Zentangle for Carina

 I was stuck for an idea for my daughter Carina's birthday card this year, no inspiration was forthcoming!  Then "bingo" Zentangle!!  I used one of the talented Ali Reeve's masks for the outline and then just got completely inspired by the shapes.  I left the design black and white as the original zentangle concept and decided to mount it just the same.  It was a little bare so I have added a huge bow in lovely black satin wired ribbon that has a gold edge.  This just lifts the card and gave me somewhere to put the greeting!!  The other reason for doing it this way is, if at a later date she wants to display the card as a picture, she can just take the bow off and pop it into a frame - job done!  Hope she likes it!

A better view of the huge bow!

The inside had to get the Zentangle treatment too!

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Shaun's Card

Shaun loves all things fish!  He has marine fish tanks in his house, with beautiful fish and corals.  He also likes to sit, sometimes for days, fishing at a local lake!  So his card was an easy choice to make!  I used the wonderful Crafters Companion Kraft card for the base and a page from an old book for the background, with a bit of distress ink for the edges.  Whilst I was in the mood for using scraps, I stamped the lovely woodgrain from Stampin Up onto a bit of scrap Kraft card and ripped the bottom edge.  Then the image, also from Crafters Companion, was stamped onto another piece of scrap card (doing well here!).  The sentiment is from Sassy Salutations set which I love. Birds are the Marianne Design dies and are so useful, I have even been know to cut the birds off if I just need foliage!  

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Everything Eleanor Again!

I love this stamp set - oooh! I think I must have said this before......ha!  This card is for a friend's birthday and she likes her flowers!  I used an old, but not tried for years technique for this card, inspired by Splitcoast Stampers - inking with markers.  I didn't manage to produce anything I could give away when I first tried this, but something must have gone right this time!  I used Aqua Markers for the inking, and was very pleased with the effect, especially when using a blender pen to soften the lines a little.  A few stamps around the edge with the splodge stamp from SU French Foliage set just to frame the design and job done!

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