You make my life so sweet

Hi Everyone,

Have you had a good weekend? I sure did! I only hope that the nicer higher temperatures will be back, but as long as it stays sunny - I won't complain much!

Today I am sharing a CAS card with you - YES, I managed to pull off another CAS! I felt like I needed to add more and more to this design, but I decided to leave it as is, and I am glad I did! The beauty of these designs is that they're relatively quick to make. The kind of drawback is that you need to be really neat about all the elements you include, as there isn't much space for hiding errors!

I decided to make the design a bit playful by adhering the frame at an angle - I think it's fun! And aren't the images by Love Cynthia absolutely adorable?!

I believe that every girly card needs to have some sparkle and shimmer, hence the frame has been cut out of glitter paper, and the image is covered with Wink of Stella & some Glossy Accents here ant there:

I am entering the card into the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers - Girls birthday

 Have a great week,

Mirella

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Stamp: Love Cynthia, Find a reason to smile 

Glitter paper - DCWV Glitzy Glitter 6x6 pad

For boys and girls

Hi Everyone,

I'm over at Mudra Craft Stamps again, this time sharing some cards for boys and girls. 

I do hope you pop by and say hello!

Mirella

Watercoloured Dahlia

Hi Everyone,

Hope you're all doing well. We had a wonderful sunny weekend here in Helsinki, and I sincerely hope that spring/summer are here to stay now!

Today I am sharing a thank you card with you - I watercoloured it with my Distress Inks. The colours were inspired by the Seven Hills Crafts challenge, and I think it turned out pretty nicely. I embellished the card with some Pretty Pink Posh sequins, and added a bit of shimmer with Wink of Stella. I think the image is lovely enough that it doesn't need much more! 

I am entering the card into the following competitions:

Seven Hills Crafts - Photo Inspiration (photo 3)

SSS Wednesday Challenge - A bit of sparkle

SSS Work it Wednesday - April showers bring May flowers

Wishing you a great week,

Mirella

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Thank you stamp - from my stash, unknown brand
Watercolour paper - from my stash

CASometry Challenge 3 - Final 5th Stage

Hi Everyone,

I have a sick baba at home, hence will need to keep this post rather short. I was worried that I wouldn't manage to enter the final 5th stage of Anna Kossakovskaya's CASometry challenge, but thankfully working on the card at night was sufficient... talk about sacrifice ;o)

This time, the challenge was to use the same stamps, dies and stencils that have been used on one of the previous 4 cards. I knew straight away that I would like to challenge myself with my card from stage 4 - I used a lot of dies and stamp sets there, so I wanted to see what else I could make out of these same supplies. I am not sure, maybe if I had a little bit more time, I would have come up with something a bit more original, but I am still quite happy with the result.

I am entering the card into the following challenges:

CASometry Challenge 3 - Final Stage

I Love ProMarkers - Girl's Birthday (this is a card for a friend whose bday I forgot)

As you can see, this time I did lots of fussy cutting (birdie & fence), and instead of making my background with stencils made out of my dies & acetate, I decided to use the dies directly on my panel. The grass is die cut, and the clouds were embossed onto the panel, with the use of the die. I also sponged the coloured cardstock with my Distress Inks here and there, to add a little bit of dimension and variety to the scene - plain coloured cardstock on its own can be quite "flat" looking. Unfortunately, the photos didn't capture the depth of colour too nicely (apart from maybe the 2nd photo where you can kind of see it) - it's very gloomy here today, I'm afraid. 

The sentiment is from the WPlus9 stamp set I used the balloon from last time. And yes, the birdie has a googly eye again, but that's mostly because a) I find them funny & cute and b) he looks really scared & worried that he forgot, LOL!

And here are all the cards I made for Anna's challenge. I had so much fun with these, and I'm so happy that I managed to participate in all of the stages! 

Have a great day,

Mirella

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