My little niece has just had a beautiful Wendy house built for her by my very clever sister!!
I found some little wooden ladybirds in my craft stash that she could stick onto her little house, or onto the plant pots as she has helped her mummy plant flowers all around her Wendy house in the garden.
I didn't just want to send the ladybirds down in an envelope so I decided to create a card using cream and craft card with the Tonic Heart die and shaker set 1657e. I also used two of the Tonic Essentials stamp sets, 'Reach For The Stars 1658e' and 'It's Party Time 1654e'.
I used my Stamp Platform to stamp the bunny in the basket from 'Reach from the stars' stamp set with the Nuvo Hybrid Black Shadow ink pad and coloured the bunny in from the with my Nuvo Aqua Flows. I water coloured in the bunny with the Soft Rose 911n and the basket I coloured with Lilac Blossom 909n and then I used Indigo Dawn 903n for shadows in an around the sides of the hot air balloon basket. Behind the bunny, I wanted a few clouds to make it look like the hot air balloon was floating in the sky so I used 'Reach from the stars' stamp set again but this time I used Nuvo Hybrid metro grey ink.
Once the clouds were in place I die cut the heart where I wanted the hot air balloon to be, my strings from the basket weren't long enough so I used a black pen to extend them towards the heart.
I then worked out where I wanted the 'Heart die cut' to be on the base card as I wanted my niece to have access to the ladybirds (without ripping the card to get to them) so I used an idea from a lovely crafty friend Bibiana Cameron who made a card for the launch of the Tonic shaker cards using tin foil inside the card. Bibiana used sweets in her Shaker card so the recipient could easily access the sweets. I just thought this was ingenious so I sealed all of the ladybirds inside the heart bubble with the tin foil.
I glued the cream card onto the craft card base making sure the heart die cuts lined up. It was tricky doing it but well worth it, it looked fab (I forgot to take a photo of the inside of the card) I am still a beginner blogger!! :(
I die cut a cloud out of the cream card then used the heart die to cut into the cloud so the cloud would cuddle the heart... ( as seen in the photo above) I popped the cloud up onto sticky foam to give the card more depth.
I finished off with a sentiment 'Just because' from the 'It's Party Time' stamp set. I glued another cream piece of card to the centre of the card for me to write my message to my gorgeous little niece.
My niece loved her card, that is all that matters to me. :):):)
Crafty Hugs
Cal :)
I found some little wooden ladybirds in my craft stash that she could stick onto her little house, or onto the plant pots as she has helped her mummy plant flowers all around her Wendy house in the garden.
I didn't just want to send the ladybirds down in an envelope so I decided to create a card using cream and craft card with the Tonic Heart die and shaker set 1657e. I also used two of the Tonic Essentials stamp sets, 'Reach For The Stars 1658e' and 'It's Party Time 1654e'.
I used my Stamp Platform to stamp the bunny in the basket from 'Reach from the stars' stamp set with the Nuvo Hybrid Black Shadow ink pad and coloured the bunny in from the with my Nuvo Aqua Flows. I water coloured in the bunny with the Soft Rose 911n and the basket I coloured with Lilac Blossom 909n and then I used Indigo Dawn 903n for shadows in an around the sides of the hot air balloon basket. Behind the bunny, I wanted a few clouds to make it look like the hot air balloon was floating in the sky so I used 'Reach from the stars' stamp set again but this time I used Nuvo Hybrid metro grey ink.
Once the clouds were in place I die cut the heart where I wanted the hot air balloon to be, my strings from the basket weren't long enough so I used a black pen to extend them towards the heart.
I then worked out where I wanted the 'Heart die cut' to be on the base card as I wanted my niece to have access to the ladybirds (without ripping the card to get to them) so I used an idea from a lovely crafty friend Bibiana Cameron who made a card for the launch of the Tonic shaker cards using tin foil inside the card. Bibiana used sweets in her Shaker card so the recipient could easily access the sweets. I just thought this was ingenious so I sealed all of the ladybirds inside the heart bubble with the tin foil.
I glued the cream card onto the craft card base making sure the heart die cuts lined up. It was tricky doing it but well worth it, it looked fab (I forgot to take a photo of the inside of the card) I am still a beginner blogger!! :(
I die cut a cloud out of the cream card then used the heart die to cut into the cloud so the cloud would cuddle the heart... ( as seen in the photo above) I popped the cloud up onto sticky foam to give the card more depth.
I finished off with a sentiment 'Just because' from the 'It's Party Time' stamp set. I glued another cream piece of card to the centre of the card for me to write my message to my gorgeous little niece.
My niece loved her card, that is all that matters to me. :):):)
Crafty Hugs
Cal :)
