Birthday Hello

I'm honoured to be joining the team at Just Us Girls challenges as guest designer for the month of May. This week is Die Week with a theme of:

When it comes to sentiment dies one of my favourite types are large dies, especially those I can team up with a co-ordinating stamp, which is what I've done on today's shaker 'Birthday hello' card.

Those adorable pandas certainly know how to party! 🥳

I layered 5 cuts of the frame to allow room for the shaker after deciding the bands between segments were too narrow to use dimensional foam on. With the acetate layer and patterned paper at the back as well, that's a nice sturdy front cover, lol. 

Materials used:

• stamp&die combos - Little Agenda pandas (Mama Elephant), Overlapping Happy Additions (Waffle Flower)
• other dies - Comic Cover Wonky creative cuts (Mama Elephant), hello (stash)
• patterned paper - Rainbow Twirl (Paper Rose)
• other - acetate, Big Shot, clear sequins, MISTI, Copic markers, foam squares

I hope you'll grab some sentiment dies and join the challenge. Be sure to check out what the design team created to inspire you on the Just Us Girls blog!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

JAI #666 - Just Add Inspiration

This week's Just Add Ink inspiration pic really caught my attention. I love the bright, cheerful colours and the sense of whimsy and fun.

I've used the bright pink, aqua and black on my card and tried to bring some of the happy vibe from the image to it with a funky script die. 

I started by sponging some ink on my background piece, dried it and then stencilled using snowfall grit paste - which really does look like little chunks of icy snow. 

After cutting my letters I coloured them with Zig markers then added a touch of shimmer and offset them on a black layer of the same die. The little birdies were watercoloured too. Aren't they cute with their little beanies? Lol. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Stay Warm (Mama Elephant)
• card - watercolour, Capri (Kaisercraft), basic black (SU)
• Tim Holtz products - Festive Words dies, snowfall grit paste, Speckles stencil, salvaged patina ink, micro glaze, black soot archival ink
• other - Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, Big Shot, Dimensionals, craft foam, clear Wink of Stella, heat tool

Check out what this lovely image inspired in my fellow design team members over on the JAI blog and, as always, we'd love you to play along.

Thanks for dropping in.

Cheers

Kerry