Hi everyone, my husband and I have been married for 30 YEARS! How quickly time passes! This is the card that I made for him & I am lucky that he doesn't mind cute & cuddly critters nor a bit of sparkle/glitter so that makes it very easy to make cards for him.
The image is by Penny Black - Don't Break it - and was stamped onto Ranger watercolour cardstock using Versafine Vintage Sepia ink. I coloured the image using a mix of Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and Faber-Castell watercolour pencils. I added a white highlight on the heart using a Ranger Inkssentials white gel pen. I lightly chalked around the image using Kaisercraft blue chalk and the ground using brown and grey chalk. The sentiment is by Mama Elephant - Mini Messages - and was stamped in the same Vintage Sepia ink.
I diecut the image panel using my Big Shot and Lifestyle Nesting Circle dies. The scalloped diecut is a Lifestyle Nesting Scalloped Circle die. The panel is popped up a little using 0.5mm dimensionals.
I used my Simon Says Stamp Mini Heart dies S142 to diecut some hearts from the burgundy designer paper and added some sparkle using a Wink of Stella clear glitter brush which I also added to the heart that the teddy bear is holding.
I used a Fiskars Postage Stamp border punch to punch the border on the bottom panel. I have had this border punch forever and love to use it on masculine cards. The ribbon is from my stash.
The designer papers are by Echo Park - I Love Family - from their 6" x 6" pad. The layers were trimmed to 1/8" using my Perfect Layers Tools.
Lastly, I added my completed card front to a white card base.