I have a young friend from who has a birthday this coming week. Her favorite colors are purple and teal and Katie has beautiful brown hair, so those are the colors I used on this cute image from La-La Land Crafts.
This is a digital image. I printed the girl and garden bench onto Neenah Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock using a laser printer. I find that toner ink does not smear when using Copic Markers.
I colored the images with Copic Markers. I have a garden bench that is wood and iron, so that was the inspiration in coloring this garden bench. I then used the Silhouette PIXScan Mat to cutout the images. So much faster and smoother lines than fussy cutting. The girl was adhered to the bench with liquid glue.
I cut a panel of cardstock with a stitched rectangle ink blended the top two-thirds of the card with blue ink for a sky. Grass was die cut using Taylored Expressions Wispy Grass Die. It is a narrow strip of grass and I wanted another layer of taller grass so I did partial die cutting. The smaller grass color was deepened with Copic Markers and then adhered to the taller grass with liquid glue and then adhered over the sky blended background panel. I couple of clouds were cut from white cardstock with the Avery Elle Pierced Clouds die. A pale blue Copic Markers was used in the corners of the clouds. The largest cloud was adhered to the sky with liquid glue and the smaller cloud with sticky back foam. The panel was then adhered to a side folding cardbase.
The girl and bench were placed on the panel to determine where to stamp the sentiment with Distress Oxide Peacock Feathers. Darice Thin Strip Foam Tape was added to the back of the bench and 3M foam tape was added to the back of the girl. The release paper was removed and the images where adhered to the front of the card.
The last embellishment was to add crystal stickles to the clouds and heart. A gold metallic pen was added to the centers of the flowers on her shoes and the card was done.
PRODUCTS USED:
- La-La Land Crafts Sitting Marci
- Gina K. Designs Birthday Greetings
- La-La Land Crafts Garden Bench
- Avery Elle Pierced Clouds
- Taylored Expressions Wispy Grass
- Silhouette PIXScan Mat
- Copic Markers: BG49, BG45, BG34, BG32; RV23, RV02, R00; C4, C2; E57, E35, E31; YG05, YG03
- Distress Oxide: Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers
- Darice Sticky Back Foam
- Darice Thin Strip Foam
- My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle
- Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
- Kokuyo Dotliner Long Adhesive
- Neenah Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
- Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
- The Paper Studio Texture-Lime Green Cardstock
- Pentel Sunburst Metallic Gold Gel Pen