I am a bit obsessed with Instagram. There, I said it. It is the best and quickest way to get inspired by so many incredible card makers out there. Today, I came across Trina from Phamtastic Design. If you aren’t following her blog and her Instagram account, you are truly missing out. She is so incredibly talented. The reason I am so drawn to her style is it’s not overly complicated. She makes awesome cards that bright and colorful, but are easy to translate to your own style.
On her blog and Instagram account, she has a stacked penguin card with this incredible rainbow background. Here’s the link to her blog post. I just had to use it to make a card today.
I started by stamping this adorable howling dog from Gerda Steiner Designs Howl Are You? stamp set. After a bit of masking, I colored the dogs with my Copic Markers (I need to do a lot more practicing with my Copic coloring 🙂 To get the sentiment the way I wanted, I had to do something that I’ve avoided doing with any of my stamps—I cut the stamp apart to get the greeting all on one line. I’m still a bit uncomfortable with it, but if it’s okay with the Jennifer McGuire, it’s got to be okay with me.
Once the dogs were all colored, I pulled out my masks again (I had 3 dog masks) and strategically masked the dogs and the circular ground while I ink blended the background with Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Seedless Preserves and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxides. The perfect finishing touch was adding all of those white snow dots using a white gel pen.
I mounted it onto a top folding A2 Neenah Desert Storm card base and called it done!
I hope you like it (and don’t forget to check out Trina’s blog and Instagram Account)!
I had a leftover piece from some watercolor playing, so I decided to use it for the base of my latest card. I diecut it using Avery Elle’s Wonky Stitches die to give it that cute loose stitching along the edges. Unity’s Lil’ Bloomin Owl has been sitting on my desk waiting to make an appearance, so I thought he’d be the perfect star for my card. I stamped him with Memento ink onto Copic Blend It Paper, and colored him with Copic markers. As you can see, I need a lot of practice using my Copics, but I think he turned out okay. After fussy cutting him out, I used foam tape to pop him up. My greeting is from another Unity stamp set, Lil Bunny Peeps. I white heat embossed it onto black card stock and adhered it with my tape runner.
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