Congrats card

Happy Sunday lovely friends.  I've had a busy few days (but an exciting one) as my lovely son helped me re-organise/re-arrange my craft room and although I keep forgetting where I now have put things I am beyond happy with the way things are now arranged.  I don't have a huge, fancy craft space but it's bigger than some and I am grateful that my hubby has allowed me to take over half our dining room to accommodate all my stuff.  

I have a card to share today that I made for my niece.  She did amazingly well in her A levels and received 2 x A* and 2 A grades.  I wanted to celebrate her achievement so dug out an older stamp set from Concord & 9th.  Here is my card:

I decorated the inside too:

I began by stamping a lined notepaper background stamp in sea glass ink.  I took the arrow stamp from the stamp set and masked it so that I could have the point at the top of my card and the tail at the bottom and this was stamped in red ink.  I did make a mistake on the bottom but I fixed that by colouring around the arrow with a white posca pen and adding some black dots with a black marker.  It was a happy accident but I really liked the end result.  I stamped the sentiments in the same sea glass ink and added some stars in-between them, again using the red ink.  I die cut some stars and an arrow from black card and added them to the panel and also added some Nuvo aqua shimmer pen to bling them up.  I decorated the inside with a strip of the notepaper background that I had left over and another star and arrow.  The panels were both added onto a green mottled paper and again onto a black mat.  The finished card was mini slimline size - 6" x 3".  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - ATG or use die cuts

Creative Inspirations challenge - sentimental

Daisy Chain challenge - dots and/or stripes

Inspired By challenge - inspired by leggings (I was inspired by the colours)

Simply Create Too challenge - use stamps

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - stamp it

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - stamp it

Sweet Stampin' challenge - doodling (I hope my doodled dots are enough)

Unicorn challenge - layer it up

I hope you have a wonderful week.  I will be back on Wednesday for my card for the next instalment in the Falling for Wednesdays IG hop.  I'd love it if you could pop back and check it out.  

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Concord & 9th - above average stamp set

MFT stamps - blueprints 13 (for stars and arrows) *retired*

MFT stamps - writing tablet background stamp *retired*

Sakura gellyroll white 10 pen

Posca white pen

Nuvo aqua shimmer pen (glitter gloss)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white smooth card

Gina K Designs - sea glass and red velvet ink pads

Versafine black onyx ink pad

Fairy birthday card

Happy Saturday friends.  I hope you're having a great start to your weekend.  The weather is glorious here in South Wales and for once I have an empty washing basket lol!  

I'm popping in today with a card I made a little while ago for a crafty friend using this adorable fairy stamp and matching die set (which includes the gorgeous frame die too).  

Here is the card:

here is a close up of the fairy:

I began by stamping the fairy with memento tuxedo black ink and colouring her with my promarkers; I also added some highlights with a white gel pen.  I then used the matching die to cut her out.  I die cut the frame 3 times from white card and glued them together for dimension and stability.  I placed the frame on to some very pale blue card and then onto purple cardstock to make a very small border.  The sentiment was stamped directly onto the background with blue ink. I finished off with some pearls and some dots which were done with a white gel pen and a yellow posca pen.  I also stamped a small dragonfly in the background.

I would like to enter my card into the following challengs:

Daisy chain challenge - for the girls

Allsorts challenge - absolutely anything goes (happy 14th birthday Allsorts)

Cardz for galz - backgrounds

Just us girls - mood board

Alphabet challenge - D is for dragonflies (I may be pushing my luck with my dinky dragonfly so please exclude if so)

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and the weather is warm and sunny where you are too.  If not stay inside and craft lol!

I appreciate you stopping by.

Crafty hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Tonic Studios - I love you fairy much (? retired)

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 

Posca pen - yellow

Promarkers

Heffy Doodle - white card

Blue & purple card from my stash

Pearl mix - rainbow