Confetti and Cake

A cake with candles is always a great image for a birthday card, don't you agree?

I mean who doesn't like a piece of cake on their special day!

The confetti turnabout stamp and cake layers die from Concord & 9th are such a cute pairing. 

The confetti background is a nice little circle of celebration that would work well with any 

image and the dies are well thought out with separate candle bodies so you can layer

them over the lit candles...

This first card is not necessarily boyish but I did decide to go quite girly for my second 

birthday cake with pink ombre icing..

I used pink Copics to colour a piece of copy paper then 

used the scalloped die to cut the layers

mmm.... my tummy is rumbling now!!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash used:

Confetti Turnabout Stamp, Cake Layers Die, Top it Off - Concord & 9th

Bitty Birthday Wishes Stamps - MFT

Autumn Park

I make no apologies for another Autumnal card but I felt we needed some full 

on colour to represent the season plus I've had these trees in my stamp 

collection a while now and they needed some love...

I was thinking the green background of the sentiment was a good substitute for parkland 

and the line of trees a nice edge to it.... in a very stylised and simplistic way of course.

Mixing inks on a stamp gives such great results for autumn leaves as does a soft

 blend of scattered straw distress oxide behind the trees... 

I'm very happy with how this card turned out!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Modern Trees stamps and dies - MFT

Sweater Weather dies - Concord & 9th

Autumn Wreath

Autumn is my favourite season, which I'm sure I've said on here every year, 

so when the seasonal crafting goodies come out I cannot resist!!

This beautiful stamp set by Avery Elle just had to live with me and I really enjoyed 

water-colouring the leaves and fungi... I went with a green leaved version this time 

and will try a more vibrant colour version another day,

The MFT background is a lovely subtle check to add pattern without distraction,

might find it hard to give this card away!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Fall Foliage - Avery Elle

All Lined Up - MFT

Leafy Thoughts

It's quite a sunny autumn day here today so I thought I should share this card before the season 

makes a definite change!! I was inspired to use my Flora and Fauna stamps and these

 three rectangles of card sitting on my desk which are perfectly usable die cut waste...

Not sure what this technique is called but its sort of like spotlighting the three areas and to do this I used my good ol' MISTI and some scrap paper cut to the same size as my card front..

 This is what I ended up with..... then it was just a case of lifting the rectangles 

off of the scrap piece and mounting them onto the card front

 whilst matching up the leafy pattern.

Very dainty and summery.

Thanks for stopping by 

Jenny x 

Stash Used:

Oh Hello Friend, Aviary Love, Live Life Wildflowers - Flora & Fauna stamps