ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - BIRTHDAYS #488

Welcome back to another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this time we are back on Birthdays.

March is a very  busy month in our household with no less than four birthdays for my daughter, son, son in law, and husband just sneaks in on 1st April but still four major birthdays in a two week period!  

This was the card I did for my daughter this year - I love using these stencils by Lavinia Stamps and creating a little scene inside.  All inks are Tim Holtz.  I did add a few drops of Nuovo along the edge of the bottle too. 

I'm adding this into the following - 

Addicted to CAS - stencil - not sure if this is CAS enough though 

Allsorts - Feminine 

Heart's Quest - Fantasy

Polkadoodle - AG 

Creative Moments - for a special lady - this was for my daughter 

Creative Knockouts - Birthday Wishes 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS - BIRTHDAY #478

Welcome back to another Birthdays challenge here at Addicted to Stamps and More.  I've used a lovely stamp by Tim Holtz on my card.  The background was made with a colour wash of various Tim Holtz Distress Inks to give a summery feel.  Not that we had a summer but I must still have been hoping for one when creating this card!

I added a script stamp to the background then added white embossing powder to make it pop. I stamped the stamp and cut out a further butterfly to add on top to give further interest and dimension.  

INSPIRATION STATION FEBRUARY #58

I'm delighted to be starting off the New Year with a new Design Team - Inspiration Station.  But oh I nearly stumbled at the first hurdle when I saw our photo for inspiration and realised I have absolutely no dog stamps whatsoever.  Even though I have two dogs lol!  So forgive me for just showing this gorgeous little cat on my card.

She is one of Anita Jeram's stamps called Watering Can Mini.  I decided to ink her a little off the one side of the page rather than in the middle to give more of an effect.  I added some little flowers under her watering can and used the sentiment from another Anita Jeram set.  The little xo's are from Clearly Besotted.

BIRTHDAY TAG

The challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge this week is We're on a Roll'!.  I was inspired by Emma Williams where she had rolled the paper as this was a new technique for me.

I started off my using white gesso for my tag and then adding some Tim Holtz paint in Iced Spruce and Victorian Velvet.  This was my first time for using the paints too which I had great fun in using.  Once dry I used the Tim Holtz music stencil in Weathered Wood - the floral stencil and words stencil in Aged Mahagony.

I then used some of the Tim Holtz Christmas wallpaper to roll up my candles.  I covered the parts that showed the holly with a Happy Birthday die cut which I found in my stash.  I added some strips to the tops of the candles and used a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen in Harvest Moon to add a touch of glimmer to the flames.

We are moving house over the next few months and having a sort out - Hubby yesterday found an old dictionary which had seen better days and he was about to throw it out when he asked if I could use it for my crafting!!! Haven't I taught him well lol!  So I cut out the Birthday and the meaning and added that to the bottom of the tag - the other sentiments are from Tim Holtz Idealogy Clippings Sticker Book.

I added some ribbons to the top from my stash and a brass brad.