Birthday: Enjoy Today with Alcohol Inks

  

Happy birthday, Aaron!  I just received the set Inspirational Cutting Dies from Patelai.  A fun set of dies to complement the alcohol ink background.  

Notice the round circles in the background.  Those are made with my scoring tool; they create a wonderful change in the design.  Gems in the corner complete the balance.

Floral Background Die from Alcohol Inks

 I created a page of alcohol inks using fall colors for this card.  With the leftover piece, I cut the floral background die from poppystamps.com.  Stunning effect of the shine and color variation of the alcohol inks.  

Birthday Unicorns: Outside the Box

Using My Favorite Things Unicorn stampa and matching dies with the Outside the Box Level Up dies, this birthday card was fun and whimsical.  The unicorns were die cut from an alcohol ink page we made.  

My daughter and I made this for my five year old granddaughter,  Kahlan.

Birthday: Skeletal Leaves from Alcohol Inks

 

I created a page using alcohol inks.  I die cut the autumn colored sheet with Tim Holtz' Skeletal Leaves.  The alcohol ink pages are thicker than card stock, so the die cuts take more time to separate the die cuts.  Not more difficult, but a longer time.  The picture does not do the card justice - the clarity and glossiness doesn't come across.  Believe me, this is stunning.

The Skeletal Leaves die set is new to me.  I surely will use it again!  

Colors:
Mossy Meadow
Crumb Cake

Stamps:

Birthday Wishes (Hero Arts)

Other:

Alcohol Inks

Skeletal Leaves (Tim Holtz)

Crackle embossing folder 

Bling

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Birthday: Watercolor with Spellbinder Phrases

The Time Holtz stamps blended into the background, but it changed the watercolor pattern considerably.  

Colors:
Pretty Peacock

Blackberry Bliss

Watercolor Powder

Stamps:

Tim Holtz Fragments

Dies:

Spellbinders Phrases 1

MFT Polka Dot Border

Happy Birthday Die Cut on Watercolor

 A new die for me.  I watercolored the background with Brusho watercolor powders.  I used Mango Melody for the base and the die cut.  The drops in the corner are Nuvo Crystal Drops.  The drops are easy to apply, but they take 48 hours to dry completely.  

Birthday: Let It Ride Watercolor

Another NBUB card (Never Been Used Before).  I love the Let It Ride stamp set -- I cannot believe it took me this long to put ink to it.

Colors:

Early Espresso

Baked Brown Sugar

Crumb Cake

Basic Grey

Mellow Moss

Old Olive

Soft Sky

Stamps:

Let it Ride

Sheltering Tree (for grass)

I used watercolor paper, stamping the horses with StazOn I used masks of the horses to keep the horses in the forefront.  Then I colored the scene with aqua painters.  

Birthday: Hen in a Basket

https://www.etsy.com/listing/842037851/all-occasion-card-kit-birthday-thinking?ref=shop_home_active_5

River Rock, Cajun Craze, and Always Artichoke papers and ink were used. The hen stamp is from an old Stampin' Up! set; I cut off "from the kitchen of" to make it just the hen in the basket.

The corner punch is one of my favorites.  It adds so much for such a simple design. 

Birthday: Framed Ferns

Crumb Cake and Mossy Meadow are one of my favorite color combinations.  The tulip frame sets of the ferns.  

This card is also available on Etsy. 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/828640986/homemade-card-birthday-thinking-of-you?ref=listings_manager_table

Birthday: Grandiose Bevel in Blues

I love these dies from Birch Press Designs. The dies come as a set of three to create the most remarkable layers. I watercolored the background with watercolor powders.  

Birthday: Swirly Birds Happy BeeDay

This is another card from the Swirly Bird matching dies.  I watercolored the background, cut the vines from the Swirly Bird set, cut the bees from the Honey Bee set, and punched the flowers from scrap paper.    The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti.  I used the stitched shapes rectangles to cut the sentiment out.

Birthday: Honeycomb Bevel with Happy BEE Day

The Honeycomb Bevel dies, made by Birch Press Design, are three separate dies that fit together.  I used two yellows and black for the honeycombs.  The black made the honeycomb pop.  The bee is from SU!'s set Honey Bee.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti's Happy Bee Day.  The background is watercolored with watercolor powder.  Sponging added another layer of color.

Birthday: Flower Shop with Watercolored Flowers

The background was created with stamp pads on watercolor paper.   Then I used stamps and sprayed more water to blur the images.  The flowers were punched from the matching die for Flower Shop from watercolor paper using watercolor powders.  

Birthday: Butterfly Dance

This beautiful die is the card. The die is Butterfly Dance from Tutti Designs.

I wanted a three dimensional look, so I ran the die twice and fussy cut the butterflies.  

Birthday: Triple Layer Stacked Squares

Stitched Shaped dies were used to create the layers of squares.  Buttons finished off the design.

Birthday: It's Your Day with Mod Flowers

The Mod Flowers die makes such a simple, beautiful card.  Water color powders were used for the background.  The die cut was adhered using a spray glue.  The stamp is from Hero Arts.

Birthday: Watercolor with Mod Flowers

This is a surprisingly easy card.  I used watercolor powders for the background.  The Mod Flowers die was glued on.  Pearls were attached. Easy Peasy.

Birthday: Framed Watercolor

The watercolor under the frame uses stamp pads for the color.  Then stamps from Flower Shop and Gorgeous Grunge created the pattern.  The flowers are punched from the Flower Shop and Petite Petals stamp sets.  The Happy Birthday stamp is one of my favorites; I found it at a garage sale years ago.

Birthday: Dinosaur Watercolor with Glitter

My grandson, Jakob, loves Godzilla and dinosaurs.  My granddaughter, Ella, helped make this card.  She really wanted a glittery card.  So, we used Versa Mark and silver embossing powder.  Then we used water color powders to create the background.  Fun card!

Birthday with Stitched Squares

The square are layered in alternating colors and buttons used as bling.  The stamp is from Wetlands.