Brithday Cards

I made a couple of cards this week for some upcoming birthdays using the card kit I bought from Simon Says Stamp last month. I started with the included embossing folder. I pressed a Distress Ink pad onto the flat part of the indented side and then misted it with water. I used watercolor paper and put it in the folder and ran it through my machine. I love the color and depth this gave to my backgrounds! 

For the first card, I used a kraft tag that was also included in the kit and stamped and heat embossed the flower to match the background. I colored in the flower with the white Wink of Stella pen. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in silver and wrapped the tag with the included twine. I then attached the tag to the card.

For my second card, I stamped and colored the cute little cat from another kit. I fussy cut that and attached it to the background using foam tape after splattering the background with some clear Perfect Pearls ink and pink spray ink.

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my cards!

October Calendar Page

Hi all! I'm here to finally share my October calendar page. It has been done for a while, but I've been so busy that I didn't have time to get it up on my blog! I used the September double page sketch from Stick It Down:

I started with kraft cardstock for my bases. I used molding paste and a stencil to add a pattern and texture. I then used spray inks to add some color with spritzes and splatters. Once that was dry, I layered the patterned papers over the top. I found a green cardstock that went with the greens in the papers (it may be slightly too bright looking at it now, but that's what I used) to mat the photos. I used a journaling stamp and a pen to add my journaling to the page. I found letter stickers that coordinated with my colors fo the title. To embellish the page, I fussy cut items from the fussy cut sheet in the collection and added them to the layout with regular adhesive and foam adhesive for some dimension. I finshed off the clusters with some Nuvo Drops in Dirty Bronze.

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!