80th Agenda

I needed an 80th birthday card this weekend but wasn't sure what to make so I had a browse around instagram and was inspired by a cute 10th birthday card on @thetinybluebutterfly's feed and created a card featuring lots of little agenda characters celebrating the big birthday.

I selected some of the "party related" characters from the following little agenda sets from Mama Elephant:

Monkey
Bunny
Dogs
Cats

I decided to keep all the animals in shades of grey to keep a coherent design and just used pink, yellow and green for all the accents.

The 80 itself came courtesy of Concord and 9th's Notable Numbers Die cut from glitter paper from their summer glitter pack which I used to edge the strip of navy card I mounted the scene on.

Quick and easy card and there are so many characters in the range you can get them doing all sorts of things to match your needs.

 NEWS FROM THE STORE

• Just a reminder than we are "closing" shipping at 3pm on Friday.   The store will remain open over Christmas but we are taking a break so orders placed after 3pm on Friday will not be processed until we start work again on the 2nd January.   We will not be blogging, answering emails or Facebook questions either during that time as we need a proper break so thank you in advance for your patience.

 Before we close, we will still have a few new arrivals:

• MFT card kit stamps and dies - from this month onwards MFT are allowing us to have the stamps and dies from the card kits AT THE SAME TIME as they release the kits rather than making us wait 3 months as they did before.  WE CANNOT GET THE WHOLE KIT - if you want that, as always you have to go direct as the kits are exclusive to MFT Stamps.

• Hero Arts November Kit Add-ons will be here this week.  Again, we can't get the kits themselves they are exclusive to Hero Arts.

• AlteNew - the new stamps, dies, pens and embellishments are hopefully arriving by Tuesday.

 

I'll catch you on Friday for our final blog post of 2018!

Tara

Little Agenda Frame Border

Today I’m sharing a happy Mama Elephant Little Agenda card.

I wanted to use the Little Agenda Frames to create a border edge on a card. I began by stamping the frames and some of the cute Little Agenda animals within them. I masked the edges of the frame when stamping the animals, so they look like photos inside the frames. I coloured the images with alcohol markers, then die cut the frames with the coordinating dies.

I arranged the frames on a card base so they spanned the height of a card, then temporarily adhered them together at the front with some post-it note tape. I flipped the frames over and added some Lawn Fawn glue tube adhesive to adhere them together properly where they overlap. Once dry, I removed the post-it tape.

On the card base, I added a strip of patterned paper on the right hand edge. I then got another piece of white card, narrower than my card base. I stamped a greeting from the Little Agenda Frames stamp set, then adhered the frames along the edge.

To finish, I added this piece to the card base with foam sheet. This gives some dimension from the background, helping the frames edge to stand out.

Thanks for joining me today,

Gemma

Little Cat Agenda

Little Agenda Frame dies

Little Dog Agenda

Little Bunny Agenda

Little Agenda Frames stamp set