Happy Birthday - Dream-catcher style card

Hello, How are you today?

A simple card today and one that came together really quickly!

Here it is:

I used American Crafts white card stock as the base for this card.

I first cut the frame using the Sue Wilson Double Pierced Rectangles die.

I layered this on top of a piece of beautiful patterned card stock from the 12 x 12 Hackney & Co, English Garden premium paper pad.

Then I used the Sue Wilson Australian collection - Brisbane die to die cut out of white cardstock the main panel.

I used a fiskar 2inch punch and stamped the sentiment using a Phil Martin stamp for the centre of the Brisbane frame.

I added a flower made with the Heartfelt Creations Sun Kissed Fleur, a piece of Hemp Twine and a few leaves (Delicate Fronds) at the bottom part of the card to hide where I joined the small part of the Spellbinders Astoria Decorative Accents die.

A little bit of blue distressed ink added a little colour with some glitter finished the card off.

Here's what I did with the inside of the card, using another Spellbinders Labels Twenty Die.














Here are the main ingredients that I used to make this card:

American Crafts white 5 x 7 Card Stock	English Garden - Hackney & Co 12 x 12 Premium Paper Pad	Sue Wilson Noble Double Pierced Rectangles Set A CED5508	Sue Wilson Australian - Brisbane CED 8103	Spellbinders Astoria Decorative Accent S6-075
Heartfelt Creations Sun kissed Fleur stamp HCPC-3533	Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad	Heartfelt Creations Sun Kissed Fleur Die HCD1-734	Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Delicate Fronds CED1426	Fiskars XL Squeeze Punch Round 2" Circle
Phill Martin Mini Baroque Everyday Desntiments SYMBES	Spellbinders Labels Twenty S5-026	Tim Holtz Stormy Sky Mini Distressed ink pad	Hemp Twine	Clear Snap Glue Gloss
Clear Snap Sugar Shimmer Glitter

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A Birthday Card in Mustard

Hello blogging friends and Family. I hope you had a lovely weekend. I was very lucky to spend my Birthday weekend down in Sydney with Tiffany, Jim and our two Grandchildren Marley and Harry.
Frits my husband is working overseas at the moment so it was lovely not to have to spend the Saturday on my own.

As it happens I have been making a few Birthday cards and today's card is one too.

Here it is:

You can now see why I called my post a Birthday card in mustard. Although in real life it is more of a pumpkin colour. The base is made from an American Crafts cream/vanilla piece of card stock and then I used Kaisercraft Spiced Pumpkin weave card stock. The dies are both from Sue Wilson's New Zealand collection.

I used the Sue Wilson rectangle stitched dies to make the borders.

I cut out the  top most layer of spiced pumpkin with the Auckland die and then cut out a cream piece using the
Hamilton die - which is really gorgeous.

I used the outer die to cut a pumpkin background which I had stuck double sided tape to and then sprinkled it with Cosmic Shimmer Diamond Snow.

The sentiment is an old on from my stash which I cut using one of the smaller dies in the set.

I added some little pearl hearts in each of the corners to finish the card off.

The flowers were made using Heartfelt creations Delightful Daisy dies which I sprinkled with glue and glitter  (Details below). The leaves were heat embossed using white embossing powder and then coloured using Crushed Olive and Peeled Paint distress inks.
I filled the flowers with Prills and the stamens from the Arianna Bloom die set.

.... and there you have it.

The main ingredients that I used to make this card were:

American Crafts vanilla cardstock pack	Kaiser Craft Spiced Pumpkin Weave Card Stock	Sue Wilson Noble Double Pierced Rectangles Set A CED5508	Sue Wilson NZ Auckland CED 8204	Sue Wilson NZ Hamilton CED 8206
Heartfelt Creations Delightful Daisies Stamps HCPC-3656	Heartfelt Creations Delightful Daisy Die HCD1-760	ECD Transparent Double Sided Tape - 152mm (509)	Cosmic Shimmer Diamond Snow	Tsukineko - VersaMark Ink Pad
Judikins White Opaque Embossing Powder	Heat it Craft Tool	Tim Holtz Crushed Olive Distress Ink pad	Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distress ink pad	Heartfelt Creations Arianna Lace Die - HCD1-747
Heartfelt Creations Arianna Blooms Die - HCD1-748	Clear Snap Glue Gloss	Clear Snap Pralines & Cream Glitter	Mei Flower Beaded Pearl Hearts White	Mini Prills

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Flowers Feed the Soul - Side Step Card

Hello there Blog Family and Friends. We have just completed part one of our East African work assignment and are very excited about the volume of positive feedback about our work. It is Saturday and a great friend has just kindly paid us a visit at our Hotel and invited us out for lunch with another of our friends tomorrow. We consider ourselves fortunate indeed.

My card today is a particular favourite. I was inspired by Marisa Job who makes some beautiful cards. This one uses the Spellbinders Tea set and matching stamps from Heartfelt creations - take a look:

I made a Side Step Card base with Brown Cardstock from my DCWV Neutral Mat Stack (The instructions for Side Step Cards can be found on Split Coast Stampers). I adjusted the measurements so that my finished card is 8” x 6”.

I used some lovely papers that I had in my stash for a while from Paper Adventures, the plain green paper is called , Artextures - Pulsar and the patterned paper that matches is Artextures - Venus. I used the plain to cover the base card and the patterned paper for my flowers. 

The flowers were made using Heartfelt Tattered Blossoms and Distressed Leaves stamps and matching Dies from Heartfelt Creations and Spellbinders. Then coloured them with Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy Distressed Stain and Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distressed Stain. Once assembled using a pearl brad I added a variety of Glitter from Clear snap and used the lovely Glue Gloss as the fixative.

The tea cups are lovely; I used Heartfelt creations China Fragment stamps and Spellbinders Tea Cup dies to cut them out. I coloured them using Copics: E11, E31, G0000, YG63, Y19, YR04, YR24, C3.

The words are from the Flowers feed the Soul, Flourishes “From the Garden” stamp set which is gorgeous. I used JustRite Stampers Nested Oval Medallions Labels Dies - JB-10025 to layer and create my sentiment medallion. Finally I added a bow made from Ribbon in my stash!

For the back of my card I layered white cardstock with more of the brown I had used for the card base.

I punched three flowers using a Carl CP1 Sakura Punch, then added a few self adhesive pearls at their centres.

I also traced around the stacked cups onto plain white cardstock and fussy cut the shape out then sticking it to the back of the staked cups as you could see my Copic colouring on the back of the cups; this just made it look tidy :).

Here are more details about the items I used to make this card:

DCWV Neutral Mat Stack 12 x 12	Green Patterned Paper: Paper Adventures, Artextures, Venus	Green Patterned Paper: Paper Adventures, Artextures, Pulsar	Heartfelt Creations: Tattered Blossoms	Heartfelt Creations Tattered Blossoms Die
Spellbinders Nested Tea Cups S4-350	Heartfelt creations China Fragment dies	Heartfelt Creations: Distressed Leaves	Copic BLENDING CARD X-Press It Paper Pack of 10	Clear Snap Glue Gloss
Clear Snap Sugar Shimmer Glitter	Clear Snap Mixed Berries Glitter	Clear Snap Pralines & Cream Glitter	Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distressed Stain	Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy Distressed Stain
8mm Gold Pearl Stud Brads - e-bay	Carl CP1 Sakura Punch	PORTACraft Self Adhesive 5mm Pearls	Flourishes "From the Garden" stamp set	JustRite Stampers Nested Oval Medallions Labels Dies - JB-10025
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I hope you liked my card. Stay well and Be safe. Until the next time .......