Birthday and Christmas Wishes!

Slightly behind with Blog posts again - I wish the app was updated to support my phone!

Anyway, this lovely card uses a Sale-a-bration set called Avant Garden.  I had actually pretty much ignored it in the brochure but now it's a favourite, so lovely to use, the sentiment is in the set too.

The border is also a SAB item called Delicate Details which has 5 borders in and is also rather handy!

And then there is Christmas card of the week which this week featured the Cookie Cutter Christmas stamp set and punch which are still available!

Snowman

This is the card I made for all the Bloomin' Buds this week - another Pinterest find.

I've embossed a piece of Old Olive with the Softly Falling embossing folder and then the snowman is made of Swirly Scribbles thinlits, Snow Friends Scarf and Jolly Hat builder punch (the buttons are from the Cookie Cutter punch).

Finished with a bit of ribbon!

Floral Swirls

Back to simple but effective today with the Swirly Scribbles thinlits:

I've used the colours Smoky Slate, Pink Pirouette and Sweet Sugarplum.

The little flowers are in the thinlit set too - rather nice aren't they and somewhat overlooked by all the swirl cards currently!

The thank you is from Thoughtful Banners and punched out with the new Classic Label punch.

And some gems to finish of course!

I've tried to find the link of where I saw this card and it's lovely colour combo - apologies I can't find it but thank you to whoever posted it originally!

Swirly Seas

Similar to my previous 'swirly' post but with a few different elements:

This time the background is a piece of paper from a new 6" x 6" stack called Serene Scenery.
This piece was ideal for these boats.

I've used the stamp set Swirly Bird for the sun and boats and the matching Swirly Scribbles thinlits for the sea but hopefully you can see I have cut it out using 3 different colours (which are also in the paper) and inlaid the gaps with the different pieces.  So much to be done with this die and this is just one in the set!

Colours used in the sea are Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party.