A beary happy birthday

I'm popping in today with a birthday card and thanks to this watercolour panel from my UFO box, it was a quick one.

I used goodies from my latest purchase from Winnie and Walter to create my card, including the baker's twine that was used to keep the products together.

I had originally planned to do some inlaid die-cutting, but I loved how my panel looked with most of the letters still in position that I decided to put double-sided tape on the back and use the entire panel as is. I stamped the heart garland and the drummer bear in Black Jack ink (CP ink) and then added a little more grey using a coloured pencil.

I'm playing at:

W&W June/July Colour Combo with Heather

Seize the Birthday - #171 Anything goes (no toppings for me)

SSS Wednesday - Add a die cut

Quick Christmas card

Hello, hello! I'm finally back with another card. Life has been rather hectic this past month, both with work and a husband with back problems, meaning I have had to take over most of his daily chores. Thank goodness, he is on the mend and has resumed his short morning walks with our dog, Bernie, which means I get more sleep and don't have to rush things in the morning, which suits me just fine.

Anyway, I'm happy I managed to create a quick Christmas card for a couple of my favourite challenges. Once again, I have been saved by something from my UFO box or, rather, my snippets box. I had this snippet of an alcohol ink background which fitted just perfectly behind the aperture of my die cut NBUS tree by CUTplorations, that I had die cut from a panel of glitter card (Marianne Design). For my background I used a panel of rustic cream cardstock (PTI) that I scored using my score board.

To finish off, I added a few gold glitter jewels that seem to pick up the darker streaks from my AI background.

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Inspiration photo

July Rudolph Days at Maureen's blog

Pixie's Snippets Playground #357

Watercooler Wednesday - WWC232 Anything goes

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

Awesome

Hello and welcome to the blog today. I finally managed to create another card this weekend, and I kept it sweet and simple.

I started by stamping the outline flower from You are enough (Concord & 9th) in the bottom corner of a panel of Neenah cs and then used my MISTI to stamp the solid layers. For the first (largest) layer, I used second-generation stamping with Coral Cabana ink (CP Designs). For the second (smaller) layer I used first-generation stamping using the same ink. The sentiment is from Three amigos (Mama Elephant). I trimmed down my panel and mounted it to my cardbase after backing it with fun foam. To finish off, I added a few sequins (Studio Katia).

I'm playing at:

AAA Cards - #143 One corner + optional; flowers

Watercooler Wednesday - WWC228 Feminine Anything Goes

Sparkle's Forum - #117 No patterned paper

Time Out - #139 Inspired by words 

(I combined the flower and the happy)