Birthday ice skates

 Hi there!  I had need of a birthday card for a young lady.  I heard she liked pink and ice skates so I came up with a plan.  I knew that Polka Dot Orchard had the perfect digital stamp to use, Merry Christmouse.  I can hear you right, but Kristina, that's a Christmas set!!  Well, yes...and no!  Let's take a look at the card shall we?

This card came together fairly quickly.  I browsed Pinterest to find a simple card sketch as a starting point.  Then I  gathered my supplies.  Some happy Doodlebug paper, Copic markers in colors to match, some oval dies, Stickles, holographic cardstock and my digital stamps!

I printed the skates and the sentiment out onto Neennah Solar White 80lb cardstock.  I colored the skates with RV52 and 55, T9, 7, 5, 3, 1, 0 and the colorless blender.  I cut the colored image out with an oval die and the holographic cardstock in the next largest oval.  I cut the patterned papers at an angle and adhered them to a pink card base.  I glued on the ovals.  I went over the blades of the skates with a light layer of Star Dust Stickles.  The sentiment comes from the Whoops A Daisy set.  I colored it with the RV52 marker.  I popped on a bit of foam tape and added it to the card.  Added a few drops of Magenta Stickles and called it done!  I did find out the Magenta Stickles have been discontinued but I think Rhubarb or Cranb might work too.

Isn't it such a fun birthday card??  Both stamp sets are on sale for 50% off and can be found in the Polka Dot Orchard store HERE. 

See ya later!

~Kristina

Supplies used:

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Copic Marker RV55 Shop at: EH	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Copic Marker RV52 Shop at: EH
Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Copic Marker Colorless Blender Shop at: EH	Copic Marker T9 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker T7 Shop at: EH
Rhubarb Stickles Shop at: SBC	Copic Marker T5 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker T0 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker T1 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker T3 Shop at: EH

Let's make a Valentine's Day card!

Hi friends!  Kristina here.  I'm super excited for my first blog post as a guest design team member for Scrappy Tails Crafts!  My card today features two products from the brand new Spring Fling release.  I'm using the adorable Sweet Bear stamp set (HERE) and the Flower Vase Pop Up Card dies (HERE).

I started with a piece of Bristol smooth cardstock cut to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  I then used ink blending tools with Fired Brick, Worn Lipstick and Victorian Velvet distress inks.  Once I had a smooth blend, I splattered it with water and dabbed it off.

While it was drying, I took XOXO die from the Flower Vase Pop Up dies and cut my own stencil from heavy cardstock.  I applied a clear glitter/texture paste through the diy stencil on the blended background.  I set aside to dry.

Next I stamped the bear onto the same Bristol smooth cardstock using a watercolor safe black ink. I grabbed a couple of colors of Zig Real brush markers, a waterbrush and got to watercoloring the bear. Once it was dry I fussy cut the bear.  The Sweet Bear stamp set does have a matching die set (HERE) but I haven't added it to my collection yet.  I also stamped a sentiment and trimmed it down with a banner end.  

Back to the background.  I splattered it with white paint and a black shimmer paint.  After it was dry I added it onto a top fold, A2 sized white card base.  I added foam tape to the back of the bear and placed on the card panel.  I used a little liquid glue and tucked in the sentiment strip. 

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today!

~Kristina

Supplies used:

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Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper Shop at: EH	Ranger Tim Holtz Water Brush - Fine Brush Shop at: EH
Jet Black Amalgam ink pad - Gina K Shop at: EH	Deep Brown 68 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH	Brick Beige 75 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH	Replacement blending foam - Ranger Shop at: EH
Fired Brick - Distress Ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Sweet Bear dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Sweet Bear -Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Flower Vase Pop Up dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT
Victorian Velvet distress ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Worn Lipstick distress ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Light Carmine 21 Zig Real brush marker Shop at: EH	Black 10 Zig Real brush marker Shop at: EH