Someone Wonderful

I've got a simple card to share today using one of the awesome new floral designs from Danielle Donaldson at Stamping Bella - in this instance Tumble Blossom Cluster which is such a fun design to colour.

I stamped it with versamark ink onto smooth heavyweight cartridge paper and embossed it with gold and then used my Altenew water colours to paint it very loosely (I am not the greatest with paints so love that embossing holds it in the lines for you and you can just flood each area with colours nice an easy!)

Altenew paints are so heavily pigmented that I found the water I washed the blue off with had enough colour in it to paint a soft fade out background around it (waste not want not right!) so I used that and then finished with another waste not product - the frame came from the "waste" between the frames I cut using the MFT A2 Frame dies without cutting them apart.

The sentiment was stamped and embossed onto the central panel from the same die cut sheet and comes from the Friendly Foxes stamp from MFT.

If you've not checked out Danielle's Collection then head to our Stamping Bella page for a browse.

Tara

Papa Fox

I've got the perfect card for Father's Day on the blog today - I know it's not whilst next month, but lots of the brands we have are bringing out their masculine products now so we can be ready.

For this card I've combined a couple of Reverse Confetti dies - Mom & Dad and their new Square & Circle with  the gorgeous new stamp from Stacey Yakula for MFT called Friendly Foxes.   I couldn't resist that super long tie as it reminded me or playing with my Dad's ties as a kid and not never managing to knot them!

I started with the Square & Circle die and cut it from Arctic and Adriatic card from Hero Hues to create my duo-coloured frame and glued it to a square base card.

I coloured the fox with copic markers, picking out the colours of the frame in the tie to pull the design together.  I used the circle die to cut out the image and then popped it into the frame.

For the sentiment I used the "dad" die from the Mom & Dad die set but cut it twice so I could get an extra "a" and flipped the "d's" upside down to become "p's" so I could spell papa - love a die you can play around with and get an unexpected extra from.

Tara