Pinata Birthday..

Hey,

Happy Friday and welcome to March!

As I am heading to the Papercraft Clubhouse this weekend with Lisette to make Lawn Fawn cards (taught by Jenn Shurkus).

I thought it would be fitting to post a little Lawn Fawn card I made for my Nephew's birthday.

I love the Lawn Fawn Year Seven stamp set and thought I could make a fun card for Otis using it.

I die-cut an oval out of the centre of my white panel and then stamped all the fun pinata bits over the white panel and coloured them in. I used a mix of Promarkers and Spectrum Noir glitter pens.

I then stamped, coloured and cut the pinata and suspended it from my white panel using clear wire thread.

I mounted the whole panel onto a teal card blank and when you wiggle the card, the pinata moves, in my mind giving the illusion of the pinata bits falling out - no? Ok.

Anyway, have a great weekend, I know I am going to.

Cx

Happy Belated Cinco de Mayo Lemons...

Hey,

It was Cinco de Mayo yesterday and that just happens to be Lemon's birthday.

I am SO happy with her card. I actually bought this set (Cinco de Mayo by Life.Love.Paper) from Studio Calico last year to make her card, but promptly forgot about it..

So this year I made a note to self..

I am very happy with how it came out, the pinata, glass, cactus and sentiment are all from the Studio Calico set and I added some stars to fill in the gaps.

I'm not so sad this year that we can't celebrate Lemon's birthday with her, because we are going on a family holiday to Tampa in September. So we get 6 whole days with her (Hubby and I will be there for 4 days before her).

I normally write a bit about how special Lemon is to me / us, but I figure I am now just repeating myself, so go to last year's post and read all about this amazing lady that is my chosen sister, friend, wife and person.

Cx

CDT 421...Muchas Gracias...

Hey,

Happy Saturday to you all!

Tonight we are off out to celebrate my Goddaughter's 21st birthday, she is here, along with my Ma to celebrate her 21st in NYC. We are off to my fave Mexican restaurant, so my card is totally topical!

This week's Color Throwdown colours are SO me...

I thought they would be perfect for using my new Studio Calico Fiesta stamp set...that has a Piñata in it!!

I coloured the Piñata using distress inks (wilted violet, twisted citron and peacock feathers). I used the same inks to create the fun background, by inking up my Bo Bunny stamp and spritzing the inks with water.

I die-cut the panel using an MFT stitched rounded rectangle die and added a sentiment from the same set that the Piñata came from.

I added a few bits of black bling to finish it off.

Fun way to say thanks and I think I might make a few of these and use them as Christmas thank you's.

Cx