Splashy Birthday

 

Things got a bit fishy around here.

The aqua coloured panel is smooshed with several colours of DI's and misted with Perfect Pearls,  then given embossing that looks like fish scales;  the sentiment stamped & diecut and misted as well.  The fish are diecut from a Daphne's Diary paper, assembled using snippets of coordinating shaded card for heads and tails.  Put onto a black base card to make the colours pop.

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Sunflower Birthday

 

The panel and additional flower is made by smooshing JuiseyArt inks and Distress Inks, allowing to dry and stamping over; Copics used to add shadows to flower.  I fussy cut the flower and used 3Dfoam to pop it up.  the centre is highlighted in gold pen and the berries & acorns in white gel pen.  Sentiment embossed and gold cord tied around.  Matted onto lemon textured card, then onto black base card.

When I was finished I thought maybe I should have done gold embossing to go with the gold cord, and could have easily put another on top with gold embossing.  I decided not to as I like the not-matchy-matchy thing, and think it adds a bit of zing and I like unpredictable!

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With Sympathy

 

A pretty bold paper, and in colours I would not normally choose.  So I let the paper do the talking and made the stacked sentiment bold too, in pewter metallic.  The paper has some textured parts, not exactly glittery, more gel-like.  

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Birthday Ride

 

The background is painted with pearly watercolour paints on watercolour paper.  I has a lovely sheen.

The diecut balloon from Joanna Sheen is cut in two different patterned papers and reassembled using both papers. A stamped diecut tag (NCraft) tied up with gardeners twine.   

Here in Hamilton, NZ we have a hot air balloon festival in April, our southern autumn.

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HM Yikes Birthday

 

This sweet little house mouse has 'presented' herself for someone's birthday complete with a gift ribbon.

The House Mouse image is stamped on white card and coloured with Copics with a soft brush of DI colour around the edges of the diecut oval.  The oval is popped up on foam and placed on a blue & green checked panel that is scored around all the edges, and then onto a diecut lacy panel.  The Papercraft diecut tag has a computer made sentiment, and a cute little snippet of ribbon bow.  White gel pen highlights.

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Peony

 

A clean and simple floral in beautiful colours inspired by a couple of challenges.

The white panel has an embossed border (a really old Cuttlebug EF).  Firstly white card is coloured with JuiseyArt hybrid inks, then stamped with the outline peony stamp & diecut (Couture Creations stamp & die set). I used Copics to add shadows and detail to the flower & leaves, and Wink of Stella to the petal edges for a bit of sparkle (see detail pic).  On a snippet left over from the leaves,  the sentiment (Waffle Flower) is stamped & die cut.  The flower is popped up in foam tape to create a soft shadow.

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Red Flowers

 

Red flowers are always stunning, and here I used a simple colour palette and simple design inspired by a Beautiful Blossoms moodboard.   Another one for a Parkinson's fundraiser.

The flowers are diecut, misted with Perfect Pearls and arranged randomly as they would grow, some of them are popped up on foam.  A diecut border in white, and a stamped & embossed sentiment with a handcut fishtail end.  

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Whaletime

I had a whaley great time making this.  

I used some JuiseyArt hybrid inks to make the smooshy background and for the card I stamped the whale on.  I also used shimmer spray on the whale.  The background is a large Aall&Create diecut tag which I cut down so the fancy edge looks like surf.   I fussy cut the whale and stamped a spout in white Hero Arts ink.  I outlined the spout with Sakura stardust gelpen, I also drew bubbles in various colours.  A white gel pen shine in the eye.  The sentiment is stamped and diecut; both the sentiment and whale are popped up on foam.

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One Chameleon

 

Just trying out my new stamp (LawnFawn).  I smooshed the background, then stamped the chameleon and die cut it.  The other bits (tree & leaf) are stamped on scraps/snippets and added to the panel.  The panel is diecut in a tag shape (Art by Marlene), added to the base card and the chameleon is popped up on foam.  Detail on the creature is coloured with Copics. Stamped sentiment strips and a twine bow to finish.

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Make a Splash

 

What a fun bunny image by Croll, making a great CAS card.  I coloured it with Copics, made a little tag with sentiment and tied it with a tulle ribbon.  Stickles for sparkle.

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Side bunch tied

 

A lovely bunch for you!    Another Parkinson's fundraiser.

Background embossing folder (Cuttlebug Script).  Stamped, stencilled & diecut tulips (unknown set), coloured with DI's.  Tulips are layered with different depths of foam tape.  Tag diecut, twine, WoS, black splatter, gem. 

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Barn Birthday

 

While this could be for any animal lover, it's a great man card, lots of fun to make with a couple of surprises for the recipient.

A red stripey paper background, along with a woody patterned paper (Kaisercraft) chopped up to make a barn door with diecut hinges.  A flip-flap  mechanism (I don't know where I got the instructions for this, have had it for ages) with punched corners (Couture Creations).  Some really cute Simon Says Stamps coloured with Copics, a distressed panel, a scrap of twine, scraps of diecut foliage.  Sentiment stamp Stampers Anonymous.

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Skateboarder Brick

 

I really like making CAS cards.  In some ways CAS are harder than fancy ones because the design has to be stronger and the elements simple, which is why I often use a sketch.   I am trying to find a way to keep them simple but interesting.  This time I used three elements - a shape, an image and a sentiment.

The image and shape (patterned paper) are diecut, the sentiment words stamped with a hand drawn border.  I chose a brick patterned paper as most skateboarders play in hard built environments.  Good for a teen, or male.

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