happy birthday mum

 

good morning crafters.

i'm checking in with a new birthday card that will be added to my craft fair box. a very sweet and summery design plus i challenged my self again, after my successful shellabrate card where i created a background i thought i'd create another background without the help of a few stamps, i've gone all free hand...

i was so, so please when ally was released recently and i added her to my collection and when she was delivered i had a little light bulb moment and a little seed was planted, i thought i needed to pair ally and isabelle together and voila

sketchy start..

freshly coloured image

a couple of close ups

some of the items used to create my card.

not the layout i'd imagined but it is lovely.

to start with i stamped Ally on my blank fabriano paper, masked her and then stamped Isabelle matching her up with my marker lines around their feet, place one of my circular dies over the images and drew a pencil line 3/4's of the way round to give me my boundary for colouring, i also added a fine line to where the tree line was going to be. my images and background have been coloured with distress ink. i've die cut the coloured image with a circle die and put to one side while i added my papers, stamped sentiment, ribbon, flowers and other die cuts to my base card. i've added my image to a plain off white larger circle then added foam pads and placed it to the left of my design and finally added a bow.

here is what i've used:

inks:

fade resistant dye ink: memento - expresso truffle

Tim Holtz:  distress ink

colours:

vintage photo, tattered rose, worn lipstick, antique linen, walnut stain, shaded lilac, spun sugar, victorian velvet, broken china, tumbled glass, rusty hinge, squeezed lemonade, twisted citron, mowed lawn, milled lavender, dusty concord, peeled paint, olde paper, forest moss, walnut stain.

Papers:

fabriano artistico water colour paper 140lb

Maja designs: 12" x 12" mums garden

linen card

white glitter card

7" x 7" base card

stamps: 

stampingbella: tiny townie: Ally & uptown Isabelle loves ice cream, retired

sizzix: sentiments

dies:

tonic: layered circles

doohickey

spellbinder

britannia: mum

miscellaneous:

double sided tape

mulberry flowers

sakura glitter pen.

suppliers i use:

stamps:

dies to die for

sevenhills craft

stampingbella

Stampingallday, personalised stamp

papers:

the mad scrapper

craftheaven-shop

ken bromley art supplies

carroway cottage, mullberry flowers

also you can buy from:

other on line stores/stockist and craft fairs in your area

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann