Not the direction I was originally going with this card but I do like how it turned out, I bought a specific stamp set just for this sentiment so I had to use it. The stamp was going to be a cat but I realised I’ve made a lot and I mean a lot of cat cards for this very good friend so I thought let’s try something the cat catches instead lol.
This is the first version of this card, there will be others but I am waiting for my 7x5 dies to arrive. I have discovered I can no longer cut anything straight on my own lol. As these images are UK they are too large for my normal US A2 cards so I needed a larger version and 7x5 is about as large as I can handle lol.
I was going to create the background by ink blending and splatter but I discovered creative fabrica has tons of backing papers and this one fitted the bill perfectly lol.
I don’t have many big birthdays this year but I needed a card for a 60 so I went with one of the designs I used last year. I think 2024 broke me with how many big birthdays there were so it will take a while to recover lol.
The lady that started my crafty journey is as obsessed with Pandas as I am so I am surprised I have never used this stamp for her before. Her favourite colour is green so if you look back through my blog you will notice a pattern.
As promised the last of these for a while, this isn't the digital version though its a real stamp and I am ashamed to admit it has never seen ink before. I went with the same style as the crafty gems version although I did use a different stripe die plate.
I have this one and one more to show and then I was out of the obsession, well for a little while anyway. With over 600 of these images I will be definitely using them again.
Another day another lili of the valley card, I am sure you will have noticed the theme, this one however is larger than the stamp size which made it so much easier to colour.
I was in my Lili of the valley obsession era when I made this and the subsequent cards lol. I do prefer the digital version but I do need someone to tell me why I still seem to make them the same size as if they were physical stamps lol.
I loved this image as soon as I saw it and I might have persuaded the owner of the Greeting Farm to make the boy one available too lol. I had so much fun colouring this that the design of the card ended up being fairly simple so that the image could steal the show.
I might have made a few of these last year but sometimes the design is perfect for someone that got a different design last year so of course I had to remake it, lately I seem to be remaking a lot and I do think that after as many years as I have been making cards that is going to happen but I do feel I am stuck in a rut.
