Birthday Today!

My oldest Granddaughter is 21 today and so, of course, festivities are ensuing. Must have a birthday card !!! That goes without saying. I grabbed a little  stamped and painted image of mice having a blowing out the candle ritual that has been lying around for about a month. So glad that i have some things done ahead of time needed. Had cut out a little doily (a Samantha Walker design for Silhouette) just a little while ago and  thought it would be real cute behind the image so that was the  next piece. I used distress ink to do the background behind the ice and silhouetted the mice, used 3D-DOTS for them and everything was going good at this point. The background paper came next; that was easy! Bittersweet from basic gray had just the perfect paper for this. But then come the sentiment and I had’ to cut that on the Silhouette…I thought it would look just great so I cut that out and the top half of the ‘B” didn’t cut correctly. But i cut another one and that worked out.Now I had to figure out, without a lot of supplies I used to have, i feel a bit hampered. But i had a roll of ‘cheap’ low tack dollar store cellophane tape and thought that would work so i laid out the lettering on my crafty acrylic craft thingy that i lay on top of the Olfa rotary cutting mat that has lines on it for this kind of thing. Adjusted the letters so that they were as straight as i could get them and and carefully laid the cellophane tape over them and lightly pressed it down so i got all the letters on the tape. Whew! i did it. only the exclamation point went haywire but i can do that after i lay down the sentiment on the card.

Then i carefully turned the lettering over and applied mono-multi to the backside of the letters. Now, my eyes are not as good as they used to be i cannot see some details like white glue on white paper, i used too. So some spots got more glue than they should but at least the glue dries clear! The dot to the ‘i’ is somewhere on my table, ah! there it is. So I grabbed my handy-dandy Quick Kutz quicker-picker-upper and picked up the dot and laid a bit of glue on the exposed side and let that sit so that the glue would dry to tacky and placed it in it’s spot and now i have to get everybody to sign the card…Bye! :)

Birthday

My daughter is having her birthday in a few days and so i made up this little card.

…and, just for the fun of it, since Paper Gardens Project is having their birthday i can enter this into the challenge. So, Happy Birthday Paper Gardens and Cathy.

Recipe

1. Stamp – Penny Black’s Piece of my Heart stamps set birthday sentiment from the Flourishes  Sweet Violet stamp set
2. Paper – Basic Grey’s Urban Prairie 6x6-inch pad and Neenah Solar White
3. handmade flowers
4. Dove Blender and water colors pencils Faber-Castell’s Albrecht Dürer in the following colors
5. Dk Naples Ochre #184 undertones cat & optional
6. Burnt Ochre #187 - cat
7. Dk Flesh #130 - roses
8. May Green # 170 – leaves

Paper Gardens carries water color pencils also they are right here

Just Playin’

I have a cute little granddaughter having a birthday soon and was working on a card for her – I came up with this….

Well, things don’t always go just like you want them to – and after doing the little hedgehog and finding the paper i wanted to go with it i think this will do just great for my Son, who also has a birthday soon.

Materials

• Basic Grey’s Porcelain 6x6 collection
• Penny Black’s valentine critters
• Prism green card stock
• Sentiment from Flourish’s Violet stamp set
• Neenah Solar Crest 80# cardstock
• Dove Blender
• Albrecht Durer Water Color Pencils in the following colors
• Caput Mortum Violet #169 (for roses)
• Indian Red, #192 (hedgie’s body)
• Burnt Umber #280 (hedgie’s quills)
• Sanguine #188 (flower pot)
• Permanent Green ( i think) #266, you can use a better green than this was.

Most of these i can be bought at a lot of places, but i find that is is not easy to find Prism Cardstock which I like better than the popular brands which i buy also. And the water color pencils I bought at Dick Blick Art Supplies and they can be bought open stock. They and the Lyra brand are the best water color pencils ever!

When I did the coloring on this little critter, I had just done the green on the flowers and had wiped the blender off. However there was still some green on the pen tip and when I pre-wet the hedge hog for coloring there was a hint of green, then I laid in the color for the hedge hog with Indian Red #192 and I think it looks just fine. Green is a natural toner for reds anyway. And there was so very little green but just enough to shade the red a little and I think that made the hedge hog!