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
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.
