When this die set was released I wanted it so badly but it was expensive and difficult to get hold of in the UK. So imagine my surprise during my last Florida vacation to find it in Hobby Lobby and reduced to $7 to boot, it would have been wrong to leave it there at that price.
It is a huge die and needed my ebosser to be able to cut it but I’m very happy with the results.
I have only recently shown a similar card in my blog that I made in 2022, of course I discovered one of my friends favourite flowers are daffodils so I seemed appropriate to break out the daffodils again. They are so lovely to colour and although I like the cute polkadoodles images their flowers are amongst my favourites.
My friend is a cat lover so I try and find images that she will like, she lost her beloved grey cat last year and even though he is no longer with us I included him sleeping on her card. The other cats are her kitten and her daughters kitten.
I apologise about the awful photo but as usual I left it to the last possible minute to make this card and I needed to take the photo quickly and I didn’t realise it was out of focus.
It’s a design I am sure you have seen on my blog a lot recently and one I really think showcases the image. This christening was lovely and I really enjoyed it, however it was also where I lost my covid virginity. Thankfully I am fully recovered but I do know I don’t want it again, thank you very much.
This is definitely going to be the year of batch making, I seem to be grouping similar age and interest people together and this is helping keep my stress levels at bay. I know cardmaking isn't supposed to be stressful but I just get in my own head sometimes and then I don't seem to be able to just play and create. I was hoping this year would be different but not so far lol.
Anyway onto the card, whilst I was looking for the CC designs birthday candles digi stamp on my computer I came across this image and knew it would be perfect for those teenage boys. I had only just finished the magnificent 7 boy cards and I had used this layout for those and thought it works so why not. It did make them fairly simple to assemble once I started. All the boys look different though as I used their hair colour to match them in real life.
I watched a Jennifer McGuire video and she created this type of card and I had a lightbulb moment and thought that would work with the honey bee set I bought last year.
Now I don't buy the matching dies very often if at all but this set made apertures so I bought them. Of course the aperture was too big for this card so I ended up with a circle (which i now wish was smaller lol). The whole thing was going swimmingly until in my wisdom I decided that as I had the matching die I would cut several layers and use it behind each set of flowers doh!!!! of course now they don't bend so the card doesn't work as well but I am still pleased with it.
I used my go to eclipse for their 18th and the large number style for her brothers 18 so I needed a new design. I bought these numbers and I did hope they would be larger but even though they aren't I still struggled to fit them in lol.
I am pleased with the colouring on this one, she came out even better than I hoped. There are 2 ladies turning 21 this year so of course I made them both at the same time, I won't show the other one until after her birthday but lets just say I am glad I was making the two at the same time as I was able to mix and match.
