Happy Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day soon in Australia, so I made this card for my Mum.

I used the Spring Bouquet stamp set from Studio Katia, stamped and white embossed onto watercolour cardstock and coloured with Zig markers and a water pen. I fussy cut around part of the image, before adhering it to a pink card base.

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Rainbow birthday

I have a rainbow of alcohol ink colours, and I'm not afraid to use them. So I pulled out some Yupo and had a play.

I added some gold Minc foil to the alcohol ink background for some extra shine. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things (die) and Uniquely Creative (stamp).

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I'm a guest for CAS on Friday!

I won a challenge at CAS on Friday a couple of weeks ago, so was invited to be a guest for the next challenge! The theme for this challenge is "use a cute stamp on your card". 

 I started by making masks using the "Puffy Cloud Borders" dies from Lawn Fawn, and inked over them with Spun Sugar Distress Ink to create the soft cloud background. I used the "Up and Away" stamp set from Mama Elephant, and coloured the images with Copic markers, then added some clear Wink of Stella to the balloons. I popped the image up on dimensional adhesive, and added a sentiment from "Nursery Deco" from Mama Elephant.

I'd love it if you joined in with the challenge this week - make sure you keep it CAS!

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Blue birthday

I've been experimenting with foiling over alcohol inks on Yupo. If you leave the alcohol ink dry too long, you either get no foil transfer, or you get thin little veins of foil that stick to the bits that are still sticky. If you don't leave the alcohol ink dry long enough, you just end up with a heap of alcohol ink on your foil sheet and no foil on your inked panel. With this panel, I think I hit the sweet spot.

 The sentiment is from Uniquely Creative stamps.

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A one layer card for A Blog Named Hero

I have a simple floral card to share for the A Blog Named Hero Facebook page.

I used the Large Lotus Pattern stencil from Hero Arts with Distress Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade and Squeezed Lemonade. The sentiment is from the Hero Arts Hello Stamp & Cut set, stamped in Black Onyx Versafine ink.  I finished with some clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and some little dots of white gel pen to add some detail.

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