HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ YOU ROCK!

Hello and welcome...

Today's card was made for a dear friend of ours who loves playing his guitar

Today is his birthday and I thought this to be a fitting card for him

• I started with a white 8" square card ~ my stash
• from my files I printed the 3 musical images ~ my stash
• I used an oval die to cut and emboss the musical notes and circular die for the guitar ~ dies by Sue Wilson for CE
• the coloured musical notes were 'fussy' cut
• I typed the sentiment and die cut and embossed  it using one of the pierced square dies by SW
• I kept the sentiment in the die and using a smoothie ~ Creative Expressions,  and without adding extra ink, I gently coloured around the sentiment
• I used other pre-inked smoothies to add a little colour around the other die cuts
• The sentiment had mounting foam added to the back for dimension, all other elements were adhered, flat,  to the card using Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue

From my stash I added sheet music to the inside of the card and my verse was die cut then adhered to the inside as shown below

 To complete I stamped, very lightly, sheet music to the envelope

 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, I hope my designs have given a little inspiration.

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June x

BIRTHDAY WISHES

Hello and welcome...

I have a sweet card for you today

• I used a pale pink card as my base card, scored it to make an A5 portrait card
• I added a mat of white, pink then white card again to the base card
• I also die cut the butterflies on the final white card then embossed the card with an old favourite embossing folder of mine by Spellbinders.... I love that design
• once embossed I added double sided adhesive to the back of the butterfly apertures, removed the backing and sprinkled Gold Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes to the area and burnished them in with a rubit-scrubit
• Mounting foam was then added to back of the card and adhered to the base card
• I used only 3 butterflies on the card and glued them with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue, I always use this glue, it really is fantastic
• I added 2 flat back pearls to the bottom left corner
• the pearl embellishment in the top right is by Hobby House
• Finally I stamped the sentiment onto white card, die cut it with one of the pierced flags and dusted the edges with a smoothie that already had a little pink ink on it

INGREDIENTS

• Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes/Creative Expressions (C E)
• rubit-scrubit/CE
• butterflies die set/C E
• dries clear glue/C E
• pierced flag dies/C E
• smoothies/CE
• flat back pearls/CE
• pearl flower embellishment/Hobby House

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, I hope my designs have given a little inspiration.

I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message.

June x

BE HAPPY AND SMILE - #187 PEARLS AND/OR GEMS CHALLENGE

Hi, thanks for stopping by...

Today is the start of a new challenge at Crafty Cardmakers

and this is my contribution to the theme

This is an 8"x7" card base.  I used 'Bubble Bloom' Clear Stamp for the main focal point and stamped this using Ranger's Clear Perfect Medium Ink Pad then applied Cosmic Shimmer 'True White' Detailed Embossing Powder and heat set it. I applied Cosmic Shimmer Colour Cloud in 'Chic Aubergine', 'Chic Magenta' and 'Chic Grey Blue and used  smoothies for each individual colour as a background for the focal element.  I also used 'Chic Aubergine' on the base card, creating a border to match one of the background colours.  I removed the colour from the circles on the stems using a fine paintbrush and bleach, when dry I added flat back pearls to each circle.

I stamped the sentiment onto white card and used the 'Chic Aubergine' to ink the stamp then die cut it using one of the sets from the 'Indian Ocean Collection' - 'Tag Duo.'

To complete I added a double row of flat back pearls as shown below

Please pop over to Crafty Cardmakers to see what my 'teamies' have designed and why not enter your own card to the challenge?  The link is shown below:

#187 Pearls and/or Gems

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I read all your comments and appreciate you leaving me a message and hope my designs give a little inspiration

June x

INGREDIENTS:

• Woodware 'Bubble Bloom' Clear Stamp
• Ranger Clear Perfect Medium Ink Pad
• Cosmic Shimmer True White Embossing Powder/Creative Expressions
• Smoothies/Creative Expressions
• Cosmic Shimmer Colour Cloud/Creative Expressions
• Indian Ocean Collection - Tag Duo by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions
• Flat back pearls/Creative Expressions

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Challenge # 146  Not A Square Card - Addicted-To-Stamps