Thinking of You, Happy Birthday

I got some time in the Craft Room, yay!

Card #1 

I used my ProvoCraft Happy Birthday embossing folder - one of the very first embossing folders I bought back in the 90's - to make the background, inked the edges and then attached to the front of 300 gsm card base with 3d foam tape. 

Die Cut some balloons out of snippets of DSP in my stash and added to the cardfront with foam tape.  I then hand drew the streamers.

 

Linking with  

Snippets Playground #540 

 

AAA Birthday   Use patterned paper

 

Card #2

For my next card, I used a handmade stencil with circles cut out and ink blended some circles, and stamped some Kaisercraft Butterflies in black ink.  

The cardfront was attached to a cardbase that was inked around the edges.

A final addition of black gems for a touch of bling!

Allsorts challenge - All Creatures Great & Small

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

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I had the opportunity to try a new technique - well new to me - floating strips.

 

I came across a few lovely examples around the blogs and then set about making a card.

 

 

I cut up some strips from a handmade background that I wasn't particularly happy with that has been in my stash for a while.  I traced one of my circle dies on a piece of paper, placed a piece of acetate on top, then positioned the strips over the circle using Connect Glue.  I then cut out a large circle from the acetate using Spellbinder nested circles dies.

I placed foam tape behind the strips and positioned the circle towards the top of the cardfront.

 

I positioned a die cut of a water windmill received in a CraftMad swap many years ago, and has been sitting in my stash waiting for the perfect opportunity, on top of the circle.  I then stamped the sentiment from Stampin Up Whimsical Words. 

 

A final scatter of bling to finish off! 

 

Linking the above card with the following challenges: 

 

The neglected stuff challenge

 

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.