and die cut lots of foliage from the Christmas Season set and then a heap of sentiments (some of which I heat embossed) and started clustering them together.
I used a mix of distress inks to stamp using the stamp platform so they were more varied in colours.
I interrupted my crafting to go see Top Gun with the hubby and then came home and finished them off! I also added some twine and ribbon from the stash to add some different textures in.
On this first one I also added small panel of the soft sea foam which I had run through the Fern 3d embossing folder… love the texture on this.
So happy with this set of cards and what a fun little project. It really wasn’t difficult to put them together as the paper and the foil laser cuts do most of the work. I don’t have any of the larger pieces from this set left now … but still have lots of the rectangle panels and some small leaves … but the leaves I am going to keep on my desk for now in a bid to remember to use them up!
Well I attempted another Sheet load of cards using the template by Call me Crafty Al but I messed up the cutting … still i managed four cards, and have plenty of leftovers for other projects, but absolutely not really following the template and not as many cards as it should have been… but you know what I am happy with the results so don’t care that it took a different turn!
I decided to use three sheets of the Expressions in Ink dsp but didn’t quite follow the template on one and also my cutting into triangles went squiffy so ended up giving up on the real template and just winging it. To be honest that’s more my thing anyway otherwise I would have ended up with cards that were all too similar and that’s not really me.
Once I had done the cutting I then set to on all the stamping I thought I might use for embellishment….
As the papers were a mix of Pale Papaya and Polished Pink and I don’t own those inks I did a mix of Calpyso Coral, Melon Mambo, Crisp Canteloupe and More Mustard to get some colours that would compliment the Pale Papaya in the dsp.
Most of the leaves were Old Olive but I did do a few in Pear Pizazz to give some variation.
Then I did all the die cutting and fussy cutting needed (fussy cutting the sentiments mainly). And then started to put together the cards. I did end up die cutting some of the standalone elements from the set too and that added some different finishes to some of the cards. I did assemble most as card toppers and then added them to card bases rather than straight onto card bases as I went along.
I also varied on one card and used Splendid Thoughts and Splendid Stems to embellish … just like to mix things up occasionally!
I didn’t however get round to doing much more than putting four cards together properly … these ones where black became the base!
As you can see most of the stanping I did wasn’t used on these… but I’ve die cut everything and put it in a pouch for coming back to … you never know I might get to it soon but I lost inspiration a little after these ones.
I love the drama of the black and the gold … and that Polished Pink alcohol ink effect is everything!
Entering these into the Anything Goes challenge at Crafty Katz
Next time will definitely make an effort to do more with the Pale Papaya … which is gorgeous but I just don’t have the inspiration right now!
So at the start of the year I thought I would do one sheet wonders all year for the Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge but this month I didn’t fancy it and instead grabbed what was left of a piece of dsp from a project I made a while ago and created four cards using just 1 panel of dsp for each.
The paper I used was the expressions in Ink dsp in the Pale Papaya pattern. Love this paper so much and with the gold elements in it, it really doesn’t need much else to make it special. But I then grabbed some of the shimmer vellum in soft succulent and pale Papaya to add some more shimmer.
I decided to punch the jar out of the soft succulent and create 4 flower arrangements. Two I did using the Jar of Flowers rose stamps and the other two using the Berry Blessings stamps where I turned the berries into ‘peaches’? Well they look fab regardless of how real they are! 😆
I added some bakers twine to each jar and two of the jars I added some foam behind them to give them dimension.
I added sentiments from the Sweet Strawberry stamps set and then used the banner punch for the ends.
I also added some of the glitter gems in gold to go with the gold bits in the dsp.
A fab set of little cards … sorry I didn’t stick to the OSW idea I had but sometimes you just have to go with the flow of what you fancy creating!
I made a swing fold card for my Mum’s birthday which we celebrated yesterday using the Expressions in Ink suite.
I love this paper and the effect the stamps create plus the die cut leaves I adore… although only used a tiny amount of this time.
I decided to use kraft card blanks as the base and I die cut the opening using the largest of the stitched shapes square dies.
Once I had sorted out the mechanism I then sorted out covering the panels with the paper and the central swing piece too.
Next it was time to get stamping. I used the Pale Papaya and the Pear Pizazz inks and stamped lots of the middle sized flower and small circular piece and the leaves and then die cut them out.
Next I stamped the sentiment in the Pear Pizazz and the Birthday from Biggest Wish I embossed in gold. I then fussy cut each letter carefully.
I also die cut the leaves from the piece of kraft I had cut out for the mechanism and from white I cut the floral piece.
I then started assembling.
I cut up the white floral piece so I could have a few white leaves on the central panel, then the rest of it I used on the envelope along with a strip of the paper.
I added a stamped and mat and layered sentiment in the middle panel and created one (not shown) for the final panel to add my message to Mum.
The sentiment is from the Picture Perfecy Birthday set.
I finished off with some of the gold glitter gems to add some more sparkle.
I’m a little late in blogging about this postcard that was sent several weeks ago.
The theme was weird and wonderful and I chose to make a funky postcard for Becky using a Dylusions die cut image as the focal point.
I used some Expressions in Ink dsp as the background and added some stamping to it with some random stamps in my stash. Then I stencilled with texture paste. I also added the die cut which I coloured in and some embossing and some stamped sentiments and a sticker.. basically just played and thre things at the postcard until I was happy with the result!
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