A 21st Birthday

My baby is 21 today, and she is one of my biggest card-making supporters!  Always willing to look at my work and give me suggestions or opinions.  When she was little, she was all about bright and happy colours, with a little sparkle thrown in.  So even though she's no longer wearing pink and purple every day... it's still what I reach for when it comes to making her cards.  And "Boo" is a nickname if you're wondering about the odd sentiment!

I had fun with some Distress Oxide ink blending, stamped the sentiment over top, and then coloured Boo and the flowers with some Wink of Stella to provide some shimmer.
Patterned papers are Lawn Fawn, Flowers are Moderne Flowers from Colourific, 'Boo' is Framework Alphabet and Hello Life - both CTMH.  Distress Oxide Inks are Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry & Wilted Violet. Hemstitched Oval dies are Spellbinders.

Freshly Made Sketches #97

Be Merry!  I have a Christmas card to share with you today, using my favourite stamp set from the new Close To My Heart Fall/Winter catalogue - the Framework Alphabet!  It's not usually the case that a font is my favourite new stamp set, but I love everything about this one, and it has such a current, fresh look to it.  I pulled out a holiday paper pack from a few years ago, and paper pieced Merry, then coloured 'be' in with Copic markers.  I've used the interesting sketch from Freshly Made Sketches this week:

You can't see the glitter snowflake very well, but I layered a larger white cardstock snowflake over a smaller one that I'd cut out of silver glitter paper.  Just enough glitter to add a bit of sparkle.

 

Patterned papers are Believe; Cardstock is Black and White Daisy; Stamp set is Framework Alphabet; Glitter paper - all Close To My Heart; Let it Snowflake die, MFT; Martha Stewart snowflake punch.  Copic Markers