We 'herd' it's your birthday!

Hello, Tallie here.

I'm taking a break from the Christmas cards today with this punny set of birthday cards featuring the 'We Herd' stamp from Waffle Flower. Paired with some Lawn Fawn Watercolour Wishes Patterned Paper (this is my favourite paper besides the rainbow pack and is back in stock right now!), you can customise the card colours to suit the recipient.

I started out by stamping the herd of sheep and balloon stamps from the Waffle Flower We Herd stamp set twice onto some blending cardstock in some MFT Extreme Black ink. I coloured the sheep in with my alcohol markers using two different tones of grey - more cool greys for the blue card and warm greys for the pink card. I used some pinks to brighten up their cheeks and ears, and die cut them out with the coordinating dies.

I cut two pieces from the Lawn Fawn Watercolour Wishes Patterned Paper pad - a blue and a pink - down and adhered them to top-folding A6 card bases. On this vertical design some of the ears and tails stick out, but the standard C6 envelopes will fit around these so I'm not too worried. I used a couple of strips of DIY black and white striped paper I made a while back (here's the post explaining how) to ground the main image, popping it up with some foam tape.

For the balloons, I popped them up with some foam tape and adhered them above the sheep. I used a black fine liner to add some strings, making sure to get underneath the images so there was no 'gap' in the strings.

I finished the cards off with the punny sentiment from the main set, white heat embossing it across the bottom of the card with some Hero Arts Detail White Embossing Powder.

I actually gave our building's cleaner one of these cards last week and she was tickled pink! Hehee. :)

Thanks for reading, catch you next week.

Tallie

A Herd of Birthday Bunnies

Hello, crafters! Tallie here today with a cute little bunny birthday celebration! This uses three different sets - Starry Scene, We Herd and Essential Sentiments - from three different companies - Avery Elle, Waffle Flower and My Favorite Things. It's such a great and simple design that you can customise both colour-wise and scene-wise to your tastes.

I started out by stamping the Starry Scene background onto an A6 card panel with some Distress Oxide inks in Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon and Faded Jeans. Here's a tip: to get a smooth transition between the colours, after inking up the portion of the stamp use an ink blending foam to blur the lines. This worked wonderfully on the Distress Oxides! I set these aside to dry to work on the foreground.

I stamped out the group of bunnies and balloons from the We Herd set in some MFT Extreme Black ink. I coloured these with my alcohol markers, sticking to cool greys and contrasting reds and oranges. I cut these out with the coordinating dies.

I white heat embossed the 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' sentiment from the Essential Sentiments set onto some black card stock and die cut it with a Lawn Fawn Everyday Sentiment Banner die.

Using some foam tape, I popped up the pieces over the background panel. I added some of the balloon strings with a black pen and a little bit of Wink of Stella to to add some sparkle to the balloons.

A cute little birthday card scene!

Thanks for reading, catch you next week.

Tallie

  

We Herd it is Your Birthday

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Sometimes I see a stamp set and fall immediately in love! That happened to me when I saw Waffle Flower's super cute We Herd stamp set. I knew of a friend that she is a big sheep friend. But when another crafty friend mentioned that she loves sheeps aswell I knew I hadto buy the stamp set.
It was the birthday of this crafty friend  and of course I used the stamp set to make a card for her.

I started by stamping the sheeps onto alcohool marker friendly paper with black ink. During the colouring progress I made some mistakes - I chose different shades of grey (warm and cold). That didn't turned out as I wanted to. Lucky for me that happened to the sheeps in the second row. I fussy cut the sheeps that I liked, stamped the sheeps a second time and coloured them in a colour sccheme I liked more. For the whole group of sheeps there are coodinating dies available, of course.

For the background I added a very soft inkblending to a piece of white cardstock. Then I applied another layer of ink, this time through a stencil called Birthday Confetti by Echo Park.
For the sentiment I stamped one of Mama Elephant's Birthday Messages on a stripe of grey cardstock and heat embossed it in white.

To finish up the card I added the biggest of Avery Elle's Wonky Scalloped Frames to my card and adhered the whole scene to a light grey card base.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

   

Stitching and Spinning

I've got a couple of cards to share today using different items from this week's new Waffle Flower Crafts release.

Firstly, I did a bit of stitching to create a simple birthday card.

I simply ran the new stitched rose die through my die cut machine on some 300gsm navy card (looks black but is navy!) and then spent a happy evening watching TV and stitching over the stitched lines it creates with pink embroidery floss.   It's fun to do and you see that the rose is actually made up of lots of stitched circles.

I then just embossed a simple sentiment from Hero Arts' Cheeky Birthday stamp onto vellum using new powders from Ranger which come in a sets of 4 in small pots so a great way to get more colours as a little goes a very long way.

A simple matt in matching pink to hold the vellum behind and we're done.

For the second card I needed a congratulations card for a job well done so used the new We Herd stamp and matching die as the focus on a reveal wheel.

If you are unsure how to put a reveal wheel card together then check out Lawn Fawn's introductory video on YouTube for a step by step guide.

I used the square wheel add-on die to create my base and stamped some of the streamers from the Hero Arts' Cheeky Birthday stamp I used on my previous card to add some celebratory details.   The sentiments stamped onto the wheel itself are from the new Spring Reveal Wheel sentiments which are for more than just spring as you can see!

I added the bunnies and balloons from the We Herd stamp set which were coloured with alcohol markers, trimming the bottom edge of the bunnies with the reveal wheel die to match the stitching.

It's actually my first ever reveal wheel card and they are really easy and lots of fun to make!

I'll be back on Sunday with some more inspiration.

Tara