My cousin, Summer, is a morning radio personality in the Washington DC area. I learn a lot about her family when I’m crafting and listening to her on the radio between 4 am and 7 am CST. One morning she was talking about her oldest daughter’s bike accident. I saw the photos after the morning show and ouch! That was some wreck. Gratefully both scared mom and injured child are fine. One of the standouts in the story was her second daughter who was outside with her sister while they traded off riding a bike. She kicked it into high gear when her sister wrecked and made sure mom knew something had happened. Everyone was scared, but all reacted with strength and concern for each other.
My cards today were made for my young cousins. What better set to use than the Fluffiest Friends Bundle? Since both girls have names for which they can never find personalized items, I wanted to make them extra special by using the new Mini Alphabet Dies – available in the Jan – Apr 2024 Mini Catalog on 4 Jan 2024. My given name is Donnelle and believe me, I understand the struggle of no one ever having my name in a personalized frame.
For my injured cousin, Aurelya, I chose the Fluffiest Friends Stamp Set bear and bee friends. Arwyn is a cat lover, so I chose the cat for her card. Both cards are made the same using different stamps. For simplicity sake we’ll focus on Aurelya’s card.
I found that the best way to keep the animals in the “frame” of the cutout was to do the cutout first, so I used a 5-1/4 x 4″ panel and the Fluffiest Friends Bundle dies to cut out the curved frame from the panel. I placed the die about 1-1/2″ up from the bottom and centered it from left to right. I cut a piece of Basic White larger than the opening and traced the inside of the opening very lightly with pencil on the Basic White panel. Now I could stamp my animal and friends within the frame so I knew what would show. I did stamp over the lines with the bees, but I kept the bear fully in the frame.
With Tuxedo Black Memento ink, I stamped the bear near the bottom of the penciled line. I colored it with light and dark Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends and used Daffodil Delight for the honey. I left the honey pot white. I stamped the bees in black and colored their bodies with the light Daffodil Delight.
I used the Fluffiest Friends dies and the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss machine to die cut the Soft Suede branch, Old Olive leaves and the Daffodil Delight bee hive. I used dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends to darken the hive lines and Basic Black to color the hive entrance. I die cut three grass pieces from Old Olive cardstock and glued them over the bottom of the bear where the frame opening would be. I adhered the Basic White bear panel to the backside of the frame with liquid glue
I adhered the branch, leaves and bee hive to the front panel with liquid glue. With my paper trimmer, I cut a 1″ wide strip for the name and used the Banners Pick A Punch to flag the end. I adhered an adhesive sheet to my Daffodil Delight cardstock and cut the Mini Alphabet Die letters with the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss machine. The dies will also fit in the Mini Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine. I selected the letters I needed and adhered them to my banner, then cut the right side banner tails with the Banners Pick A Punch.
I adhered the banner to the front panel with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then adhered the panel to the card base. I added 3 Lost Lagoon gems from the Tinsel Gems Three-Pack to the card front.
I used a Basic White inside panel and stamped the three flowers and bees on the bottom right corner. With Stampin’ Blends in light Bubble Bath and light Old Olive, I colored the flowers. I colored the bee bodies with light Daffodil Delights Stampin’ Blends. I adhered the inside panel to the card base with Stampin’ Seal+.
On to the envelope. Since I didn’t use DSP I stamped the bees and flowers in random patterns on the envelope flap. I used the same blends to color the flowers and the bees. I stamped the bird from the Fluffiest Friends Stamp Set on the front of the envelope in Tuxedo Black Memento ink. It is good practice to use a window sheet or an insert from the photopolymer stamps inside an envelope before coloring with blends. I colored the bird with Daffodil Delight and Azure Afternoon Stampin’ Blends. I used Wink of Stella on the bird’s blue wings for extra bling.
I hope you find this personalized card fun to make. There’s so much fun to be had with the Mini Alphabet Dies. Who will you make a personalized card for?
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So darned cute – and I am SO glad that Aurelya is okay! Good for Arwyn for getting the job done, too! They both have lovely names – and fie on the personalization world! :). Glad that you can make something darling JUST for them! 🙂
I can make lots of personalized cards now. ♥️
Oh my goodness, how cute!! Love the way that you’ve personalized the cards, sweet little bear images too! 🙂
Thanks so much, Amy.