Birthday Fishes

Hello!

It's a quick and simple card from me today. I couldn't resist this fun set from Paper Smooches called
Birthday Buddies.
I just love the quirky animals and punny sentiments, though my other half rolls his eyes every time I use a punny sentiment, which of course just makes me want to use them more ;)

I did splash out and bought the set of matching dies also, as they were not very expensive, though you only get the dies for the fish, bird and dog. I guess as the other two are coming up from the earth you would just keep it one layered for those.
I first coloured the fish in a rainbow of colours with my Zig markers, as this was a fun card I wanted it to be nice and bright. I cut it out with the matching die and then added a little wink of stella to the scales.

Then I set to work on the background. I used a stencil and some Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean distress ink and my Clarity stencil brushes on a plain white piece of smooth card and then cut that down to be slightly smaller than my front panel. I glued this straight to the front of my card.

Then I took my front panel piece and die cut a circle from it, stamping the Birthday Fishes sentiment from the set underneath in black ink, using my MISTI to get it perfectly placed.

I adhered this panel to my card using some foam tape to pop it up and then attached my fish using some more foam tape. I think he'd look great with one of those jiggly eyes don't you?

I finished my card off with a few sequins placed to look like bubbles.

For those of you missing my more embellished cards, I'll be back with one of those tomorrow.

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Noah's Ark

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Welcome to day 2 of the February release from Whimsy Stamps and as it's also my birthday today it's a super quick share from me.

I'm showcasing this super sweet stamp from Crissy Armstrong called Noah's Ark. 

This  just screamed 'Baby Card' at me as soon as I saw it, so that's exactly what I made. I coloured the stamp with my distress ink markers and as I'd run out of my normal paper I had to use some older stuff and kind of forgot how this reacted. The monkey with the umbrella would not behave and play nice, (but hey, he's a monkey right?), and it was nearly a case of monkey overboard lol. but as I did not have the time to do a complete re-do he'll have to remain, even if he does look a bit flat and scrubby. Just focus on the other better behaved monkey and we'll be just fine.

Before adhering to my card base I stamped the Welcome Baby from the Scripty Occasions clear stamp set in the bottom right of the image.

I added a little design paper to the top, cut with one of the Whimsy Stitched Border Trio dies, and chomped the bottom corners, then added a piece of very narrow ribbon and a baby's feet charm. I dotted a few tiny sequins and gave the umbrella and the water a lick of Wink of Stella to finish

Right that's all from me, I'm off to celebrate my birthday!

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Spring Fox

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Are you ready for the new release from Whimsy Stamps? We have some absolutely gorgeous new goodies for you. Whether you like cute, pretty, quirky or creative, we have something to suit everyone. 

You can find the new releases here.

With so much to choose from it was very difficult to decide what to play with first, but this little fox cub from Lee Holland just stole my heart. Isn't he a cutie? He's called Spring Fox. This would be perfect for a non girly valentine card, but would work equally well for almost any occasion.

I loved this image so much I decided to keep the card very CAS to focus on the image. It's coloured with Zig Real Clean Colors and this is my first time colouring with them. A bit of practice needed because they do seem to bleed a lot more than my distress ink markers, I think probably due to the intensity of the colours, but I don't think it's too bad for a first attempt, and I'm sure the cuteness of the fox cub will help to take away the focus from my mistakes lol.

The sentiment is from the Happy Sayings Clear stamp set, I'm finding this set super versatile.

You can purchase both stamps from Dies to Die for if you live in the UK or Europe.

That's all from me,but do check out the rest of the team's blogs for their fab makes (you can find the team listed here) and don't forget if you use Facebook, you can join in with our release event for some fun and a chance to win prizes.

Thanks for popping by!