Super Secret sympathy card video - Scrappy Tails Crafts

 Hi friends!  One of my brilliant co-design team peeps (Sharon Luska) created this awesome video featuring several products from Scrappy Tails Crafts.  

Head HERE to get access to this special video!

And head HERE to shop Scrappy Tails Crafts awesome line of products!

Have an awesome day!

In my thoughts

Is it Friday yet?  Have you ever noticed how long the first full week after a holiday feels?  LOL!  I'm struggling but I've almost made it to the weekend.  Go me!  Anywho...let's talk about a card!  I have been wanting to increase my stash of sympathy cards because I never seem to have any on hand when I need them.  I tend to use flowers as my go to images and the Spread Your Wings set from Polka Dot Orchard is just perfect!

Here is the card I created.

I started by printing the flowers out onto a piece of watercolor cardstock.  Then I used several different shades of watercolor pencisl and blender brush to color up the image.  I cut it out with a scalloped rectangle die

I added foam tape and adhered it to an olive green rectangle.  This was then glued directly to a gorgeous floral design paper from Simple Stories.  Then finally onto a natural ivory card base.

The sentiment comes from the Floral Flourish Background 4 set.  I printed it onto a rust piece of cardstock.  Then I ran it through my Minc with gold foil.  I added foam tape to the back of the strip before adding it to the card.  Now I needed some more sparkle so I added gold splatters over the entire card front.  Ta da!  All done!

I hope you will head over to the Polka Dot Orchard store HERE and check out all of the awesome stamp sets!

Smooches

~Kristina

Other supplies used:

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Heidi Swapp MINC 6 inch Mini Foil Applicator Shop at: SBC	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	White Gelly Roll pen Shop at: SBC
Canson Watercolor paper Shop at: EH	Ranger Tim Holtz Water Brush - Fine Brush Shop at: EH	Autumn Splendor - Simple Stories Shop at: Dies R Us	Gold Foil - Heidi Swapp Shop at: SBC

A Sprinkle of Happiness

Happy day after the Fourth of July!  I do enjoy some good fireworks but I think my cats are ready for the noises to come to an end!  I managed to sneak away to play in my craft room and I'm here to share the results.  This card features a relatively new digital stamp set from Polka Dot Orchard called A Sprinkle of Flowers.  This set features an absolutely GORGEOUS floral image and a variety of sentiments.  Let's get to my card.

I came across this Copic color combination when I was scouring the internet for inspiration.  Since I'm a huge fan of purple, I fell in love with this blue-violet combination.  I managed to snap a photo after I finished the Copic coloring and right before I added some colored pencil for more definition.

I printed the digital stamp out onto X-Press It cardstock and got right to coloring.  

Flower- BV0000, BV00, BV02, BV25, BG000 and a touch of YG01

Leaves-G40, G43, G46 and a touch of YG01

Background-T0 and Colorless Blender 0, plus dots of all the above colors except BV25 and G46.

Prismacolor Pencils

Flower-Dioxazine Purple Hue PC132

Leaves-Kelp Green PC1090 and Limepeel PC1005

I think I added a touch of Y15 at the very center of the flower.  The card layers were created by using square dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs.  I colored the edges of the paper with the matching Copic marker so they would match the flower.  That way I didn't have to hunt through my paper collection.

After the card layers were all put together, I added the sentiment piece.  Also printed on X-Press It cardstock and the layer underneath colored with Copic.  I did add foam tape just to give a little bit more impact. 

For the final touches I added Wink of Stella all over the flower petals and Glossy Accents in the very lightest of the petal highlights.  If you look closely or enlarge the picture, I think you can see it.  It is very noticeable in real life.

Oopsie.  I did notice after I edited this picture, I took it before I added the sentiment.  My apologies!

I hope you'll check this Polka Dot Orchard digital stamp set out as well as the other 30 sets or so available in the Etsy shop!

See ya!

~Kristina

Supplies Used:

Elizabeth Crafts Designs Stitched Squares Shop at: Dies R Us	Elizabeth Crafts Designs Dotted Scallop Squares Shop at: Dies R Us	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH
Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	A Sprinkle of Flowers Polka Dot Orchard digital stamp Shop at: PDO	Copic Marker G40 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker G43 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker G46 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker BV0000 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker BV00 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker BV02 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker BV25 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker YG01 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker BG000 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker T0 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker Colorless Blender Shop at: EH	X-Press It Blending cardstock Shop at: EH

With Sympathy

Hi gang!  It's my turn over on the Dies R Us blog today.  Come on over and check out all the details.  Two for one sympathy cards.  You can find the post right HERE. 

Hope to see you over there.

~Kristina