Growing Family ft. Kate Hadfield Designs

 

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.