Happy Birthday Peonies - Alex Syberia Designs

Happy Wednesday! I wanted to make a special birthday card for my best friend's birthday and I had been eyeing a gorgeous technique by my talented crafty friend Mona Toth and knew I wanted to try it. Take a look at her beautiful version here. I wish I had watched her video first as she achieved the beautiful look with just three colours and I used six!

I stamped the Peony Corners by Alex Syberia Designs in black pigment ink and embossed with black embossing powder. Using the stencils, I then coloured in the blooms with six different pastel inks, trying to keep with the ROYGBIV in a circle (although Mona's method is even easier!) and then die cut using the matching dies.

I added a panel to the front of my card which I embossed using the Essential Textures: Canvas Impressions Plate by Altenew, I then placed the die on the section of the card that I wanted to cut (so the rest of the die was hanging out of the end of my cutting pads) to selectively cut just the edge of the card. I then glued the die cut peonies along that edge creating a decorative flap.

I finished it off with a scripty Happy Birthday sentiment from the Simply Said stamps and dies by Pinkfresh Studio. I die cut 3 of the sentiments and stacked them to give the sentiment more depth.

I gave her the card today and she LOVED it, which is the best part of crafting for me 🩷

Peony Corners stamps, dies and stencils were kindly gifted to me by the lovely Alex at Alex Syberia Designs.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #145: 2013 A la Carte

I enjoy learning new techniques and there has been some fabulous ones featured during Make It Monday's on Papertrey Ink. At the end of the year they compile all of the posts in one and you can pick your favorite technique, this year I combined two, Make It Monday #113: Perfect Pearls and Make It Monday #144: Heat Embossing on Vellum.

Cardstock-Bazzill Cardshoppe. Vellum-Making Memories, Stamp Set-Papertrey Ink, 

Medium-Perfect Pearls, Ranger. Adhesive-Invisi-Dots for Vellum, Glue Dots International.

I stamped the medallions using watermark ink onto turquoise vellum and liberally added perfect pearls in turquoise, berry twist and forever purple then embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder. Unfortunately when I stitched it to the base if rubbed some of the pearls off the edges but it's not too noticeable.

What about the picture quality, huh? it's a big improvement on my usual offering. I was a lucky girl and Santa bought me some lights to go along with the little light cube I got a couple of years ago, I know I have quite a way to go but I was relieved that I am able to show almost true to life colours in my pictures at last :)

Thanks for stopping by, 

Ang :)