Holiday Wishes

I was out in my yard the other day and spied my pink flamingos and decided I liked the idea of these guys in a Christmas card.

First I water colored a background and started reaching for the tried and true rectangle die when the circle ones caught my eye so I decided to change it up a bit. I did diecut my panel background in rectangle, added my circle, popped up the flamingos  up using foam tape then was trying to to figure out a sentiment when again I found my stickers and added the gold label and lastly a few enamel dots. 

All in all a fairly quick despite the coloring with copics and water colored background. 

Happy Bird-Day!

As usual I found myself behind on my tasks and lo and behold I had a birthday lunch to go to and found myself completely unprepared. First thing to do was make a birthday card.

I had this flamingo set untouched for a few months and needed some inspiration quick to whip out a card and these stamps and dies did just that.

First I attempted to do a watercolor background with the distress crayons but eh not at all what I wanted, so plan b - use the distress inks, mush them on an acrylic block, mist with water lay a water color card on top and voila` instant background. Nice and vibrant just what I was going for.

I then cut the watercolor card using a MFT stitch rectangle die, stamped and colored my flamingos, popped them up using some foam tape, then mounted the layers on my base card. Lastly I added the  die cut grass also from MFT, the matte enamel dots and stamped my sentiment on a speech bubble which I also popped up.

Ok card done check, now all I need is a quick gift. Hopefully a pound of see's candy will do the trick.

Shark card

I saw these stamps/die combo from Avery Elle and knew in an instant I had to have them. They will be great for some guy cards.

Since I knew I had purchased the Shark stamp set I stopped in at the Rubbernecker booth at the Expo and picked up a fun little sentiment to use with them.

I colored all that blue ocean with copics and both stamped and die cut the fishes, popping up the die cut ones. I added a few clouds and clear enamel dots.

This card is going to be for my Father In Law's Father's Day card.