Triple Lattice Striplet Birthday Card in Cream and White

Hello how are you today?

I won't beat about the bush. Todays' card is an outright copy of one that I saw Sue Wilson make on YouTube recently. I loved it so I thought I'd give it a go!
Here is her video link to YouTube as she does show how to cut up Emma, one of her dies from the Frames and Tags Collection, to make a background.

Here it is, recognise it much????

I used American crafts White and Cream (AC calls it Vanilla) cardstock for the base and the rest of the card. Cream and white looks lovely together.

Just showing a close up of the lovely Lattice Window Striplet die - it cuts beautifully.

Here's the centre panel - check out the video to see how Sue "Chops up" the Emma - Frames and Tags die.

I used a Phill Martin stamp in the middle stamped using a Jet Black Stazon ink pad.  I find with the clear stamps they make a better impression, be sure to clean your stamps afterwards!

... and here's inside the card. I used a Fiskars sentiment stamp set again with the Jet Black Stazon ink pad.

This sentiment is from a Fiskars stamp set I purchased when I was in the states.







Here are the main ingredients that I used to make this card - Sue introduces them in her video as well.

American Crafts white cardstock pack	American Crafts vanilla cardstock pack	Sue Wilson Striplet Lattice Window CED1615	Sue Wilson Frames & Tags Grace CED4313	Sue Wilson Frames & Tags - Emma - CED4312
KaiserCraft White Pearls	Phill Martin Petite Scribbled Sentiments Everyday Stamps SYPSSE	Fiskars Make a Wish Quotes Stamps	Stazon Jet Black Ink Pad	Double Sided Foam Mounting Tape

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...... and there you have it. So easy to follow someone's design - no thinking about colour schemes and what will go with what especially when the Mojo is a bit dodgy!!!

A lilac and white Happy Birthday card

Hello there. How are you?
Isn't our perspective of time funny sometimes? You know as in - funny-strange! I was talking to a colleague and he said something to the effect that we needed to have a skype call at the end of the month. I immediately think - oh OK, sure, that's some time away.... then I looked in my diary and NO! it's next week!!!! People say time flies but when did it start to just evaporate??

At the weekend I managed to spend some time in my crafty space. I enjoyed just pottering around and doing some sorting and organising as well as also making a couple of cards.

This is the first of those that I am able to show you. Frits my lovely husband set up my camera so  I was able to create a short YouTube video which I have linked to this blog. I haven't created any videos for about a year simply because I didn't have a video camera. The one Frits had has a wide angle lens so it will take me some time to get used to using it.

Here's my card:

I used some white cardstock and die cut the outer part of the Canadian Collection Background die. This really informs the size of the card.

I pierced the edges using a Tim Holtz ruler and pokey tool.

I backed it using a piece of this lovely lilac cardstock from the American Crafts pack that I have.

I added foam tape behind this and placed it on another pierced mat layer.

Little pearls were added to the centre of the flowers on the frame. to add  little dimension.

I stamp all four parts of the Marianne Design stamp as one piece using a purple stazon ink pad onto a piece of white card stock. Once stamped I use the die again to provide a means of knowing where to fussy cut it out to fit into the space in the centre of the flower frame.

The flowers were made using the Sue Wilson foldover dies and the same coloured cardstock as used in the main card. I also used the Dandelion clocks dies, colouring the ends with copic pens. as well as adding a couple of leaves.

At the bottom of the card I made a little sentiment. It's a JustRite Stamp (is anyone else devastated that they are closing????) black memento ink pad with the stamp image cut out, added to white cardstock and fussy cut with some Armada paper shaper "Stamp" scissors.

As promised here is the YouTube clip that I also made of this card:

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

Quill White MultiBoard 210gsm Card stoc	American Crafts - 12 x 12 Cardstock Pack - 60 Sheets - Pastels	Marianne Design - What makes you happy stamps	Stazon Royal Purple Ink Pad	Sue Wilson Canadian Collection Background CED 6201
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Clear 12 inch Design Ruler	Pokey Tool	Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Classic Foldover dies CED 1430	Tombow Mono - Aqua Liquid Glue	Sue Wilson - Curled Vines CED1414
Sue Wilson Dandelion Dies CED 1434	COPIC Sketch Markers	JustRite Stamps - Kindness CL-02095	Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad	Armada Paper Shaper Scissors
X-Press-It 6mm Double Sided Tape	Zva Creative - Self-Adhesive Pearls - Basic Lines - White

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Thanks for stopping by to read today's blog, I have another couple of cards and some videos that match them to show you coming this way soon.