Happy Birthday

Hi Bloggers.

I'm afraid I'm taking a little break from Scrapbook Saturday as I've been a bit busy and haven't had a chance to do any scrapbooking recently.

John Lockwood has shows on Create and Craft today at 10am and 4pm (I think) lauching a new range of stamps designed by the man himself. They really are gorgeous designs and work really well with new Spellbinders Dies. Today's card features both John's stamps and new Spellbinders.

I began by stamping the sentiment from John's Butterfly Dreams Elements Stamp Set onto Milk Card using Plum Archival. I cut it out using a die from the Spellbinders Oval Floral Die Set and inked through the die with Seedless Preserves Distress Ink. I cut the next largest die out of Rich Plum Card and at the emboss stage I added the oval die I had just used to give me the faux piercing look.

I cut the largest plain oval die from the same set out of Milk Card and inked through the die with Seedless Preserves. I used one of the elements from the stamp set and stamped around the edges of the oval using Plum Archival. I cut the largest die out of Rich Plum Card and at the emboss stage I added the oval die I had just used to give me the faux piercing look.

 I cut the largest die in the Spellbinders Triple Floral Die Set out of Milk Card and at the emboss stage I added the next smallest die to give me the faux piercing look (bit of a theme running here!). I removed the smaller die and inked through the remaining die with Seedless Preserves.

I tied a bow using Cream Crochet Ribbon. I made a flower out of Rich Plum Card using a die from the Spellbinders Marisa's Bouquet Die Set and added a 5mm Cream Pearl to the centre.

I matted all this onto a piece of Plum Card cut using Spellbinders 6 x 6 Matting Basics B Die Set.

I assembled the card as shown adding some 8mm Cream Pearls to the corners and piercing around the edges.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.