Spellbinders Intertwined Spirals and Sue Wilson Italian Collection - Tuscany Birthday Card

Made for my very special friend for her birthday using Spellbinders Intertwined Spirals and Sue Wilson Italian Collection.

Played around with inks in her favourite colours but couldn't achieve what I wanted.

The inks are water reactive and I had seen a demo where after inking you spritz a mask with water, lay over the top and then lift to reveal the pattern in the background.  I will have to revisit it as my attempts were woeful!

Plan B, do a do-over and cover up.  I love the circular sentitment stamps from Lily of the Valley, but the ones I have used the most have just disintegrated so out of the ones I have left, I thought this was the best.

Even though we do not see each other very often as we live hundreds of miles apart, we have been very close for thirty years.  And this year we managed to spend her birthday together.  Lovely!

Yikes, where have the years gone?! Lol.

Darice Nature Embossing Folder Card

Card made as a sympathy card using one of the tall, slim Darice Nature Themed Embossing Folders.

The blackbird is one from the Memory Box Resting Birds set.

I usually make it a rule never to make the same card twice and this does look very similar to a sympathy card I made in December 2016  but in my defence

• I needed the card made that day
• I haven't used that particular embossing folder before so it is sort of different.
• I am a dentist phobic and have been having root canal treatment on a molar for the last few weeks, and feeling pretty traumatised, this was the best I could come up with!  Lol!

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

All White Card

Well, more off white really.

I already had the base card made with Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fantastic Flourish laying in my stash.  I'd started it a few years ago and then didn't know what to do with it.😕

I also had the flowers I'd previously made from vellum cut with Sue Wilson Perfect Peony dies and then stamped and heat embossed with Sue Wilson Shaded Peony stamps.  Major problem when shaping the petals though as most of the embossing fell off!😢😀

Die cut Sue Wilson Fiji die and backed it with vellum.  Added the tags which are dies from China.  The hat pin I made myself and the Just For You die is one I found in a charity shop.  Yay!

New Baby Card

Card made to go with each of the cot quilts.

Made with Spellbinder dies, apart from the bunny dies which were from China, ribbon and pearlised card in colours matching the cot quilts.

Cot Quilt Shelley Cominskey Fluffy Bunny

My hairdresser and eyebrow lady were both expecting babies on the same day!

These panels are by Shelley Comiskey and are called Fluffy Bunny and came on the same piece and I thought they would be great as they were gender neutral as the ladies concerned were not being tempted into finding out the gender of their babies beforehand.

Anyway, I found out just before I had finished them that what I thought was a teal green is actually classed as blue as the company that produce these panels do exactly the same ones also in pink!

I was then praying that come 4th August when they were both due that little baby boys would come along.  On the 7th a beautiful baby girl was born and on the 12th another adorable baby girl was born. Lol!  It's the thought that counts.......................

The fabric is a lovely soft flannel to which I added more flannel borders and quilted round the obvious bits.  I gave the bunnies faces: just hope they don't scare the babies!!!  The quilt is backed with lovely white fleece.  All soft and cuddly!

Chinese Watercolour Cats

I wanted to make a card for the chap who looks after our cat in the best cattery I have ever seen;
Tippytoes Luxury Cat Hotel, Taverham.

I made an ATC like this several years ago and thought it would make the perfect male card for a cat lover.

The flowers were an after thought as I thought it needed a spot of colour and they're supposed to represent blossoms but they haven't really worked and had I not left it til the last minute, I would have done it differently. Lol.

Also, my watercolour paint had dried up (I know the feeling😃) so I used gouache which didn't give the translucent effect I really wanted.   Oh well...........

Eclipse Birthday Card

Went on holiday beginning of May in our campervan to meet up with friends in Ironbridge.

Well the weather was horrendous and I was feeling rotten with a stinking cold!  We managed one decent day at the very beginning where we went to Ironbridge.  After that the rain became torrential and when the awning carpet was floating we decided to come home early so didn't get to see anything else.

Ironbridge itself is absolutely though, even if it was a bit damp.

This was a photograph that I changed into a watercolour using Lunapic which is a free online editor.
Die cut the letters, backed them onto darker card and mounted them back into the negative space with foam pads.