A special card for an 80th Birthday

A couple of months ago, we celebrated my Mum's 80th birthday.

In all that was happening at the time, I don't think I even took a photo of the card I made for her!

Now my neighbours Mum is turning 80 this month, and I have taken my time to make a special card for her (my neighbour) to give.

I had a lot of fun making this card. It features the Layers of Beauty Bundle. This bundle includes Stamps, Dies and Stencils - which make colouring the large stamped image a breeze!!

Using watercolour paper, I stamped the large image in Crumb Cake ink.

Then using the stencils and blending brushes, I coloured the image with Petal Pink and Flirty Flamingo on the flowers and Old Olive and Mossy Meadow for the leaves.

That got me to this stage..

This had been my first play with this bundle, and this image sat on my desk for a time before I actually decided to use it for this card.

From there, I did some water colouring with blue ink (which I already had in a water painter with water) all around the image.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out - what do you think of the finished results??

Since this wasn't a standard size card, I also needed to make an envelope for it (obviously 😆).

I stamped the large flower image again and used the stencils on it as well. I then used a blending brush to add a little colour around the image again - to match the card.

Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.

Cards for a Swap - Watercolour background

A few weeks ago I attended an online demonstrator only event full of crafting fun.

After the event, we had the option to participate in a Swap. Since July was World Watercolour month, I used a simple watercolour background technique to create the focus for this card.

The colours used for this project were inspired by the Design a Daydream Designer Series Paper, which is a "Host Reward" item (cannot be purchased, but can be earned).

The colours I chose from this were, Blackberry Bliss, Daffodil Delight (although, I used So Saffron as I didn't have the reinker for Daffodil Delight), Petal Pink, Pool Party.

I took some baking paper and dropped a few spots randomly of each colour and then used my Stampin' Spritzer to add water to the ink. I then took Shimmery White Cardstock (I had cut this to card front size) and laid the card into the ink/water. I had multiple pieces of cardstock ready so that I could use all of the ink up.

Once dried, I embossed each piece with the Quatrefoil Tile Embossing Folder.

Each embossed piece was cut in half (which doubled the amount I had) and placed on a layer of Gold Foil, before adding it to the front of the Blackberry Bliss card.

I've also used the Lovely & Lasting Stamp Set and the Lasting Label Punch to create the sentiment piece. A little addition of the Gold Foil diecut (from the Eden dies) was added to the label and the card was finished off with some Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

The inside of the card was a piece of Basic White cardstock which I stamped various images from the Lovely & Lasting Stamp Set in each of the colours I had used in the watercolours.

The Stamp set & punch can be purchased as a Bundle, or you can purchase the Lovely In Linen Suite Collection to get the Stamp set, Punch, Embossing folder along with the Lovely Linen Paper. 

Due to the nature of the technique, none of the cards were quite the same.

Do you have a favourite?