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 | | My counselor's birthday is coming up soon, and I decided to make her a card. She loves otters, so I incorporated 2 otter images, from Sheep Ski Designs & Lawn Fawn.
I made the tri-shutter card base, following the instructions in [url=Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers tutorial[url]. I used a patterned paper from American Crafts that had a subtle grey-blue cloud- or water-like pattern on it. To make it look more watery, I stenciled each piece of paper (after I'd cut them out) with Shaded Lilac ink and the "Waves" stencil. I wanted to mat my patterned paper pieces, so I cut those a little smaller. My "mistake" was cutting the rectangle pieces a little TOO small, but I still think it worked out OK in the end. (I didn't stop to think that the measurements in the instructions took the border into effect.) It took me 2 tries to get the T-shaped panel cut to the right size. I finally did just one, and after I got it cut correctly, used it as a template to cut the second. I then adhered all the panels to my card base.
I measured where I wanted the "Otter Halves" image to go. I sized the image in Photoshop, & printed it onto a piece of mixed media paper that I'd cut to size. I colored the otters with my Prismacolor colored pencils, and used Faded Jeans, Antique Linen, & a bit of Frayed Burlap inks to watercolor the sky & sand. I also added in some whiskers on the otters with a white gel pen.
For the middle panel, I cut a piece of white cardstock to size. I first stamped the present & the greeting. I masked the present, and stamped the otter. What I didn't think about until I stamped the otter, was that his right paw would not be properly stamped. I should have masked the corner of the present when I stamped it, so it would look like it was behind his paw. I tried going over the black line of the present with white gesso to cover up my goof, but discovered that colored pencil won't take to gesso very well. So I ended up scraping off the black line with a craft knife, and just colored over the spot with my pencils. I also added in the outline of the otter's paw with a black marker.
I didn't like the way the otter on the middle panel was just kind of hanging in mid-air. So I cut another piece of white cardstock to the same width as that panel, and die cut the top with an "Ocean Waves Borders" die. I inked that with Faded Jeans, and stamped my greeting on it. Then I adhered that to my otter panel, covering the first greeting. I matted that, as well as my front panel, with light grey cardstock, and adhered them in place. I cut another white panel that I matted with grey to go on the back panel (not shown in this photo), so I could write my message. Despite my (few) difficulties, I really like how this card came out! |
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Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018 GMT
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Additional Info
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Keywords: Birthday
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Stamps: Lawn Fawn "Year Five"; Sheep Ski Designs "Otter Halves" digi image
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Paper: Canson XL Mixed Media paper; white, grey, yellow, blue
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Paper Size: A2
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Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Faded Jeans, Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Shaded Lilac Distress inks
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Accessories: Prismacolor colored pencils; Lawn Fawn "Ocean Waves Borders" die; Hero Arts "Waves" stencil
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Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 3
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