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Monday 5 July 2021

Woodland Wonders Birthday

Another birthday card to share today and I really enjoyed making this one with these wildlife wonders that  I carried the scene into the inside of the card.



It's also the start of our blog challenge at Let's Craft & Create and the theme for this month's challenge is to use your punches/dies in your project. As with all our challenges, they are also ATG. 

I have been finding 7 x7" cards a better size card for me to work with when I have to think about sending it in the post as I know that I can make an envelope using my 12x12" card, which just makes it a lot easier.


I used my Dreamees chalk dinky inkies to create the background on the white stamping card base and the cloud stencil from the Dreamees Treasured Stencils set with structure paste.


I die cut the Dreamees Essential Tree die from a piece of their chocolate card that I had leftover from another project and the little flowers from red card. This die set also comes with tiny leaves and little autumn leaves, to cover all the seasons.

The Heartfelt Hedgehogs is another favourite stamp set of mine, retired now and these adorable critters have been stamped onto some Neenah desert storm card that I found, now that was a lucky find!



The young lad I made this card for loves his animals and I have made him a few animal cards in the past and my Dreamees stamps have always been perfect for these cards.

I felt that there was more that I could add and make this birthday card into a picture card. so added the stamps from the Dreamees retired Winter Woodland set. It has the most adorable owl and the squirrel reminded me of the one that visits my garden and hangs upside down on my bird feeder to get the sunflower seeds out..... The same squirrel that has chewed all the features of my wicker owl's face and left it with just a wonky eye ha ha.

I have coloured all these in with promarkers. I needed a tree for the squirrel to throw the acorns down at the owl so used one of the stamps from another retired stamp set Mischievous Monkeys.



A lovely blogger by the name of  Mamawcindy commented about trying to make use of stamps that she had forgotten about and had started making cards with again.  I have been trying to do the same. New products come out all the time as crafting styles, ideas, and inspiration flows and changes, which are difficult to resist at times but I do actually stop and think if I really need it.

Our design team have also been busy this month with projects of their own and there is always lots of fabulous inspiration shared by the crafters on our blog too. If you are interested,  there is a prize for the winning entry, following our theme, and a badge for your blog for the top 3 runners up. Just click on the link below which will take you to our blog challenge. 
Happy Crafting





11 comments:

crafty-stamper said...

Beautiful card inside and out love all the cute critters
Carol x

Jackie T said...

Hi Michelle this is a stunning pair of cards. Take care. Hugs Jackie

Valerie-Jael said...

Your cards are beautiful, Michelle. Your colouring is really great. Love all the cute critters! Have a great week, take care, hugs, Valerie

https://shinebrightandcreate@blogspot.com/ said...

Thanks very much x

pinky said...

He will love this card Michelle. It has a real storybook feel to it!

mamawcindy said...

Michelle your cards are so cute. Love how you put them together. I was so surprised to see that you had mentioned me in your post.Glad to hear that you are using some of your older stamps also. I just made a card with a butterfly stamp that a friend had given me years ago and had never used it. It felt so good to finally use it. I'm sure the little boy loved his card. Hope you are doing good.Stay Safe!
cindys-greencricut

Rajani Rehana said...

Mind blowing post

aussie aNNie said...

What an awesome and creative card, lovely....enjoy your weekend. xx

Bernadet said...

I came per accidently on your blog Michelle, and I want to say that this is a beauty of a card.
Love the digi and all the other greats on your card.

Rajani Rehana said...

Your next post

https://shinebrightandcreate@blogspot.com/ said...

Thanks so much for your lovely comments x

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