Welcome baby

Good morning folks, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made for some friends who became new parents for the first time a few weeks ago.

I must admit this card did not come easy. I changed it a ridiculous amount of times before settling on this version. But I was happy with it in the end. 

I started with the little bear, that I coloured to look like Winnie the Pooh. He is from the WPlus9 stamp set called, Curious Forest Friends. I stamped him with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and coloured him with Copic markers. The little log he is sat on is also from the same set.

The main sentiment, is from A Verve Stamps set call 100 Hearts. I love this set but have never used this saying, and thought it was lovely for a new baby card.

I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks for the background, in Fossilized Amber, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo. I used a piece of watercolour card, and blended the inks across it.

The Welcome Baby stamp is from an Altenew set called Sentiments and Quotes, and I stamped the baby's name using the Concord and 9th Sophisticated Script set. Then I just added an enamel heart and a couple of puffy stars to finish it off.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Blue Dahlia Blossoms

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend at work, using the Altenew Dahlia Blossoms stamp and die set.

I started by randomly stamping one of the dahlia layers, using Altenew Arctic ink, which is a very pale blue/grey ink, on to a panel of white card.

Then I used the larger of the flowers and the buds and stamped them using the Arctic, Caribbean Sky, Persian Blue and Sapphire Altenew inks.

Then I stamped the leaves using, Olive Grove and Pistachio Memento Dew Drop inks.

I cut them all out with their matching dies and arranged them on the stamped panel. Then I heat embossed a sentiment from the Altenew Sentiments and Quotes set on to a strip of vellum, and cut this into a banner.

Then I finished it off with a few clear droplets.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Dahlia blossoms

Good morning all, and happy Hump day. I hope you are all having a good week. It's my short work week this week so I'm now off for the rest of the week, but I have lots of baking to do before a family Christening on Sunday. 

Today's card was one I made for a friend of mum's. She wanted one to send from the line dancing group that her friend runs, so I thought this sentiment was appropriate.

I used the Altenew Dahlia Blossoms set and Altenew Crisp Dye inks. I started by stamping a background using the bud stamp from the set. I stamped it randomly on a piece of white card using Blush ink.

Then I stamped up three of the larger flowers using Blush, Rouge, Velvet and Crimson inks and cut them out with their matching dies.

For the leaves I used Memento Dew Drop inks in Pistachio and Olive grove and then cut them out too.

I arranged the flowers to one side of the background panel and raised two of them with foam pads, then I arranged the leaves around them.

I used a sentiment from the Altenew set called Sentiments and Quotes. I inked it with Versamark ink onto a piece of Vellum and then heat embossed it with Simon Says Stamp, Rose Gold embossing powder. Then I cut it out with an MFT Stitched Banner Die.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you Friday.

xxx