Happy birthday Mom

Well there's a lot going on in this layout. The challenge was to use mixed media, so I went on an inky stampy, tissue paper fuelled craft binge!

The photo is of Mom's birthday gingerbread house, we had such fun making it, and it went down a storm.

I cut a circle in the corner and punched some hearts to balance the page.

The mixed media page has lots of Distress Inks, splodged onto a craft mat, then spritzed with water. Then I dipped white card into the ink- it makes some gorgeous effects. If you try it, don't dip in more than one or twice, or the ink colours muddy. I tore up strips of tissue paper and glued them on randomly.

I overstamped with a script stamp in white, and a diamond and ink splat stamp in blue. The edge punch is from Martha Stewart, I've had it forever but I use it soooo much.

Elements:

Distress Inks

Cardstock from stash

Tissue paper

Memento ink pads

Martha Stewart punch

Alphabet from stash

Thanks for looking!

From my nephew to his Mommy

I've started to write this post and realised I can't post it yet, as the card recipient's birthday isn't for a few days! Ah well, I'll try to schedule it......


This is a card for my one year old nephew to give to his Mommy on her birthday. Jack has the most wonderful red hair, and he's a proper little lad, into everything, so I can just see him swinging on a rope swing in a few years time!

It's on cream card for a change, with lots of square cut from a DCWV Citrus card stack. He's coloured with Distress Inks swiped onto an acrylic block and picked up with a watercolour paint brush.

The branches are a combination of the branch from a Stampin Up bird punch and a Martha Stewart frond punch. I didn't want a girly, pretty card, but he's still only 1, so it had to be something quite childlike. I think the image and the bright colours have achieved that, bearing in mind it's for a lady!!!

I got the design for the card from the Allsorts challenge blog, where the challenge is a sketch.


Ingredients


Stamps- Lili of the Valley, Studio G alphabet
Inks- Brilliance Coffee Bean; Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass, Vintage Photo,Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Peeled Paint
Papers- DCWV Citrus stack
Punches- Martha Stewart Frond, Stampin Up XL 2 step bird punch