Mixed Up Birthday

Hey everyone, I'm back today with a mixed up birthday card. Why do I call it mixed up? I call it that because I used a lot of different products and I wasn't sure it was going to work out. My biggest concern was if the delicate flower would work with the bold stenciled background. I am pleased to say I really like it! My encouragement to everyone is to play and try new things because you never know how it will turn out.

 

 

I started by creating the background with the mixed up stencil(SNSS) and inks from Concord and 9th(ballet slipper, sprout and sea glass). I die cut the panel, matted with another panel inked along the edges with sea glass and wrapped some white twine along the edge. I used the same ink along with the shiplap background on the white card base and attached the panel to it. 

I stamped the images and birthday sentiment with VersaFine Claire Nocturne ink on white cardstock. I colored the flower and leaves with sea glass and ballet slipper ink. I wasn't happy with the color of the flower, so I went over it with an alcohol marker from Altenew(coral berry). I fussy cut the images and glued them to the stenciled panel. I trimmed down the sentiment strip and attached to the front with foam tape. Finally, I stamped the word happy directly on the background and added three colored dots to finish it off.

Supplies from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps:

Mixed Up Stencil 

Shiplap Background 

Encouraging Peonies

 Sentimental Mash-up

 

This post linked to:

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

AAA Birthday: Game #37 Let's Party  

Tic Tac Toe Challenge: #161 Layers, Bow, Floral

The Four Seasons Challenge: May Anything Goes Spring 

The Card Concept: #175 May Flowers I was inspired by the flowers and pink colors in the photo to created my mixed media card.

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

Inspire

Today I am sharing a masculine card and creating them is definitely outside my comfort zone. My card features several products from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps new May Release. 

I created the background by cutting strips of white cardstock in various sizes and swiping two different gray inks across them. Then, I glued the strips onto another white piece of cardstock, inked up the shiplap background with a darker gray and inked up the panel with it. Afterwards, I die cut the panel, stenciled the word inspire, added the brown mesh(trimmed to the edge), matted with gray and attached to a white base.

I stamped the images with ink on 3 black, colored with alcohol markers and fussy cut out. I used my x-acto knife to cut the inside parts out. I left my boss lady apha die in one piece instead of cutting it all apart. I cut a bunch of letters from white cardstock. I used the outlines to hold the letters while I inked them up with a dark gray ink. I assembled the card as seen using bearly arts glue as my adhesive to affix the images and letters. 

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamp products.

Shiplap Background

Mixed Up Stencil

Boss Lady Alpha Die Set

Peace Be Still

 

This post linked to:

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Game/Sport, Blue, Embellishment 

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen