Category: Copics

AEI♥U Challenge #29 – Think Pink

It’s time for another AEI♥U Challenge! This month’s theme is Think Pink! Here’s my take on the theme:

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I stamped Goldie onto white cardstock and colored her with Copic markers. I then cut her out with a companion die. I stamped the sentiment and grass tufts onto the mint blue cardstock and cut the panel with one of the Double Pierced Rectangle dies. The balloons were cut with the two of the dies in the Balloons Elle-ments set and colored with Copic markers. (I first tried using balloons cut from colored cardstock but the pinks didn’t match the color in Goldie’s outfit, and I decided that they needed to match! I also think that the Copic coloring adds a little oomph to the balloons, whereas the colored cardstock was a little dull.)

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There’s no limit to how you can interpret this challenge! Check out the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team over on the AEI♥U Challenge Blog!  You’ll also find the InLinkz tool to link up YOUR take on the challenge – we’d love to see your beautiful work in our gallery! There are two $25 Avery Elle Gift Certificates up for grabs for the two best entries!  You have until 12:01 AM on October 27, 2015 to link up your take on the challenge!

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Avery Elle Tweet Tweet Thanks

I’m sharing a Thank You card featuring the birds from Avery Elle’s Tweet Tweet set paired with a sentiment from Many Thanks.

Avery Elle Tweet Tweet Thanks

On a previous project, I colored the birds, stamped on kraft cardstock, with Prismacolor pencils. For this card, I stamped the birds and colored them with Copics, then used their companion dies to cut them out. I created a window with the partial die cut technique I used on this card, and then stamped the sentiment underneath. I cut the panel with the Pierced Rectangles set. To create the background for the window, I blended a combination of Distress Inks. Once finished, I felt that the colors overpowered the birds, so I covered the background with vellum.

Supplies: Avery Elle Tweet Tweet stamp set + coordinating die set, Avery Elle Many Thanks stamp set, Avery Elle Double Pierced Rectangles

Lawn Fawn Keep Cozy

Sweater weather has definitely arrived! I’m sharing a “just because” card celebrating fall featuring Lawn Fawn’s Love You a Latte.

Lawn Fawn Keep Cozy

I’ve been continuing to practice my Copic coloring, keeping records of combinations I particularly like. The Online Card Classes Copic class handouts are always at my side! I really like the combination of brown and orange this time of year. I did a partial die cut in the brown panel with a circle die, before dry embossing the panel with the woodgrain texture. I’ve seen both Laura Bassen and Pamela Ho use this technique and really wanted to try it. I like the window because the bottom of the circle is flat, and it makes it easy to place objects on that line.

I blended a combination of Distress Inks for the window background. I also directly applied Distress Ink to cardstock for the sentiment strip (before heating embossing the sentiment). I tried heat embossing the sentiment on cardstock, but the cardstock just didn’t match the color in the window enough (and visually took away from the card). The hearts were colored with Copics before I added Glossy Accents.

Supplies: Lawn Fawn Love You a Latte stamp set + coordinating die set, Lawn Fawn Argyle Backdrops stamp set (sentiment), We R Memory Keepers Wood Grain embossing folder

Partial Die Cut Window Card

Today, I’m sharing a window card, based on one shown by Jennifer McGuire in the Online Card Classes Holiday Card Workshop 2014, that uses partial die cutting. My take on Jennifer’s card features the deer from the Lawn Fawn Party Animals set.

Partial Die Cut Window Card

I stamped the deer on cardstock and then used its companion die to cut it out partway. I then partially cut the circle with a die. I did need to do some minor trimming at the point where the two met. It took more than one try to get this to work out to my satisfaction!

I colored the deer with Copics and cut the panel with a die from the Lawn Cuts Large Stitched Rectangle set.

On a different panel, I heat-embossed a sentiment from Chit Chat with white embossing powder and applied Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks. I attached the panel with the deer to the background panel with dimensional adhesive.

Lawn Fawn Big Hello

I’m sharing a “just because” card featuring the images from Lawn Fawn’s Year Four set.

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I Copic-colored the hippo and bird, adding die cut elements and a heat-embossed sentiment (which I amended with the die cut letters for a punny sentiment). I dry-embossed the background for some texture. I thought that the larger polka dots fit the card’s playful theme.

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