24 Carrot Friend

Hello, it's Liz here. As well as super cute characters I do love a punny sentiment! This 'Rooting For You' set by My Favorite Things ticks both those boxes. There's 'I Carrot About You', 'I Dig You', 'Thanks Bunches', 'I'm Rooting For You', 'I Love You A Whole Bunch' and, of course, the one I used. All perfect for a fun card.

The background papers are from the 'Simple Vintage Botanicals' pad, I love this pad so much. I think it might be the first time ever I will use up a whole paper pad! The aperture was die cut using the 'Garden Fancy' die by Hero Arts. I was tempted to ink a little colour round the edges but decided the white looked good against the papers.  I simply did some wonky stitching to add interest instead. I coloured the cute character with alcohol markers, the matching die for the stamp set is available here, and popped him on the card using foam pads.

Oh, and I happen to know this stamp set and matching die is on special offer at the mo', a real bargain! Thanks for stopping by today, happy crafting! 

Garden Frame

We've finally managed to load all the brand new items from the new Hero Arts 2019 Catalogue to store - all 120 of them!   There are lots of gorgeous new items, not least a rainbow of stunning card stocks, but I wanted to make something quick this morning with the new release so opted for the Garden Fancy Die which is a fabulous delicate frame that you can treat in many, many ways.

Here I simply trimmed a panel of  Lawn Fawn's beautifully delicate grey card stock - Fog - to slightly smaller than my square base card and die cut the garden from it.  I used my Polychromos pencils to colour in the flowers, leaves, bird and butterflied, leaving the fence grey.

I stamped a sentiment from the new Occasions sentiment set also from Hero Arts on the base card - lining it up before I added foam tape behind the grey panel and finished with some black enamel accents.

Super quick but pretty effect.

Right, back to packing orders - catch you on Sunday.

Tara