Hey,
So today is fun, as I am linking up with my friend Jen to show you the cards we made using the Wplus9 Happy Birds set.
Before we get into the cards, let me talk a bit about Jen.
She has been one of my online craft crushes for a long time. Then last year she reached out to me via my blog and BOOM huge friendship - she is awesome and her messages / emails make me howl with laughter. She is totally my kind of people. Thank god for the internet. We get to meet face to face in 4 weeks - OMG so excited I am wiggling as I type this.
You might remember her being mentioned here before as she sent me the Monster stamps I so desperately wanted! Anyway, check out her blog, she is wickedly talented, has the most excellent sense of humour and is an all round sweetie pie.
I used this stamp set recently and mentioned that I wanted to do 4from1 with it and she said wanted to do it too - hence our linked posts.
I did something a bit different for me and stamped, coloured and cut all the birdies first. It meant that I had to think about what I was going to do with them and so they were all coloured to suit their cards. I used distress inks and an aquabrush to colour them.
My fave of the whole batch is the one that became and anniversary card for my in-laws (45 years!!). I thought it was romantic enough to work, but not so girly that my FIL would be all eye rolling!
I chose the french fry card - I love the sentiment, I added a bit of texture paste to the white panel, so the bird stood out even more. The 'Happier' stamp is by Neat & Tangled - awesome set, comes with so many fun sayings.
Confession time, it took me WAY too long to realise that the bird is holding a fry (DUH!!)
I can't wait to see what Jen has made.
Watch this space we'll be back with another 4from1 soon.
Cx
Oh these are brilliant, what great cards, Hope you have a brilliant meet up, I met a few MAWTT Teamies the other month and it was AMAZING!!! Love Hazelxx
ReplyDeleteThese are amazing! Love them all and of course I laughed at you about the fry, because I totally saw it (not!). Enjoy your meet up when it happens, the blogosphere is brilliant at bringing people together x
ReplyDeleteThese ROCK!!! I am impressed at how you planned them all out in advance - I suck at that. I keep changing my mind about which is my favourite. I love the layered tape & paper scraps on the first one. The texture on the second one is so cool - I need to break out my texture paste again. I am totally going to CASE your anniversary card. It's so cute!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you so much for your sweet words although I struggled a bit to read them because I must have gotten something in my eye at the time...