FLASH!! POW!! Happy Birthday!!

Good Morning, Jenny here on this sunny Sunday morning and I'm standing in for poor Tara who's feeling rather unwell this weekend.... hopefully Tara will be back tomorrow with a project and her usual weekly store news :)

For today, I have a card suitable for a comic/cartoon fan... it doesn't have to be a guy but let's face it, they usually are!! 

I've used the images from Avery Elles Super and the coordinating die set to make this scene....

The sketchy skyline is quite easy to cut up and move around so you don't get too many repeats and by stamping the furthest buildings on grey card and making the foreground shorter gives the feel of depth. I added some comic style shading with basic primary colours.

The Happy Birthday laser is stamped and embossed on coloured vellum which is double layered to intensify the colour...

 I used the Stick it adhesive for this job, perfect result :)

For a touch of sky I have used a Half tone circle from Altenew, these are currently out of stock but will hopefully be back very soon.... you could easily use a Half tone star instead! I have also used one of the halftone stamps to add colour to the action bubbles too.

The sentiment strips are made using a Lawn Fawn Alphabet in the comic book style

    

Thanks for stopping by today :)

Jenny x

Welcome Little Baby

Hey stampers, Anni here!

A crafty friend got a baby boy this summer! So I wanted to create a baby card for her.

I had this set called Nursery Deco by Mama Elephant for a long time but I haven't used it before - can you believe it! It is so cute!

I started by stamping the big giraffe once and the small one three times and coloured them with alcohol markers.
For the background I stamped the really fantasic Halftone Circles by AlteNew in Aqua tones. By the way: I think this set is a must have - it is so versatile and makes it so easy to create subtle backgrounds.

For a baby card I like to add the name of the baby. That is easy if you have a Alphabet die cut set in your stash. You see me often use My Favorite Things' Bottlecap Alpha for these occassions because it has just the right size for a card. I cut the letters I needed from scraps of cardstock and stacked them up to get some dimension.
I added a stamped Welcome to the sentiment from the Nursery Deco set.
When I looked at my card I had the feeling it needed a little more yellow. So I die cut some stars with the Confetti die by Mama Elephant and arranged them in a triangle.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni