Cozy Toes for a Baby Girl

 And these make for a total of five baby cards made in the last few weeks!  I've mainly needed baby boy cards, until a friend saw my girl version a few days ago, and asked for another...  So I have two baby girl cards to share with you today, made with the Cozy Toes stamps and dies from Cocord & 9th.

 I once again pulled out paper packs from Art Impressions - as the coordinating smaller scale prints work SO well with this design.

The use of patterned paper with the dies also make these come together really quickly.  I loved making a couple of non-traditionally coloured baby cards.

Happy Bee Day

It's been a week of last minute card requests!  (I love making specific cards for people...)  I have been teaching my girlfriend's daughter to sew, and she had created a couple of bee-themed projects for her sister, so I offered to make a bee-themed card to go with the gift.

I knew that I had this large Bee die from The Greetery, and realized that I had the honeycomb stencil too.

The sentiment I needed was a no-brainer, and since I needed to create it fairly quickly, I took 'happy' and 'birthday' word dies, and trimmed off  'birth', then pulled out the small font die, and already had the yellow letters cut and ready!  Voila!

One of the best things about my card, is that I used products from six different companies to bring it all together.  The Greetery (Bee), Pinkfresh Studio (White circle), Spellbinders (Word dies), Art Impressions (Small font), Lawn Fawn (stencil) and Tim Holtz (Inks).

Baby Girl Card

Once again, it's Cozy Toes by Concord & 9th to the rescue!  I had a last minute request for a baby card, and reverted to my trusted and true card design with this set.

I pulled out the 5835 Mini Paper pack by Art Impressions, and used it with all the dies from this set to put a card together fairly quickly.  Using a coordinating paper pack takes out a lot of the guesswork.

I think this is my 5th card with this design, just switching up the papers.  More are in my future, as I cut a bunch of additional pieces to use in cards down the road.

Glam Designer Purse

This was a special request card, using the Designer Purse die from the 'We All Have Baggage' collection designed by Sheri Ballantyne for Spellbinders.

I found these older kraft/gold papers in my stash to create a glam card using pearlescent black cardstock and some metallic red for the hearts.  The sentiment is 'Keep Calm Sentiments' by Hero Arts.  My card is 5 1/2" square.

You can find the entire collection at The Papercrafter's Workshop!

Watercolour Tulips & Daffodils

I knew that I wanted to try painting this image as soon as I saw it, so I pressed a couple of them on some Canson XL Watercolour paper, and pulled out my Gansai Tambei set of paints.

 

This is the Yana's Tulips and Daffodils press & foil plate from Spellbinders.

Both versions are pretty similar, with slight variations.  This one has a softer background, and more red toned tulips.  I added some gold spatter, and a sentiment from the Golden Blooms set.

I stitched around the outside of the piece with my sewing machine, and added a few champagne pearls.

My second version has a moodier vibe, with a stronger background.

I went for more pink toned tulips, and used a sentiment from the Bouquet of Hugs set.

So much fun to paint!  You can find the set at The Papercrafter's Workshop.

Golden Bloom in Silver!

 My final project with the January Betterpress Society plate, Golden Bloom was a bit of an experiment for me.  Smooth paper tends to work best for both Betterpress and Glimmer, but they both worked really well on textured Bazzil cardstock!

I'm also enjoying using Betterpress inks other than just black - this is French Blue!  I really love the tone on tone.

Knowing that I wanted silver accents, I decided to try hot foiling the sentiment... so pulled out some silver foil, and gave it a try.  I am new at foiling, and it is not supposed to be ideal to foil on textured cardstock, but again - it worked beautifully!  I used my Hemstitched Rectangle die from Spellbinders to add the detail, and mounted my panel with 3D foam adhesive.  Oh - and I gave it some splatters of silver paint, but they barely show up in the photos!

You can get a Betterpress Society subscription from The Papercrafter's Workshop!

Gingham Floral

I am still enjoying creating with Yana Smakula's Tulips and Daffodils press and foil plate.

I pressed the plate with grey Archival Ink onto regular cardstock, then coloured it with the coordinating stencil and Pinkfresh Studio inks.

I adhered it to some lilac gingham with 3D foam adhesive, and pressed one of the sentiments from the Bouquet of Hugs set onto the same paper with black Betterpress ink.  It was also attached with 3D adhesive.  A few iridescent gems finished it off.

The press plate, stencils and sentiments are all available at The Papercrafter's Workshop.