Peacock Birthday

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Today I have a birthday card with a beautiful peacock.

Recently I bought some craft stamps and dies from destash sites. This Hero Arts - Color Layering Peacock is one of them. I’ve been looking for them for a long time and finally found it in a destash group on Facebook. I first die cut a white card stock with the peacock die and then used it to stamp my layers. I used inks from Hero Arts (pine and emerald green), Brutus Monroe (dandelion and corn flower) and Memento (teal zeal). I fussy cut around the peacock (even though I already die cut it, I’m not a fan of having white border around) and filled in the white with a light copic marker. I die cut an oval piece with Tutti designs die and stamped the peacock feather on it. The sentiment is from Hero Arts - Tulip stamp set. For the background, I used Altenew - woven 3D embossing folder. 

How do you like today’s card? Do let me know. Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day!

Submitting this to:

• Hero Arts - Everything old is new again 
• Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Cute critters

Chickadee in Fall

 Hello everyone!! I'm back today, with a Fall themed card using some Honey Bee stamp dies.

I know, I know! We only use Chickadees in Winter/Christmas cards! Well, I took a leap and used it in a Fall card. The bird is made with the Honey Bee Stamps - Lovely Layers: Winter Birds die set. I used colored card stock to cut them and glue them. It was pretty easy to make this adorable bird. For the leaves, I used Honey Bee stamps - Lovely Layers: Peony and Lovely Layers: Anemone die sets. I die cut the leaves on white card stock and used Memento - Morocco and Dandelion inks and Brutus Monroe - Rogue inks to color them. For the background, I die cut the arch window using the Arch dies from Scrapbook.com and then embossed it with Altenew - 3D Deck Planks embossing folder. I skipped the sentiment since I couldn't figure out a way to add one without ruining the look.

How do you like this card today? Please do let me know in the comments below. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Feathered Friends!

Hello everyone!! I'm on the Brutus Monroe blog today, with these 2 cards using last month's stamp sets, Feathered Friends and the Bird House.

Here's the first one using the Bird House:

I stamped the branch image from the Feathered Friends stamp set and the bird house image with Sugar Cone ink. Then I colored them with Copics. I stamped the sentiment from the Feathered Friends with Raven ink. I adhered this panel on to an A2 card base.

Here's the second card using the bird and the nest from the Feathered Friends:

I stamped the branch and the nest with Raven ink on a piece of white card stock and colored them with Copics. I stamped the bird on a scrap piece of card stock and colored it with Copics. I fussy cut the bird. I adhered the bird on the nest. Then I stamped the sentiment with Raven ink. I adhered this panel on to an A2 card base.

How do you like my cards today? Please do let me know in the comments. Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day!!

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Explosion Box

Hello all.. I'm back with another creation. Yesterday was our 3rd anniversary :) It's been 3 happy years with my lovely husband. I wanted to make something special for my husband. I've been wanting to try out an explosion box for quite some time and decided to give it a go. So here is my anniversary explosion box.

To embellish the lid, I used a few punched flourishes. I added a diecut and wrote "Happy Anniversary". The glitter is a 3D liner.

The outside of the box is pretty CAS with a few hearts on a couple of side.

I used the Filigree Heart stamp from Lili of the Valley and used 3D glitter outliner on it.

On the inside, I wrote some quotes about marriage and added some charms on each side.

The puzzle piece and birds charms are from Blue Moon beads. The small glass bottle is from Pinque Peacock. The black ribbon is from my stash.

The centerpiece is a lattice arch with creepers on it (stopped myself from adding flowers on it). Added some flowers on the floor too.

The arch is perfect to hold some message.

What do you think of it? Please leave your comments and thoughts.

Submitting this to:

• 3 Girl Jam Challenge - Summer Fun w/Ribbon
• All Sorts Challenge - For The Guys
• Bearly Mine Challenges - One for the boys
• CAS-ual Fridays - CFC132: What a Catch
• Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
• Crafty Cardmakers - Flourishing
• ItsyBitsy - Anything But a Card
• My Time To Craft - No Design Papers
• One Stitch At A Time - Boy'ish'
• Path of Positivity challenge - HAPPINESS
• Pinque Peacock - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
• Lili of the Valley - Male or Sporty
• Scribble and Scrap Crafts - Challenge 19 - Always Anything Goes
• Just Keep on creating