Birthday Fun Day

 Today is my birthday... and I took the day off work for a relaxing day.  Had a wee lie in - got up and hang out some washing on my inside frame, due to it being a wet and stormy day.  Then into the craft room for a bit of play time. 

Recently I started following a lovely Australian, Lucy Patrick on YouTube.  She makes the most gorgeous cards - and over the last month or so she has done some videos on using PET tape and washi stickers.   She got hers from Jouranlsay.  She had a discount code which I used and bought some. 

Today I decided to try them out.  I have started a Pinterest page inspired by Lucy's videos and cards and today used it as kick off point to make some cards. 

First one, I used the Voice of Spring stickers to make a birthday card 

I used one of the bigger stickers and added a smaller flower.   I die cut a white panel with Gina K Master Layouts 2 and used a background of smooshed ink cut with a Pinkfresh Studio Fold Edge Rectangle dies.  Before I laid the panel onto the background, I cut out the Honey Bee Stamps Bitty Buzzwords dies.  Cut to 2 from black and layered all three together.

Next card used one of the PET tapes.   I trimmed around one of the girls on the tape 

The girls are gorgeous, and I got 6 rolls (the other roll is a fence with lots of flowers)  As this was a roll that had some purple colours, I went with that.  I put the tape onto some white card and used the oval from Gina K Master Layouts 1 to cut it out.  I used a light purple to cut the scallop background.   Used some gel plate with watercolour powders I made a few weeks ago and used the light purple as it's layer.  Found a darker purple for my background and embossed it with Altenew Organic 3D folder.  Lots of lovely texture. Finished with a Creative Expressions Everyday Wordies sentiment. 

And for my final card using the PET tapes.  I went for the autumnal roll.  

I added the tape to white card cut it with the same oval as before but this time I used a Spellbinder Floral Ovals die cut from kraft card.  I pulled another of my gel plate backgrounds.  This one is yellows with gold and green splatters.  I used dies from the Master Layouts one to cut the panel and the background. I found a soft orange card to do a layer for both panels.  The background panel was stamped with Gina K Gauze stamp with Silver Lake ink from Altenew.  I stamped the sentiment in Obsidian ink from Altenew.  Love that it is such a lovely dark ink.   The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set (circa 2008) called Thoughtful Messages.  I finished with some off-white enamel dots from Altenew. 

I had so much fun trying these tapes and stickers.   Really love how they turned out. 

Had a visit from my son on his way home and finished the day with some takeout Curry from the local Indian restaurant.  I ordered and hubby went and picked it up.  It's only 500 metres from where we live so truly local!