For this month's Fan Feature segment I'm delighted to have NanaConnie as my Guest Designer today with her beautiful birthday card featuring my stunning Fall Roses bouquet!
White cardstock base 5.5" x 11" - folded to 5.5" x 5.5"
Water color paints - Dick Blick
QuicKutz and Tonic Studios metal dies
Brown cardstock embossed with 'Linen" embossing folder - brand unknown
Yellow gingham ribbon
Brown satin ribbon
Jones Tones Flexi-Glue (fabric glue)
To make her beautiful birthday card NanaConnie printed out the Fall Rosesdigi stamp and used water colour paints to colour the design. She allowed it to dry overnight and then cut the panel with a QuicKutz square die. She mounted the Fall Roses panel onto a panel of brown cardstock which she first embossed with an embossing folder that has a "linen" design.
NanaConnie said she's had the "linen" design embossing folder a long time and used so frequently the company name wore off - if anyone knows the brand name please leave a comment below coz that's an awesome EF and I want one, LOL😉
She then made two hand-tied bows, one from yellow gingham ribbon and the 2nd from brown satin ribbon, which she then layered and adhered together with fabric glue. To complete her birthday themed card she printed out the sentiment and cut it out with a Tonic Studios die then mounted everything onto a 5.5" x 5.5" folded card base made from a heavy weight white cardstock.
Thank you NanaConnie for being our Fan Featured Guest Designer today with your beautiful Fall Roses card❤️
MerMaze will have you feeling the sea breeze on your face, smelling the salt in the air and dreaming of tropical paradise!
The
MerMaze Collection features mermazing ocean themed Decorative Digi
Paper Packs and SVG Cutz sets designed to go perfectly with my Mermaids,
Bubbly Depths and FantaSea Collections for lots of fun MerMay, Summer
and year round crafting!
Check out the Spring Wildflowers 2023 Collection - Part 2 launch video!
Imagine
the fresh spring fragrance of wildflowers on a dreamy nature stroll
then bring the experience home with you to create with whimsical digi stamps of bunny and kitty shaped wreaths, circular wildflower and foliage wreaths and fantasy floral and dragonfly scenes and design amazing SVG Cutz wildflower and foliage circular wreaths and incredible 3D twig
wreaths in various styles and sizes that you can customize with a
bouquet of pretty wildflowers and a variety of foliage in any
colour and style you want!
LeighSBDesigns
Spring Wildflowers Collection of Digi Stamps, Decorative Digi Paper
Packs and SVG Cutz evokes visions of wildflowers on misty mornings and
warm pastel afternoons and brings the joy of nature to life on all your
Spring, Easter and Mother's Day home decor decorations, cards and more! You will also
enjoy floral crafting with this collection all year
round too🌸
Here's the Spring Wildflowers 2023 Collection - Part 1 launch video!
Thanks for stopping by to see today's fabulous inspiration!
Kathy won one of my prizes from the many Challenges and Hops
LeighSBDesigns is delighted to sponsor throughout the year and she gleefully snapped up some
of my Cat themed digis to play with and this week I'm thrilled to
share her PURRtastic makes for the last stretch of our Christmas in July creativities!
Kathy is guest designing for us today with her PURRtastic card featuring my CATS GALORE kitty collage digi stamp.
In preparation for her card making Kathy says she went on a mission to find out what a group of cats are called and according to the www.veterinarians.org there's a few very fun terms that apply: a clowder of cats is the most commonly used term while some refer to three or more as a cluster of cats, a destruction of cats, a glaring of cats and, this one is both our favourites, a pounce of cats! Aren't those PURRfect, they all most definitely apply to our precious kitty cats, LOL!
To make her PURRtastic card Kathy used a modified version of the Eclipse Technique. She fussy cut the printed word "JOY" and positioned it in the middle of the "pounce of cats" and sketched the 3 letters with pencil onto the printed CATS GALOREcollage which she then carefully cut out of collage with an Xacto knife. She dropped the letters back into the collage and used a light gray marker to add shading to all of the cats before adding additional colouring with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen to all of the cats that appear within and around the letters to spotlight the letters and then added foam tape to the backs of each letter to make them dimensional. Kathy upped the cuteness factor by adding Santa Hat stickers to 3 of the kitties and then completed her PURRfectly festive card with a fun sentiment and more Santa Hats on the inside of the card.
Thank you Kathy for being our Fan Featured Guest Designer today with your PURRfectly fun Christmas card❤️
MerMaze will have you feeling the sea breeze on your face, smelling the salt in the air and dreaming of tropical paradise!
The
MerMaze Collection features mermazing ocean themed Decorative Digi
Paper Packs and SVG Cutz sets designed to go perfectly with my Mermaids,
Bubbly Depths and FantaSea Collections for lots of fun MerMay, Summer
and year round crafting!
Check out the Spring Wildflowers 2023 Collection - Part 2 launch video!
Imagine
the fresh spring fragrance of wildflowers on a dreamy nature stroll
then bring the experience home with you to create with whimsical digi stamps of bunny and kitty shaped wreaths, circular wildflower and foliage wreaths and fantasy floral and dragonfly scenes and design amazing SVG Cutz wildflower and foliage circular wreaths and incredible 3D twig
wreaths in various styles and sizes that you can customize with a
bouquet of pretty wildflowers and a variety of foliage in any
colour and style you want!
LeighSBDesigns
Spring Wildflowers Collection of Digi Stamps, Decorative Digi Paper
Packs and SVG Cutz evokes visions of wildflowers on misty mornings and
warm pastel afternoons and brings the joy of nature to life on all your
Spring, Easter and Mother's Day home decor decorations, cards and more! You will also
enjoy floral crafting with this collection all year
round too🌸
Here's the Spring Wildflowers 2023 Collection - Part 1 launch video!
Thanks for stopping by to see today's fabulous inspiration!
I'm delighted to have Camille guest designing for us today with her stunning card featuring my Heart Blooms digi stamp set. Camille's creativity here demonstrates wonderfully how you can get so much more from your digi stamps by using them with your electronic cutting machines!
"If we could see the Miracle of a single Flower clearly our Whole Life would Change!
Buddha
This wonderful thought provoking message is just one of the sayings included in the Heart Blooms digi stamp set! I'll now hand you over to Camille so she can tell you all about her make in her own words!
It’s a good day – I have the opportunity to be a Guest Designer for
LeighSBDesigns – Woo Hoo!
My card is all about heart – specifically
Heart Blooms.
I digitally colored the image and used Print2Cut
to cut five different hearts in varying sizes. I layered the hearts to
create one fully bloomed textured heart. I added a sentiment from the
set printed on digital “foil” paper – cutting out a spot to place my
heart. I added a textured background, some gems, and a bow and called
it done.
Thank you Camille for being our featured guest designer today with this stunning and creative card❤️
The FantaSea Collection plus all my other Mermaid themed collections are on sale for the entire month of MerMay! Sale ends at midnight pacific on May 31st!
"Have a FINtastic Day"
Bastet FantaSea Pet
card by GDT Tee
Tee joins us today as guest designer with her FINtastic card featuring digi stamps from my new FantaSea Collection 🧜🏻♀️
Tee created her wonderful scene by first resizing Bastet CatFish FantaSea Pet and Senti set and theFantaSeaScape in Google Docs then printed the scene onto a card panel. Tee then coloured the images with markers and used a white gel pen to add highlights. She printed the senti out separately and then outlined both the senti and the main card panel with a marker before matting the main panel onto a folded white card blank and completed her card with the matching senti. 🧜🏻♀️
What a FINtastic Bastet card, thanks for being our GDT today Tee❤️
The FantaSea Collection
plus all my other Mermaid themed collections are on sale for the entire
month of MerMay! Sale ends at midnight pacific on May 31st!
Get ready for our upcoming annual Half-o-Ween Blog Hop to celebrate we're halfway to October!
Let your Mermaid makes take on a spookier vibe and dust off your Halloween supplies too!
The FantaSea Collection plus all my other Mermaid themed collections are on sale for the entire month of MerMay! Sale ends at midnight pacific on May 31st!
"Treasure the Small Things"
FantaSea mixed media
by GDT Nan
Nan joins us today as guest designer with her mermazing mixed media piece featuring my FantaSea Digi Stamps🧜🏻♀️
To create her wonderful mixed media piece Nan used the adorable Pearl Balleigh MerMonster, the fun senti blocks included in her set, the wonderful FantaSeaScape and two sets of the Bubbles included in the FantaSeaScape set. Nan coloured everything with coloured pencils and applied interference paint to all the bubbles and pearls. Then she fussy cut out all the images and edged them with Distress Inks. Next she created the perfect background with patterned cardstock painted with acrylic paints and pink paint applied with a sponge. She then created her scene by adhering the images in place with glue and added dimension by popping the FantaSeaScape up with pop dots. Nan finished off by framing the scene with a black pen and extended Pearl's waterline to the edge of the frame🧜🏻♀️
What a FINtastic mixed media scene, thanks for being our GDT today Nan❤️
The FantaSea Collection
plus all my other Mermaid themed collections are on sale for the entire
month of MerMay! Sale ends at midnight pacific on May 31st!
Get ready for our upcoming annual Half-o-Ween Blog Hop to celebrate we're halfway to October!
Let your Mermaid makes take on a spookier vibe and dust off your Halloween supplies too!
April is LeighSBDesigns birthday month so we challenge you to get your party hats out and enter your CELEBRATIONS makes of any kind from Birthdays to Easter and everything in between into the Challenge #4 linky party by April 29th midnight pacific 🎉 Also enjoy our month long SALE-bration and shop at LeighSBDesigns Boutique using our Birthday Pressie coupons🥳
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Baby Balleigh Bunnies
Easter card by GDT Nan
Nan joins us as Guest Designer again today with her wonderful Easter card inspiration for our current Celebrationschallenge featuring my quirky cute Baby Balleigh Bunnies!
Nan took the Baby Bunny Balleigh Monsters from the border digi included in the Baby Bunny Balleigh Monster set and fussy cut them out. She coloured them up with coloured pencils and added them to her card with pop dots. Nan created the card base using a SVG cut file by Craft with Sarah and decorated the cut outs with various patterned papers.
What a delightfully quirky cute Easter basket card, thanks for being our Guest Designer today Nan❤️
April is LeighSBDesigns birthday month so we challenge you to get your party hats out and enter your CELEBRATIONS makes of any kind from Birthdays to Easter and everything in between into the Challenge #4 linky party by April 29th midnight pacific 🎉 Also enjoy our month long SALE-bration and shop at LeighSBDesigns Boutique using our Birthday Pressie coupons🥳
Aimeslee created her party scene by combining the adorable Yeti Monster, that only comes in the Winter Yeti Build-a-Scene set, with the Sign Post, Party Hat and Senti from the Yeti Senti Sign Post add-on pack in her PSE art software. She then printed out the scene, fussy cut it out and coloured it with Promarkers. Next she arranged her card layout with layered papers and die cuts then adhered the Yeti scene with large glue dots. For a touch of blink Aimeslee added gold Wink of Stella to the star on the Yeti's party hat and coated his eyebrows and nose with black gel pen. She then completed her card by gluing paper confetti all over the card front.
Yeti Birthday Card Supplies Used:
KI Memories and Springhill Digital card stocks
Avery Elle and Pebbles patterned papers
MFT and Spellbinders dies
Paper Confetti
Promarkers, gel pens and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
What a fun and festive YETI themed birthday card, thanks for being our Guest Designer today Aimeslee❤️
April is LeighSBDesigns birthday month so we challenge you to get your party hats out and enter your CELEBRATIONS makes of any kind from Birthdays to Easter and everything in between into the Challenge #4 linky party by April 29th midnight pacific 🎉 Also enjoy our month long SALE-bration and shop at LeighSBDesigns Boutique using our Birthday Pressie coupons🥳
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"It's Your Day"
Party Balleigh Monster
birthday card by GDT Tee
Tee joins us as Guest Designer today with her festive birthday card inspiration for our current Celebrationschallenge featuring my quirky cute Party Balleigh Monster!
Tee coloured Party Balleigh Monster and added fun confetti sprinkles around his raised claws with Bic Markers to get the party started! She embellished his festive party hat with a green gem then matted the Party Balleigh Monster panel onto patterned paper then mounted everything onto a smooth white card base. Tee completed her birthday card with the stamped Jillibean Soup sentiment inked with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.
What a fun and festive CAS birthday card, thanks for being our Guest Designer today Tee❤️
