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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Animal Pals - Owls ft. Kate Hadfield Designs

 

 Hello everyone!  Today I'm sharing a cute baby card using unexpected

digital stamps!  I'll be using products from

Kate Hadfield Designs

Animal Pals - Owls

I love owls and live in an area where in the summer and fall I can hear 

the owls hooting to each other when they wake up in the afternoon!   It’s always a treat to hear them!  Let me show you how I made my card.

I first composed my images in the computer and printed them out onto white card stock.

 

 

I think it was at this point that I decided I could use this for a new baby card!...plus I have a friend who calls her baby girl an owlet!   I knew this was not going to be complicated to color so 

I started in with the sky background.

 

 

I went over these areas of sky more than once so the color would be saturated and very dark.

 

 

Once I finished the sky, moved onto the rest of the coloring using browns and warm grays.

 

 

Once the coloring was done, I used a rectangle die from my stash to die cut the panel.  I had to

Do some extending…as my coloring did not extend to the height of the die cut panel.  Once I had done that, I die cut a circle for the moon, computer journaled the sentiment and colored the card stock it was printed on and foam taped it to the panel.  I added tiny metal stars and 

Star Dust Stickles to the moon which I adhered with foam tape.  I adhered the whole panel  to an A2 size card base in a soft gray and my card was done!

 

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial.  I think it's perfect for a new

baby welcome!

 

Supplies used:

Animal Pals - Owls

Copic Markers: B99, W0, W1, W3, W5, W76, W7, G94, G99, E33, E35, E37, E43, 

E47, E55, E49, E71, E 77, E79, Y000, Y11, Y21

Rectangle Die

Small Circle Die

Sentiment – scrap of white card stock

Tiny Star embellishments

Star Dust Stickles

Foam Tape

Warm Gray card base

You can find the products I've used in my project today at

Kate Hadfield Designs

 

Til next time…

 

Betsy