Altenew July 30 Days of Crafting - Day 2

 Another month and another 30 Day Challenge from Altenew.   Day 2 - create a card with a die you've never used before....   

Easy for me... as I got a the Mini Delight Fabulous Flowers and it's associated die set last week and on Thursday afternoon I got time to have a play after having spent the morning with Grace.  It's 2 weeks School Holidays and I was looking after her.  

I went with a very clean looking card.  I started by stamping the little flower from the Mini Delight stamp set in Baby Pink, Fuchsia, Green Field and Shadow Creek inks.   Must say it took a few times to get it layered! Used the die from the associated die set to cut the arch.  Added a sentiment from Morning Asters stamp set.  I used an older Leafy Border die for some added texture on my background.  Added a few little iridescent dots.

Entering this into Darnell's NBUS challenge - first time using this mini delight set.

My morning on Thursday was spent with Grace and I getting our nails done. 

She was very patient as I had a full pedicure and manicure, and she just had the kids nail painting done.  It was a shocking wintery day with lots of rain, so nice to spend some time getting pampered.   Came home and she made a card.   She choses a card I had made and she tried to replicate it with Grace amendments!  She is great at choosing colours and putting her own spin on the cards.  

Hope all my USA friends and followers have had a great 4th of July celebrations.   
   

Gnome is were the heart is....

 I've been seeing a few gnome cards around blogland and remembered that I had purchased some Whimsy Stamps digi stamps with gnomes.... in particular this one - Gnome Sweet Gnome.

So a card came to mind.  Now I have to say... this one caused me some issues.... First I decided to make it a mini slimline and only had a long die I wanted to use... of course I didn't take into account that it was a double layer die....

I had to do a bit of die surgery and gluing back together on the right hand end.  Doesn't look too pretty...but it's done.   I had printed out the image and the sentiment before die cutting and used some washi to hold the die and when I took it off it of it tore the card 😟  I decided then to add the stencilling so printed the gnomes seperately and then used the computer to make the sentiment black with white letters.  I trimmed it out and layered it over the messed up bit.  I coloured up my gnomes... I had melded them together to be holding hands.  I fussy cut them to add to the card.  Next I decided to add some little die cut flowers and leaves to the wall.  I made the little bee and then lost it!  Several hours later after making another one.. I found it stuck to the top of my slipper.... so I added it for dimension over the other one.... The middle panel has some dimension added behind.  So after a bit of a mission... it was done.  

Did some babysitting last night... I went to over to Grace's house as she has been sick this week.  Hubby came over with some tea and a play.

He went back home around 9.15 and I stayed till her Mum and Dad came back at 10.45.  Such a poppet, went off to bed like a little gem... although I didn't manage to get her to eat much supper.