Happy Friday!!!
Stopping in to share a super cute little image with you from our most recent release at Sami Stamps!
This card is nothing like what I originally envisioned for it. I used Mr. Pencil Peep on this card, but he was totally giving me a Harry Potter vibe from the beginning! I tried so hard to come up with a great idea to turn it into that, but nothing was working out. So I switched gears and want with something else.
I still wanted this cutie to be colored like Hedwig though...or at least like a white snowy owl. So I fussed around with that for a good long while. I didn't want to do just flat shading, I wanted there to be feathers and puffs...not sure it looks like that...but he's still cute :)
Then I set to working on my background. I decided to do some ink blending around an embossed frame. So, using my rubber embossing mat in my Cuttlebug, I embossed this fun design into my card front and then created a mask so I could ink the background around it. After that was done, I cut out my owl and was starting to assemble everything, but really felt like the whole card was too plain.
So I put the die back into place that I had used for the embossing, and then used the same inks to blend on the inside of the frame. Having the frame in place allowed for there to still be this nice white border so there is separation between the inside and outside areas. Once it was all colored, I flicked on some white, black, and purple shimmer sprays. Much better! Plus now if you look close, you can see that his glasses are see through!
I printed just his glasses onto some transparency! Cutting them apart was a bit tough but you just have to take it slow and really focus. Before I adhered the transparent glasses, I outlined the eyes and added the white highlights in with a white gel pen so that they were a little bit bolder. The transparency was dulling them down a bit so they needed some touching up. Then I took some glossy accents and added little dots to the eyes and stuck the "glasses" down! Worked like a charm!
I embossed my sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Beautiful Life set onto some vellum and then flagged the ends and added it to my card with tiny strips of foam tape. Scattered a few shimmy dots of glossy accents around the card and it was done!
You have just a few more days to enter our Anything Goes challenge, so don't miss out! Just be sure to use a Sami Stamps image!!
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
As You Like It-Favorite Shaped Card Base (I don't really get into making anything other than the standard A2 size card base. It's easy for me to visualize this style card and find great ways to use that space, whereas if I try to do any other shape, the design gets muddy or I just can't make it flow well enough.)
Fussy and Fancy #171-Let's Fly Away
Penny's Paper Crafty #292-Anything Goes
Thanks for visiting! <3
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Hello!!
Thanks so much for stopping by today! My posts have been a little scarce lately. I've had a great opportunity presented to me and I've been working hard to get that rolling...which has taken a lot of my free time. So I won't be around much for the next few weeks as that gets set up. I'm so excited! I can't wait to share with you what it is! But not yet :)
So, we start a new challenge today at Tuesday Throwdown...nice and easy for you...Anything Goes!!! And we have a fabulous sponsor offering an amazing prize - Power Poppy Stamps!!! I'm so extremely happy we got them on our sponsor list this year! I've been dying to get the chance to use their images!!! If you haven't checked out their products yet, you must go now! Amazing!
I decided to use the Countryside Bouquet image for my card. What a gorgeous piece of art! Holy smokes! I loved watercoloring this with my Inktense pencils! So much detail and depth...it's just gorgeous!
As you can see, the card is pretty simple. I wanted that image to be front and center and not have anything really distract from it. There are little bits of shimmer pen around the petals and I've trimmed the sides down a bit so it's a taller card. I added the sentiment onto a piece of vellum and white heat embossed it. Then layered that onto a black piece of cardstock that I had trimmed with a scallop edge. The whole thing is finished off with a few Pretty Pink Posh Clear Droplets! Love those things!
I absolutely adore this card!
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Case This Sketch #156
Ooh La La #196-In the Country
Power Poppy-Stretch Yourself
Word Art Wednesday #218-Anything Goes
Thanks again for visiting!! <3
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Hi Everyone!
Happy Tuesday! Chilly morning here in Washington, but the cooler temps are very welcome! Just wishing they would help with the wild fires on the east side of the state. Please keep everyone in your prayers as these fires have been brutal and unstoppable so far...and it's hard to watch my state go through something so difficult...
It is time for a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown. This weeks challenge is "Just Because!" I love sending these cards because they have no purpose other than to just say Hi :)
Our awesome sponsor is A Random Fan, and they have provided our team with some adorable images!
I've chosen to use Sweet Honey Bee.
I've been so busy the last few weeks with other projects that I completely forgot that it was my teams challenge week. So this card was one of those last minute "oh-my-gosh-get-something-done" type of cards. But I think it turned out super cute!
I colored in this cutie with my ShinHan markers and added touches of glitter brush for some fun sparkle. The orange background paper was embossed with glitter embossing powder in a fun dot pattern, but most of that pattern got covered up...so now it's just sparkly :)
I added a quick sentiment and some hand drawn stitches and called it good on this quick and sweet card!
Be sure to stop by Tuesday Throwdown and join in this super fun challenge!!
Thanks for visiting! <3
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