Birthday card for a friend

Today I am sharing a birthday card made for a good friend of mine and linking it with our blog challenge on Let's Craft and Create's  friendship theme this month.

For my card I have used:-

• Tattered Lace Designer Vintage  - Foundation Doilies dies
• Tattered Lace Heart die
• Cream 240gsm card
• Katy Hudson - Sweet Nothings Collection
• Dreamees Something Stitchy flower stamp set
• Dreamees pretty pets backing paper from CD
• Piece of A5 orange card
• Peach ribbon
• metallic peach pearl gems

My card base measures 15.2cm in diameter, which is the largest doily die of this set, with the second largest layered over the top.

I have then used one of the smaller doily dies with some of the sweet nothing cardstock before the die cut heart in plain orange card (as an accent)and sweet nothings cardstock again.

Using the charisma pad, I die cut the "perfect pair" squirrels and the "sweet nothings" blue tits out. These are really pretty images . Katy Hudson is an illustrator based in Bristol who became obsessed with drawing animals and telling stories. The idea stuck, which led her to studying for a degree in illustration and creating some wonderful illustrations. These are just a few that she created for a papercraft collection on Create & Craft TV.

I printed out some backing paper from my Dreamees Pretty Pets CD to stamp my flowers onto as I knew it had the perfect paper I wanted for the flowers. I printed the flowers onto cream paper. I used two sizes of the something stitchy  flowers stamps and layered up my flowers to get plenty of dimension.

Have a look at the inspiration from the rest of the design team and what our crafters have been making for our blog challenge this month. There is a prize for the winning entry and a badge for your blog for the top 3 runners up.

.Happy Crafting

Michelle

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Sweet Nothings Collection by Katy Hudson

I thought I'd share my DT samples from a collection I have been working on which are ready for the launch on Create & Craft TV tomorrow.

I love these adorable squirrels using the Perfect Pair die, accompanied by the sweet nothings die and those little blue tits.

The charismas cards come in a pack accompanied by an equal amount of vellum ones to die cut.  The card stock is super smooth and a good weight, with crisp images. No need to download, and ready for you to start crafting.

For each die, I have also made one using the vellum charisma. I included the Thank You die in this card but cut it in half so that I could use the flowers at both ends, not losing the sentiment. On all these samples I have used the matching cardstock, which again is a good heavy weight of card, perfect for card bases or layering with your dies like I have done.

Each die has a topper sheet to match which includes sentiments that you can mix and match with the card from the collection. I have used the Pretty Posies die and charisma for this card mixing it with the topper and card.

With a good selection of toppers you can also make smaller cards. Here I have used the vellum charisma on an acetate panel for my card with the toppers and card stock from the Pretty Posies.

Using the New Home die, matching toppers and card on my easel card.  All the other dies used in these samples are from various Tattered Lace collections.

My favourite colours on this card and some pretty card to accompany the collection also.

For my tent shaped floating acetate card I have used the vellum New Home die with the same toppers and cardstock.

The Its a gift die from the Tattered lace Vintage Designer collection was an ideal shape for the Special Couple die due to its bird cage like shape. I have decoupaged it and used it as a hanging topper on the front of the card. I have also included those cute blue tits from the Sweet Nothings dies.

Again I love these colours and its a pretty collection, with lots of elements to use.

A vellum wrap card using the vellum charisma wrap that I have not die cut, just adding the Sweet Nothings die to the edges of the card.

I have used the matching cardstock, some mint green vellum as an insert and the toppers as an insert panel.

A thank you card using the Thank You die and the matching cardstock behind the lacy frame die which has been die cut using the Sweet Nothings cardstock.

An acetate bowed fronted card using the same Thank You die but this time on the vellum.

Back to those cute squirrels adding a touch of the pretty posies on my tent card using the triangle wrap die from the Vintage Designer collection.  The toppers in this collection are easy to mix and match.

This collection does actually have an insert pack available to purchase but it wasn't part of my collection.

Katy Hudson is launching her new papercraft collection on Create and Craft, a full-time Illustrator based in Bristol became obsessed with drawing animals and telling stories.  The idea stuck which led her to studying for a degree in illustration and creating some wonderful illustrations.

All these items can be purchased as a whole collection or individually from Create and Craft TV.

Happy Crafting