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I know a certain little girl who loves all things Minnie Mouse, so for her birthday this year I decided to make a bow-tique card for her! This was inspired by Mendi when I saw her using this bow from the Sunny Studio Christmas stamp set for a non-holiday card.

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​Supplies:

• Sunny Studio Holiday Style stamp set
• *My Favorite Things dye ink: Grapesicle / Periwinkle / Grape Jelly and Pink Lemonade / Bubble Gum / Cotton Candy
• Jillibean Soup Latte Love stamp
• Heidi Swapp Vellum
• Studio Calico heart die
• Ranger Princess Gold Embossing Powder
• Versamark Ink
• Diamond Stickles
• Raspberry Glitter from Recollections
• Ranger Multi Medium Matte

The bow is a 3-layered stamp, so start by stamping the solid image with your lightest color ink, making your way to the least solid image with your darkest shade of ink. I tested my ink colors on scratch paper to see how they layer together before starting this card. Keep in mind that most dye inks take time to absorb into the paper, so it may be a few minutes before you see how it will actually look.

Next I filled in the open spaces with little hearts and flowers from the Jillibean Soup Latte Love stamp using the lightest shades of pink and purple. I added dots of Stickles and covered some of them with pink glitter. 

For the sentiment I layered 3 vellum hearts together so that the background didn't distract from the sentiment.




​Here's a look at the inside of the card, where I used a couple stamps from the Love Cynthia
Hey Hey! Happy Birthday! stamp set. I haven't experienced with masking very much, but this was so easy... First, I stamped the "6" onto a piece of scrap paper and cut it out. Next, I stamped the "6" on my card. Finally, I placed the cut out "6" on top of my stamped "6" before stamping the cake on top. The results are lovely!

My friend was celebrating her birthday and she loves to send mail, so I decided to make some handmade initial note cards to give her. 

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Supplies:

• ​Jillibean Soup Latte Love stamp set
• *My Favorite Things Dye Ink Field Day, Sunshine, Blu Raspberry, Lush Lagoon, and Lollipop from Taylored Expressions
• *My Favorite Things Dye Ink Field Day, Blu Raspberry, Lush Lagoon, Blue Breeze, Blueberry, and Lawn Fawn Forget-Me-Not
• *My Favorite Things Dye Ink Field Day, Bubble Gum, Cotton Candy, Grape Jelly, Grapesicle, and Lollipop from Taylored Expressions

First, I cut the 'M' from a piece of A2 cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo -- this will serve as a stencil/mask for stamping. The font I used is Gills Sans.

​I love the Jillibean Soup Latte Love stamp set for many reasons, one being that it includes several unique tiny flower stamps. I also love the fern stamps included in this set. I stamped the ferns first using MFT's Field Day ink. Then I filled in the open spaces using different colors of ink and various flowers from the stamp set. I love how they turned out!

It's a little gloomy today with lots of rain and clouds, so I decided to pull out my *new* Stormy Sky Distress Oxide Ink and my Happy Girl stamps. 

This is my first time experimenting with "no line coloring", but it seemed appropriate here and I ended up loving it so much! I used My Favorite Things Grout Hybrid ink and it was perfect.

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Supplies:

• Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink: Stormy Sky
• *My Favorite Things Mini Cloud Edges Stencil
• Love Cynthia When It Rains Look For A Rainbow stamp set
• *My Favorite Things Hybrid Ink: Grout
• Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper
• Copic Markers: 

                    RV10, BV01, & B00
                    BG11, YR31, R20, E53, & E00

• Wink of Stella
• Sukura Gelly Roll Stardust Silver pen
• Simon Says Stamp Wonky Hearts die (medium)
• Heidi Swapp Minc Vellum
• Amy Tangerine Rise & Shine Scarlett die set (cloud)
• Heidi Swapp Glue Pen Fine, Heidi Swapp Iridescent Foil, and the Heidi Swapp Minc
• Embossing Powders: Zing! Glacier, Zing! Lavender, & Ranger Pink Peony
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink pad
• Celebrate It! Silver Holiday Ribbon
• Little Things From Lucy's Ice Cube Jewels

I am SO HAPPY that the Love Cynthia shop is now re-opened! There are 7 new sets for the September release, as well as the brand new Giggles planner stickers. Be sure and check out the Facebook page for discount codes and sneak peaks!

The latest Distress Oxide release from Tim Holtz contains so many of my favorite colors! This Stormy Sky is perfect for the cloudy sky, and was the starting idea for this card. I pulled out my Grout Hybrid ink from MFT and started experimenting with no line coloring using Copic markers. This method of coloring turned out to be much more fun than I imagined!

I fussy cut the happy girl and layered the image over a vellum heart cut from the Simon Says Stamp Wonky Hearts die set. Next, I die cut the little cloud then traced the edges with the new Heidi Swapp fine tip glue pen. Using my Minc, I foiled the cloud to give it a silver lining ;) using Heidi Swapp's Iridescent foil. After foiling, I stamped the sentiment without the "rainbow", then stamped the word "rainbow" using Versamark ink so that I could heat emboss on top. The cloud is popped up with foam adhesive.

To finish off the card I added some ribbon and little gems. 

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