Easter chicks - a Partial Case

I have seen the little chicks made using the Bird Builder punch on various cards on Pinterest, and wanted to make a similar card.  The card closest to the one I partially cased was made by Laura Lipe.

I did a few things differently, however.

The chicks were supposed to be made by refeeding the punched bird from the bird builder punch, but I had a great deal of difficulty with that, so I trimmed the bird down by hand.  The wings were made using the Scallop oval punch and attached to the body with a dimensional. The chicks and wings were sponged with Crushed Curry ink.  A Tangerine Tango marker was used to colour the beak.

I know, the feet look a little odd.  I punched some leaf sprigs in Tangerine Tango from the Bird Builder punch, removed one of the leaves, and the remainder were trimmed to form the feet.  I don't think I succeeded very well.  They were sponged with Soft Suede before attaching them to the chick with a glue dot.  The chicks were adhered to the card front using a dimensional.

The grass in the background was made by an "oldie but goodie" stamp set "Inspired by Nature", stamping first with Wild Wasabi and a second time with Old Olive.  Then with a sponge dauber the ground was sponged with Wild Wasabi.

The eye is a black rhinestone which I saved from Halloween several years ago.

Three scallop circles adhered together at angles was used to make the clouds in the sky.  Marina Mist ink was used for that.

The sentiment is from "Delightful Dozen", also a retired set.

Here are the supplies I used:

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Circle Thinlit Birthday card & Washi tape card

Last night was our first class night of the fall(late summer) and the 2 foci of the class were as follows:
Washi tape, and the Circle Thinlits.  I also introduced the Envelope Maker and all had an opportunity to make an envelope using DSP.

Here is the Washi tape card:

Three colours and sizes of Washi tape were adhered horizontally on a piece of Whisper White card stock.
The sentiment is from the Tags 4 You stamp set and it was punched using the new Label Bracket
 punch.

Stamp: Tags 4 You
Ink: Calypso Coral
Papers: Basic Black, Calypso Coral, Whisper White
Accessories: 1/2" striped black/gray satin ribbon (retired), Washi tape, Label Bracket punch, rhinestones, dimensionals.

The second card was made using the new circle thinlits. Washi tape was also incorporated into this card.

Stamps: Best of Shelli, Delightful Dozen
Ink: Marina Mist, SU Markers (Raspberry Ripple, Crushed Curry)
Papers: Whisper White, Marina Mist, Marina Mist Polka dot DSP
Accessories: 2 1/2" circle punch, Circle Thinlits die and accessories, Washi tape, Baker's twine, Polka dot embossing folder.

Greeting Card Kids Valentine- Hand Stamped Sentiments

Ever notice that if you start off the day late, you're late the rest of the day?  Today I thought I would do the color challenge with Hand Stamped Sentiments here, and after the card was finished, I thought that I had missed the linkz deadline!  ARGH!!  However, I was wrong! Whew! The colors for the challenge:  Primrose Petals, Pool Party, and Basic Black.

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Delightful Dozen
Inks: Black Stazon, SU markers
Papers: Primrose Petals, Whisper White, Basic Black Pool Party
Accessories: Hearts Framelits, Adorning accents (hearts), Build an Owl punch, Small heart punch, Dazzling diamonds

Love You - Fab Friday 09

With the Christmas holidays out of the way, it is now time for me to stock up on Valentine's Day cards. The sketch with Fab Fri here was perfect for making a Valentine's card.

Stamps:  Seasonal Sayings, Delightful Dozen

Inks: Versa Mark

Papers: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Real Red, More Amore DSP

Accessories: Full Heart Punch, Hearts a Flutter framelits, Small heart punch, Build an owl punch, rhinestones, Black embossing powder

The hearts were made by first punching out a heart using the full heart punch, and then punching out the center with the heart from the Hearts a Flutter framelits.  The gray heart was punched with the small heart punch.

Baby Prints - Unknown Gender - Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge 261

Ordinarily I would never have made a baby card with green foot prints, but several clients at market have requested such a card.  A relative of theirs was expecting a baby of unknown gender.  The trend tends to me that more and more expectant mothers are not being told the gender of their baby or they don't want to know.
Hence this card - for the baby who's gender is unknown. I'm not sure I like the green foot prints, but a request is a request. I used the sketch challenge with Stamping 411 here to create this card

 

Stamps: Baby Prints, Delightful Dozen

Inks: Lucky Limeade. Basic Black

Papers: Lucky Limeade, Whisper White, Twitterpated Designer Paper

Accessories: Fancy Fan embossing folder, 1/4" white stitched taffeta ribbon, designer button, hemp twine, pearls

Fifth Avenue Floral Thank You - Challenge 168

The weather has been a bit cool here the last couple of days.  Easter Sunday was gorgeous and I spend the day on and off on the deck.  It's probably just as well that's it's cool and I'm itching to get out into the garden and start splitting the perennials for my plant sale in May.  Every year I have a plant sale, the profits of which go back into my garden.
The challenge this week with the Late Night Stampers group is a sketch challenge.

This is the sketch

Here is my card.  It was inspired in part by a card I saw on Pinterest:

I picked out a stamp set I haven't used for a while - Fifth Avenue Floral.
The smaller rose was stamped with Versamark on Whisper White paperk and embossed with white embossing powder.  The image was colored with a Pretty in Pink marker, than lightly painted with Frost White shimmer paint.  When dry, I colored over the top of the flower again just to make the pink a little more pronounced.  Each flower was then cut out and mounted on a 1 3/8" square of Whisper White embossed with the square lattice embossing folder.  Small pearls were applied to the stamens.

Edges of all papers were sponged with Pretty in Pink ink.

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Delightful Dozen
Inks: Versa Mark, Basic Black SU Marker (Pretty in Pink)
Papers: Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink designer paper
Accessories: Frost White shimmer paint, Square lattice embossing folder, Tulip edge embossing folder, Scallop border punch, 1 3/8`square punch, pearls, 3/8`` pink pirouette taffetta ribbon, dimensionals