Here are two very different birthday cards for two very different friends! I love them both and wanted to make cards that would be specifically for them. One is a very traditional Stampin Up card with their supplies and the other is a Tim Holtz stamp set. Both fun to do. I am still learning Alcohol markers, they are getting a little easier for me but I really want to get that polished look I see card makers achieve. I am showing the inside of the cards too since I decorated them a bit.
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I recently saw some beautiful Fall cards with colored leaves and was inspired to give it a try. I am not sure what they used to color the leaves but I found a post by Kittie Caracciolo where she used distress inks and they are the best color combo! I had so much fun with this that I made a second card just to do more ink blending of the leaves. The leaves are a Spellbinder die set from oh gosh 15 years ago? The stamps are the Gnome set by Stampin Up - Kindest Gnomes. I ink blended behind the Gnome and used Stampin Blends for coloring the Gnome home and part of the Gnome. On one I paper pieced the hat.
Saw a card on Pinterest with the striped strip and was inspired to make these cards. Kind of a break from Halloween and Fall cards. The first card is a Rubbernecker Stamp and I used water color markers and spritzed water before stamping and the other card's stamp is from MFT My Favorite Things which I colored with Stamp n Blend alcohol markers.
