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Shake It All About

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My DT blog post today features a card I made for our godson’s 3 rd birthday.   I like to make interactive cards for him and made this one a shaker card with a surprise pop-up inside. For the background, I made an inky panel using Distress Spray Stains in Mustard Seed, Broken China and Twisted Citron.   Once dry, I white heat-embossed the Grunge Birthday Words   stamp all over and trimmed to 5¼” square. For the shaker elements, I used the no.3 from Birthday Balloons stamps and dies.   For speedy stamping, I die-cut lots of threes from white card.   I die-cut a three from the centre of a larger piece of scrap card and put this in my MISTI.   I positioned the stamp in the aperture and picked it up with the lid and then added each die-cut and stamped the 3. Using a square die, I cut the background to form a frame for the shaker.   The frame was taped onto a square of blue card to centralise it, then the background was glued into the centre. A sheet of acetate was glued to the
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Mellow Yellow

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  This week’s card is the one I made to accompany my Visible Image ATC swap for April, which had the theme ‘Mellow Yellow’.   You could use only shades of yellow plus black and white.   I had seen some glorious yellow tulips in a garden locally so I opted to use the Sketched Tulips stamp set. Using masking paper, I stamped and fussy cut the tulip flower and then stamped and clear heat-embossed the first row of tulips. I continued to replace the masking paper and stamped and heat-embossed multiple tulips over the bottom of the panel and finally added a bee from Bee Happy. For a hint of sun, I blended Scattered Straw Distress Ink through the Strobes stencil, fading out as it reached the flowers.  The tulips were coloured using Copic markers.   I like to clear heat-emboss the stamping as then I don’t have to worry about using alcohol-friendly ink. To finish the card, I partially stamped the text from the set and added a few dots with a yellow Posca pen and black fineliner.  
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Location: Fareham, UK
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Daydreamer

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After another tidying mission in my new craft room, I rediscovered this stamp set, Daydreamer by Inkylicious, yet another that I bought a couple of years ago and have never used.   I had an inky background lying around which I thought would pair perfectly with it. These were one rainbow panel that I’d made using Distress Stain Sprays in Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Broken China and Dusty Concord. Using my MISTI, I stamped the main image using Versafine Onyx Black ink. After stamping the sentiment, I stencilled ink around the panel, fading out to the stamped areas. To finish the cards, I blended black ink around the edges of the panel before attaching to a rectangular card base and embellishing with a few gemstones.
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Location: Fareham, UK
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