Rainbow Celebration

 

A rainbow is always a good sign and something to celebrate.  

The sentiment is heat embossed with sparkly red EP and cut as a  strip.  The hot colours diecut rainbow is sitting in the clouds EF.  I love the limited colour in the rainbow, I didn't want any other colours, and I didn't want colour in the background either.  A small enamel dot in black for shine.  I like this, I'm going to try out different combinations.

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Rainbow Dancer

 

She sprinkles stars as she jumps over the rainbow, that's sure to make your day special.

Rainbow die in ROYGBIV colours, AALL & Create stamp of girl & sun. Copics, Embossing Folder, star sequins (some clear rainbow and some silver).  The card base is dark green, although here it looks blackish.

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Bunny Beets

 

Another CAS card.  (When you start out making CAS it is really hard not to want to keep putting stuff on, but it does get easier with practice).

Here I've used a Colorado bunny stamp & sentiment.  Coloured with Copics, with a little bit of fine splatter.  I made this for a granddaughter.  Note the matching envelope which I usually forget to do.

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asyoulikeit-favourite-colouring-medium-and-why  Copics are one of my fave, they are so direct to paper and dry immediately

Pasifika 1

 

Definitely CAS and definitely pasifika.  The embossed frangipani stamp is a typical design in the pacific islands (about 25yo, Kiwi-Impressionz, one of my first stamp buys!).  I had a bit of fun with the colours and layering and decided they could do the work, leaving the sentiment subtle. I like the slightly distressed look.  Pencils used to colour.  Sentiment stamped embossed with pewter EP.

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ATC Butterfly

 

ATC's with butterfly, I CASEd Anna-Karin at layersofink and made two ATC's as one picture.  Distress Oxide Sprays on background.  Stamps of butterfly, alphabet, numbers and sentiment stamps from the same set which came to me unpackaged.  Gilding flakes applied randomly on butterflies, inked edges, white pen dots.

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Sprig Always

 

I love these colours together, teal and bubblegum pink, what an inspiration, and CAS too!

I used an embossing folder on the background panel, some diecuts and a teal sentiment strip stamped and embossed with silver, popped up on foam.

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Butterfly Beautiful

 

Inspired by a colour challenge with pink & teal.  Base card stamped and clear heat embossed with the word.  Banners diecut and stamped. Word stamp: Simon Says Stamp Beautiful flower, background stamp Soft Plaid Simon says Stamp.  Butterfly stamped and clear embossed (an old Hobbycraft stamp about 2007).

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Sweet Icecream

 

Sweet colours and sweet flavours...splat!! I guess we've all had this happen to us when we were kids.

I hardly ever work in pastels, but this was fun. 

The patterned paper is double sided (Heidi Grace), cut to fit the top-fold card base with a narrow border, then sliced & diced from corner to corner, then two of the panels are turned over to the reverse side.  A pink PPaper border across the middle to hold the icecream image which has been matted on gold, coloured with Copics in my favourite flavours - pistachio and raspberry ripple- and popped up on foam. Not sure about the image, because I dragged it out of my BITZ box... I think it may be Bugaboo? If you know please let me know. The sentiment is diecut and stacked x4 (Three Button Studio) from a patterned paper snippet of green with pink dots - yum.  Sequins in the same flavours added.

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August Hello

 

I made this for a NZ cardswap - the theme was stuff relating to the month of August.  I chose the green faceted embossed metallic panel to represent Peridot, dark red to represent Spinel, (both August gemstones) and the stars to represent the Perseids meteor showers (with sparkles) that occur during August.  I used the flowers because it's nearly spring here in NZ.  A drop of Glossy Accents on flowers for dew drops.  The Hello senti was sent to me by Jude.

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A Sunny Hello

 

An extra sunny hello to you!

I used a sunny patterned paper that had shiny parts to peek through the suns rays.  The diecut panel (unknown) is ink blended, stamped with a typed background with friendship words (unknown).  A stacked sentiment die and gold Nuvo Drops.  

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Hello Orange

 

Very Orange. Quite CAS.  Not a colour I would choose to work with normally, but I found the background (from a calendar long ago), and the orange card with the hole already cut (Spellbinders), in my Bitz Box.  With the smooshed stacked bold sentiment (also from the bitz box) it all came together nicely.  I do like it when the Bitz Box provides the goodies.  Fake splatter with a metallic gold pen.

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The tale of a tail

 

A celebratory card.

The background is full of inky goodness using colour fusion powders & DI's.  The tail was diecut,  embossed with Distress Inks, misted with Perfect Pearls..  Sparkle is Opal Dust.  Sentiment diecut from white sparkle card.  Droplets added.

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Tulip Butterfly

 

Another Tulip card in the Parkinson's fundraiser series.

Tulips are stencilled, stamped then diecut.  Background is stamped with DI's, gold embossed edge.  The background is stamped again to get the separate butterfly which is inked, gold embossed and fussy cut.  Sentiment is Hero Arts stamped, gold embossed.

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Enjoy the Ride

 

A funfold for son's birthday, and yes, he rides.

The bike is stamped over DOxideInked paper and fussy cut.   Patterned paper on panels, double diecut cheers. Added to panel on flap of 3 fold card fold.  Card is held closed with small piece of magnet strip.  Added the star so it looks like the bike is bursting out.    A large "Happy Birthday - enjoy the ride"  greeting inside the card.

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Birds Nest Hair Day

 

CAS, that's it. I do enjoy doing these simple designs.  This could be for any occasion.

Stamped (Katzelcraft) image, masked then ink blended (DI's) then stencilled.  Some Copics involved in shading areas.   

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