 Γεια σας δημή inic all and welcome back. Its Vicky here and today I will be creating four cards using products from the latest release by my favourite things. There is also a giveaway on my blog so make sure to visit and leave me a comment you will find the link down below in the description area if you are watching on Youtube. Let's start with the first card for today. I'm starting by stamping this lovely swan and this is a stamp set that is called Splentat once. This is a great stamp set if you want to create anniversary cards or wedding cards or even cards for those who are expecting a baby or just had one. Now I am going to create a lovely card today for a shower party and that's why I stamped the mother's one and I will be stamping a tiny little swan as well, a baby's one. What is great about this stamp set is that you can actually customize it so you can put on the lake your mother's one and then you can add as many babies as you like following her. That would be such a cute card especially for those who are expecting twins or triplets and so on. I did some coloring with my alcohol markers and I also used the matching dies to cut out all my images and this is where I cut out the lake on this smaller panel. Now I am using this piece of double sided tape, directly on top of my card base making sure that I place it in such a way so that it is going to cover up the back of the lake. I am going to peel it off and then I am going to apply some Nouveau glitter which is a super fine glitter and it has a beautiful color. I do that a lot when I want to create lakes and little streams with water. I just love the effect that this glitter gives. In the stamp set there is a sentiment that says congratulations you too but I have masked off the last two words since I just wanted to have the word congratulations. I am going to stamp it on my panel. Now I have all my pieces ready to go and it's finally time to assemble my card. I have used foam squares at the back of my panel so it is a little bit raised and I am going to place my swans inside the lake using again foam squares just to make sure that everything is nicely leveled. This is where you can have the mother's one all the way at the front of the lake and add way more than one little baby's one following her. Now in my case I just nested this little baby close to her. I also added the vines coming from the top and I am going to finish off my card by adding some shine with my Nouveau shimmer pen. For my next card I am working on a watercolor card and I am applying some Distress Oxide Ting and that is actually Broken China with the new blending brushes by Tim Holtz. These brushes actually help you create a lovely blended effect. They don't leave any marks, they give you a very subtle look if you are using them the way I am at the moment. They are not available yet, they will be in about a month and I am lucky to have them since Tim Holtz gave them to me while I was in creativity. So anyway you can achieve the same look with your blending tools if you want to. So I have applied a little bit of ink at the center of my watercolor card there and now I am just adding some splashes of water which I am going to dab with a clean cloth for that lovely droplet effect. And now I am going to place the wish die at the bottom of my panel and run it through my big shot. I have my main panel ready to go and now I will do some stamping with black archival ink on watercolor paper again. So I am just deciding which elements I am going to use and I am using the stamp set which is called Party Animals. It's a lovely stamp set for creating birthday cards and I need lots of cute birthday cards because my kids use them all the time for their classmates. I stamped all my images on watercolor paper and now I will use my Nuvo Aqua Flow pens to add some color. Instead of coloring with the Aqua Flow pens directly on my watercolor paper, I have added some of this color on my glass mat and now I am picking it up with my clear shimmer pen. This way I am controlling more how much of color I add on each of my images and at the same time I am adding some shine. And I will try to cut the light for you at the end so you will see how shiny these images end up being. And here is a great example, you can see how by just using one color with my clear shimmer pen I get all this gradient of color. So my balloon doesn't look flat and at the same time it's really really shiny. So now it's time to assemble my card. After cutting out all the images by using the matching dies I am going to add the banners on the top right corner of my panel. I am going to use my scissors to cut off the excess. I decided not to use the whole banner just because it was too big and I needed some more space for sticking all the rest of the images that I have created. So my little cow there is flying with the hair balloon and I do have a little birthday cake that is going to stay on top of the letter H. Now I want to ink up a little bit my card base and just to make sure that everything is going to stay nice and white on the borders I am covering them with some post-it tape and I am going to apply some ink that's Distress Oxide ink, warm lipstick. And I am going to apply some ink at the background which is going to stay just behind the letter's wish. And I also made sure that I had that ombre effect where it's more saturated at the bottom and it fades out at the top. I added some foam squares at the back of my panel and I am going to stick that directly on top of my card base. And my card is finished. And let's move on to the third card for today. Now I am using the stamp set which is called Birthday Chicks. This is an adorable stamp set. I am going to stamp some of the chicks included in the stamp set. So I just had to stamp some of them twice because I was smudging things up here. Anyway, I am going to stamp everything with archival ink on watercolor paper again. And then I will use the same method as I did on the previous card to color all my chicks. So I will be using my Nuvo Aqua Flow markers. And I am combining yellow with orange and the clear glitter pen. And when I finished coloring I used the magic dyes to cut out all my chicks and they are ready to go. Now I have used this dye that has just been released that cuts out all those windows. And I am not going to throw anything. I am actually going to use both the frame as well as all the cutouts. So for the largest of those panels I am going to use it to stamp my sentiment. And the sentiment says to the Birthday Chick. Now there are actually 9 of those little squares and I am going to ink them up only at the bottom. And again I am going for that obre look. And I am using again the brushes by Tim Holtz and Distress Oxidings. The color I am using are Twisted Citron, Worn Lipstick and Broken China. And here they are all ready to go. I am going to add some water splashes on all of them and then blot them with a clean cloth. Just because I always love this effect that those splashes leave on the watercolor paper. So all these are ready to go. I have also created a watercolor card base which is a standard card. And this is the watercolor that I am working with. It's actually cold pressed watercolor paper by Winsdor and Newton. You will find a link down below. I definitely suggest this. It's really heavy and you can create lovely card bases nice and sturdy. But at the same time you can work on it with your watercolor mediums. But you can work on top of it with your Distress Oxidings and your Distress Inks. With perfect results on blending. And now it's time to assemble my card. I am going to stick this panel on top of my card base. And I have added some foam tape at the back. So it's slightly raised. And then on the inside of all those windows I am going to use the cutouts. So I am going to use some tape at the back. And stick everything just inside. Everything fits perfectly obviously. And they just fall right in place. Also notice that all the colors are not exactly random. I am making sure that on each one of those rows of squares I do have one of each color. Now to embellish my card even more I do have three of those cheeks ready to go. I am going to stick them on three of those windows on my card. Adding some foam squares at the back which is going to level those cheeks with the frame. And to finish it off I am adding some glitter drops in the empty windows. And let's move on to the last card for today. I am using the stamp set that's called Forever Friends. And I am using one of the sentiments included that says My friend like you comes along once in nine lives. And I am going to pair this sentiment with the paw prints dies. And I am choosing the tiniest of those paw prints. I am going to place them on top of my card and cut it out multiple times. So I will end up having a panel with lots of tiny little windows in the shape of paw prints. From the same stamp set I am going to stamp one of the kits and I am going to color here with my alcohol markers. And I am also going to put this cut inside a basket that I am going to cut out using these dies. I didn't do a lot of coloring on my cut since I wasn't here to be white. Now I am going to cover up another piece of paper with double sided tape. And then I am going to place on top my basket. This is going to ensure that the top area of my basket is going to have adhesive. I am doing that because once I cut everything out with my big shot, I want to use some glitter on top of my basket. I created my card base out of pink cardstock. That's four and a quarter by five and a half. And I am going to use some double sided tape and make sure that I cover up all those areas that you can see through those little paw print windows. Now I am going to remove the backing from my card base as well as from the basket. And then I am going to apply some fine glitter by Nouveau. Just like I did with the first card. You can burnish the glitter with your finger or a bone folder. And this is going to make sure that the glitter is nicely trapped on top of the adhesive. And at the same time you will see that it shines even more. I used my tape runner at the back of my panel and now I am going to stick that directly on top of my card base. And if I did everything correctly, you should be able to see the glitter shining through those paw little windows. The dye that cuts out this basket actually cuts also a slit so you can use that to put your animals inside the basket. I am also going to use some foam scores at the back and I am going to stick that on top of my card. And the fourth card for today is ready. Don't forget that I will be back tomorrow with 4 more cards featuring even more products from the latest release by my favorite things. And let's take a quick look on all the 4 cards that I made for today. And I have to admit that I had so much fun creating all these cards and I just love them all. Don't forget that there is a giveaway on my blog so make sure to visit and leave me a comment there. Thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you tomorrow.