Cards | Papercrafting with Kelly Janes

Here is a recent birthday card I made to celebrate a special little girl’s first birthday!!

The details:

The adorable elephants, the stand and the hats are from the CTMH Big Top Stamp Set using CTMH’s Slate Exclusive Ink™, Lagoon Exclusive Ink™, Pear Exclusive Ink™, Gypsy Exclusive Ink™, and Honey Exclusive Ink™. The banners {in CTMH’s Honey Cardstock, Gypsy Cardstock, and Pear Cardstock} are cut from the Artbooking Cricut® Cartridge. I used the Dot Embossing Folder on the card base and also sprinkled a little Honey Exclusive Ink™ to give just a splash of color on the White Daisy Cardstock. I wanted to give the elephants just a little pop so I added and trimmed 3D Foam Tape to the back of all three elephants.

{Inspired by this card by Kalyn Kepner}

-Kelly

So don’t tell anyone, but I do own stamps that are not from Close To My Heart. They are few and far between {seriously I think only 5 out of the hundreds I own are not Close To My Heart} but this card displays one of them!! When I saw this card by Therese Calvird I jumped straight to a flower stamp I own from Stampendous® that I purchased years ago.

Using B&T Duos™ from the CTMH Balloon Ride Paper Packet and White Daisy Cardstock I created the layers on the card. I stamped the flower images in StazOn™ Ink, and used some cheap watercolors I purchased at Michael’s to color the flowers in. I LOVE watercolors!!! Watercolors give you permission to color outside the lines and it still looks fantastic! The messier the better!!!

If you look closely at the White Daisy Cardstock the edges were curled/distressed using an Edge Distresser. The sentiment is from the CTMH Sincere Expressions Stamp Set using StazOn™ Ink. Adding a couple Clear Sparkles and the card is complete.

CTMH: Balloon Ride {inspired by Therese Calvird}