Congrats on your new place - by Danielle
May 10, 2023
Hi everyone,
This is Danielle Dunlop with you today and I’m sharing a card that I created with the new Cats and Boxes stamp set. This stamp set has three adorable cats in boxes images and comes with a variety of sentiments so that you can create cards for different occasions.
I hardly ever create a card for someone who is moving, but this stamp set is perfect for it. I started stamping one of the cats in a box on a stitched die cut background and also created a mask for this image.
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With the mask on top of the image I stamped a wooden floor halfway over the image, so that it looks like the box is standing in a room. I used a light brown stamping ink that is alcohol ink marker friendly, so that I wouldn’t have any bleeding issues coloring the floor.
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For the wall of the room I used a brick wall stencil with Distress Oxide Ink Pumice Stone, which is a very light grey. I applied the ink with a very light hand and let it fade out. I used some tape to mark off the floor and at the same time it keeps my stencil in place.
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The Copic colors I used for the floor are E51, E53, E55 and E59. First I colored the entire floor with E51 to saturate the paper, then I traced all the lines with E59. I created a shadow around the box with E59 and E55 and then blended the colors out with E53 and E51.
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When the floor was finished, I removed the mask from my image and colored the cat and the box. For the cat I used T2, T4 and T6. I gave the cat some rosy cheeks with RV10, which I also used for the inside of the ears along with RV00. For the box I used markers R81, R83 and R85.
I used two sentiments from the Cats and Boxes stamp set. The word ‘hello’ is stamped on the box with a dark pink stamping ink. The sentiment ‘congrats on your new place’ is stamped in black in the bottom right corner.
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I inked up the edges of my card base with Distress Ink Kitsch Flamingo and added my card front with foam tape to the card base.
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Thank you for stopping by today and I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with the Cats and Boxes stamps!
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