Sunburst card

A bright & cheerful card using a mix of old & new. The sentiment is from the That Thing You Did stamp set. I used the sunburst die to cut the yellow sunburst & popped it in front of some retired Retro Fresh DSP. And the bunting is from the Balloon framelits die set.

Other things I used

silver glimmer paper

linen thread

brights cardstock

basic gray ink

real red ink

decorative dots embossing folder   

labels thinlits dies 

Birthday card

A pop up birthday card for a special chap who turned 10 this week.

I spelt out the name with the little letters Thinlits. They don't include numbers, so I used the 'O' for a zero & the '1' from the file tabs Thinlits set, cut down slightly. That set contains numbers 1, 2, 3 which, conveniently, is the age bracket all my son's friends are just hitting, so I'll get good use out of them for a few years! 

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Birthday pop up!

 

Fiddling around with the new Celebrate Today stamp set & Balloon Framelits & I made this. It's going to form the basis for February's card class (link in the side bar).

 

You can buy the stamp set and Framelits separately, but if you buy them together as a bundle you save 15%. Coordinating dies and punches make your stamp sets go sooo much further & I really recommend you buy them together if your budget allows.

 

I seem to have been making Christmas stuff for ages (since last August in fact) so it's a relief to finally play with softer, pastel colours!

 

 

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early Easter card

 

Knickers!!

 

I was supposed to hold my first class of the year tonight and I've had to postpone it because we've had heavy (for Heald Green, lol ) snow. How annoying! Never mind, we'll re-schedule, hopefully for next week.

 

It's cold and so my thoughts have turned to slightly warmer weather. Hopefully just around the corner (I spotted frogspawn in the pond earlier, when my doting son was pelting me with snowballs).

 

Ms Rabbit is from the new Cheerful Critters stamp set - the banner section is plain (although some sentiments are included in the set, including "I like your face"!!?)  so I stamped a sentiment from the Tiny Sentiments stamp set.  I've used various other bits & bobs of new stuff  (see below) & coloured in with Blendabilities. The floral strip of paper is from the Best Day Ever stack which is FREE during Sale-a-bration when you spend £45 (plus P&P). Click go shopping on the right side bar to get started.

 

And that is that. The snow has just started falling again, all the schools are closed  - I suppose I really should go & do some panic buying. Does Amazon count?

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