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Happy Spring ft. Kate Hadfield Designs

 

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Hello everyone!  Is everyone getting a big dose of spring?  I hope

so.  The winter seemed harsh this year but spring is here!  I’ve made a 

fun project today using products from

Kate Hadfield Designs 

Animal Pals-Owls stamp Set 

Signs of Spring stamp Set  

This little card took a few twists and turns because of the sentiment. Let 

me show you how I made it.

 

 

I composed my images and used a background from Weekend At Home,

which is all background paper.  All along I was going to make this a

spring card – and use a sentiment like Happy Spring or Spring

Greetings.  So, I used the tree from the Animal Pals - Owls

and it has a large hole in the middle of it.  I composed my card panel

so that the tree would be over to the right far enough to just get a

sliver of the tree hole.  You can see in the picture that the hole is blue.  I went over it a 

few times with a dark Copic marker to get rid of the blue.  I used the artistic 

effects on the background to get the sky to fade on the left.  I also altered the color of 

the sky in the computer before I printed it out onto white card stock.

 

 

Time to start coloring – always my favorite part!!  I wanted to keep the

coloring light and springy so I didn’t darken as I normally would.  

 

 

I colored the nest, then the tree bark and then the leaves.  Then I got to the

birds.  I colored them and didn’t like them at all.  So I reprinted the

panel in black and white and colored them again to fussy cut and adhere

over the original ones.  Those didn’t come out good either.  😱 Finally

I decided to printed them out onto patterned paper.  I used a peachy

color with white flecks.  Then I shaded with soft reds.  I cut them out

and adhered them over the original ones.  Finally they looked good! After

I fussy cut them, I edged them with a black marker.

 

 

My intention for the sentiment was to refer to spring.  That didn’t happen

either.   This poor card was kind of going sideways!  I did find the

sentiment that I used in my stash and used a die from my stash.  So,

it became a pregnant/baby congrats card instead.  

 

 

I die cut some clouds with a die from my stash and cut off the ends of 2 of them

so that they would all not look the same.  I used Enamel Accents for tiny

green dots around the leaves of the trees and I used Glossy Accents to

put over the eggs.  I popped up the sentiment on foam tape and adhered

my panel to a white top folding card base.  I used a white gel pen for a few

highlights on the birds and my card was done!

 

 

I hope I’ve inspired you to create something pretty even when it starts

to give you trouble.  It’s important to keep going!!!

 

Supplies used:

 

Animal Pals-Owls Digital Stamp Set

Signs of Spring Digital Stamp Set

White card stock

Cloud Die

Fancy rectangle die

Enamel accents

Glossy Accents

Foam Tape

Copic colors:

Y21, Y28, Y26, YR12, E23, YG11,

YG23, YG25, W1, W2, W3, W5, W8

E31, BG75, BG11, BG02

 

Till next time…

 

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Kate Hadfield Designs, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Spring Bouquet ft. Kate Hadfield Designs

 

 

Hello everyone!  Spring is on its way and I am so glad.  Winter

seemed especially gray and dark this year.  To make my

center cut-away card I'll be using products from

Kate Hadfield Designs

Hoppy Easter stamp set

 This is a very versatile set with lots of images.  Let me show you how I 

made this fun fold card! 

I started by composing my images.  I copied and pasted the grass

stamp several times.  I printed this out onto white card stock.

 

 

Next I took a 6 ½” x 5” white notecard and cut away 1 ¼” on

each side of the front.  This leaves a nice 4” center panel on the

base to put the focal on.

 

 

At this point I die cut my image with a 3 ½” x 4 ½” fancy

rectangle die.  Then I chose my papers.  I needed 2 that went

well together.  I chose the blue for the center panel because

I didn’t want to color the background of my image.  And having

a blue panel underneath gives the idea of sky on a spring day!

I deliberately chose the plaid paper with a “Spring” color palette.

 

 

I started my coloring by identifying the main colors and placement.

I color matched to the plaid paper.

 

 

The coloring was really quite quick.  I did 2, 3 and 4 color blends

for the elements.

 

 

This image colored up nicely and it looked really good with the

plaid paper.  At this point, I covered the center panel on the card 

base with the blue and the side panels plaid.  My side panels

were only about 1/8” underneath the center flap.

 

The side pieces of plaid paper could be edged with a cute

edge die.

For embellishments I adhered tiny yellow flowers amongst

the grass with Stickles in the centers along with some green twine. 

 And I  placed 3 tiny butterfly sequins around the flowers in the can.  I

 did not add a sentiment, but this could be used as a get well card

and so many other occasions.  I foam taped the focal to the center

blue panel of the card.

 

 

This card project worked up quite quickly.  With only a smaller

focal, the card base and papers did the rest of the work!  I hope

I’ve inspired you to try making one of these side cut-away cards.

If you do, tag us on social media…we would love to see it!

 

Supplies used:

 

Hoppy Easter stamp set

5” x 6 ½” white card base

2 coordinating papers

White card stock

Fancy rectangle die

Tiny butterfly sequins

Tiny yellow flower sequins

Orange Stickles

Green twine

Foam tape

Copic colors used:

BG11, C1, C2, Y11, YR21,

YR00, YR02, R81, R83, R85,

YG11, YG03, YG63

 

Til next time…

 

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Kate Hadfield Designs, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love. 

 

 

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