Handmade by Natty

Morning all!

I’m over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today with some new projects.

I’m still trying to replenish my card basket ready for upcoming birthdays, so it’s a perfect opportunity to make multiple designs with the same supplies.

For today’s projects, I used the wonderful All Aglow layering stencil set from The Greetery.

I selected a rainbow of ink colours to work with and wondered how these colours would also look on a non-white background like pink for example…

Paper: Simple Stories – Dream Big (r)
Stamps: Concord & 9th – Make a Wish, The Greetery – Make a Wish
Stencils: The Greetery – All Aglow
Dies: The Greetery – Make a Wish, The Stamp Market – Fringe Borders

I completed all the stencil steps up to adding the wicks to the candles, but wanted to use a different style of flame for these candles. The flames in the stencil set add a circular glow, but I love the flame design of the candle in the Make a Wish set from Concord & 9th and happily found that those flame stamps fit perfectly.

I used the sparkler elements from The Greetery’s Make a Wish stamp set to fill in the white space – it’s a really subtle look on the pink card with that tone-on-tone stamping.

When it came to assembling my cards, I really didn’t want to cover up too much of those lovely candles. The Make a Wish stamp set that coordinates with the All Aglow stencils features some great sentiments, including the large Make a Wish sentiment.

I stamped this on white cardstock and cut it out with the matching shadow die. By chopping a bit off the top of this background, I was able to centre the Make a Wish sentiment and add some fun details at the bottom.

Stamps: Concord & 9th – Make a Wish, The Greetery – Make a Wish
Stencils: The Greetery – All Aglow
Dies: The Greetery – PreText Banners, The Stamp Market – Fringe Borders

For the pink card, I simply stamped the sentiments from the Make a Wish stamp set on the PreText Banners, using selective inking to omit the ampersand at the end of one of the sentiments to get the word order I wanted.

And there we have it, two different looks that started out in exactly the same way.

Until next time, happy crafting!

Concord & 9th – Make a Wish stamps Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	The Greetery – Make a Wish stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery – Make a Wish dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery – PreText Banners dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG
The Stamp Market – Fringe Borders dies Shop at: MISC	The Greetery – All Aglow stencils Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Stamp Market – Cheeky ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market – Golden ink pad Shop at: MISC
The Stamp Market – Island ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market – Melon Orange ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market – Party Pink ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market – Sea Glass ink pad Shop at: MISC
The Stamp Market – Slate ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market – Sunshine ink pad Shop at: MISC	Versafine – Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	Bazzill Cardshoppe – Butter Mints Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH
Bazzill Cardshoppe – Pale Rose Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH	The Stamp Market – Sea Glass cardstock Shop at: MISC	Simple Stories – Dream Big – Dream Big paper (r) Shop at: MISC
Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC	Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK)	Detail blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK)
Waffle Flower – Mini Media Mat Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC
Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC