The new Jane Doodle’s Challenge is about Birthdays. It is one of those themes that can go in any direction: balloons, birthday cakes or simply a fun card where you add a festive Birthday greeting. I chose to go that route.

The new Jane Doodle’s Challenge is Stencilling. Love stencils there are so many options of how you can use them. They can be used to create the focal point on a card or they can be a subtle something in the background. Stencils are always a great way to add a background to an image, especially when you are not quite sure how you want to highlight your stamps. I find I’ve bought a lot of stencils over the years that are great at helping create a scene for my stamps.

I enjoyed learning a new trick or two with Jennifer McGuire and Kirstina Werner’s Online Card Class course Spring Card Camp that I decided to jump right into Spring Card Camp 2. This one has a slightly different twist, 2 different artists interpretation of a single technique. It is cool to see how differently one technique can be presented. The first day the technique is Marvelous Masking and Kristina Werner and Heather Hoffman both give a very different but similar take on it. My card idea follow’s the take Kristina took, but with my own spin on it.

Sometimes cards start with a plan and sometimes they don’t. This card kinda started with a plan…. Basically I was in the mood to colour, but I knew eventually I would be pulling it all together on a card, so I choose 4 base colours that I could work with - aqua, green, pink and yellow and went from there. Now I love me to colour some animals and snails well you can have a lot of fun with bright colours. So for this challenge pull out your favourite colours and animals and go crazy.

This technique that Channin Pelletier taught recently, at Online Card Classes: Spring Card Camp, was a fun little experiment in background making. First time I have ever used my stencils for creating prints. Pulled some backgrounds into cards and have a few more prints that I will save for another card making sessions.

So a little slow on the upload here. Enjoying trying out some new techniques with the Spring Card Camp at Online Card Classes. So many fun ideas and so little time.

I’m sure like me you must have tons of those cute little packages full of pretty sequins, jewels and all sorts of other things that in general we call embellishments. I recently purchased a container that was perfect for organizing all of my little bits and pieces. As I was organizing this bin I came across these little wooden stars that became the inspiration for this card and perfect fit for the theme embellishments for the next Jane’s Doodle challenge.