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Hey peeps! I'm back with two opposite cards - one social distancing and one NOT social distancing!
It's Crafty Friends day, and this month we are supporting our friend Melissa Hewitt, with H
oney Bee stamps. Another dear friend of mine works for the company too, and I love them both. Soft hearted and sweet, and they both love a large iced tea as much as I do. I'm missing them a lot right now, because in the last few weeks I would have been at a retreat with them, and we would have been going out for tea on the regular. Sigh.
So I thought I'd make an appropriate card for missing them. What's super cool about
the set I'm using and another one I'll show you is that - and this is crazy - HALF of all of the proceeds of these cute, relevant sets is going to be donated to Feeding America. I don't know if you've seen some of the lines at food banks, but it's tragic what is happening, so if you want to and have the ability to shop, you can help both a small business and your neighbor. I really hope we just keep some of the things we are doing during this odd time when life returns to normal.
In the meantime, I'm going to keep sending cards. I look forward to the mail more than ever these days - you?
On the first card, I started with a kraft base, and added
this GORGEOUS watercolor print paper that I bought in March and have sort of been saving for the right card, and this was it. The sort of watery background just matches what I imagine is happening in
this little bunny's brain. Like a rainy day, almost. But stunning colors.
Then I stamped, masked and modified the bunny a bit - in the stamp set he's holding a sign, but look 2020 - if 2020 had a sign, it's toilet paper, so I stamped and die cut that. Then I cut out his little paws - I love that
these have dies, because the set is made for customizing, like I did. So clever. Melissa's stamps have always had this feature - her sentiments that are builders, sets like
Blah Bunny that's a builder - at the end of the day, builder sets are my jam. I just feel creatively free to make a card my own with builders. It's actually a separate category in my
Airtable, because it's such an important part of the way I design. But I'm rambling...
I Copic colored the bunny with cool grey, and colored the TP with warm grey for contrast, and glued all the pieces together. The rest was easy - I stamped a bunch of sentiments from
this sentiment stamp set in
Obsidian that are eerily accurate!
Love those bunnies.
Now the second set that benefits Feeding America is
this adorable set. The thing I hear over and over again is that my friends miss hugs the most. Just that spontaneous, I'm so glad to see you hug of faraway friends on a trip is probably something most of us wish we'd appreciated a bit more in 2019!
I have an idea for
this set I hope to bring to you soon! The sentiments are spot on. It does have
matching dies, and they, too are builders.
I have two very special friends who are about to welcome babies - my friend Kelly Marie is due any moment, and my friend Susan is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her newest grandbaby. So I decided to make a baby card, which I haven't done in a while.
This adorable critter set was perfect. I colored the image with
Karin Markers during a
Color & Connect Zoom (join us!), and added
the same embellishments. I did my unexpected color technique on these - you can see a video on that
HERE.
And guess what? She is also offering all of you a coupon code for stopping by today - 20% off! WHEE! All you have to do is click the graphic and use the code! Enjoy! Stay tuned after the supplies for more inspiration from my crafty friends. We get together once a month just for fun to use our favorite stamps - new or old.
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