Giraffe Birthday card

Sharing my DT card for the challenge over on Daisy Chains Blog Challenge this month with the theme  "Summer."

I decided on Giraffes this month from my firm favourites, The Dreamees. Using one of their letter shaped templates from their CDs and papers from the Gorgeous Giraffes CD. Instead of using my stamp set I decided to use the papers on the cd and fussy cut the little giraffes.

With a little glossy accent on their cheeks and some foliage from my maidenhair fern die by Tattered Lace, I decided that was all it needed.

The sentiment also from the Dreamees  Gorgeous Giraffes CD matched the card and the little one receiving it perfectly.

Dreamees Gorgeous Giraffes

Have a look at the rest of the design teams inspiration for this month over on Daisy Chains as well as the blog entries.

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Gorgeous Giraffes rocker Birthday card in pink

Today's share, following on from the animal theme cards is a rocker card using the Dreamees Gorgeous Giraffes stamp set for a special little girls birthday.

I have used backing paper by Chloe Endean  - Stamps by Chloe, the backing papers came out of her box set.

The giraffes have been painted with a water brush using pickled raspberry distress oxides by Tim Holtz to give that chalky finish and a little pastel dinky inky by the Dreamees on the snouts of the giraffes.  Three of them have been mounted on to the hammered card topper which has been die cut using a tattered lace pearl die .

A little glossy accent on the eyes and cheeks.

The rest of the giraffes have been placed behind the topper and then another die cut circle placed over the top to give the back of the card a neater finish.  Finished off with a few Dreamees pearls and a wooden butterfly embellishment.

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Dreamees Gorgeous Giraffes stamp set

The following card was made using The Dreamees Gorgeous Giraffes stamp set and cd rom for the backing papers.

I used The Dreamees dinky inkies in blue, pink and light brown to stamp and colour the images, also thieir Dotty Alphabet stamp set which has been stamped onto card die cut with a Crealies square stitched die.

I decided the clouds needed to be fluffy, so added from stickles in frosted lace. My giraffe family just needed their names to finish the card topper off.

 For the inside I used The Dreamees Birthday Recipe stamp from their Recipe Bundle set and added the giraffes peaking out.

The Hunkydory rainbow mirri board is great to add as a layer to your card as you can really see the rainbow shimmer when the light hights it.

Such a cutle little stamp set.

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Dreamee Catcher Bookmarks

For one of my craft group, we do a card swap and I always make a coordinating bookmark to go with the card I send.  Here are a selection of bookmarks that I have made so far:-
Using Stamping Ups bookmark punch (which I have to say is a lovely heavy weight punch producing bookmarks 2 inches wide ) I cut out a coordinating piece of card to offset behind the bookmark
I used the flower stamp from  The Dreamees Elegant Dress stamp set and coloured them in with the Dreamees Summer Dinky Inkies collection.

On this bookmark I used the flowers stamps from The Dreamees Sensational Flowers stamp. I coordinated the colours with the card using the Summer Dinky Inkies collection and used the same backing papers on the bookmark.

On this bookmark I used the rose stamp from The Dreamees  Friendship stamp collection and teamed it with coordinating  Deamees backing papers.

I used the Gorgeous Giraffe stamps and backing paper from the Gorgeous Giraffe cd. I also used the Autumn/Winter Dinky Inkies.

For this bookmark I used The Dreamees Cute Cats cat and paw print stamp from the set. Again I have used The Dreamees Autumn/Winter Dinky Inkies. I also used a fishbone punch to embellish it.

Decorated bookmarks are also really handy for children's books, library book and school reading books.  For these I used The Dreamees Binky & Bo and Woodland Wonders stamp sets to decorate.
I used some Stickles frosted lace on the bunny and glossy accent on the owl,/acorns, along with some pearl drops and gems to finish them off.

Dinky Inkies Spring Summer

Dinky Inkies Autumn Winter

Dinky  Inkies are water based dye inks which have been formulated to work really well with their blending solution,  You can take the ink straight from ink pad to paper, allowing you to get a good depth of colour.

The blending solution comes with a set of 3 blending brushes.and you only need a few drops in the pen chamber which unscrews for you to drip the solution you need into it for your project.

Squeeze the centre of the chamber gently to release a solution through to the nib and test on a spare piece of card or paper with your chosen ink to ensure you are getting the correction dilution of ink for your project.

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Dreamees - Gorgeous Giraffes

 Another card made for a Dreamees monthly card swap.

First I used a Leonie Pujol  bubbles embossing folder to on a piece of coordinating cream card  which I was going to use as a topper for my cream base card.  Then I die cut some circles into the card.

Using The Dreamees Gorgeous Giraffes cd, I printed some of the backing paper and giraffe images
Then I stuck some of the giraffes behind the circle panels so that I could pop their heads through.

I used the bee stamps from the Sweet as Honey stamp set, which I cut out and decoupaged onto the card and the flowers were made using The Dreamees Something Stitchy stamps. These were stamped onto paw papers from the Pretty Pets cd.

I used a little glossy accent on the giraffes eyes and cheeks.

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