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Hope your Birthday is amazing...foliage black and green square card

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Hope your Birthday is amazing...foliage black and green square card Hi Craft addicts! I am having great fun making these backgrounds using Tim Holtz Distress Crayons and the Broken Tiles die set from Lisa Horton/Creative Expressions. How I made this card:- I cut out the main topper (Lisa Horton's Broken Tiles Dragonfly die set) using Black Pearlescent card from Create & Craft. There are three dies for this particular part of  the card and I used the main square and foliage to cut it out. I used my Gemini machine for this I did wonder what sort of background would work and decided that one that I had created using various green Tim Holtz Distress Crayons on Yupo paper (translucent) would work really well as it gives a slightly misty look. I cut a square out and stuck it to the back of the main topper using a PVA glue making sure that there was no glue on the Yupo paper. I then stamped the foliage in each corner and sentiment (I think it is from Gina K) on to the ...

Because You're Amazing... abstract bubbles square blue card

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Because You're Amazing... abstract bubbles square  blue card Hi Craft addicts! Well it is #TesselatingTuesday here and so have made this really bright and cheerful card using just one die, some alcohol markers and a Sentiment stamp from Honey Bee Stamps. How I made this card:- I used the Circular Dreams die set by Lisa Horton from Creative Expressions and cut the bubble duo (frame and inner design) out twice using Black Core Collections Linen effect card from Create and Craft. I risked it and cut the two dies out at the same time so I knew it would be a proper fit... I also cut out the main background layer out twice, this time using White card. I did wonder how I would use them but decided to glue the main design on to the white card and see what came! Inspiration (of sorts) arrived, and I coloured one lot of the bubbles using a red alcohol marker, and the other with a blue one. I then trimmed around both of them leaving a narrow border and glued them to opposit...