Happy Birthday Chicks

Hello, Tallie here.

I have a striking birthday card featuring some homemade background paper and the MFT Birthday Chicks stamp set.

There are several products I use to create striped backgrounds like this one - the Altenew Classy Stripes stencil, the Concord & 9th Stripes and Sayings stamp or MFT Black and White Stripes Paper are just a couple of them. Six months ago I made a huge stash of paper using the MFT Bold Diagonal Stripes Background with my regular MFT Extreme Black Ink. I cut one of the pieces down and adhered it to a white card base. I also cut out a kraft cardstock circle using a Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle die to give a backdrop to my images.

Next, I stamped out the chicks and cake from the MFT Birthday Chicks stamp set and coloured them with my alcohol markers. I cute these out with the coordinating dies and adhered them in a scene on the circle.

For the sentiment, I die cut several of the Lawn Fawn Scripty Happy - one from red cardstock - and stacked them for dimension. To finish off, I white heat embossed a 'BIRTHDAY' sentiment strip from the Lawn Fawn Simply Sentiments set.

Thanks for reading, catch you next week!

Tallie

 

Happy

Hey stampers, Anna here, with a very happy card.
You never know what it really is that makes one die your favorite die, don't you! For me at the moment I can't stay away from Lawn Fawn's Scripty Happy die.
So I decided to make it the star of my card.

I started by die cutting the word a few times from watercolour cardstock. Then I adhered the die cuts in diagonal lines to a piece of the same watercolor cardstock. When the glue was dry I added some of my new inks to the paper. I chose violet, turquoise and blue. At first I thought I made this card for my nephew who's turning twenty in a few weeks but I think the violet is not the right color for a young man.
I spritzed a little bit of water onto the panel to achieve these bleached spots. I also added some splashes of white ink and some shimmer spray.

For the focal point I decided to go with the happy die again. I die cut it again a few times from black cardstock and stacked it up for a little bit of dimension. To make it stand out a little bit more I set it on a vellum heart (I used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Heart Stackables). I stamped Birthday on a piece of cardstock, embossed it in white, added the same violet ink I used for the background and cut it into a banner!

To finish up the card I added some star sequins.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Easter!
Anni

Lawn Fawn - Stitched Heart Stackables Lawn Cuts

Lawn Fawn - Scripty Happy