HAPPY BIRTHDAY (40)

For this birthday card, I used only die cuts (apart from that one little part of the sentiment). I used the Lion, Oh My! die set from Spellbinders.

I started by die cutting all the elements for the lions. I wanted to create a male and female lion. Here are all the cardstocks I used:
Vanilla Malt cardstock, Sunflowe cardstock, Chocolate Bar cardstock, Black Licorice cardstock, Chili Pepper cardstock, Mermaid cardstock, Peacock cardstock and Ballet Slippers cardstock. The Vanilla Malt pieces I ink blended with Antique Linen Distress Ink, the Chocolate Bar pieces with Ground Espresso Distress Ink and the Sunflower pieces with Wild Hones Distress Ink.

I die cut a grass hill, using the Simple Grassy Hillsides dies from Lawn Fawn. I used Cilantro cardstock and Lucky Clover Distress Ink to blend.

For the sky I took the Rays stencil from Tim Holtz. I ink blended the sky with Fossilized Amber and Wild Honey Distress Inks.

I used the Birthday Script die from Mama Elephant to die cut a piece of the sentiments. I did this from Chili Pepper cardstock. The rest of the sentiment I stamped and heat embossed onto a piece of Black Licorice cardstock, using white embossing powder from Lawn Fawn.

I assembled the lions and added everything to my background. I adhered the panel onto a Chili Pepper cardbase.

I also have a tiger die set like this, can't wait to use that too. Because this lion die set is just way too adorable!!!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAVE A BEARY AMAZING DAY (1)

For this birthday card, I used the Party Animal stampset from Lawn Fawn.

For the background I used Distress Inks. Only one color: Candied Apple. I added water drops to this and dabbed them off with a paper towel.

I stamped the images and colored them with Copic Markers. Here are the colors I used:
Bear: E53 - E55/ E29 - E57
Birds: YR30 - YR31/ YR02
Party hats: R14 - R46/ YG41 - G02
Cake: E53 - E55/ YR00 - YR02/YR15/ G02
Balloon: YG41 - G02
Presents: R14 - R46/ C3 - C5
Flag: C3 - C5

I fussy cut the images. I trimmed a piece of Let's Polka in the Dark paper. I also trimmed a white piece of cardstock, that I then die cut with the Stitched Scalloped Borders. From Chili Pepper cardstock, I die cut the word 'birthday', with the Birthday Script die from Mama Elephant. The bottom of the die cut word, I blended with Black Soot Distress Ink. I heat embossed the word happy onto a piece of Black Licorice cardstock, using white embossing powder from Ranger. The rest of the sentiment was stamped onto the white border.

I assembled the card and added the panel onto a Peacock cardbase. I rounded off the bottom corners. As a finishing touch I added some dots and highlights with a white gelly roll pen.

I had a clear vision for this card and it turned out exactly how I wanted.

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CRAFTY HAUL (21)

These crafty products I picked up over the month of April. Super cool stuff all!

From My Favorite Things, I got to stamp sets with a same theme and that would really work well together. Rain and Shine is the one with the girl, Puddle Jumper the one with the boy. I just love these rain themed images and those little ducklings are so adorable.

I got some cool dies. The Kingdom Trio die from Mama Elephant has some great scene builders. To create mountains, a kingdom and some ground for images to stand on. I got the Congrats die from My Favorite Things and the Birthday Script die from Mama Elephant. I really needed to have some word dies, don't own many yet.

I'm a huge fan of Distress Inks and I use them a lot. Whenever I create a scene on a card, I almost always use them. Since Tim Holtz came out with the Distress Oxide Inks, I was really curious about them. One of my favorite online crafty stores had a sale on inks, so I decided to pick up some Distress Oxide Ink colors. I picked three colors that I use a lot in the Distress Ink line.

Sometimes fellow crafters sell their craty supplies online for a good price. I picked up this Tiny Gift Box die from Lawn Fawn.

I have a bunch Nuvo Crystal Drops already, but it was time for some new colors. I got Buttermilk, Midnight Blue, Autumn Red, Neptune Turquoise, Pale Periwinkle and Ripened Pumpkin. I can't wait to try these colors on my cards.

The stamp sets I was looking forward to receiving the most, are these dragon sets from Mama Elephant. They reminded me of Game of Thrones, which I LOVE! It's Me and My Dragon and Dragon Wishes. And they work perfectly with the Kingdom Trio die set.

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