Min familie hadde gleden av å feire konfirmasjonsdagen til Marie i mai,
og jeg syns hun fortjente et skikkelig konfirmant kort. 

Med litt hjelp av Susanne så lagde jeg et lag-på-lag kort med masse blomster,
die-cuts, klippeark motiv, bånd, sløyfe og Mathia-stempel.

 Slik ble kortet... 

 I went out of my comfort zone with this card. I don't often make cards with many layers but I gave it a try with this one.

I used a variety of papers here - Neenah, colored paper and patterned paper. I die cut the Papirdesign sentiment (not the exact same but close) and alpaca from white, red and black cardstock. I then die cut some snowflakes from red and white card stock. I glued the sentiment to a scrap piece of card stock and used a black pen to create some shadows. I covered the hat in glue and dipped it into the flocking powder and brushed off the excess. I glued all of the pieces of the alpacaa together and added some glitter to the white part of the hat.

I then cut all of the panels for the front 2 mm smaller for each piece so they layered nicely together. Using glue and Scor tape, I taped all of the layers together and attached them to my 15 x 15cm card base. I arranged the snowflakes and the sentiment piece and attached them together and then popped up the alpaca with foam tape and added them all to the card.

I don't know about you but I am definitely looking forward to using flocking powder on my Christmas cards this year!

Until next time...
Dawn

 It's harder to be creative in the summer with children home so I've focused on very quick cards to make this summer season. This month will be no different!

 

First I stamped Mathia's gratulerer background stamp and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I took Mermaid Lagoon, Prize Ribbon and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks and went from light to dark, from top to bottom.

While that dried, I added Lucky Clover Distress Ink to a spare piece of cardstock and die cut out multiple leaf shapes - this die set is perfect for different shapes and sizes. I also die cut a couple of different sized hexagon shapes from more spare cardstock. I then stamped Mathia's sentiment on another spare piece with Versafine black ink. This was a great card to use up spare scraps!

 

I layered all of my die cut pieces together so it looked pretty and taped them all together. Then I took the sentiment and used foam tape to attach it to the die cut bundle.

 

By this time the background was dried so I attached it to my cardstock base and then attached the complete die cut bundle to the card. All in all this card took about 15 - 20 minutes to make, most of it just adjusting the leaves so it looked nice!

Until next time...
Dawn

 In my last post I shared how I typically create shaker cards. The process for this card is the exact same, except you add a *lot* more bling inside. It doesn't shake as much as one with less goodies inside but is more stuffed to the brim with goodies!

I used most of the dies from this set and die cut them out in alternating colors. I stamped my sentiment first from this Mathia stampset with Versafine ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I set up my windows with scor tape, acetate, and foam tape (see my previous blog post for a more detailed explanation.) I filled the windows with a ton of various bling and attached all the panels together. 

 

 You can see they are packed and right up against the acetate window! I attached this very heavy panel to my strong card base and she was done. A great birthday card to have on display next week when we all celebrate!

Also, for my fellow geeks out there, May the 4th be with you!

Until next time...
DT Dawn

Et fargerikt kort til min mamma, nå også kalt mor (da det passet bedre på kortet).
Hun fortjener en oppmerksomhet i posten.. skulle ønske jeg var like flink til å sende kort som jeg er på å lage dem :)



Dette kortet her kombinerer endel teknikker, både distress oxide bakgrunn (fargene fozzilised amber, ripe persimmon og picked rasberry)  embossing (med klart embossingpulver), diecutting og stempling.  Her har jeg brukt stempelsettet Gratulerer fra Mathia design, det er superanvendelig og kjekt!

Og jeg klarte heller ikke her å putte på noen bling på kortet... det må til synes jeg! ;) Særlig til min kjære mamma.

DT klem fra Cathrine