Charming Delight Birthday

Hello everyone.  Today is a friend's birthday and I created a CAS (clean and simple) floral birthday card for her using the Charming Delight layering stencil set from Altenew (ALT)   Hope she's having a wonderful day and getting spoiled. 😉  

Trimmed Bristol paper to A2 size then ink blended ALT Enchanted Garden and Frosted Foliage fresh dye inks over the stencil layers for the flowers and foliage. For the center, used distress inks (Squeezed Leminade, Scattered Straw, Fossilized Amber) and purple ink remaining from the Enchanted Garden detail blending brush.

Was going for a soft watercolour look, so had to add splatters with diluted white gouache paint.  Die cut the Spellbinders Layered Happy Birthday sentiment from silver foil paper and its shadow from vellum.  Assembled the card onto a white card base to finish. Easy peasy! 

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Challenges:

Stencil Fun - AG stencils + optional CAS design style 

Time Out - #319 Choose Two (CAS-Floral-Birthday)  

Simply Clean and Simple - AG CAS + optional theme Nature 

Beautiful Blossoms - AG Florals + optional Mood Board #43 

AAA Birthday - #88 Flowers 

Grand Dahlia Birthday

Hello everyone.  I am sharing a floral birthday card made for a crafty friend whose birthday was yesterday... hope it was awesome, my friend!  I used the gorgeous Grand Dahlia layering die set from Altenew (ALT) in her favourite colour red for her card. 

 

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The petal layers and leaves were die cut from white paper and ink blended with distress inks (DI).  When done, splattered them with diluted white gouache paint for some texture.  

DI used:

petals - Salwater Taffy, Lumberjack Plaid, Black Soot 

leaves - Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn 

 

Next, embossed a Bristol panel with the Traces of Yesterday 3D embossing folder (EF).  Love how "timeless" (pun intended) and versatile this EF is!  Assembled the card ono a white card base then added a Happy Birthday foil greeting white tab from Memory Box to finish.  

Main products used for my card are linked below.  Please note compensated affiliate links are used in this post at no extra cost to you should you make a purchase through them.  I appreciate your support.  Thank you for stopping by. 

*products may be available at Simon Says Stamp*

Challenges

A Cut Above - AG Dies 2nd Anniversary  

Triple B - AG Birds, Blooms & Butterflies  (blooms) 

Beautiful Blossoms - AG Florals + optional Mood Board #43 

Can You Handle the Pressure - AG EF + twist of Stars and/or Stripes  

AAA Birthday - #87 For Girls 

The Sisterhood of Crafters - July 2026: Flowers 

Tic Tac Tac Toe - #297 Featured Designer Team O (left diagonal down - Friendship, Free, Embossing &  middle row across - Any Color, Free, Sentiment) 

Birthday Majestic Roses

Hello everyone.  I’ve been commissioned to create birthday cards, and since it’s May (you know the saying April showers bring May flowers 😉), it had to be a floral card.  And it was the perfect opportunity to finally break out the gorgeous Majestic Roses stencil set from Altenew (ALT) and use their current monthly challenge as inspiration to create my card. 

3 gradient ALT Rock Collection gray colour inks were used to stencil the white roses, while only one green colour dye ink was used for the foliage.  The green colour was brighter than I wanted, so diluted gesso was applied over top to desaturate the colour. The stencil gives an image with two roses and foliage, but for design purposes (odd numbers being more pleasing to the eye), a third rose (bottom right front) was added first, then masked with a DIY fussy cut mask created from masking paper.

The sentiment from ALT Pocket Sentiments was white heat embossed  on a paper strip that was coloured with a RV17 Copic Sketch marker.  A fishtail was then die cut from it using a Fishtail Banner die (currently on sale) from Sunny Studio Stamps.  Die cut the panel next with a stitched rectangle die (out-of-business).  Assembled the card onto a white card base and embellished with some clear Moonshine sequins from Simon Says Stamp to finish. 

I couldn’t stop playing with the stencils and somehow ended up creating two more cards. 😆   For these cards, heat embossing with clear embossing powder was used for masking instead of creating more DIY masks before ink blending a light green colour for the background. 

On this final card, three gradient ALT Cherry Blossom ink colours were used for the pink rose. 

Please note compensated affiliate links were used in this post when possible at no extra cost to you.  I appreciate your support.  Thank you for stopping by. . 

Challenges:

Altenew Inspiration - May 2026: Host Bridget Casey 

Beautiful Blossoms - AG Florals + optional Mood Board #41 

Just Add Ink - #785 Stencils/Dies 

Just Us Girls. - #823 Word Week: Flowers 

Tic Tac Toe - #292 Featured Designer Betty (middle row- Floral, Free, White/Cream)

Make My Monday - $278 Say It With Flowers 

Spellbinders - Magical Fuchsia

Hello everyone.   I had not planned on creating as many cards as I did using the product in the Magical Fuchsia collection from Alex Syberia Designs for Spellbinders (SB).  Warning: this is an unusually long post. 😂  I’m starting with a monochromatic pink birthday card featuring the Magical Fuchsia 3D Embossing Folder (EF). 

The flat side of the EF was inked with a pink dye ink.  Spritz a lighter pink colour piece of cardstock with water and dry embossed it in the EF through my Platinum 6.  Ink blended a couple of darker colour pink dye inks around the image to give it a spotlight effect.  For some texture, splattered with diluted white gouache paint.  The sentiment from Born to Dink was white heat embossed onto dark pink paper. Adhered the panel onto a white ca4 base to finish.  

Since I had some light aqua cardstock, I created a second card following the same steps.  Made it a get well soon card using the new Layered Get Well Soon sentiment dies from the new Essentially Yours Sentiments collection. 

My third card features the EF wth the Layered Magical Fuchsia Stencils.   

Took creative licence on this card and coloured/stencilling the flowers in an unconventional blue/white colour palette.  Made it another birthday card since the stamp was still out.  Die cut a blue arch frame using the Essential Arches dies, then assembled the card onto a white card base to finish.

A happy accident resulted in this fourth card… which will probably give you a bit of déjà vu. 😉 

After messing us my first attempt of the blue card, I didn’t want the embossed panel to go to waste, so I flipped it over to the debossed side and used the reverse side of the stencils to colour the mirror image.  The coral/green colour combo was inspired by the current Color Hues challenge #131.

Since this is the is the mirror image, I thought it was only fitting to flip the arch frame upside down.  Probably not the best idea because it didn’t provide a proper space for a sentiment . 😂  Oops!… guess the sentiment will have to go on thr inside. 🤷🏻‍♀️  

My next card features the stencils and the Press/Foil Plate & Die set. 

The image and sentiment were hot foiled with rose gold foil using the Glimmer Hot Foil System.  Made it monochromatic and coloured/stencilled the image with four gradient purple-pink colour dye inks.  The sentiment was die cut out with its matching die while the image was die cut out with the Emerald Cut Labels die.  Assembled the card onto a white card base to finish. 

And finally, my last card featured all three products plus the new Layered Happy Birthday dies, which was die cut from white and coloured with Copic Sketch markers V04/06.

Instead of foiling, the plate was inked with no-line colouring ink and pressed into thick paper using the Letterpress System.  Coloured/stencilled it then die cut out with its matching die.  Aligned and secured the cutout with temporary tape in the EF and dry embosses it.  Pressed the plate twice into an A2 size panel without inking for a subtle background.  Assembled the card onto a white card base, popping up the image and sentiment with thin foam tape for a bit of dimension, to finish. 

Whew!  If you’re still with me… thanks for hanging in there 🫶.  SB products used for my cards are linked below through the images.  Please note, compensated affiliate links have been used throughout this post and blog at no extra cost to you.  I appreciate your support. 

Challenges:

card 1 

Seize the Birthday - #325 AG Birthday + topping Primarily Pink 

Girls Creative Splash It With Color - Yellow and/or Pink 

card 3 

Die Cut Divas - AG Anniversary or Birthday Card 

Beautiful Blossoms - AG Florals + optional Mood Board #40 

cards 3&4

 Can You Handle the Pressure - AG Embossing Folder + twist of Flowers 

Stencill Fun - AG Stenciks + optional Rainbow Colors 

Just Us Girls - #820 AG Stenciks Week 

card 4 

Colour Hues - #131 Coral and Green 

card 6 

Die Cut Divas - AG Anniversary or Birthday Card 

Darling Daisies

Hello there.  April 1st already?  No April Fools joke here as I’m racing against the clock! 😂  I had misplaced the Darling Daisies layering stencil set from The Ton before ever getting the chance to use it, so when I finally found it, I got to work right away!  I love daisies and this stencil set made it so easy to create a gorgeous daisy panel!

Once all the stencilling with dye inks using blending brushes was done, I didn’t want to cover up too much of it so… I just added a Simon Sats Stamp “let’s celebrate” die cut sentiment from my stash.  It was die cut from gold foil paper and layered onto its vellum shadow piece.

Since this stencil set truly is super easy to use and yields such gorgeous results, I played around with non-conventional colours… and they look amazing, too!

 

Using shades of brown, I was going for a vintage / sepia look with this one. 

 

For this pink one, left the first stencil in place and splattered diluted white gouache paint to the background for some for some texture. 

And that’s it for me. Thank you for stopping by. 

Challenges:

Vesela Hiska - #76 Daisy 

Just Us Girls - #816 Stencil Week AG 

Beautiful Blossoms - AG Florals + optional mood board #39  

The Four Seasons - AG Spring