To finish off the card, I trimmed the notecard down on the sides and adhered it to a black background piece.

Hi there, today I want to show you a clean and simple birthday card using the "Fanciful Feathers" stamp set by WPlus9. I've eyed this set for a while now and finally got it.


To create this birthday card, I used one of the circle stamps from Lawn Fawn's "Let's Bokeh" set and stamped it three times with different tones of a color. Because I liked the outcome so much I created a set with different colors. If you want to know which colors I used, you can find them listed on the bottom of the post.


On top of the stamped circles I stamped different feathers in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.   Below the circles and feathers I stamped the sentiments "cheers" and "have a happy birthday" which are also from the set by Lawn Fawn.

Today I am going to show you the second card I made out of the floral watercolor panel. If you want to now how I created the panel, just click here and you will be redirected to the first card I made. I will also link it up to the November Guest Design Search by Create A Smile. Oh god, I am completely spamming them...
For this second card, I used the center piece and placed it on the top of a white cardbase. I also made two gold strips using the Gold Satin Pearl embossing powder by WOW and placed them at the top and bottom of the floral panel.


This time, I didn't want to include dimension on the floral panel but on the piece that has the sentiment on it. I used white cardstock and stamped the sentiment "herzlichen Glückwunsch" (Congratulations) with Archival Jet Black ink in the center of the panel and adhered it to the cardbase using white fun foam.

It's time for another floral card using the stamp sets by Create A Smile. I always find myself coming back to these stamp sets - and I really don't have that with other sets. They are just so nice to color with different media. And I also created this card for the November Guest Designer Search from Create A Smile. Maybe I get lucky :)

After I'd stamped all flowers I colored them in  with the Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens. If you're interested in all the colors I used, you'll find them listed below. I layed down my color and used a brush to either blend out the color or blend two or more colors together.
Red flower: 23, 29, 50, 70, pink flower: 50, 70, 82, sun flower: 50, 52 + 67, 60, orange flower: 70, 50, lilac flower: 84, background: 36


Then, I had to do the most difficult thing for me: I had to cut the colored flowers and I really hoped I wouldn't mess up! And unfortunately, I liked the end result!. I cut ouf a strip from the center and used it in another card that will come to the blog soon. 
To give my card a bit of dimension, I used funfoam behind the two strips. Before I glued them to the top and bottom of my cardbase, I stamped the sentiment happy birthday using a set from WPlus9 and Altenew in the center of the card using Archival Jet Black Ink.

For this card I used a stamp set that I got from Julia's Destash. I loved the fairy lights from the beginning and was happy to get the set. I stamped the lights with Archival Jet Black Ink on some watercolor cardstock and colored the little bulbs with Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens (80, 70, 50, 47, 22, 92) and blended the colors out with a waterbrush. I adde a little shine around them using 51.

As a sentiment, I stamped "Happy holidays" - again with Archival Jet Black ink. I think this ink gives a really nice, crisp impression. Much better than Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.
To finish off the card, I adhered the watercolor panel on red foil cardstock and to a white cardbase. 



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Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock (Scrobby) - http://goo.gl/vIlFvZ 
Foil Card Stock (SSS) - http://goo.gl/xfyIIX

A few days ago the new stamp sets by Create A Smile arrived at my door and I really wanted to show you this card that I made wit hthe set "Time to say thanks" and an older set called "Magic Flowers". I stamped the flowers and leaves with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored them with Spectrum Noir markers (flower: blender, FS6, BP7 + CT1, CT3; three leaves: combination of CT3, CG3, CG2, DG2, LG5, JG1; leave that looks like a fan: CG2, CG2, DG4; long leave: LG5, JG1, JG2, JG6). I used post-it notes to create mask so I could layer the images. I pressed my VersaMark Inkpad on some white scrap paper and embossed a strip with gold embossing powder by wow that I wanted to use with the leaves and flowers.

On my white cardbase, I stamped the sentiment "Happy Birthday" using a set by WPlus9 and Altanew, again, with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. To finish off the card, I then cut the paper that I stamped my images on at a slight angle and adhered it with fun foam at the top of the card base including the golden strip that I created earlier.



This card participates in the following challenges
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Use a stamp
Addicted to CAS - Leaves
Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes Birthday
Through The Purple Haze -  Happy Birthday
Addicted to Stamps - Make your Mark