Simply Cardmaking with Laurel Beard

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Funny Happy Birthday Cards

Sometimes, all you need a good ‘ole sentiment to make some really fun birthday cards! For these cards, I used the sentiments from the That Thing You Did sentiment set from Ellen Hutson and hand painted some birthday cakes and make some really great, and funny, birthday cards! This first card is my favorite because I love the white cake against the gold washed background.

This next card features a few painted stripes to form the cake and then the addition of flowers and leaves here and there. Yes, I need to work on painting leaves.. They sorta look like blobs right now, but hey… the sentiment is funny.

 

 

If you aren’t a painter, you can draw the cakes with a pen or even some Crayola markers. Get creative! The recipient will love it…..

 

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Metallic Watercolored Amaryllis

Who doesn’t love metallic watercolored Amaryllises?  And best thing is, you need very few supplies to recreate this beauty! You don’t even need watercolored cardstock.  I stamped the flowers from Mondo Amaryllis several times with Embossing ink onto regular black cardstock and heat embossed using Wow’s Ultra Fine white embossing powder. Then I watercolored them with Altenew’s Metallic watercolors…. It’s so shiny and so pretty! Once that was all dry, I die cut them with the coordinating die and layered them onto a card base.  The sentiment is from the Totally Random Sayings 1 stamp set. I love the bold, thick font. I heat embossed with the same ink and embossing powder as the flowers. The sentiment is popped up with some X-Press foam tape (on sale I might add).

What do you think about the metallic watercolors on black cardstock? I like that some of the black still shows thru….

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Paint a Map with Watercolor: Map of Mediterranean Cruise

After I returned from my Mediterranean Cruise, I wanted to make something as a keepsake. When I opened my email, a class from Skillshare was being promoted and alas, it was like it was made for me. A keepsake? A Map? Watercolor? Hello! Let’s do this.  In the video, I share the process of how I created this map, along with footage from the class I took to guide me along the way. I share hilarious (not at the time) stories from my trip. If you don’t know, I traveled with my parents and brother/family… Let’s highlight a few key memories: missing flight to Rome, getting lost in Florence, finding Italian Police, rerouted planes, barf bags, cruise ship almost leaving us………

What’s funny now was NOT funny then. Please join me and take a stroll down memory lane all while watching me create this map.

 

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In The Weeds + Giveway

In the Weeds

Do you ever feel in the weeds? If you do, you need this stamp set and die from the latest Ellen Hutson Release. The beautiful floral cluster is a gem! The coordinating die cut is also amazing because it delicately cuts out the die and leaves gaps between some of the leaves so some color can peek thru from your base layer!

 

It’s equally as gorgeous without using the die…. Super fun to watercolor.

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Giveaway:
We’ve got super fun prizes!!! One random & lucky commenter will win $25 to the EH shop and one will win the whole November Essentials by Ellen release!!! To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along the hop! Comment before Thursday, November 14th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.
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Happy Christmas

Do you have any patterned paper in your stash? If so, you can pull together cards very easily!  The Feeling Chilly paper pad from Catherine Pooler is compiled of super fun designs. And of course, they coordinate with the new inks!  The cute critters from the Happy Buddies stamp set and coordinating die set  were fun to watercolor!

What do you think? Do you like that Catherine Pooler has finally released critters?

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