seize the cake!

June is a busy celebratory month in our family. Seven birthdays--our daughters are two days apart!--and a sprinkling of anniversaries, too.

Here's a quick card that I made using one of Torico's new digital stamps. Love the wonky birthday cake! I colored it with Copics and added Glossy Accents to the frosting and Diamond Stickles on the candle flames.

I scrunched and stapled a colorful ribbon (Thank you, Kelly!) and the sentiment is by Hero Arts.

You can find this birthday cake digital stamp here in Torico's Etsy shop, Birdie Brown. She also generously offers occasional freebies on her blog. Check it out!

Stamps: Torico's digital stamp, Hero Arts sentiment
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink, Paper Accents
Ink: Versafine
Others: Copics, Glossy Accents, Diamond Stickles, ribbon, dimensional adhesive, stapler

happy new year!

My Flickr friend Deirdre made a cute card using some free digis from Torico's Digital Gallery. Torico generously shares her fun, whimsical images and I snagged a bunch of them. Thank you, Torico!

Here's an image called Gosuloli (Does it not sound like "Go Slowly"?) Girl. She's a little goth cutie and she was a lot of fun to color. I think she's stashing that little snowman and welcoming in the New Year.

The card base is a scrap piece stamped with Hero Arts' Classic Fabric Design. I colored her with Copics, and used Cosmo Cricket alpha stickers to form the sentiment. The seam binding was dyed with Black Soot distress ink, and I dyed the paper rose with some Copic (R83 & R85) ink refills. Although the photo doesn't show it, I applied some Aqua Lip clear glaze to the little skull, snowman, and her eyes for a bit of shine.

Thanks to all of you who visited my blog this year, and left such wonderful comments, too. Here's wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year!


Stamps: Torico digital image, Hero Arts
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink
Ink: Hero Arts shadow ink, Black Soot distress ink
Other: Copics, Nestabilities, Cosmo Cricket alpha stickers, hand dyed seam binding, 
Sakura Aqua Lip clear pen, paper rose, pearls