More frogs!

These frogs are not altered much. I actually did them before playing around with the frogs for the last card.

For the stamped background I used SU Shapes & Shadows, doing the Double Time technique by overlapping complementary images and leaving some white space, then cutting a piece for my card. Then I ran it through the Cuttlebug with the D'Vine Swirls embossing folder.

I used the Swiss Dots folder on the frog pieces and the Forest Branches folder on the yellow cs. Almost everything is textured!

I colored the frogs with Copics. I just can't seem to use anything else as the Copics are so gentle and smooth on the paper.

Thanks for looking! Today is my birthday and I'm meeting a friend for lunch. This card will be for her. I hope you enjoy it!

Recipe:

Stamps: SU Unfrogettable, SU Shapes & Shadows, SU Upsy Daisy

CS: Pixie Pink, Black, Summer Sun, White

Inks: Versafine Onyx Black, Pixie Pink, Certainly Celery, Summer Sun

Other: Copics, Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirls, Forest Branches and Swiss Dots embossing folders, Nestabilities circle, inverted scallop circle and rectangle and scalloped rectangle dies, black organdy ribbon, foam tape

Hoppy Birthday froggy card

Recipe:

Stamps: Unfrogettable, Shapes & Shadows, Hot to Dot wheel, Riveting, Print Pattern

Paper: Black, Sage Shadow, Glossy white, Pretty in Pink

Ink: VersaMark, Basic Black, Sage Shadow, Pretty in Pink, Apricot Appeal

Accessories: Crayon, sponges, Dimensionals, “stamp” deco scissors, zigzag ribbon, mini Pop Dots, circle punch (1&3/4”?)

Techniques: crayon resist

I did the main feature using one of my favorite techniques: crayon resist. I stamped the Unfrogettable critters in Basic Black on Glossy white cs. For added interest, I stamped the twinkle image from Shapes & Shadows. Then I ran a crayon around the edges of the critters and then sponged Sage Shadow, Pretty in Pink, and Apricot Appeal over them. Then I rubbed the crayon off with a rag and mounted the piece to black cs.

I rolled the Hot to Dot wheel twice over the Sage Shadow cs and mounted that to the black. I added the ribbon to the crayon resist feature and mounted that onto the Sage Shadow using Dimensionals.

Then I stamped the “Hoppy Birthday” stamp on Pretty in Pink cs which was already stamped with Print Pattern (a scrap from my collection) and punched it out with a big circle punch. I adhered that to a scrap of black cs and then cut it out using some “stamp” deco scissors. I adhered that to the crayon resist piece with Dimensionals.

I stamped the Riveting image on both Sage Shadow and Pretty in Pink in Basic Black ink. I punched out the middle on both, and then punched the outside of the Sage piece. I mounted the sage piece with mini Pop Dots onto the crayon resist piece. Then I mono-ed the pink center circle piece underneath and in the center of the sage piece.