Heartfelt Thanks!

Hello! Today I have a SUPER cute card using My Favorite Things Always Bring a Smile. I made this thank you card for the person that sent me this stamp set in some happy mail a little while ago. I absolutely love this set and had so much fun coloring this mushroom. I used a snow marker to make the poof spots on the mushroom. To make the frame look like wood I dry embossed a piece of Soft Suede cardstock with the Tim Holtz texture fades Lumber embossing folder. Then I put embossing ink all over and heat embossed it with weathered wood Distress Embossing Glaze. I popped the frame up with foam tape so the poof in the mushroom wouldn't get squished when I mail the card. After I colored the squirrel, I dabbed a rag with Copic colorless blender on him to give him the spots.  I hope the recipient loves the card as much as I loved my happy mail!!

Copics Used:

Mushroom: BV20, R14, R17, E40, E41, E43

Grass: YG17, YG21, YG23

Sky: BG0000

Squirrel: E34, E35  Face/belly: E30, E31, E33

Welcome to the Neighborhood!

How cute is this new neighbor card? I just love these fish from Taylored expressions!!! I wanted something a little different than the usual 'house' welcome card and this is what I came up with. 

I stamped the snow globe on a piece of white card stock then cut out the center for the shaker part. I masked off the top then stenciled the sand with the "Go with the Flow" stencil, Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Oxides. Then I used a toothbrush with Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso oxide ink that I spritzed with water to splatter the ink to make it look like sand. Next I masked the sand and used Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean to stencil the water.  I stamped and die cut the fish and seaweed using the following sets from Taylored Expressions: "Under the Sea", "Oceans of Fun" and "Build a Scene Underwater" I colored them with Copics (listed below) and assembled the snow globe shaker. I finished it off with the sentiment from the "Simple Strips Background" set.

I hope you like it!

Copics used:

Blue fish:BG15, 18, 32

Orange fish: Y17, YR04, YR16

Starfish: R22, 24

Octopus: V04, V06, RV04

Puffer fish: Yr07, YR16

Clam: E40, 41, 42

Snow globe base: N0, 1, 2

Change is Beautiful...litterally!

Hello crafty friends! Today's card features Change is Beautiful from Polka Dot Orchard. This was such a fun card to make. the first thing I would like to bring your attention to is the melted sequin on the card. I was curious to see what would happen to gold toned sequin if I put Antique Linen distress embossing glaze on them and heat them. Well... a melted sequin with a little texture from the embossing glaze. That worked perfect for this project as the regular gold sequin just wasn't what I was looking for. 

So in this beautiful set from Polka Dot Orchard, there are two butterflies. I printed them in a set of 6 on vellum and printed one big butterfly on watercolor paper. I used a distress embossing pen with a brush tip to color in the parts of the butterfly that I wanted the cracked pistachio distress embossing glaze to adhere to. Then after I heat embossed it, I took the whole image of the butterfly that I cut out and smooshed it in an embossing pad. I added the Antique linen Embossing glaze over the whole thing and heat embossed it. I love the way it turned out. It made the cracked pistachio look a little antique as well. 

For my final touch, I printed the sentiment on black cardstock, then added matte white foil over it and ran it through my laminator between two pieces of cardstock to have the foil adhere to the print on the cardstock. I cut the sentiment up in little strips and glued them to the card. The patterned paper that the vellum is on is from an old paper pack by Prima marketing. (Any old fashioned looking paper would do in it's place.)

Just look at how the melted sequin fit this card so perfectly! (Just a note- when I heated them, I held the center of the sequin down with a pointy tweezer to keep it from flying away.) 

If you have any questions on how I made this, please feel free to ask.