Set of Mini Cards

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Recently I got this super cute Spring Pals Stamps Set by Reverse Confetti from some very sweet crafty friends of mine. They gave it to me because I couldn't stop raving about the cutest duck in the set. But when I held the set in my hands I fell in love with the other awesome critters in the set.
I decided to give them all some love and make a mini set of cards.

I started by stamping all the images with an alcohol marker friendly ink onto white paper and colouring them with alcohol marker, nothing fancy, these small images don't need a lot of shading. For cutting these images out there are coordinating dies available for this set.



For the backgrounds I die cut four times one of My Favorite Things' Inside & Out Stitched Square. I added some ink blending with Distress Inks but only to the corners where I wanted the animal to sit. Then I matted the squares all with a piece of black cardstock to make the colours pop.

To give the critters something to sit or to stand on I added a stripe of black and white striped paper to all of the panels. The sentiments came from several sets: Mama Elephant's Wishful Taggins and Mini Messages and W Plus 9's Hand Lettered Hello.

On two cards I stamped the sentiment onto the panel using my favorite black ink for sentiments: Versafine Onyx Black Ink. On the other two I stamped the words in Versamark on black cardstock and heat embossed it in white.

Then I adhered the panels to square cards.
Do you make sets of cards? Or always one at a time?

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

            

Happy Bday

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Valentine's Day isn't as big in Germany (where I live) like in other countries. So I often resist Valentine's stamp sets. But I couldn't when Reverse Confetti came out with this set called Heart Pals. All these critters are just too cute. And all these images in the set are perfect for non Valentine's Day cards, too. In this case I amde a Birthday card for my sister.

I started by stamping the cat with the balloons and coloured it with alcohol markers and fussy cut it (there are coordinating dies available).
Then I created the background. I masked of a stripe on the bottom of a rectangle of white cardstock and blended ink in green and turquoise onto the cardstock.

My cat was a little bit small for the space so I added some clouds I die cut from white cardstock using Mama Elephant's Rainbow High die set.

All that was then left to do was to stamp the sentiment. It comes from Mama Elephant's Wishfull Taggins. This set has Christmas sentiments but also sayings for all year round.

Thanks for stopping by anfdh ave a crafty weekend.
Anni