21 May General cards

Pale blue flowers.

Paint the flowers and leaves with bundled sage, broken china and squeezed lemonade DISTRESS inks or promarkers. Use scrap paper to protect card base. Peel off dots to blue flowers and gems to yellow. Foam pads under sentiment.

Pink flower weaving

Stick short strips along short edge and long strips along long edge starting with the centre and working out, then weave and stick ends under card. Foam pads under sentiment and peel off dot to flower.

Tags

Colour background with spray inks. Train forest green, ice grey 2 sleigh bell yellow. Bike berry red. Aeroplanes sleigh bell yellow. Ship Walnut brown and china blue, sails buttercup yellow, post marks pear green.  Edges tumbled glass ink. Sakura pen to decorate and foam pads under tags.

Rusty colour panel

Stamp and emboss onto cream strip with detail white embossing powder. Colour with fired brick oxide ink and buff stamping. Colour largest sentiment with fired brick ink. Gems to corners.

14 May General cards

Dress

Cut out dress and colour with peacock feathers distress ink and picked raspberry ink for bow. Or use promarkers turquoise and magenta. Add sakura clear pen to decorate. Foam pads under sentiment.

 Book

Tuck ribbon on large page and small book underneath top layer. Add gems to larger shaped flowers and peel off dots to small flowers. 3D foam pads under sentiment.

Silhouette

Mask off about 3cm or 1¼” at the bottom of smooth white card. Base coat with spiced marmalade and fossilized amber oxide ink then add mustard seed and rusty hinge distress ink. Mask off top and colour bottom with hickory smoke oxide and black soot distress ink. Add grey strips to side of train.

Pink Flower

Stamp and emboss corners with pale green embossing powder. Add pearls to corners and gem to flower centre. Edges of sentiment bundled sage ink.

7 May General Cards

Sports

Bike wheel spokes ice grey 2, tyres cool grey 4, bike frame 7170 (blue) or china blue, seat black. ball by cap raw sienna raw sienna on bit to put back and firewood or umber (brown). Hat pear green put back white. Sunglasses powder blue and ice grey 2 frame. Phone black cool grey 4 screen. Guitar berry red and ice grey 2 put piece back. Shoe sleigh bell (yellow) and cool grey 4 put bits back. Colour black into balls, guitar and top right corner. Speaker bits to go back are ice grey 2. Add small peel off dots to guitar, shoe and speakers, larger peel off dots to bike wheels. Stick black happy birthday slightly offset to silver.

Rose

Marsh green leaves, buds sunflower yellow, cut out rose head and colour with mustard seed ink, dry with heat tool then apply versamark and clear ultra-thick embossing powder. Picture edges bundled sage and foam pads under rose head.

Hearts

Colour smooth white card with frosted sky colour cloud then use stencil and colour cloud to make background. Stamp onto blue card with silver then die cut heart. Foam pads under all hearts.

Tulips

Stamp and emboss tulips with silver cut out the petals of second set. Colour with ink stains and water brush or promarkers. Colour smooth white card in the corners with seedless preserves distress ink. Edges of picture bundled sage ink. Foam pads under flowers.