Happy Birthday

Goodmorning dear reader,

How are you today, I'm verry happy beacause its my turn to make this card for you.

I have worked with the beautiful paperstack Fatale from IndigoBlu.

I really love this paperstack, it's almost a waist to use the beauties. 

My basic is white cardstock, I coloured with distress oxide and some mask.

I have used two colours matching the papers, twisted citron and fosilized amber.

Spritzed with water to get the beautifull oxide look.

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Than I tear the edge from the yelow flower and script paper and glue them together

on the basis card. 

I did the same with an piece of cardstock and stamp Aloysius and the sentiment on it. 

Die cut it with a circel Die, do this also with the scrap paper

and white cardstock. Glue the circless together.

Here is the list with the items I have used, I hope that I have inspire you with my card. 

Aloysius / Happy Birthday

Paperstack Fatale

Script mask

Texture mask

Distress Oxide inkt

Happy 2017 from Aloysius

I would like to start the new year with a very sincere wish for everyone to enjoy good health and happiness in 2017. May each day be filled with magical moments and lots of crafty fun!

This month we have been asked to use our favourite IndigoBlu stamp, which is of course a very difficult task! I am a huge Teddy Bear fan, so I just had to pick the famous Aloysius from Brideshead Revisited. The tv series and the film were set at Castle Howard, which became Brideshead. I searched google for some pictures of the castle, and drew a very rough sketch.

The castle is for the background so all that is needed is just a few lines to give the general idea. Aloysius is the star!

I used watercolours to add washes of colours to the castle, and added in a long path and some bushes. I used Butterscotch, Hazel, and Espresso inkpads to add some colour around the edge of the picture.

I stamped the lovely Aloysius and watercoloured him too. When he was dry I fussy cut him.He is a very gentlemanly bear and did not complain at all!

Aloysius is famous for wearing a certain plaid scarf. Luckily I was able to find a small sample of this fabric on a well known auction site. I cut a length and added some fray stop to the edges, but I frayed out the ends. When he was dry I cut slits around his neck...... oh I am so sorry bear.

I then slotted the scarf into the cuts around his poor neck and adhered it. I used strips of coordinating colours of Damaged Dots card, underneath the bottom edge of the picture.

Aloysius could be used in many different ways, he could be peeping out of the top of a gift box, sitting in a meadow of flowers and lots more. If he is sitting in your stamp stash why not pull the little bear out and have a play.

Hugs from myself and Aloysius xx

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