Alcohol Ink Congrats...

Hey,

Sometimes you just need a giant sentiment!!

I have wanted large alpha dies for as long as I could remember.

I finally got this amazing set of dies from Amazon, thanks to my in-laws and their birthday gift last year.

I wanted to make a card for an arty friend, so I took some ready to go alcohol ink coloured yupo sheets and die-cut 'Congrats' using the giant dies.

The letters are so large I had to create a bespoke card blank, because nothing I had was long enough.

I love how it came out, the different colours in each letter, play off of each other and every time you look at it you see different colours.

Simple to do, but so effective.

Cx

Fishy congrats...

Hey,

So before my vacay I heard that my Godson Ben (who was here in July) passed his exams with flying colours!

YAY!!

I wanted to make him a card but ran out of time before I left for Tampa. So I made this card when I got back last weekend.

As I always play along with The Daily Marker colouring challenges, I generally have fun things coloured and ready to convert into cards.

I had stamped all the fun ugly fishes from my all time fave Avery Elle set 'That Bites' onto watercolour paper and coloured them using distress inks and a paintbrush. The smaller fishes are by Simon Says Stamp.

I added sparkly alpha stickers (purchased in a RIDICULOUS craft haul in Tampa).

I love how weird it is, totally perfect for a card from me to Ben.

Here is a photo of Ben, Charity and I at the top of The Empire State Building (Charity works in the building and got us free passes..whoop).

Cx

Bugaboo Stamps Birthday Bash: Day 1

Hey,

I really love Bugaboo stamps, they were one of the first digital stamp companies I used when I discovered digi stamps.

Recently JT gifted me a few of their stamps and as I am still off work and have more time I thought it would be fun to play along with their birthday bash.

Today my card is for Day 1 -

Go bold & bright they said..so I did exactly that!

I used Mouse Balloons - this is such a versatile stamp. I coloured it using Promarkers and Spectrum Noir sparkle pens.

I die-cut the mouse and pink panels using MFT rounded dies - not stitched which is unusual for me. Don't worry I brought out my stitched die for the stripey green panel (paper by Lawn Fawn).

I dug through my newly sorted pre die-cut alphas and found the congrats in the right colour!! I ran these through my mini xyron sticker maker, so that they are easier to add to my card.

It felt a bit flat, so I popped up the pink and mouse layers with foam tape..much better.

See you tomorrow for Day 2, which also happens to be the first day of the new 30 Days of Colouring challenge - whoop whoop.

Cx

Paste Congrats...

Hey,

Happy Labor Day!

I am in Mexico with Hubby this week, so my posts are scheduled.

I like holiday post time, because I get to show you things that have been languishing on my camera for a while LOL.

Today's card hasn't been hanging around too long.

I need a congratulations card for a colleague and I wanted to make something a bit different for her.

I used my new fave Dutch Doobadoo Fan stencil with some texture paste and once it was dry, I die-cut it to size using a stitched rectangle die.

The little border dies were cut using random scraps of paper and they are new because when I was last heading home JT asked me if I needed anything as she was doing a Craft Superstore order..I didn't 'need' anything but these awesome dies were on sale... She kindly bought them for me as a gift, but she was a bit ambivalent about them..

I really like them and thought the 3 I chose to use here worked really well, I secured them to the paste panel using mini staples.

I thought I had a couple of congrats dies to choose from, turns out I totally do not, I only have the one you see, which is nice, but was not what was in my head (cue purchase of new die). This one is part of a Simon Says Stamp set that I love  (don't think they sell it anymore), but I was thinking of a chunkier die here.

Anyway, I love the end result, leaving the paste as it is makes everything else pop and the random mix of colours and patterns in the border dies is fun.

Cx