Treasured w/Kate Hadfield Designs

 

Hello everyone!  It's been a hot minute since I did a post!  The project I

have for you today features products from

Kate Hadfield Designs

Treasured

This is a digital set and I'm not sure if you know - Kate Hadfield Designs also

sells colored versions of her digital stamps and colored clip art!  I am not one to use 

digital artlike this, but the colors of these were just singing to me!  This card was so

simple to make - great if you need a card in a hurry!  Let me show you how

I made my card today!

I first placed my papers side by side in the computer.  I cropped them so

they would be narrower and fit on an A2 size card.  Next I placed my elements

on top of the paper.  I did this by "bringing forward" those elements.  I

have a MACbookPro.  It's not new.  I use Word for a program.  The files that

you purchase are PNG files so you can layer them one on top of another.

I printed this image onto white card stock.  It was a bit bigger than an A2 size

card but I wanted to be able to trim it down.  I took a white A2 size top folding

card base and covered it with a gold pearl card stock.  The color was such a

good match!  Then I trimmed down the panel from the computer to

4" x 5 1/4" and adhered to the card.

Using 2 sentiment stamps that I had in my stash, I stamped a

"you" in the middle of the heart and then "are" above "treasured".  This 

all fit amazingly well!

It needed a bit of embellishing, but I didn't go for shine.  I used 5 enamel

dots from my stash that matched in color and that completed my card!

I hope I've inspired you to create something perhaps for the first time!  This

was so easy with the Treasured set from

Kate Hadfield Designs

And the best part?  This set is free and can be yours when you sign up for Kate Hadfield's

newsletter - called The Doodle Den!  On the home page of the website, the sign up is

at the bottom of the page!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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.

 

Monsterific Toppers with Kate Hadfield Designs

 

Springity Spring with Kate Hadfield Designs

Hello everyone!  Happy Spring...finally!  And to herald in warmer temps and

the flowers that are starting to come up, today we are creating a fun spring

card using a digital stamp set from

Kate Hadfield Designs

Springity Spring Digital Stamp Set

This digital stamp set has so many little spring elements.  I only used 6 of them

on my project today, but there are many more!  Let me show you how I made

my card.  I started off by composing my elements in my computer and then

printing them off.  I size them, flip them, set them behind or in front of each

other.  This makes for easy composition.

I wanted to color my panel with my Copic markers.  I do not have a

laser jet printer.  Mine is an inkjet.  I keep that in mind when I am

putting color to an image.  I'm not overly scrubbing color on where

there is printer ink.  If I go over it, it's very gently and that way I

don't encounter any smearing problems.

I knew that I needed to lengthen the image so I added quite a bit of

foreground with my green markers.  The Copic colors I used:

Y00, Y02, Y15, Y17, C2, C3, C5, YG11, YG03, YG25, B000, 

BV000, YR21, R81, R83, R85, RV10

After the coloring was done, I die cut a inner scalloped frame out of

white card stock and colored it with my lightest blue Copic so it would match.  I 

shopped my stash for background paper and found this cute plaid that matched

the colors I had used.  I covered an A2 size card base with this

plaid paper.  Before adhering my colored panel to the scalloped frame,

I stamped a sentiment from my stash using a grey ink.  I adhered the 

colored framed panel to the front of my card.  For embellishment, I

wanted to keep things soft, but I had an annoying black spot where I

had layered the grass close together.  I had some tiny light green  iridescent

stars so I adhered a smattering of those through the grass and that 

covered that little spot.  I also used a shimmer pen on the sun, flower

centers and bee wings.  And that finished my card!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial.  If you ever have questions about

working with digital stamps ask us!  You can leave questions here or

on our social media.  We would be happy to help you!  You can find

this set of digital stamps and many others at

Kate Hadfield Designs

thanks so much for stopping by today!

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.

 

More Aussie Animals with Kate Hadfield Designs

 

Hello everyone!  Still cold where I live but I did see a robin a few days

ago - a sure sign of spring!  Today I'm bringing you another fun card project

using images from

Kate Hadfield Designs

Aussie Animals Digital Stamp Set

The animals in this set are so cute!  There's no better way to check up on a

friend, then sending this card with all the friendly critters!  Let me show you

how I made my card.  I first composed the card design in my computer.  In

this case I also used digital paper from my digital stash!  Because these are

.png files, they layer over top of the digital paper!

I also printed out the sentiment on this sheet as well.

Before coloring the animals, I decided to die cut my panel first.  This

gives me a better visual view as I am coloring.  I used a slanted stitch

die from LDRS in an A2 size - 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".

I used my Copic markers to color this up.  For colors I used:

R00, E41, R02, W1, W0, Y02, B60, YG41, YG03, G02,

Y02, Y06, E31, E33, E35, E40 and E43.

I usually go to Google Images to sort of get an idea of how things and

animals are colored.

I wanted these little animals to really pop so I used bright colors.

I did some stippling on the lizard and the snake just to give them a

bit of depth and interest with visual texture.

My only bit of embellishment was using a gold shimmer pen on the collar

of the lizard and across the top of the snake and the head of the bird.

I cut out the sentiment in the shape of a speech bubble, used a black

water-based marker around the edges and foam taped it over the lizard. Then

I blended some brown ink along the bottom of the card so the animals

were grounded.

And that finished my card!

I'm just loving creating with these animals!  You can find this set and many

more digital stamps sets at

Kate Hadfield Designs

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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.

Aussie Animals with Kate Hadfield Designs

 

 

Hello everyone!  Still pretty cold where I live!  Hope everyone is doing well and

staying healthy!  Today I'm bringing you a winter card using products from

Kate Hadfield Designs

Bundled Up Digital Stamp Set

This little penguin from the Bundled Up Set is too cute!  This set has 19 images

included - 19!  Digital stamps are so economical!  Let me show you how I made

my project today.  I started out by composing my elements in my computer.

I use Word for a program and I have a MacBook Pro.  My printer is an inkjet.

I sized the penguin first and then I made a collage of one of the hats, a mitten

and snowflakes sprinkles throughout.  Word allows me to change the color

of a photo, so I changed it to be a light gray.  I wanted to use this as the

inside of my gatefold card.

I cut down my image of the penguin which I would fussy cut after it was

colored.  I used a 3 3/4" x 5" slanted stitch rectangle die for the collage.  I

had planned on doing this as a gatefold and it was important at this point to

choose my papers so I could color the images.  I settled on this cute winter

stripe paper with a medium purple card stock base.

For the coloring of my images I used my Copic markers.  For colors

I used: C2, C3, C5, C7, 100, W0, YR02, YR04, YR07, E08, B41, B34.

G00, G12, R81, R83, BV00.  I used the lightest of these colors to 

color the collage panel as this will be the area to write to the recipient.

I didn't shade these areas...just straight coloring.  On the cuff of the

mittens I just did little squiggles with the B41 marker.  I used a white

Posca Pen for highlights on the penguin.  I used a silver sparkle pen

for the penguins eyes and for patterns on the scarf.

To make the base of the card I used a 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of 

purple card stock.  This wasn't a whole sheet to start with so I didn't

have any left over.  On the short sides I scored 2 1/8" in and then

folded them to the middle of the card.  I adhered my collage panel to this.

For my little penguin piece on the front I used a purple paper that had

the same pattern on it as the background paper.  I was going to back that

with more of the purple card stock but this was the point I discovered I

didn't have any left!  😱  I decided to use silver glitter paper and I love it!

Sometimes situation like this works out for the better.  The silver

glitter paper really makes the pen work on the scarf stand out.  I printed

a sentiment from the Let It Snow Stamp Set.

I didn't do anything to this except fussy cut around it.  My panel with the

penguin, including the sliver glitter backing is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2".  I adhered

the penguin with foam tape and the sentiment as well.  I positioned the

sentiment to the upper left of this panel and let it go off the edge.  I

adhered the panel on the left side only of the card base, centering it.  the

back of the glitter paper was showing when I opened the card so I covered

it with more of the purple patterned paper.

I added a few clay snowflakes and used the silver glitter pen to put a

dot in the middles and that finished my card!

This card was fun to make with a few challenges along the way!  I love

working with colors and patterns and this project hit all the right buttons!

Find the stamp sets I used and many more at

Kate Hadfield Designs

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope I've inspired you today!

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.

Snow Day with Kate Hadfield Designs