Splitcoast Tutorial: Daisy Punch Dress Card

This week's tutorial over on Splitcoast is a Daisy Punch Dress Card - such a fun way to 'dress up' a card! 

I used this gorgeous set from 49 and Market as well as a sentiment from my stamp line (Treasure Moments). Any image with a dress or skirt will work! I think a fairy would be cute as well.

The petals were cut from Spellbinders die cuts (the set is called Daisy Heads, and it's been discontinued) - I did have to shape the sides a little, and cut the tips flat to layer them together, since the petal lines didn't go in very far. Once I had them layered, I lightly ran a nail file over the skirt to distress the edges.

I used colored pencils to just color in the roses in her hair - clean and simple! The background is lightly watercolored with a mixture of colors on my palette.

Thanks for stopping by today! I'm working through a lonnnnng to-do list this week... finishing up samples for Dare to Get Dirty, shooting/editing/writing next week's Splitcoast tutorial, preparing for my first pencil class at Hobby Lobby on Friday, getting my entries ready for the state fair, finishing up my Valentine stamp collection, scheduling tutorial authors for Falliday Fest, and counting the days until school starts! 

Splitcoast Tutorial: Shadowbox Frame Card

This week's tutorial over on Splitcoast is a Shadowbox Frame Card - it's a great project for building scenes, like a little diorama! Remember those shoebox projects?

I fell down a rabbit hole a few weeks ago when someone mentioned a company I had never heard of, and I discovered they have some licensed artwork from Cicely Mary Barker. I adore her Flower Fairies and had started to collect the stamps when they were available through Crafter's Companion, but alas... the line was discontinued before I could get them all (the sentiment is from one of those sets). Anyway, now some of her artwork is available in clear sets from 49 and Market - this set is called Friends Forever, and I got it at The Scrapbook Diaries.

I stamped the image with IO Hybrid Chocolate ink, and that allowed me to do most of my coloring with Copics, but also to add some watercolor in the background with no ink issues. Love that!

Here's the opened card - the tutorial walks you through how to create the dimensional frame so you can stack all kind of 3D elements inside.

I could have done more layering, but everything in the image is so small - I just added a few extra mushrooms to the inside scene, and then added a few more to the frame on the card front.

This was a lot of fun - and it would mail perfectly in the Card Guard boxes from My Sweet Petunia!