Pink Birthday - Pawsome Stamps

 Happy weekend everyone!  Poppin' on in to share a birthday card I made featuring products from Pawsome Stamps.  They have been sitting in my stash waiting for me to finally use them.  The time has come at long last!  I am using Bday Cupcakes stamps and Rays of Sunshine background stencil.

Step one was to stamp and cut out some masks.  Next I stamp the base, cupcake, HB2U sign and candle onto my white panel.  Then I added the masks on top.

Next I picked out three different pink Distress Inks.  I chose Picked Raspberry, Kitsch Flamingo and Spun Sugar.  I taped my card panel to the Rays of Sunshine stencil and got to ink blending.

I also mixed some of the inks with a shimmer spray and added splatters.  Once the splatters were dry, I removed the masks.

I grabbed several Copics and shaded the "cake" part of the cupcake.  I stamped the cupcake again onto two different papers from the Doodlebug Sweet Things collection.  I took my scissors and fussy cut the pink frosting out and the cupcake wrapper.  I did add a bit of shading to the wrapper with gray Copics.  I glued these onto the cupcake on the panel.  I used gray Copics to color the base, mints to color the candle, yellow for the flame and pinks for the sign.  

For a little extra detail I added Unicorn Stickles to the flame, Stardust Stickles to the pink frosting and Stardust Glitter Pen to the stand.

And the final card.

That's it for me today!  May your day be excellent!

~Kristina

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Poppies mini slimline

Hi friends!  I'm here with your daily dose of crafty fun.  My project today focuses on more ways to stretch your Scrappy Tails Crafts supplies.  Today I'll be using the Flower Vase Pop up dies in a new way you might not have thought about.  I also used Slimline Shadow Box dies and Popping Poppies stamp set.

Let's chat about my card shall we?

I picked out three different distress ink colors to use for my project.  Speckled Egg, Chipped Sapphire and Dusty Concord.  I grabbed a piece of watercolor paper and my ink blending tools.  I started applying color with no real rhyme or reason.  I just added patches of color, then added another and another.  I went back through a couple times until I got a nice looking blend.  I hit it with a heat tool to help the ink dry.

Next I used an anti-static tool all over the watercolor paper.  I put all of the individual flowers and leaves from the Popping Poppies set onto acrylic blocks.  I used Versamark ink to stamp the images.  I went ahead and sprinkled white embossing powder over the panel so I could see if I had any holes to fill.  I did have a few spots that were too small for the flowers or leaves so I used the little "hi" stamp from the same set.  Added white embossing powder again and melted it with a heat tool.  I added ink splatters as well with all 3 ink colors and I added white too.

Isn't it lovely?

Next I grabbed the two layering panel dies from the Flower Vase Pop Up set.  I picked the section of the paper I liked best and cut out five panels.  Then I took the smallest large panel die from the Slimline Shadow Box dies and cut a piece of white Neenah cardstock.  I glued the watercolor panels onto the white slimline panel.

I took the next larger slimline die and cut a purple panel.  I glued the white panel on top.  Then I added both layers onto a blue-green mini slimline card base.  It measures 6 3/8"x 3 3/8".

From the same Slimline Shadow box dies set, I took the hello and hellow shadow layers and cut them out.  I glued the white letters onto the blue-green shadow layer.  I added foam tape to the back layer and added it to the card.  For the finishing touches I carefully added Crystal Stickles on the white letters.  I didn't cover the entire letters.   This way it almost looks like an even skinnier word die!  A few blingy stickers and this mini slimline card is all done!

Thanks for sticking with me to the end of this post and I hope you've been inspired!  Don't forget to check out all of the great products in the Scrappy Tails Crafts store.  You can use the code STCBLOG10 for 10% off your order!

~Toodles!

Kristina

 Supplies used:

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Teflon bone folder Shop at: EH	Slimline Shadow Box dies Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SBC	Popping Poppies stamps Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SBC	Speckled Egg Distress Ink Shop at: SBC | EH
Dusty Concord Distress Ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Anti-Static Tool EK Success Shop at: SBC | EH	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	VersaMark Watermark ink pad Shop at: SBC | EH	White Ink Spray - Avery Elle Shop at: SBC | EH	Tonic Studios-Retractable Craft Pick Shop at: SBC | EH
Mini Ink Blending Tool Shop at: SBC | EH	Zig 2-way glue pen Shop at: SBC | EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Crystal Stickles Shop at: SBC
Canson Watercolor paper Shop at: EH	White embossing powder Ranger Shop at: SBC | EH	Replacement blending foam - Ranger Shop at: EH	Flower Vase Pop Up dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT

Grow Love With Kindess hop

Polka Dot Orchard is having a Grow Love With Kindness hop over on Instagram today!  I wanted to share on my blog as well for those of you who don't do Instagram plus I can share all the details.  I am using the Blessed Lives set which you can pick up HERE in the Polka Dot Orchard store.

Alright, let's talk cards.  I recently watched a video from Jennifer McGuire.  She is such a constant source of inspiration!  I was intrigued by the Split Card technique.  Basically you work with one image, cut it down the center and it gives you two cards!  I always love getting two-for-one!

I started by printing out the main image and the two sentiments onto a piece of Copic friendly cardstock.  I colored it with Copic markers.  I went for a vintage color palette.  The pinks are RV11, RV32 and RV34.  The greens are BG93, BG96 and BG99.  That's it.  Six colors.

Once I was done with the coloring, I found the center of my image and cut it.  I know, I just colored it and then I cut right through it.  I promise it will be okay!

I went around the outer edge of the cut panel with a black sharpie to give it a heavy black line.  I then grabbed a ruler and a fine tip black marker to create a thin frame.  I felt like this step added a lot of visual dimension to the panel without adding actual dimension.

I adhered them both to some gorgeous paper from Basic Grey (out of print) and then onto a top folding card base.  To add just a little something extra I used Love Potion Nuvo Dream Drops.  Here are both of the completed cards.

Here they are next to each other.

And here they are apart.

This technique was a lot of fun and I can't wait to try it again.  As a reminder, this is actually a part of an Instagram hop.  You can find me there @ruok or you can start the hop from the Polka Dot Orchard Instagram account @polkadotorchard.  The next person on the IG hop is @vonmariedesigns

Toodles!

~Kristina