Catch up cards on my desk

Just sharing my desk with the ladies at 'Whats on Your Workdesk Wednesday'. Chaos reigns as I make a stack of cards for my kids to use. They are often looking for a card bit my vintage cards do not appeal so I have taken an evening to make some basic fun cards for them to use.

They are all made with an old Stamping up set I bought on eBay for just this sort of quick fun birthday cards.

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Hording or Letting go of your Favorite paper

Like most people who make cards I have shelves of paper lining my workspace walls. There is always a a new design that I just have to get. Sometimes I buy paper because it is practical and useful like a neutral background design but often it is illustrative designs that draw me to it. This card uses a piece of paper I have been hording for ages - 'Trail Mix' from Bo Bunny. I love the colours in this and all the vintage bird ephemera. Once bought no project seems to be the right moment to use the precious paper. Then when I have committed to using it I have to settle on what section of the design.  For this card the tinted bird won. It takes more time choosing the 'right' piece of paper than the whole construction time.  I am definitely not good at quick cards!

I mounted this on a piece of embossed Kraft core paper and added a little green distress ink to the edges and to the raised embossed areas on the Kraft core. The sentiment is stamped in sbrown and green distress ink onto a torn scrap of old book paper, there is a tiny 22 on it. Now I need an occasion to use the card and I wonder is it still technically hording until I give the card away?

Happy Birthday Card

I was away for the weekend and missing crafting so Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge was a good incentive to spend the evening at my desk.

I made a background with distress inks in squeezed lemonade and mowed lawn distress ink then added some peeled paint round the edges. I finished off using dylusions leaf flourish stencil with peeled paint and mowed lawn distress ink and stamped text in leaf green archival ink. I die cut the Happy birthday and a Tim Holtz detailed butterfly in black card stock then coloured the background for the butterfly in orange and yellow distress ink. its mounted on a black card base. I am entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge where the theme is Happy birthday

Graphic 45 birthday card

Who doesnt love these papers. I used the By the Sea Collection to make a birthday card for my Mum.