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Happy Birthday Parrot on branch A6 white card - day 232 of my 365 day challenge

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Happy Birthday Parrot on branch A6 white card -  Day 232 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! Well today's card for my challenge (day 232) is one made using Tattered Lace Dies, a Hunkydory Mirri card and mat along with a Hero Arts sentiment. How I made this card:- Using the Parrot Tattered Lace die, I cut it out in black card (I used Lynda Chapman's). I then used the Tattered Lace Forest Pines Bare Trees die (the large one) and cut that out in white card (I must admit I used the back of an old card to do that to save some card!) - I used the Tattered Lace Baby Blue to cut both out as they are small enough to go through it. Using a Black alcohol marker, I partly coloured the tree - I deliberately didn't colour it all as I wanted it to look different. I used a pre cut Gold Mirri card mat (from Hunkydory and added some parchment over it as I wanted it to be slightly muted in comparison to the main circle mat (again from Hunkydory). I then edged the whol...

Hello Sunshine - parrot and tropical plants square card - Day 99 of my 365 day challenge

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Hello Sunshine - parrot and tropical plants square card -  Day 99 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! Today's card (for day 99 of my 365 day challenge) is a bright and fun card using Tattered Lace dies and Hunkydory For the Love of Stamps and Masks. Look out tomorrow for a special give away for day 100 of my challenge! How I made this card:- I first of all placed the Aloha! mask over the front of a 6" white scalloped edged card making sure that there was even spacing all round it and coloured through the border part of it using Altenew red and oranges dye based inks trying to give it an Ombre effect. Whilst that was drying, I cut the parrot out in white card using a Tattered Lace die and coloured it in with blue, purple and red Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. I then used the leaf and flowers stamps (filled in ones) from the accompanying For The Love of Stamps collection and stamped them inside the border - using Onyx Black Versafine ink for the larger fro...