Miss Pinks Craft Spot

Welcome to Share it Sunday, a blog hop where everything goes, any colour, any theme, sentiment as long as it is a current item from Stampin' Up!  With the retirement list being released this week, it has made my think of using some stamp sets before they are no longer available, I've combined a bundle and sentiment from another set for todays card, with some embellishment too. The Birds & Branches stamp set with coordinating Birds & More dies are simply delicately adorable, I'be used them many times, and they never fail to disappoint me. The delicate detail in the edge & circle die are so sweet, and give a feminine touch with ease. I stamped the birds Blushing Bride and Sahara Sand. The background is Just Jade with Misty Moonlight applied to a separate layer of cardstock with Blending Brushes, before being adhered to behind the circle cut out. There is no sentiment with Birds & Branches, and with things the way they have been for the past couple of years, ...

This card has been over a day in the making, I've had to listen to my body which happened to be saying "I need rest, no crafting", oh how I can't wait to be back to my normal self.  All that aside, I am really happy with my finished card, I'm surprised I didn't loose my mojo with all the "tools down" recesses. I started by using blending brushes with Pear Pizzazz to create a rough circle in the bottom of the card, then die cut to create my window layer.  I added a little Balmy Blue to the upper edge of the green, then a hint of Crumb Cake in the bottom left corner, then stamped the sentiment from Lovely You . I was undecided with the look, so added some splats by randomly flicking my Crumb Cake and Balmy Blue Stampin' Markers. My bird is stamped with Crumb Cake and..... ugh Flirty Flamingo! (it was supposed to be Blushing Bride), then just a smudge of Balmy Blue to the wing and head - lucky for me I stamped off once before stamping with Flirty Fl...

Hi there, I promised that I would show you more from my class last weekend, this card focuses on used dies, or in this case a border die to dress up your z-fold. I've used the Birds & Branches Bundle with Blushing Bride, Soft Suede and a touch of Crumb Cake. After cutting the z-fold base, I then lined up the border die to the diagonal cut, and created the decorative edge - I needed to do 3 cuts with the border die to get the pattern across the full length of the card.  How different does it look compared to using vertically on the edge of a card, a definate WOW factor in my books. Next was stamping the birds, using Soft Suede as the main colour with Blushing Bride body and then Crumb Cake on the wings. After cutting the decorative cirlce image for the front of the card, I used my Layering Circle dies to cut it firstly to a circle then layerd a whisper white circle under the Pear Pizazz before mounting on a scalloped circle. The sentiment if from the Lovely You stamp set. Then a...