Today’s card was made for submission to this week’s Freshly
Made Sketch and The Paper Players Challenge of featuring one of our feathered
friends on it.
The card is on a top fold
A2. It is pretty much a one layer except
for the owl who is raised up on the clear ½” pop-dots. I stamped his hat on a piece of the same patterned
paper used on the stripe and pieced it on top of the base. I added some hot pink flocking powder because
every birthday hat must have some fluffy.
The owl was colored up using the Copics listed below and then my
colorless blender was used to make some small dots for texture on him. Once he was all colored up I originally
colored his eyes in black, but they looked a little flat. I then remembered I had some wiggly eyes in
my stash so I found some that would complement his colors and glued them in
place using some multi-medium matte.
Next I cut my DP stripe and the mat. Now, I don’t know about you but I am terrible
about gauging how much paper I will need.
To make sure I only had to cut my DP once I grabbed some scrap paper and
played with it to make sure I had the correct measurements for my DP. When I had the correct size it was glued to the mat and the finished piece was glued to the card front and I put the finished owl in place. With everything in place it looked a little
plain, so I grabbed my trusty Copics, colored up some Hammermill then used Mama
Elephant’s Confetti Cuts die. Once I had
enough die cuts I placed them around the card and used Lawn Fawn’s Birthday
tags to stamp a little using Mama Elephant’s pigment ink.
Challenges Entered:
Supplies used:
Paper: #110 Neenah Solar White for base, Hammermill #100 for
focal image, Recollections Black and Hampton Art Color Crush;
Stamps and Dies: Some Odd Girl Happy Owl Days, Lawn Fawn
Birthday Tags, Mama Elephant Confetti;
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Black, Mama Elephant
Tutti Frutti and Eggplant;
Copics: Owl: E50, E51, and E53
G12, G24, G43
RV04, RV14, RV34
Thanks for stopping by and I hope your week is going well.
