Showing posts with label Stickles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stickles. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Spring Has Sprung!

 
I'm still in love with this little bunny girl stamp. She's a lot tinier than she looks here and I think that's part of her charm. I stamped her with black Versa-fine permanent ink and colored her in with Faber-Castell colored markers (thank you, Valerie!).

After coloring the dresses I spritzed a little Color Shine on my craft mat and used a fine paint brush to paint the dresses so they would sparkle. Her shoes and rose got a coat of Glossy Accents, her ears a touch of sparkly clear Stickles. The ears weren't glued down so they could be bent forward, a touch I think makes her that much more adorable.

The "Spring has sprung" piece was stamped on polka-dotted paper, cut out and popped up with a pop-dot. On the inside I added 3 tiny confetti eggs to the corner.
 

Along top are 3 strips of Washi (paper) tape I picked up at Costco a while back. I matched them to the colors of each dress. I used two strips of grass stickers along the bottom, placing them so that some of the strands of grass covered her shoes so it looked more like she was standing in the midst of it.

I wanted to make more, but her little legs were a booger to cut. I'm mailing them so late in the game I decided to make them Spring cards instead of saying happy Easter. Think anyone will notice?

Friday, January 11, 2013

Elephant Girl

When I made my New Year's cards with this stamp from La La Land Crafts, Valerie liked them so much she asked me to make her one with an elephant theme she could frame. (Anytime my family asks me to make them something it tickles me to no end!) So I found a couple of scraps of the elephant textured scrapbooking paper I had leftover from her card-holder and went to work.
I stamped and embossed her using detailed black embossing powder, which gave it a much more finished look than just stamping with black ink. I used a yellow Inktense pencil for her hair and glitzed her up with Stickles. I also added a little clover of hearts to her hat, a nod to Valerie's love of her dog Clover.
I inked the edges of the background paper and mounted two of them to grey card stock. To give it some depth I popped up the top two layers along with the little girl. My daughter had a 5"x 7" glass memory box on hand that provided lots of room for using pop-dots, so that is her new home.
I love how she turned out, but more importantly, so does Valerie!