It's Your Day

 Good afternoon from my craftroom which is currently inhabited by 4 puppies, a rabbit and me of course!

My card today is using some dies from a UK company. I jus love Carnations Crafts their flower dies and art work is out of this world. For this card I have to give credit to the Carnation Crafts website for inspiration.

I used The Z fold card shape for the card base and white frame and the details of the card are from Elegant Alfresco. I cut 2 of the largest rectangle layer from white cardstock and adhered these down one side with red liner tape to give me a side folding card base. The filigree was die cut from the same card.

I then added the Elegant Arbor for my flowers to trail up. I die cut a collection of the flowers and added these onto the card using a mix of glue gel and Bearly Art glue. the chair, table and tea set were glued in place to complete the scene. All the images were shaped with my ball tools to give dimension and a more realistic look.

This was a Birthday card so I cut the sentiment from coordinating card stock and stacked them for dimension. The was adhered to the top of the arbor completing the card.

When I make cards like this with lots of dimension it's too bulky and delicate for a standard envelope so I either make a box or like I did with this one wrapped it in coordinating tissue paper.

 Thank you for stopping by, Carnation Crafts have a ton of die collections for any occasion. They also provide images and coordinating background papers for free on their website.

It's A Girl!!!!

 Good afternoon! The snow finally is shrinking back, hopefully spring is round the corner although with the weather here we probably aren't out of the woods yet!

It's the first new release day over at Stamper's Delights and we are some super cute images for you. Do you need a new baby or shower card? Then this image is perfect - Meet Chibi It's a Girl:

Isn't she sweet! She comes with the sentiments shown with the image and being a digital stamp is easy to resize. 

I decided to print off a few of the images so I could decoupage them:

I colored the whole of the first image, the second one I colored the box lid and tag (which had one of the sentiments printed on it)  and the last image I just colored the box lid ribbon.

I fussy cut all of the colored parts and stacked them on top of each other in the corresponding areas

I mated a A7 card base with some pink card and a peach colored polkadot paper. Then die cut a heart bunting from the same card I used for my mat. The sentiment was die cut again with a mat. I added my image to the card and tucked in the sentiment. The bunting was added across one corner and the waste from this, the hearts were 'scattered' down to my sentiment.

If you love this image head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s New Releases.

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies! 

 All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.

Christmas in July

Good Morning! It's a bit cooler this week than it had been thank goodness!

But Hey it's Tuesday! New challenge starts over at Digi Choosday today! As always it is anything goes but the design team are sharing their Christmas makes with an unusual shaped card, Here's Winnie about to step over the prickly holly on my wreath card:

What I Did:

I started by resizing and printing 2 copies of the wreath and one of Winnie on to stamping card. I then fussy cut one of the wreaths, cut the blue and white flowers out of the other and shaped the petals on these. I colored Winnie with alcohol markers and fussy cut her too.

Using my Cameo I cut 2 rings from cover stock card. I scored about half an inch from the top of one and glued this section to the other making a card base that had a hole in the middle. So that this would stand I cut the bottom half inch off the back one.

The center of the front of the card base was covered with acetate and I added the wreath over this covering all of the ring. The white and blue flowers from the second wreath were then layered on their matching flowers on my card.

Winnie was then adhered to the center of the card on the acetate. I finally added glitter to her hat and collar as well as the flowers on the wreath.

What I Used:

Digital Stamp: Polkadoodles - Winnie White Christmas; Watch Your Step

Digital Design Wreaths: Polkadoodles - Baked with Love Foliage

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

White Coverstock Card: Neenah Solar White Cover Stock 110lb

Actate: From my stash

Glitter: From my stash

Glue - ZipDry and Quicky Glue pen

The Digi Choosday Challenge runs for 2 weeks, it is always anything goes so there is no reason not to enter and you never know you may just win!

Looking for more inspiration? Then check out my teamies designs over on the Facebook page, you can also post your own Polkadoodles' designs on the Craft Stamp and Colour with Polkadoodles Facebook group

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