Crafty Calendar May Challenge - Spellbinders Birthday Dinosaur Birthday Card

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  We have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is for a child.

My card is for Martyn's niece Grace that who is turning 4 this year.

For my card I have used:

Spellbinders Birthday Dinosaur Die Set from the Monster Birthday Collection

Spellbinders Birthday Balloons Die Set

Spellbinders Make a Wish Arch Labels Etched Dies

Pink polka dot DP is from my stash

We are offering these two stamp sets to the lucky winner of this months challenge.

Pop over to Crafty Calendar to check out the gorgeous DT cards and join us in this months challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

See you soon x

Spellbinders April 2024 Large Die of the Month - Pins and Needles Jar Birthday Card

Good morning I hope you are keeping safe and well on this rainy wet Friday morning.

I have a sewing themed birthday card to share today that I created for my Sister-in-law using dies from the Spellbinders April 2024 club kits.  She loves sewing so this kit was perfect.

I have used for this card:

Spellbinders Pins & Needles Jar - Large Die of the Month April 2024

With this set you get the dies to cut the jar, lid and pincushion and also the dies to cut all of the sewing accessories that are inside the jar.

I cut the jar three times.  On the base layer I ink-blended lightly with some Tumbled Glass Distress ink and glued down all of the assembled sewing elements. 

 The other two jars I fussy cut an aperture and layered a piece of acetate between them and then glued that onto top of the base jar.  I was tempted to add a few shaker bits but I decided not to and left it so you could see the various sewing elements glued inside to the base layer of the jar.

The background is a piece of black card embossed with the Spellbinders Monoline Stars Embossing Folder.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x 

Crafty Calender May Challenge - Di's Digi Buddy in the Garden Birthday Card

Good morning I hope you are safe and well.  Here in the UK it is the May Day bank holiday weekend, so I'm making the most of the long weekend off work and have travelled to the north-west of England for a little holiday.

It is also the first Saturday in May so over at Crafty Calendar we have a new monthly challenge starting today and the theme this week is

ANYTHING GOES.

For my card I have used:

Buddy in the Garden digital stamp from Di's Digi Stamps coloured with copics.

The background was created using the the Spellbinders Buffalo Plaid Press Plate, a BetterPress Cotton Card Panel and Vintage Photo Distress Archival ink in the BetterPress LetterPress System and then I ink-blended it with Mustard Seed Distress Ink.

The sentiment was hot foiled onto brown cardstock using the Spellbinders You are Everything Sentiments Press Plate and matt gold foil.

The flower was die cut using the Sizzix Small Tattered Florals Thinlet Die Set by Tim Holtz.

I wanted to add a bit of sparkle to the centre of all the flowers and in my stash I found an old bottle of Distress Stickles in Vintage Photo which was the perfect colour I was looking for.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Di's Digi Stamps

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months Anything Goes challenge and also check out the gorgeous cards from the rest of the DT using images from this months sponsor Di's Digi Stamps.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Sheepski Designs Wild Roses Birthday Card

Good morning and a happy new year.   I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a great new year.  It's the first Saturday in January so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.

The theme for this month is 'Add a Sentiment'

For my card I have used:

Wild Roses digital stamp from Sheepski Designs coloured with copics which has been fussy cut and added to the front of the card with foam pads.

The gold foiled background was created using the Spellbinders Dazzling Dots hot foil glimmer plate.

My sentiment is 'Happy Birthday'.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Sheepski Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you laters....