Balloon birthday

This card made use of a couple of die sets.  The balloon sentiment die is by Pretty Pink Posh and the smaller balloon dies are from a set by Poppystamps.  The hedgehog stamp is from Penny Black.  I colored the stamped image with colored pencils and added twine to hold the balloons.

Another rainbow card

 I'm still playing with my rainbow dies.  This time, I cut the rainbow from a watercolor pad by Colorbok.  This is patterned paper with watercolor type patterns.  I also inset the rainbow into the negative space from the die.  The clouds are cut from felt.

Look for the Rainbow

I have purchased quite a few new dies and wanted to use them to create a card.  The rainbow dies are by Lawn Fawn.

I used an alcohol ink background and cut it out with a stitched rectangle die, since the rainbow and clouds have stitching.  The sentiment is stamped, but I didn't have a stitched die the right size, so I used a Sizzix die with piercing around the edge.  I then added a frame and mounted all on a white card base.

For the inside and back of card, I used a new set of House Mouse stamps.

 

Sparkly hugs

This is another background made with alcohol ink on silver sparkle alcohol ink paper.  The circle hugs is a combination of 2 dies.  The hugs part is cut out of an open circle.  I had to use another circle die to create the border.  This circle hugs is cut from holographic silver paper. 

I added a silver layer, cut with a Sissix rectangle die that cuts dots around the edge.  I then mounted this on a lavender card base.  I stamped a cut little house mouse stamp and message to back of card.

These stamps are from a darling stamp set I just got.  These cute mice are all wearing masks, along with the rest of us.

Sparkly birthday

I've had some problems being creative this month.  It's been a sad month with the death of my precious dog and the dog of my best friend.  It's always hard to lose them when they've been a part of out lives for so long.

I had to pull myself out to make a birthday card for a special female relative.  This background is made with alcohol inks on silver sparkle alcohol ink paper.  It leaves a very vibrant sparkly color.  I added several dies to finish this card, then mounted it on a yellow card base.

It's hard to capture the true color and sparkle of this card.  Another photo shows the color better, but not all the sparkle.

Stay healthy

I've been very distracted lately and haven't been very creative.  I lost my good friend and faithful dog recently.  He lived a good life, but had a difficult time this spring.  Cancer strikes again and he crossed the Rainbow Bridge the end of June.  I miss him a lot.

I did find myself making a belated birthday card recently.  This was for a man trying to stay healthy while this pandemic is keeping him at home.

Independence Day

Tomorrow is the day that we celebrate freedom in the USA.  I made a couple of cards to celebrate.

Flowers and bees

I've been playing with more new dies and created a couple more cards.  When I made this background die-cut with a new Studio Katia die, it looked like a honeycomb, so I searched for some bee dies and found this one by Memory Box, called Sweet Honeybees.  Next, i needed some flowers, so I found some I had for some time and cut them out of bright colored cardstock.  The bees wings are cut from some new holographic cardstock from Simon Says Stamp.

I have more dies to play with, so I'll keep trying to use them.

Playing with new dies

I created a few more cards from new dies.  This first one was for a female relative with many problems right now.

The 2nd card was just to try out some fun new dies.

The background is done with alcohol inks.  The leaves are by Poppy Stamps and the daffodil from Simon Says Stamp.

New dies

I have quite a few new dies that I'm beginning to play with.  There will be more to come, but here are a couple of cards.