You're So Sweet - Stay Cool Ice creams with Studiolight

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Friday! I hope that you have had a lovely week and are looking forward to the weekend. 

I'm on my blog today with a very Summery card that I've made using a new set of clear stamps.  These sweet ice creams are from a set by Studiolight and I wanted to create something for the current Simon Says Stamp July challenge on Instagram to use the three colours pink, blue and green, a perfect combination for Summer!

This is a simple A6 (UK Size) card created with a layer of white card on a white card blank.  

I started off by stamping the three ice creams onto watercolour card stock and then coloured them using my watercolour paints, sticking to the theme, before fussy cutting out and using a black marker to hide the white outline.

Next I stamped the three ice creams onto a panel of white card before using my texture stamp and distress inks to create the splatters - I think they look like splashes of ice cream dropped onto the page.

Once the distress ink was dry I adhered the fussy cut ice creams into place along with a sweet sentiment from the set which I adhered with foam tape after doodling a black outline.  

Next I added white gel pen highlights here and there and some clear iridescent sequins to finish off my card for today.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card for today and will drop by again to see my next project.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Studiolight clear stamps - Friendz - Stay Cool

Distress Ink - salty ocean, mowed lawn, picked raspberry

Lisa Horton Crafts Euphoria Watercolour paints 

Craftwork Cards Stamps - Stamp it II

Sugar & Spice Sequins - Unicorn mix

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - white, black

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x

Happy Happy Birthday John - Party like a Panda

Hello everyone and happy Saturday - today I have a very special birthday card that I've made for my best friend and hubby John....

I decided it was time he got a specially made card as I've been so busy the last few years making design team cards and he gets rather left out sadly.

I bought this set of stamps and dies from a friend last year that was decluttering before the arrival of her first baby and this is the first time using it - its such a cute set of panda birthday stamps and really simple to use.  

I decided to create a simple but colourful stencilled background using distress inks and a confetti stencil, die cutting this panel to fit a DL sized card. 

I layered the panel on a larger piece of white card for extra interest.                                                                                                                                    The Panda, balloons and the little sub-sentiment were stamped onto a new watercolour card and coloured with some new Chromatek Watercolour pens that I'm trying out too - not completely happy with the results yet but I think I need to have more play time until I decide if I like them or not.                                                                                                                 

The panda stamps come with coordinating dies so I used these to cut out my coloured images and then mounted these onto my card with foam tape for dimension.

The finishing touches were some clear iridescent sequins around the design, white gel pen highlights, glossy accents on the balloons and metallic gel pen on the balloon strings.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Simon Says Stamp - Stamp & Die set - Party like a Panda

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Clippings stencil - Confetti

Distress Ink salty ocean, fossilized amber, candied apple

Gelly Roll pen - white, metallic grey

Glossy Accents

Sugar & Spice sequins - Unicorn

                      

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

Sending a rainbow of hugs

Hello everyone I hope that you are having a lovely day.

I am back today on my blog to share a very quick but bright and cheerful card that I've made simply using some card scraps.  

I was making an inky background for another project that Ill be sharing very soon and had some torn paper strips so decided rather than wasting them I would add them to a card to make this background.  

I love the effect and texture that the torn edges have given to the panel.

All it needed to finish off the card was a simple large sentiment which I have die cut in black card, the shadow layer behind has been cut from vellum.  I stamped the sub-sentiment and finally added a little bling.

Card recipe:

Distress ink - Picked raspberry, candied apple, carved pumpkin, fossilised amber, twisted citron

Simon Says Stamp hugs die & shadow layer

Simon Says Stamp - Garden Greetings stamps

Pinkfresh Studio essentials dies - diagonal stitched rectangles

Craftelier sequins

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment below.

 Wendy x