Dandelion Wishes Cards

I used the CTMH Dandelion Wishes stamp set to make both of these birthday cards, along with Ballerina and Charcoal cardstock.

The "Make a Wish" sentiment is from the retired Wish, an M-sized stamp.

After I embossed the images with white embossing powder, I coloured the embossed dandelions with a Tender Pink marker.

( I was inspired by a SU card made by Megumi Holland.) 💕

I also used the Playful Scallops embossing folder for the card above.

For my shaker, I used the Stitched Circles Thin Cuts to create a little smaller shaker, as the Shaker Window Thin Cuts dies were a little too big for the size I needed for this card.

Happy creating!  :)

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It's the Little Things & You're the Best

I whipped these two cards up today.

Some days, it all just flows out of me.

(And some days, it is a little more work.)

These ones were easy; I love that.  :)

For both cards, I used the CTMH Budding Peony (with Thin Cuts dies) and Wordfetti stamp sets, and Sugarplum, Sage, and Canary inks on my flower images.

I noticed in the photo that it looks like some of the little stars in my shaker are blue, but they are actually more of a pearlescent colour, and look more like shades of white and pink IRL. 

I used two markers to colour my Clear Sparkles and Bitty Sparkles;  first with the Peony Purple and then the Tender Pink.

For the random stamped background, I set up my stamps onto a 4"x4" block as shown below, and inked them in Mink ink.  I then only had to stamp this 3 times to fill my Lt. Mink cardstock piece.

It always feels so good to get my craft on!

Happy creating!  :)

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Birthday Shaker Card

I hadn't ever tried making a shaker card before, so this turned out pretty good for a first try.

If I say so myself.  Haha.

(Inspired by this card by Lisa Kind.)

You may be wondering about the yellow patterned paper?  

I used an old retired CTMH stamp set called Two-Step Backgrounds and Canary ink to stamp it.

The beautiful flowers are from the current Hawaiian Hibiscus stamp set, and coloured in with re-inkers by spritzing the watercolor paper with water first before adding the colours with a waterbrush.

The pink and purple sequins are also old retired CTMH products from quite a few years back.

Feels good to use up some of my old stuff and make it new!

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used are all CTMH (unless otherwise noted):

Paper: Watercolor paper; White Daisy CS

Stamps:  Hawaiian Hibiscus, Celebrate With Cake - May SOTM, Two-Step Backgrounds - retired

Inks:  Black, Canary, Versamark

Re-inkers:  Honey, Pear, Sunset, Cotton Candy

Marker:  Cherry Pink ShinHan

Embellishments:  Gold Sequins, Bitty Sparkles, Pink and Purple sequins - retired

Dies:  Circles (SU), Pierced Circles (Spellbinders)

Other:  White Embossing Powder, Micro-tip Scissors, Waterbrush, 3D foam tape