Big Thank & Stamping Bella

Hello, I hope you had a great weekend.  I am taking the online Copic Jumpstart class from Sandy Allnock, it is keeping me very busy but super fun.  The class is packed with a lot of information on how to use Copic markers, make your own colours with Copic, blending and shading, and Sandy's insights about Copic markers.  It is way worth the money!

Anyway, regarding my card this week, do you have those moments that you were working on a card but hadn't finished and not sure if you would continue working on it, cause it didn't turn out the way you want.  But then the next day, you saw something laying on your craft table, you picked it up and put it on top of your unfinished card and "BINGO", you got an idea and became passionate again about the card that you almost gave up!

That is what this week's card is about.  I had an Stamping Bella's image I wanted to colour and decided to pull out my Faber-Castell's Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils.  I coloured the girl and didn't like how it turned out.  I didn't want to colour the rest and left it for a night.  Then, the next day I saw this big Thank sentiment die piece left on desk from when I was helping my daughter with her card.  I got a random idea on where to put this sentiment and boom...I was all excited again!

• Stamping Bella Cling Stamp TINY TOWNIE DOROTHY THE DREAMER Rubber UM eb307
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• Arches COLD PRESSED WATERCOLOR PAD 140# 012852
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• Memory Box MANY THANKS Open Studio Craft Die 30051
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• Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts - Stitched Scalloped Border Dies
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• Hero Arts KRAFT PAPER 65# Card Stock ps627
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• Hero Arts Mixed Layering Papers EARTH ps624
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• Fiskars REINFORCED Paper Trimmer 12 Inches 05266
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• Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BLACK Black8
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• Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive GAC17042
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• ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER CLEAR Brush Tip Marker 025320
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• Crafter's Companion EXTRA STRONG PERMANENT TAPE RUNNER 379719
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• Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two Applicators 62191
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• Xyron 250 Machine 2.5" Create A Sticker
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Thank You In Green

Love this challenge...cause otherwise I wouldn't have created a card that is so green!   Not that I don't like green, is just that I love colours and I always want to use many of them on a card!  This monochromatic card turned out to be a super fun card to make!  

I used Studio L2E's Hi-Light It: Drops stamp set and Memento's Dew Drop inks to stamp the pattern.  The sentiment is from Stampendous's Happy Messages Perfectly Clear Stamp Set.  The scalloped stitched border is from Lawn Fawn. 

Memento Ink: Dandelion, New Sprout, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves

I started stamping with the biggest outlined polkadot drop shape stamp at the top right corner with the New Sprout colour.  Then the smallest solid drop shape stamp with Dandelion Ink, repeat the stamping on the solid shape with the matching solid polkadot stamp and New Sprout ink.  

The second row was done using the second smallest solid drop shape stamp with the New Sprout ink and the matching stripe stamp with Pear Tart Ink.  

The third row used the one size up solid drop shape stamp and Pear Tart, layers with the matching solid polkadot stamp using Bamboo Leaves.  

The forth row was done using the biggest solid drop shape stamp with Bamboo Leaves Ink, then the matching stripe stamp with Dandelion.  

The rest of the stamping was done using New Sprout Ink and the biggest drop shapes.  I purposely started off with the solid drop shape and extended the pattern with matching stamps that have less and less solid area to get an illusion of fading colour although I used the same colour throughout. 

The Thank You sentiment from Stampendous was embossed using ZING embossing powder Green and Teal (yes, I mixed these two colours together to form the green I wanted for the sentiment)

The twine is from my daughter's craft stash, it seems that I can always found some treasures there for my cards!

I also popped the panel up with fun foam to give the card a little bit dimension!

Thank you for popping by and have a wonderful and creative day!