Happy Birthday cards for Lavinia's Challenge # 5

Hello my dear crafty and stamper friends:

Lavinia stamps host a challenge at their blog  every month

The NEW date for the challenge is from now on  every 2nd of the month  

and this  month's theme is "Birthday Girl"...

And here it are my contribution...for this month...

My 1st card is a monochromatic (in blues) Twisted Easel card and the little fairy "Nissa" is holding a fun bouquet of balloons made out of buttons...

The front panel has "Nissa" embossed in turquoise Embossing powder and I highlighted all the contour with a white gel pen to make her stand out and then outline it with a turquoise fine point pen. The background was made with 2 stencils from Memory Box ( stars and flowers) using some distress inks

And she is bringing some gifts; which are simple little rectangles embellished with bakers twine and the Lavinia stamp of "wild poppies" were embossed with 3  different  colors of embossing powders...

A last view,
Card closed ready to be tucked away in an envelope to be send for the "birthday girl"

I made a video on a twisted easel card for a men HERE,  in case you want to have a pick on the construction of this type of cards...
 

The 2nd card holds a small gift,
it is a bookmark card holder...

Curious to know  how I made this background?

Well this is very fun technique using  alcohol inks and blowing some "air" into the surface to achieve a splash effect...

Place some drops of alcohol inks on glossy paper + some blending solution to dilute the color and "blow" the inks with that bottle/spray...which is used to remove dust from keyboards on computers...
and this is the effect...

as for the construction of the card? 

simply cut diagonally the top portion and the front panel fold it towards the left, to make the pocket, easy!!!

here is the bookmark, I place some magnet adhesive sheet "found at Michaels too" on the inside to hold on to the pages of the book

with the book, (maybe this  will be the other gift, besides the bookmark)...
the reverse has  a different stamp! this cute couple of fairies..."Star Gazing"

A last view of the pair...

I hope you can play along with us!

For a little bit more of inspiration do not forget to visit my fellow DTM, they always have gorgeous projects...their blogs are found at the main Lavina Stamp Challenge Blog,  or on the side bar of my blog, and remember to leave us some comments and enter your project there for the chance to win a voucher of £40 at the Lavinia web shop site, e-mail entries are accepted too, so you do NOT  need to have a blog to participate! and remember to use Lavinia stamps on your project for a birthday celebration !

GOOD LUCK!

SUPPLIES

Lavinia Stamps: fairies:  Nissa; Star gazing; Melodie silhouette small;
Foliage:  wild poppies; Fushia; willow;

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