Happy Mother's Day | Recollections Papers

Hello all, well I hope you are having great day? I thought I'd share with you a card I especially created for my Mum on Mother's day, I wanted something that little bit special and decided to use the recollections papers from Recollections Southern Charm 12 x 12 set that I'd purchased a few weeks back and just thought these papers suited Mother's day perfectly.

On will the card, I started with card blank just slightly wider than A5 card (tent fold) then adhered a narrow strip of the sparkle pink stripe papers to the left hand side of the card. Cut down a piece of the vintage flower paper down to fit the front of the card and adhered narrow strip of gold glitter card to the left side with strong double sided tape. Added some funky foam to the back of the vintage flower paper with double sided tape. 

Taking a piece of tracing paper, that I cut to slightly wider to fit perfectly on the card front. Next using some cornflour for anti static, rubbed over the tracing paper and using the Winnie and Walter The big, the bold and the happy <----- click here clear stamps and perfect medium stamped the Happy Mother's Day then poured over distressed gold embossing powder, then heat set with heat tool. Wrapped the finished stripe around the card and applied double sided tape to the back. Applied double sided to the back of the funky foam and adhered to the card. 

Using the Silhouette Cameo, I cut three Butterflies from the Silhouette Library <---- Click Here using neenah solar white card then stuck them together one on top of each other with zig fine glue pen, then triple embossing the butterfly with the distress gold embossing powder. Adhere to the card using the same zig fine glue pen. For the finishing touches I added some wink of stella clear glitter pen to the pink flowers and added a few sequins using micro glue dots to adhere them. 

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MIC digi stamp | colouring pencils

Hello all, well I thought I'd bring you my first card design for the new year, My inspiration came from a digi stamp from Make It Crafty <------- click here  this totally sweet girl is the very lovely Tress Joyful, she is she so adorable and so relaxing to colour in too. My aim this year is to use my Silhouette Cameo a lot more than what I normally do, so I can get even more value out of this super awesome machine.  

On with the card itself, Started with with piece of  pink A3 card which I cut down to 21.3 x 10.5 cm and folded to make a tent fold card. Next I went into Silhouette software and cropped the MIC image and added offset as stitched line and created another offset to create a cut line then cut it out on the Silhouette. I coloured in the digistamp using WHSmith artist's colouring pencils. Then I cut down a strip of tracing paper (excellent alternative to vellum, better value too) and stamped birthday using acrylic block and perfect medium stamp pad, heat set it with heat tool then folded the strip around the card and adhere to the back of the matt with double sided tape. (making sure it was positioned correctly to suit "Happy" cutout)

Using the Silhouette cameo software I typed "Happy" using one of my favourite fonts and cut out three times on the Silhouette, I adhere two of them together with Zig fine glue pen and the third I heat emboss using clear embossing powder and a heat tool (repeated this three times to create glossy finish) then adhere to the other two to this embossed one with the same Zig fine glue pen.

Now I adhere sheet of EVA fun foam to the back of the stitched matt with some double sided tape, then adhere  to card blank using double sided tape. Glued the "Happy" just left of the middle of the card (just above the birthday) with Zig fine glue pen. Made my own enamel dots using my Silhouette Cameo, cut out 4 and 5mm circles and using foam mat and round embossing tool, gently rub in circular motion on the back of the circles, to create a dome effect then heat embossed them three times each using clear embossing powder (to create that shiny glossy effect) and adhere the dots to the card using Stix2 mini foam pads. (Top tip - used cocktail stick and ball of blu tac or sticky tac to make the embossing easier) To finish I applied a little clear wink of stella to her headband, earrings and bangles.    

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