July | 2023 | safsafdesign

Hello Everyone,

I have some great news to share, I will be staying on the Social Media Design Team of Pretty Pink Posh for another term. Check the announcement post on the PPP Blog to see the whole team! These ladies are all fantastic designers and I feel so honored to be part of this wonderful team!

To celebrate, I made a thank you card mixing new and older stamps and dies. This card is for all of you, who follow me on my crafty journey. Your sweet comments and encouraging words mean the world to me. I hope I can inspire you even more in the coming months.

I started with stamping and colouring the images from the following stamp sets: mice from Mouse Friends, berries, leaves and basket from Fresh Berries stamp set. I used Copic markers and cut everything out with their coordinating dies.

Then I used the Starburst stencil with Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide ink on a white note card. I rotated the stencil 90degrees and went back with the same blending brush without reinking it. It resulted in a lovely background with halo effect. So cool! I also cut some grass from green cardstock to set the scene. I used a Land border die from Newton’s Nook Designs, but you can find a pretty grass die in the Nature Essentials die set from Pretty Pink Posh too!

I assembled the card using liquid glue, but popping up the 2 mice in front of the basket with 3D foam squares for a dimensional look.

As the card was already too busy, I decided to incorporate the sentiment in the design: I stamped part of it on the basket directly and white heat embossed the other part on purple cardstock. The sentiments are from the Fresh Berries stamp set. I love that the “berry much” stamp has a coordinating die so I could cut it out easily and add to the basket.

I used a white gel pen to add highlights to everything, it makes it even more playful I think. I also used a black glaze pen on the eyes of the mice to make them shiny, and a drop of glossy accents on their tiny noses. Isn’t it cute?