Shape Cards & Birthdays

 Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing two fun cards featuring three newly released Sweet n Sassy stamp sets! For my first creation I decided to make a mini shape card using the Springtime set. If you look closely you'll see a bit of white ink smeared on my black circle to create a chalkboard effect.  (The second photo shows it up better.)

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Supplies and tools:

• Springtime (Sweet n Sassy Stamps)
• Canson Mixed Media Paper
• Sonnet Water Colours
• Prismacolor Pencils
• Petals and Blooms Paper Stack (The Paper Studio)
• Teardrop Circles Dies (Spellbinders)
• Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders)
• Small Scallop Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders)
• Crochet Dies (Sizzix  - Tim Holtz)
• Christmas Quilt Embossing Folder (Couture Creations) 
• Brilliance Moonlight White Ink (Tsukineko) 
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• White Embossing Powder
• Black Embossing Powder
• Baker's Twine

My second card is a bright and cheerful birthday card using both the Birthday Borders and Sentimental Mash-Up sets. I used gel pens to color in my confetti - just to make it a little more fun and exciting looking! 

 Supplies and tools:

• Birthday Borders (Sweet n Sassy Stamps)
• Sentimental Mash-Up (Sweet n Sassy Stamps)
• Black Soot Distress Ink
• Gel Pens
• Sonnet Water Colours
• Canson Mixed Media Paper
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• Black Embossing Powder

Winter Birds

Hello! It's Monika here today with couple of Christmas card, showcasing Winter Birds clear stamp set.

For my first card, I wanted to make my own background, so I stamped most of the foliage images with gray ink on a white A2 card stock, then added gold mist to darken the area where the focal images were going to be...

Next I stamped the cardinal and some of the foliage images on watercolor card stock and colored them with Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor before cutting them out.

To add more texture/dimension to my card, I distressed the edges of the panel.

My second card is a birdhouse shaped card. I love making shaped cards... circle is the most basic, but from time to time, I just have to make one of my birdhouses. :)

 I usually use a template, but I couldn't find it this time... so I had to improvise. I folded an 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" white card stock in half (wanted to make sure it would fit in an A2 envelope) and using a ruler I sketched out the shape and cut it out... then I traced the front panel onto a brown card stock (minus the roof), cut it out, and stamped it with the 'tree bark' image from Texture Tiles 2 clear stamp set. Next I punched the circle openings of the brown piece and the front panel of the white base card. The red roof strips were punched with an old Fiskars hand punch then were adhered to the base card with dimensional adhesive.

The images were stamped on water color card stock and colored in with ZIG watercolor markers. I stamped an extra bird and poinsettia flower so I could cut parts of the images out and popped them up with dimensional adhesive.
The fence was die-cut with a retired SNSS die.

I just love the way it turned out... do you like making shaped cards? 

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika

kid cards

It's my turn to share some cards and today I have some cards that I made for kids.  First I used the Gifts From Turtle stamp set to make a card for a "turtle-ly" cute kid who turned 3...

I also made a kite shaped card (I love shaped cards!) using directions that a friend of mine found by Kelly Gettelfinger.  I used the grasshopper and a sentiment from the Buggin' Ya stamp set.

 

The fold is on the top left side of the kite.  I used a Copic marker to highlight the word "hoppy" and make some dots on the scallops.  Some stickles were added to the blue strips.

 

Thanks for stopping by.  Have fun making some cards for kids of your own!

♥ Diane