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.