You are my sunshine ......

This card has been finished for a few days now but it has taken til today for me to get it on my blog.

I decided last month that I would start making cards to send to my closest family and friends for no other reason other than to make them smile and let them know I love them.  I was making birthday cards, wedding cards etc and I needed a break and thought that making a card for reason in particular would be just the break I needed.

So on to today's card. This card is for my super hubby Mike who has started a new job and I wanted him to know just how proud I was of him.

I have used a free digi stamp from Paper Smooches as my first set of their stamps haven't arrived yet but hopefully they will be here soon as I really love their little critter stamps.

I started out by cutting the card base and the cloud layer with my Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies. The clouds were heat embossed with the clouds from the Into the woods stamps by Lawn Fawn. I then used distress inks to give a blended sky. Next I printed the sunshine onto watercolour card and coloured it with distress inks and a little bit of twinkling h2o's. After I cut it out on my trimmer I decided it needed to match the stitched rectangles so I popped it through the ebosser in a corner of a stitched rectangle, then turned it 180 degree's and did the other corner.

The little pennant was done by cutting on of the small stitched rectangles, stamping the diagonal stripes stamp from Clearly Besotted stamps, then putting it back through the ebosser with the corner of the die where I wanted the pointed pennent section to be.  The button is painted with twinkling h2o's and threaded with some jewellery cord my BFF Kath gave me.

Finally I wrapped more jewellery cord in a different shade around a piece of patterned paper from an old 6x6 pad I found in my cupboard.

I have followed the below sketch from Taylored Expressions

and here is my selfie 

On the Paper Smooches Sparks blog I have chosen to be inspired by the yellows, oranges and blues from the inspiration photo.  You can get your fix of Paper Smooches stamps by visiting their store here.

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I have more cards to share so hopefully I'll be back tomorrow,

Hugs

Hazel xx