Hey there friends and crafters! Happy you found your way here. Believe it or not, due to some health reasons, I had not posted on my blog for a while and as I was attempting to create this blog entry in Chrome (my usual browser) my blogger account was just gone! It gave me some weird error message that I was unable to work around. Finally, I decided to check another browser, and voila!! I could suddenly access my account and get this blog done. I was freaking out!! I'm a bit rushed to get this posted in time, so forgive me if this post is not up to my usual standards.😅 If you are following along on the IG Hop, then you've just come from Sandy Allnock's post/blog. Just my luck to follow such a great artist and creator. I'm quite a fan of hers, so yeah... no comparison's please!!😆😏
My card for the IG Hop is one I created with Sandy Boone (TRS owner/illustrator) in mind. So it had to be a birthday card! I've not made a slimline format card before, so I thought this was a good time. For this card I used 3 stamp sets from Three Room Studio. The main image is from the YAY! stamp set, as well as some of the sentiments, I used the grasses stamps from It's a Ponderful Life, and the small dragonflies and a sentiment from the Believe in Fairies stamp set. I also used a Happy Birthday sentiment from Concord and 9th.
For this card, I first stamped the woman image in Copic friendly ink. I then went about Copic coloring the background. I added the dark grass stamp in the foreground last to add depth and dimension to my picture. Then I colored this fun lady. I added some black dots to her top for interest. I then worked on the frame. I used a MFTs rectangle die that I had to partial die cut twice in order to make the opening so long. Fortunately it worked out on my first attempt! I then decided to ink blend the frame as well, using the colors of my picture as inspiration. I used Distress Oxide Inks (from the top first), Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass, (then from the bottom) Mowed Lawn all the way up and Peeled Paint just at the bottom over top of Mowed Lawn. Using my MISTI I positioned the sentiments and stamped them in Versa Fine Clair ink (dark blue and green).
After looking at it and thinking something was missing, I added some pale grass to the bottom of the frame and two little flying dragonflies. I also colored over the word Hooray! with a green glitter pen (but you can't see it in my pictures).
For the final step in this card, I chose a fun holographic cardstock from Simon Says Stamp to fill the space between my picture and the frame. It really looks cool! I also used some dimensional foam tape to the back of the frame (it made that holographic paper show up even better).
A close-up of my card:
I hope you enjoyed my card and all the other one's on this special IG Hop. I believe your next stop is with the fabulous Erica A-B, @erica_cacacraft back on IG. Have a great day and don't forget to check out the TRS fan site on Facebook, Three Room Studio's Fourth Room for all things TRS!
Stay crafty my friends,
Jill ✂
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