My snowflake dies are put away and my red and green cardstock is filed. Now is the perfect time to start on birthday cards for the month and the year. I am on the Poppystamps blog today as part of the monthly challenge team and our theme is birthday cards. I used some of my favorite Whittle dies to create this punny card.
I cut the two hippos from some blue cardstock. The innertube die which is part of the Floating Hippo die, I cut with the same pink as the flamingo.
Then I layered everything and glued it together. I wanted to keep the color scheme tight so I only used two colors of cardstock along with white. I die cut the Poppystamps Marzipan Alphabet letters from the same two colors.
My snowflake dies are put away and my red and green cardstock is filed. Now is the perfect time to start on birthday cards for the month and the year. I am on the Poppystamps blog today as part of the monthly challenge team and our theme is birthday cards. I used some of my favorite Whittle dies to create this punny card.
I cut the two hippos from some blue cardstock. The innertube die which is part of the Floating Hippo die, I cut with the same pink as the flamingo.
Then I layered everything and glued it together. I wanted to keep the color scheme tight so I only used two colors of cardstock along with white. I die cut the Poppystamps Marzipan Alphabet letters from the same two colors.
I was so excited to get the Harvest Mouse My Favorite Things Stamp and Die set in the mail. I won a gift card from them a while back (random draw!) and finally took advantage of a sale to snag this utterly adorable set. I was using both a color challenge and a sketch challenge to guide me into a design.
I stamped with Versafine Black Ink on watercolor paper and heat set it for just a few seconds. Then I used my dear Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers along with a tiny paint brush dipped in water to color in the image. The inside of the ear was originally gray and I went back with a pink color later. I added white dots to the vest with a white gel pen. I added a sentiment up top. I die cut the mouse, leaves and the frame and backed the frame with a piece of lightweight text paper (I'm a sucker for text paper anywhere). I added the olive green strip which I stamped with the same color ink and mounted everything onto a kraft card. Can't wait to use the rest of this sweet set.
Ingredients
CS: Dark olive green CS unknown, lighter green is Stampin' Up! Old Olive, kraft is Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake, Canson XL Watercolor Paper
Patterned Paper: Stampin' Up! Newsprint Designer Series Paper (retired)
Stamps: Harvest Mouse by My Favorite Things
Dies: Poppystamps Double Scalloped Stitched Frames & MFT Harvest Mouse dies
Ink: Versafine Black ink, Old Olive (stamped off)
Color: Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
Punch: I used a Fiskars Hexagon Punch to make the fishtail on the sentiment strip.
Challenges: Make the Cards Challenge #38, Freshly Made Sketches #508 and Just Add Ink #577
I was so excited to get the Harvest Mouse My Favorite Things Stamp and Die set in the mail. I won a gift card from them a while back (random draw!) and finally took advantage of a sale to snag this utterly adorable set. I was using both a color challenge and a sketch challenge to guide me into a design.
I stamped with Versafine Black Ink on watercolor paper and heat set it for just a few seconds. Then I used my dear Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers along with a tiny paint brush dipped in water to color in the image. The inside of the ear was originally gray and I went back with a pink color later. I added white dots to the vest with a white gel pen. I added a sentiment up top. I die cut the mouse, leaves and the frame and backed the frame with a piece of lightweight text paper (I'm a sucker for text paper anywhere). I added the olive green strip which I stamped with the same color ink and mounted everything onto a kraft card. Can't wait to use the rest of this sweet set.
Ingredients
CS: Dark olive green CS unknown, lighter green is Stampin' Up! Old Olive, kraft is Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake, Canson XL Watercolor Paper
Patterned Paper: Stampin' Up! Newsprint Designer Series Paper (retired)
Stamps: Harvest Mouse by My Favorite Things
Dies: Poppystamps Double Scalloped Stitched Frames & MFT Harvest Mouse dies
Ink: Versafine Black ink, Old Olive (stamped off)
Color: Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
Punch: I used a Fiskars Hexagon Punch to make the fishtail on the sentiment strip.
Challenges: Make the Cards Challenge #38, Freshly Made Sketches #508 and Just Add Ink #577
I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I have never delved into the glorious world that is Altenew florals until now. I've admired and swooned over Pinterest images of their cards. I've gasped at the gorgeous makes I see on Instagram. Finally, I purchased a stamp and die set from an Altenew Buy & Sell group and it sat for awhile. I always have 50 cards in my head that I want to make, but sometimes it takes weeks or months to get to them. I found a nice color challenge online and decided now was the time to break out the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp and die set. I was not disappointed.
I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I have never delved into the glorious world that is Altenew florals until now. I've admired and swooned over Pinterest images of their cards. I've gasped at the gorgeous makes I see on Instagram. Finally, I purchased a stamp and die set from an Altenew Buy & Sell group and it sat for awhile. I always have 50 cards in my head that I want to make, but sometimes it takes weeks or months to get to them. I found a nice color challenge online and decided now was the time to break out the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp and die set. I was not disappointed.
