Happy Birthday Centrepiece

Today I'm using the MFT Birthday Centrepiece dienamic. This die is great for a focal piece on a card, and it's also perfect for shaker cards!

For me, I've found this die works best on square cards, so I began by creating a 4 inch square card base. 

From another piece of card, I die cut the centrepiece dienamic, and cut it down again with a stitched square die. I then blended on some blue ink.

Next, I stamped and coloured a cat from the MFT Cool Cat stamp set. This is my favourite from the set as it reminds me of my two fluffy cats. I fussy cut the image out, then decided he needed a balloon on his tail. The balloon is from the Lawn Fawn Elphie Selfie stamp set.

Behind the centrepiece, I layered some coordinating patterned paper. At this point, you could turn it into a shaker card, but I decided to keep things simple. I put foam tape behind the cat, then added him to the card. 

...and if you're making one card, you may as well make three, right? So that's just what I did! 

Have a lovely day!

Gemma

MFT Cool Cat

MFT Birthday Centerpieces Dienamic

MFT Smitten Paper Pad

MFT Once Upon a Time

Lawn Fawn Stitched Squares

MFT Beary Special Birthday

Celebrate with Cake!

I have a fun card to share today with the new MFT products which are so great for Birthday cards.

I used the adorable Beary Special Birthday by Birdie Brown and wanted to combine two of the cake images with a sentiment from Big Birthday Sentiments so used Blueprints 28 for a little card interactivity!   I started with some thick white card and die cut the main part of the die with it - this gives you an open flap and I stamped the bear carrying the cake onto the front of the flap.  I cut another piece of white card slightly smaller and put it underneath, drawing a light pencil outline through the open flap to allow me to work out where to stamp my "inside" image.  I coloured both with copics.

For the sentiment - the one I selected I wanted to split into two - one part on the outside and one on the inside.  Last week I talked about "cutting" stamps but I know that can be scary so I wanted to show you another trick - using washi tape to cover up the bits you don't want before inking.

You can see here I used some tape to cover up the part of the sentiment I used on the outside before inking up the bottom line - if you take some care to "tuck" the tape into the gap you can use this trick on most stamps.  Just ink over the tape and peel it off before stamping.   I added another sentiment to the inside of the card as there are some fabulous birthday sentiments in this set.

To add the fun frame I die cut the blueprint again from paper from the Party Time pad from Echo Park and simply trimmed the fold line on the flap with scissors to remove it.

NEWS FROM THE STORE

• We have just received the latest releases from Neat and Tangled and Stamping Bella
• We have an order in for the new Christmas in July release from Concord and 9th which includes a re-release of the Take A Bough tree dies and it should be here by the end of the week.
• There is a new release from Lil' Inker Designs and we should have that very soon too.
• We are waiting on restocks hitting the UK from Kuretake but again hope to have those this week or next.