Seize the Birthday (Blog Challenge)

Hello again, my lovely crafty followers

Purely by accident, I happened to come across a new Challenge blog today and, I am so glad I did. They only do birthday cards... YIPPPPPPPPEEEE, which is fab because that is probably what most of us make on a regular basis anyway. They're happy for you to simply make an 'Anything Goes' birthday card for each monthly challenge OR, you can make one using their recommended 'toppings', which is basically an additional theme for you to add to your birthday card.  

This month, for example, the 'topping' is 'Hobbies and Pastimes', which could also be really cute.

That being said, I decided to make this card for this month's challenge, which, by the way, is also the last challenge of 2021. Boo hoo! I've only just found them, and now I have to wait two months before I can play again hahaha, shame but I guess everyone needs some time to themselves over December, as even Design Teams, have to have time to prepare for the upcoming festivities. Lol

So... without further delay, here is my rainbow bright 'Unicorn Birthday Card'. At the time of typing this, I'm afraid I don't remember who made the unicorn digi stamp. I will try to find out and will edit the post when I do, for your information.

I printed off some spotted coloured background paper and mounted this to plain white cardstock. Next I layered some bubblegum pink cardstock, which I first ran through my BigShot Plus in an unbranded spotted embossing folder, to which I wrapped some pink spotted grosgrain ribbon.

I then printed off the image, which I coloured with my Copic Markers using similar colours used in the background paper and finally, added one of my LOTV digital sentiments.

To add the highlights (candlelight reflections) I used one of my Prismacolour pencils to gently shade an area around the 'flame' of the candle, the unicorns face and horn and a small part of the icing, which was then blended with Sansodor and a blending stick.

I think my card is worthy of the Seize the Day Blog Challenge as both an 'Anything Goes' card and with this months 'topping' of 'Hobbies and Pastimes', as I love collecting anything to do with Whimsy i.e. mainly Unicorns and Faeries. Do you think collections count as Hobbies and Pastimes, I think it does, so I'm sticking to my interpretation hahaha.

I hope they like it and, if you would also like to take part in this challenge, click the link here and don't forget to upload your card.

Have fun, take care and be safe

Hugs, Fae

Swirls and Curls

Here's a little something I made today to while away the hours between Lewis' Sports Day and picking the children up from school.

The image is Penny Black (cling-on stamps) which I coloured with coloured pencils and 'smudged' with Sansodor and a few blenders. I just love this technique!  The 'frame' around the image has been cut with my Big Shot and my new Nellie Snellen Multi Frames. The ribbon was purchased from Watford Indoor Market, the gemstones came from PoundLand and the 'swirl's' were created, also on my Big Shot, with my Marianne Creatables. The red card was border punched with my Martha Stewart Doily Punch.

Hope you like it?

Thank you very much for stopping by and hope to see you here again soon.
Hugs, Fae xxx

Lilac Blooms

This is a different easel card that I made last night also, for my mother-in-law. Her colours as you can probably tell are lilac and purple.

I was a little nervous colouring this card as it was the FIRST TIME EVER USING SANSODOR with blending stumps! I think I did pretty good for my first attempt though and I was really pleased with the finished result. I am sure that Gwen will love it as Steve was really pleased with it too.

The image is from Lili of the Valley which I stamped onto plain white card. I then added a strip of white card behind the image which I stamped using a rather lovely butterfly stamp that my mate Sarn gave me a while ago, I think it's Stampendous, but she would know for sure??? I'm not very good at remember names am I? The 'sending sunshine' sentiment is Hero Arts and so is the little dragonfly next to it, which I stamped three times and then added the little dashes with a black pen freehand. I added the ribbon and the flowers and then put all the layering together. Looks pretty good I think and, as I said before, I was really pleased with how the Sansodor looked when I had finished colouring the image with my coloured pencils.

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