Sunny Big Hugs

Hi everyone, it's Esther here and today I've got a card featuring My Favorite Things Big Hugs Dienamic and a cute little sun from My Favorite Things Magical Unicorns. Perfect for a quick card to cheer up a friend or let someone know you're thinking of them!

I started by die cutting the Hugs die from a panel. I then lightly marked on the card base the tops and bottoms of the apertures of the letters. Using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens, I shaded this area from dark to light yellow and set the base aside to dry.

On the die cut panel, I stamped the little sun repeatedly using waterproof ink, then shaded the suns from dark to light yellow to match the letter apertures.

When everything was dry, I adhered the panel to the base.

That's it for today - thanks for visiting!

  

Beautiful Butterflies card with My Favorite Things

Hi everyone, I've got a card for you today that uses the Beautiful Butterflies set from My Favorite Things.

I cut a long panel of heavyweight white card stock, and stamped three overlapping butterfly base layers in Limestone from Altenew Rock Collection Mini Ink Cubes. The next layers were done in Silver Stone and Industrial Diamond from the same set.

The fourth butterfly was stamped in brightly coloured water based dye inks and I added the same colours as splatters, along with some purple.

The sentiment strip is from My Favorite Things Magical Unicorns... it seemed to fit the theme of the card well :)

Thanks for stopping by!

     

Interactive birthday card with Magical Unicorns

 

Hi everyone, and happy New Year! It's Esther here with an interactive birthday card that would be suitable for approximately ages 9-12. 

I inked up a panel using Tumbled Glass and Evergreen Bough Distress Inks. I then splattered it with water and mopped it up to give a soft speckled effect. I cut the panel to size using the largest of the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles dies. Using different colours of card stock, I cut a rainbow using My Favorite Things End of the Rainbow Die-namics and the cloud from the same set from white card stock which I edged with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things Magical Unicorns, and it means exactly what it says! See inside...

The front panel is adhered to the card blank, which is cut to size and folded to create an inner. Inside are scenes from My Favorite Things Magical Unicorns, stamped in Antique Linen Distress Ink, coloured with Promarkers, masked and lightly inked over. I used a waterproof permanent marker and ruler to draw lines which the child can use to write their own story. I love being able to help a child grow their imagination, and this is a fun way to develop their creative writing skills at the same time. The smaller sentiment is from the same set, and the curved "Happy Birthday" is from My Favorite Things Make a Wish.

The back of the card is finished with a simple plain white stitched rectangle that matches the front, in order to hide any bleed from the Promarkers.

I used Magical Unicorns for this card because I thought the sentiment was perfect for the front, but you could use almost any character-based stamp set for this. Sticking just with My Favorite Things, you could use Magical Dragons, You're Rawr-some, Soak up the Fun, Chill Wishes and lots more!

I hope this inspires you with a way to make an interactive card that doesn't need any fancy pieces but that kids seem to love.

Thanks for stopping by!