Embossing folder for a special someone

 I'm still having a love affair with this embossing folder from Spellbinders. For this card, I decided to go monochromatic. I paired it with a white embossed sentiment from Poppy Stamps.

 

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Football birthday card

 I was asked to make a birthday card for a teenaged football fan. I don't have any stamps or dies that are football themed, so I purchased a digital silhouette stamp from Etsy and printed it in greyscale, and fussy cut around one edge. I adhered it over an alcohol ink background. The sentiment is from Poppy Stamps.

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Rainbow birthday wishes

 Because there can never be enough rainbow cards.

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Two for one cards

 If you know anything about me and my cardmaking, you know I love a good 2 for 1 moment. When I make a panel with stamping, inking, colouring, whatever, if it is all over colour, I like to cut it down so that my card design has plenty of white space. I decided to try a different way of cutting down this panel, and I will be using it again, I think! 

The background stamp I used is from Hero Arts/Basic Gray, but is sadly discontinued (I've linked below to some other background stamps that would work well for cards like these. The sentiments are from Poppy Stamps and Waffle Flower. 

 

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Sending birthday wishes

Sometimes, alcohol ink or alcohol pearl backgrounds don't turn out the way I had wanted, and they seem to be tooooooo much. This is how I coped with a recent disastrous background panel.

I cut the panel into thin stripes of varying widths and adhered them to the bottom edge of a white card. I added a stamped sentiment from Poppy Stamps and I was done!

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Blue trees

More alcohol inks!

I used a tree die from Poppy Stamps to cut out some glitter cardstock, and added a sentiment from Clearly Besotted.

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