PDO Celebrate Today

Well hello there my crafty friends.  I welcome you back to my little crafting corner of the world.  I have a new slimline card to share with you and it showcases the fabulous Celebrate Today set from Polka Dot Orchard.

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For my card today I wanted to focus on the fact that you can make a card using a minimum of coloring.  Let's face it, I don't want to spend hours coloring every image for every card I make!  I love to color but, well, I have a life and work and family.  You get the idea.  So I challenged myself to keep it simple.

I printed the cake digital stamp set out on to Neenah 80lb Solar White cardstock.  Before I decided on what colors I wanted to use, I went digging through my stash of patterned paper.  I wanted something bright and cheery.  I came across this super fun piece with abstract dots and circles.  This was the right one for my card!  I got out my handy dandy Copic color chart and started looking for a good match.  Here is my list:

Pinks: RV52 & 55

Yellows: Y13 & 15

Green: YG25

Pretty short list huh?  I picked the elements I wanted to color and got busy.  It didn't take more than maybe 15 minutes to add those to the cake.  

Since I was keeping the coloring simple, I wanted to make the cake pop a bit more from the white paper.  I got my N Copic Markers out and went around the entire image.  I started with N3 and worked my way out to 0.

While I waited for the Copic marker dry I got out some of my favorite slimline dies from Trinity Stamps.  The set I used today is the Slimline Stitched Card Panels and Windows.  I used the two largest stitched rectangles. The largest to cut out the patterned paper and the medium to cut out the cake image.  I glued these two layers together with Tombow Mono Multi liquid glue.  I created my slimline card base by cutting a piece of pink cardstock to 7 3/4" x 8 3/4 inches and folding it in half.  I used the same liquid glue to adhere the card panels to the pink card base.

Now I needed a sentiment.  I had printed all of the sentiments out onto a scrap piece of copy paper.  I find this lets me play around to see how my sentiment is going to fit best.  In this case I decided to use 'It's your day" but I wanted each word to be separate.  I went ahead and printed it out onto Neenah cardstock.  Then I picked another color to match from the patterned paper.  I chose a light blue.  The B12 Copic is almost a perfect match!  I colored over my sentiment before I cut it into three pieces.

While I waited for the sentiment to dry, I got to adding a bit more detail to the card .  I recently purchased Unicorn Stickles and thought these would look great on this card.  And they do!  I only added it to some of the colored areas and a few of the uncolored areas.  I added foam tape behind the sentiment pieces and adhered them onto the card. Card complete!

Here's a close up of the Unicorn Stickles.

Love me some sparkle!  As always, I truly appreciate you taking the time to stop by.

Until next time...

~Kristina

Supplies  

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Copic Marker RV55 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker YG23 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker YG25 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker N0 Shop at: EH
Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Copic Marker Y13 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker B12 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker RV52 Shop at: EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Copic Marker N1 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker N3 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker Colorless Blender Shop at: EH	Copic Marker Y15 Shop at: EH	Unicorn Stickles Shop at: SBC | EH	Stitched Frames & Squares - Trinity Stamps Shop at: EH