VIDEO | Winter Birthday Card feat. Simon Hurley create.

I'm so excited to share this fun, humorous birthday card featuring loads of products from Simon Hurley create. I didn't get a chance to use the Caroling Squad stamp set over the holidays and I love the adorable images so much that I thought of a way to use them in a non-Christmas-y way. This was pretty easy, especially with the sentiments from Dudes Too!

I separated one of the kids from the group of three and placed him with two little dogs. Sure, he lost part of his earmuff and shoulder but with the careful placement of the dogs, as well as his position within the frame, no one will ever know!

I used the Classic Flannel background stamp on the polaroid frames and sponged through the Frostbite Stencil. All of the watercoloring, stamping of the frames and stencilling was done using Simon Hurley create ink pads and reinkers.

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VIDEO | Bat Mitzvah Card feat. Concord & 9th

My son was invited to his first bat mitzvah so I wanted to make a special card to celebrate the occasion. I was told that the recipient's favourite colours are pink and rose gold so I chose my colours accordingly.

I used Concord and 9th's Vintage Flower stamp set and coordinating dies to heat emboss and create dimension for the flowers, which I watercolored with distress inks.

The custom sentiment was stamped using Concord and 9th's Perfectly Penned stamp set, using Altenew's Coral Berry ink pad.

I used blending brushes to sponge the background in the same colours I used to watercolour the flowers. Then I splattered shimmer spritz to up the glam factor.

I adore the way the flower dies give the petals so much dimension and I'm so pleased with the way this card turned out! I hope the recipient loves it as much as I enjoyed making it.

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VIDEO | Chinese New Year Card feat. Evelin T Designs

I'm on the Evelin T Designs blog with this Chinese New Year card and video tutorial. I love making Chinese New Year cards every year, especially if I have the appropriate animal stamps for that zodiac year. As it turns out, this Saturday, January 25, 2020 is the start of the Rat Year and I'm a rat! My husband and son are also rats so this is a big year for us.

I used three stamp sets, including Good Tidings To You (also available at EH | SSS), All Hallow's Cuteness (also available at EH | SSS) and All Is Calm (also available at EH | SSS). The two mice are from Good Tidings To You, the mushrooms are from All Hallow's Cuteness and the sentiment is from All Is Calm.

I stamped the images on to a watercolour panel. I also created masks for them so I could sponge the background before watercoloring the images with distress inks. After all the colouring was done and the panel dried, I heat embossed the sentiment with gold tinsel embossing powder.

To finish, I embellished the card with a strip of patterned paper, a strip of gold glitter cardstock and gold star sequins. I hope you enjoyed this out-of-the-box project using Christmas and Halloween stamps to create a Chinese New Year card!

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