Handmade by Natty

Well goodness, the week has flown by, but with it some rather gloomy weather has flown in.

I’ve only just managed to get a photo of my project for the January card challenge prompt (a reminder here) as we finally have had a day without constant rain and gloomy skies.

For my inspiration from the prompt, I went with a star as my main focal point plus a mustard-ish/gold yellow – oh and the word “wish” does feature (three boxes ticked!):

Paper: Cocoa Vanilla Studio – Daydream
Stamps: PTI – Stylish Sentiments: Birthday (r), The Stamp Market – Gift Giving Greetings, The Stamp Market – Simply Stripes
Dies: Mama Elephant – Sew Fancy (r), MFT – Fishtail Flags STAX (r), Pinkfresh Studio – Diagonal Stitched Rectangles, PTI – Seeing Stars

Sadly I couldn’t get a metallic colour to work with this design, the yellow tone just looked so much better in the end.

So no shiny gold star for me this month, just a big yellow one. 😉

But on with the details…

I created the background using all four inks in the Altenew Tranquillity set – the Simply Stripes set from The Stamp Market features various looong stripe stamps, and this is the thinnest one. You can manipulate the stamp on a stamping platform to create some freestyle curvy designs like this one. It’s quite a mindful project to just ink and stamp the colours in order to create a pattern.

I cut out the striped background with the largest diagonal stitched rectangle from Pinkfresh Studio and then got to work creating the big yellow star.

The Daydream collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio has some lovely muted tones in it and plenty of versatile paper designs. I cut the largest Seeing Stars die from PTI and scored all the points to create the dimensional effect.

While the star was drying in place, I stamped a mini sentiment on a fishtail banner for the top corner, and added some more blue detail in Nimbus ink.

The main sentiment is from the Gift Giving Greetings set from The Stamp Market, and uses up a little scrap of white cardstock I had on my desk.

I blinged it up a little with the stitching detail from Mama Elephant’s Sew Easy die set, and some matchy-matchy yellow enamel dots.

Here’s hoping I manage to get a card made for each month of this year’s challenge. 😉

Until next time, happy crafting!

PTI – Stylish Sentiments: Birthday stamps (r) Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market – Gift Giving Greetings stamps Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market – Simply Stripes stamps Shop at: MISC	Mama Elephant – Sew Fancy dies (r) Shop at: MISC | SHC
MFT – Fishtail Flags STAX dies (r) Shop at: MISC	Pinkfresh Studio – Diagonal Stitched Rectangles dies Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC	PTI – Seeing Stars dies Shop at: MISC	Altenew – Cloudy Sky dye ink Shop at: EH | MISC
Altenew – Dark Night dye ink Shop at: EH | MISC	Altenew – Misty Morning dye ink Shop at: EH | MISC	Altenew – Nimbus dye ink Shop at: EH | MISC	Versafine – Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
Altenew – Tranquillity ink cube set Shop at: EH | MISC | SHC	Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: AZ | EH | SSS	Cocoa Vanilla Studio – Daydream – 6×8 paper pad Shop at: MISC	Tombow – Mono-Multi liquid glue Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
3M Scotch double-sided foam tape Shop at: AZ | EH	Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC	MISTI stamping tool Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC