Shaker Window Birthday Wishes

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to your week. Today's card was made using the Tonic Craft Kit 13 from August/September 2018.

The kit is designed to be used to make a small gift card folder and pouch, but I just used one of the decorative dies to make a shaker window.

I cut the window twice from white card stock and then cut the panels down to fit an A2 card, using an MFT Stamps Blueprint Dienamics Stitched Rectangle Die. Then I stacked the panels together for stability.

I added a small piece of acetate behind the die-cut and then used some of the stamps from the same kit and an Altenew Crisp Dye ink in Silver Stone, to stamp a random star pattern on to the front.

I added foam tape to the panel and put some silver card behind the window, then filled the shaker section with some Polka Dot sequins from Studio Katia and others from the stash. Then I finished it off by adding a few silver stars to the front. 

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

xxx

With Love

Good morning all, I hope your week is going well. I thought I would give u a little break from all the Christmas cards today and share a card I made a few weeks ago.

I was lucky enough to win an Instagram giveaway a couple of months ago, and these papers and stencil from Concord & 9th were included in the prize. They are from the Aloha Fill In range.

This is a totally different look from my usual cards, but I do like it, I decided on the black and grey paper, and used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks to fill in the flowers, using the stencil. I think the colours were Fresh Lemon, Maple Drizzle, and Sunkissed.

The card didn't need a lot else, so I added the large Love sentiment from Marianne Designs, which I die cut 3 times and stacked together for dimension. 

Then I added the Clearly Besotted, With, die cut, some Studio Katia Polka Dot Sequins, and some smaller black and silver sequins to the flowers.

Then to finish it off I put it onto a standard A2 card blank, and added a few drops of Tonic Nuvo Crystal drops to the center of the sequins.

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

xxx

Polar Bear's Ugly Sweater

Good morning all, I hope you had a good weekend, and are having a good week so far. Today's card was my first attempt at over-stamping an image with a sentiment, after falling in love with This Card, on Pinterest. Although it didn't end up quite how I planned it, it was all good in the end, lol.

I started by stamping the Polar Bear's sweater with black Memento Ink, and then masked the sweater with full stick post-it notes, while I stamped the Polar Bear into his sweater. Both stamps are from Creative Stamping Magazine, Issue 50 stamp set, called Winter Warmers.

Once I had my bear I then found a sentiment that was large enough to go over him, and decided on this simple greeting from the Clearly Besotted, Laugh Out Loud, Christmas Collection.

I masked my bear again, and then stamped the greeting over him using Teal Zeal and Paris Dusk Memento inks. I used the Misti stamping tool, to help me get the spacing right.

This was all looking really good, until I dropped the ink pad on my panel, right near his head 🙅 !!! To say I wasn't happy was an understatement lol. 

But I managed to save the card by cutting around the top of my bear, and then adding him to a teal card base,  where I added a snowy backdrop, using a Lawn Fawn stamp from the Snow Cool set. Then I finished it off with a few iridescent snowflakes from Studio Katia.

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

xxx