A Blog Called Wanda

Just Saying Hello!

Hello friends! Just saying hello with some fun and fresh cards for Spring! How is your week going? Mine is already flying by! My husband has this week off from work so we are doing some stay-cation kinds of things. Yesterday we drove up to Lake Tahoe for the day and saw the awe inspiring snow pack from this winter. Holy cow! I've been going to Tahoe since, well, a long time, and I've never seen that much snow up there. It's piled everywhere!! It was crazy. It was a beautiful sunny day and we drove around and drank coffee and enjoyed a day together. We've also been binge watching Netflix and reading books. Somehow I never really give myself permission to spend the entire day reading...know what I mean? What a delightful extravagance! I've already read two books this week. The rest of the week I have some client work to do for an awesome new client (YAY!). Lucky is super happy to have both of his parents home all week. He's really the one in charge here. This Saturday we are going to see a comedy show at the Paramount in Oakland and I'm really looking forward to that. What's new with you?! 

Today I have two cards to share - both the same layout and supplies. Just changed up the colors and sentiments. Clean and simple design. I wanted to use a couple of new products and they ended up going together so nicely! I used the new Strawberries dies from Elizabeth Crafts, and the Skinny Stripes Die from Ellen Hutson. Fresh, yummy strawberry cards!

 

These cards started with me wanting to die cut those sweet Strawberries Dies from Elizabeth Crafts. They are sooooo pretty! So I die cut the leaves, strawberries, background layer, and stems out of some of my favorite colors of cardstock. Next I used Distress Inks and a small sponge dauber to add ink around the edges. Then I splattered them with Copic Opaque White ink. I set them aside to dry to think of a card idea! (or two)! 

 

I have had the Ellen Hutson Skinny Stripes Die for a while and it was sitting in my in basket. PERFECT! I love the colorful stripes with the pretty berries. I made two cards A2 size out of white cardstock. Then I cut a white paper layer 1/4 inch smaller and die cut the stripes out of that paper. I layered yellow and teal cardstock behind the stripes! SO fabulous!

 

Here is my pretty strawberry patch before I made them into cards.

 

The sentiments on both cards are from Hello Bluebird stamps. Their sentiments are the perfect size, and so so cheerful too!

 

I affixed the strawberries with foam tape on top of the stripes. 

 

 

Just like that! Two pretty cards to tuck away for a good occasion! I'm really making lots of clean and simple cards lately. Isn't it interesting how our styles change and we like to make different things at different stages of our creative journey? I love that. I wish you a beautiful, creative and happy day! XOXO

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Happy St. Patrick's Day 2019! You're my favorite lucky charm with Doodlebug!

Helloooooo! Top O' the morning to you! Happy St. Patrick's Day! Are you wearing green? Are you doing something to celebrate the holiday? We most likely will be hanging out around the house today but I will be wearing green for sure! Maybe I'll make some green pancakes??? Anyhow, happy weekend! Hope you're having a good one. I have a fun project to share today, and a couple of photos of my sweet Lucky Boy too. 

This card for today has only one tiny bit of stamping (the sentiment). Everything else was made with fun papers, stickers and twine from Doodlebug. Man, how I loooooove their cute products. This card practically made itself. Some adorable paper, cute stickers and twine...done! Hope it brings a smile to your face today. 

 

I started with a white A2 card base. Then I layered the shamrock paper and the rainbow papers onto the front of the card. I cut a small white rectangle for my focal piece. 

 

I wrapped twine around the bottom of the rectangle. I stamped the sentiment onto a small white piece of paper and attached that to the rectangle on top of the twine. 

 

I added the cute little leprechaun and his girlfriend. They are stickers, but I attached them with foam tape for dimension! EEEP. Then I affixed rainbows, hearts and shamrocks all over the card. MORE is more!! LOL. So many cute things I had to use them!

 

Here is a side shot to show all the paper layers. 

 

And here is my sweet Lucky O' Guess in his finest leprechaun top hat! OMG he is sooo funny. That is a headband!! My husband came home with that from Walmart the other day. Lucky is so mellow. He's like - um okay mom - whatever you need. It makes his eyes look really green!!!

 

And one more exciting thing! Lucky turned ONE year old this week!!! How is that possible?? I made him his very own party hat - also from Doodlebug supplies! He has grown into such a sweet, handsome, loving young man! But I miss that tiny kitten! Why oh why do they grow so fast!? Happy Birthday Lucky!!!

That's it for today! Thanks for coming by! Enjoy your St. Patrick's Day! XOXO

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Let's Hang Out! Cool plants stamps and dies from Hero Arts!

Hey guys! Let's hang out today! That sounds like fun! Today's card is bright and colorful and happy! There is definitely a trend right now for all things involving plants! You see it in home decor, clothes, and of course crafting! I love this particular trend and I have accumulated quite a few plant stamp sets! Today I'm featuring the brand new stamps and dies (Hang in There Potted Plants) from Hero Arts that are right on trend. These plants are so fun to color! And the matching dies make them look awesome. I couldn't stop myself from stamping - you'll see. LOL. 

The reason I made this card is that I am part of an Instagram Hop today! What is an Instagram Hop?? It's like a Blog Hop, but on Instagram! We each have a project to share, and then send you along to the next stop on the hop. The cool thing? There are prizes! $50 gift certificate to Scrapbook.com! WOOOOT! The hop goes live at 11am CST today. I hope you'll find some time later to go over to Instagram and check it out. 

My finished card is a white A2 card base. I layered some woodgrain cardstock for a natural touch.... This card has it all. Stamping, Die Cutting, Copics, Embossing, Ink Blending....

 

This project started with me stamping and die cutting out a TON of the plants. I colored about 10 of them! SO FUN! I love to put on music and just sit and color. After I had them all colored in, I arranged and re-arranged until I got a card layout that I liked. 

 

After I got the layout that I liked, I decided that I wanted some color to come through the back. I made a distress ink blended background in shades of Lemonade and Mustard. Just looks like the sun shining through all the pretty plants! It was just the little extra this card needed. 

 

I really like the font for the sentiments in this stamp set. I heat embossed in white onto a small strip of black cardstock. Makes a nice graphic pop.

 

All of the plants are affixed to the card using foam tape. I added a few clear enamel dots to look like water. 

 

 

 

 

SOOOO....thanks for hanging out with me for a bit today! I always am glad you stopped by! Remember to head over to Instagram to do the hop and be entered to win a prize! I will see you on Sunday with a fun project for St. Patrick's Day! Have a great weeeeeeekend!! XOXO 

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Fun with Art Impressions watercolor stamps!

Hi everyone! Hope you're having a wonderful day! I've been creating a lot and have lots to share in the coming weeks. Getting ready for St. Patrick's Day and Easter and Spring! Loving all the pretty pastels and bright colors in crafting and in clothes too. I made my first tiered tray decoration project for our house (LOVE this trend)... We had a really quiet weekend at home with, your guessed it, MORE RAIN. Dang. I think it's done for now and the weather report calls for a few days of sunshine. I'm ready for it. 

Today I'm sharing a project made with new stamps I bought at the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo a few weekends ago. I always love going by the Art Impressions booth at these events. My friend Georgia is one of their reps, so I always get a giant hug. And, I love seeing what one of my favorite companies has come out with that's new. I have been a fan of Art Impressions for YEARS! Especially the tiny stamps that build watercolor scenes. Back when I used to regularly teach stamping classes at my LSS I taught this technique a lot...and the classes were some of my most popular ones. I still have allllll those teeny tiny wood mount stamps. The best. I'll talk more about the technique as we go along in the post. I used brand new Mushrooms stamps with little elves! EEP. 

The finished card is slightly smaller than A2 size. I trimmed it 1/4 inch on the long side. The card base is a pretty olive green, and I layered some gingham over it before making the top layer. The top layer is watercolor paper die cut with a stitched rectangle die cut. 

 

I used Mini Distress Ink ink pads for this project. It's super easy to smush some ink onto a palette and use a small brush to paint. For the grass, rocks and purple flowers, I also used the Mini ink pads and stamped with them. The sentiment is from a new set from Hello Bluebird stamps. Hi! 

 

Here's a close up! I inked the two mushrooms, the elf, and the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink. This ink holds up to watercoloring. I water colored the mushrooms and the elf using a paint brush and water mixed with the distress inks. For the grass and flowers and rocks, I used the small accent floral stamps with distress ink. Now, this is how the technique comes to life! After you stamp with the water based ink (ink pad or water based markers) you take your paint brush and a tiny amount of water and blur the lines of the stamping! It's really like magic. And it never fails. When I was first learning to stamp I adored this so much. Made me feel like I could water color! I went back with some blue ink and water and added the shadows. For the white mushroom detail, I used a floral stamp and some white pigment ink!

 

The watercolor layer was wrapped with some twine and then attached to the card using foam tape. I added a tiny heart.

 

 

That's my Spring card for today! I really love anything that has a woodland theme! Mushrooms, elves, foxes....all of that! I hope I've inspired you to try something new!! XOXO

I have something else to announce! I'm very very pleased to now be an Amazon Influencer! I've been an Amazon Affiliate for a few years and this is a great next step. I have an Amazon Storefront now. It's populated with lists of things that I recommend to my followers and readers. I have lists of my favorite craft supplies, yarn supplies, pet products, my photography equipment, my favorite beauty products...etc. My promise to you is that every item on every list is something I own and enjoy. I will only recommend things that I use myself in my own home. I really hope you will check it out. Any feedback is appreciated! Want a new list of something? Curious about something? Let me know! Click the link below to visit my Amazon Page. 

Sunday morning it was sunny for a minute. LOL. I ran out into the front yard and picked some daffodils and tulips to put on my desk in the studio. What a joy to have fresh flowers again! Yeah! Our garden is bursting!! My husband plants a million bulbs all mixed together and it's so fun to watch everything bloom. Daffodils, Crocus, Tulips, Narcissus....AHHHH. 

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Guest Designing with Sunny Studio Stamps! Spring 2019

Hi friends! Happy weekend! I'm super excited to be the guest designer again today on the Sunny Studio Stamps Blog! Yippeeee! You guys already know how much I love Sunny Studio! Cute stamps, awesome embossing folders and my favorite gingham papers! What's not to love? I hope you have a beautiful weekend! I'll be sharing two cards on the SS Blog and also sharing them here on my blog. Lots to show you! And the themes are monkeys and roses!? LOL! 

First up today is a super fun birthday card with the adorable new Love Monkeys stamp set! I adore them! I stamped and die cut out a bunch of monkeys and vines. I also made them some accessories like cake and party hats! I used the Purrfect Birthday stamp set for those add-ons. Then, for the sentiment I used the Two Scoops stamp set. Really, when I make cards, I love to mix and match stamp sets to create my own unique creation.

This is a long card - measuring 8" x 4". I love the Staggered Circles die cut and cut that out of a white panel. I backed the circles with beautiful blue gingham paper. I had fun coloring everything with my Copics in shades of blue, yellow and pink. Who wouldn't want to party with these guys? The top white layer with the circles was mounted to the card using foam tape. Then I attached the monkeys and vines with foam tape also. Just the right amount of dimension, but not too much that it won't fit into an envelope. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My second project is a card made with lots of neutral colors and the gorgeous Everything's Rosy stamp set. I also used the beautiful Quilted Hearts Embossing Folder and some brown gingham. This card is an A2 size with a kraft card base. The flowers were stamped onto cream cardstock. The embossed background is also on cream cardstock. I layered gingham, vellum and kraft for my focal point of the card. I wrapped the kraft layer with pretty natural twine. I used gold paint to splatter gold flecks onto the cream embossed layer and the small kraft layer. Just a bit of added elegance. I stamped the roses using my MISTI in dark pink and pretty green shades. The sentiment is from the Happy Harvest stamp set! See - you don't have to only use that set for Autumn! The roses and leaves were mounted onto the card with foam tape. I added a few sparkly pink enamel dots to finish it off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIG THANKS to Mendi for inviting me to be a guest on the Sunny Studio Blog! Enjoy your weekend! XOXO

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Pretty Pink Posh March 2019 New Release Blog Hop!

Hi everyone! Are you ready for a fun blog hop today?! I am for sure! I've been soooooo wanting to share this card with you and help introduce the brand new release from Pretty Pink Posh! Today and tomorrow there is a big two day Blog Hop full of inspiration, ideas and prizes! We're launching the Spring 2019 Release from one of my favorite companies - Pretty Pink Posh. It's a great release too! Butterflies, Easter, Peacocks, Flowers...oh my. Everything beautiful and perfect for Spring. You're gonna love it, I know it! My craft room is all about Spring right now! How about you? 

The new release is LIVE NOW in the PPP Store! Links are at the bottom of my post - along with the full blog hop list for today - and prize information! 

I am using the gorgeous new stamp set called Beautiful Butterflies, along with the matching dies. I used my bright colored Copic Markers and had a blast coloring for this card. The finished card is a grey card base, sized A2. One layer of white cardstock to keep the background clean and simple - to feature the butterflies. 

 

 

 

I started by stamping and die cutting several butterflies. I wasn't sure how many I was going to use in the end so I colored seven I think. I ended up using five. Now I have two left over for a different project! 

 

To keep the look of my card cohesive, I kept a few of the same colors on all of the butterflies. They all have grey bodies, and grey stripes. And they all have yellow in the centers. The color difference is in the outer part of the wings. It was really fun to color these, and the color possibilities are endless! The matching dies cut them to perfection.

 

When I attached the butterflies to the card, I used foam tape for some and tape runner for others. This gave a variety in the dimension of the card. I gently turned the wings up with my fingers to make it look like they're flying off the page. 

 

The "Thinking of You Script" die cut is brand new this month also. I die cut it from rich black cardstock and used liquid glue to affix it to the center of my card at an angle. 

 

One of the best products made by Pretty Pink Posh are these clear droplets! I used them on this card to add a bit of shine and interest.

 

 

That's my card for this fun blog hop! Thanks for stopping by! If you're new to my blog because of the hop - WELCOME! Happy to have you join me! I will see you all very soon with more projects. Have a wonderful day! XOXO

PRIZE ALERT PRIZE ALERT PRIZE ALERT: Pretty Pink Posh has FOUR $25 gift certificates up for grabs (two winners each day). Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 3/13/2019. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog.

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Amy Yang  

Gemma C.    

Wanda Guess

Ardyth Percy- Robb  

Alix Davis 

Eloise Blue  

Jeanne Jachna 

Mayra's Designs  

Joni Nina Andaya  

Yoonsun Hur   

 

 

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Love. Peace. Craft. Fun card with Picket Fence Studios!

Hey everyone! Happy Monday! Hope you had a marvelous weekend! My weekend was full of crafty good times! Yeah! I had so much fun at the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo on Friday! Mark came with me and then we met up with some old friends for a yummy pizza before driving home. We finally watched our DVD of Bohemian Rhapsody. SO GOOD! Then some of my crafty friends came to visit Sacramento on Saturday and we spent all day together talking about stamping, and yarn, and we ate yummy food together. Sunday was a catch up day in the studio and at home. And here we are... March 4th! Dang. It's still raining buckets here and I'll be happy for a reprieve soon. It's been too much and communities are flooding and everything is soaked. We need a bit of sunshine! 

One of the things I'm going to start doing more on the blog is featuring my favorite companies with projects and supplies. Today I'm going to feature the awesome Picket Fence Studios. Do you have any Picket Fence Studio stamps?? I think you should! They are super unique and artistic and clever and fun. Some are silly too. I love this company! Over the weekend I had the pleasure of meeting the owner - Nicole Petersen - in person, at the Stamp Show. She was just as lovely and spunky as I knew she would be. And she gives a good hug. Please visit Picket Fence Studios by CLICKING HERE! One of the newest stamps is a kitty cat taking a selfie! Love it. (And there is always FREE SHIPPING in the US!)

Today I'm sharing a card made with the Karen Girl Stamp and the Crafty Mail Stamp set. The girl looks like me! (in my younger days)! She's holding a camera and has her hair up in a messy bun. I'm also using a blended background I made with the AMAZING "Life Changing Blender Brushes" that are sold by Picket Fence. These are so cool!! You need a set! I'll talk about them more, later in my post. 

 

I stamped the Karen Girl stamp onto watercolor paper using Versafine Ink and my MISTI for a good impression. I colored her using my favorite Mijello water color palette. Then I used a stitched rectangle die to cut out the panel. The card base is size A2 in Kraft cardstock. The heart was left over from my Valentine Card project!

 

I am obsessed with this sentiment stamp! I love the font, the size, the saying. Everything. I stamped the sentiment onto a vellum strip using Stazon Ink. When I assembled my card I wrapped the vellum strip around the inked layer and the stamped layer before attaching them to the card base. 

 

Now, these blender brushes.... OOH LA LA. They are like buttah. Say it out loud! LOL. Seriously, buttah. I used them with three colors of distress ink to ink up this pretty background panel. They blend like magic! I'm sure they are made from Unicorn hair! What a cool new tool to have in the studio to work with. After the panel was ink blended, I splattered water onto it and also white ink. 

 

The heart was put onto the card with foam tape. I love all these colors together. Very fun and artsy I do think! 

 

 

 

The Crafty Mail stamp set has this awesome stamp in it too! #staycrafty - Perfect for the back of the envelope for this card. I always love a good crafty stamp set. CLICK HERE to see this one!

Okay friends - stay crafty! Until I see you again! LOTS of good stuff coming up later in the week!! I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for stopping by! Please visit Picket Fence Studios too! Tell 'em Wanda sent ya. XOXO

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Aloha Party Drinks!

ALOHA! It's almost the weekend! I'm swinging by today with some tropical party drinks to start off the beginning of the beginning of the weekend! LOL. I love these stamps and colored them a bit ago for the coloring challenge. I had fun digging out loads of bright colors of Copic Markers. Then I layered on some glitter and lots of clear glaze. Whew. I get thirsty just looking at this card! Won't you join me? Cheers! I hope you had a great week! I had a busy week which is good - lots of work to do. I'm grateful for it! 

This card started with me coloring these awesome images with Copic Markers one night.... Then I designed a card around them. The images were drawn by my friend Peggy Jo Ackley for her line of stamps from Impression Obsession. Her company is called Pink Ink and it's great! She is a local artist and I've had the pleasure of meeting her a few times and having her sign my coloring book and pencil in a stamp for me! I saw these clear stamps at my LSS and had to get them!

 

 

The finished card is a white A2 card base. I used a Pineapple Embossing Folder I bought at Joann to emboss another white layer for the card. I wrapped the embossed layer with some green striped paper from Sunny Studio. This formed the layers for the card itself. I also splattered some tropical green ink over the embossing. I die cut a white stitched circle for the drinks to sit on. 

 

This word die is called Scripty Aloha, and it's from Lawn Fawn! It was the perfect sentiment for this card!

 

I stamped and die cut out the four drinks and colored them with LOTS of Copic Markers! It took me a while to color all of these. I started by making all the glasses the same color - to tie the project together. To mimic glass I always use BG10 and BG11 with some 0 mixed in. This is the closest I can come to looking like a frosty glass. After I colored them all, I added white accents with a gel pen. Then I put about 10 layers of clear glaze over some parts using a Sakura Glaze pen. Put on one layer, let it dry, add another layer, let it dry...etc. etc. This project took a lot of patience! 

 

Here are my little tropical drinks all lined up on the bar!

 

The drinks were attached to the circle die using foam tape. Then I glued the aloha word on with clear glue, using my tweezers. 

 

 

ALOHA friends! I'm excited about my weekend! Tomorrow the hubs and I are going to the Stamp/Scrap Expo and then to meet up with friends. Then on Saturday my crafty friends from the bay area are coming to town for a class. Then we'll get dinner and coffeeeeeeee. (Julie E is in town - woot!) Hope you have a delightful weekend! XOXO

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Sunshine & Rainbows!

Hi everyone! Today I'm popping in with sunshine and rainbows for you! I'm in the studio with allllll the Oscars pre-game on the tv and my kitty asleep in his bed. I have a lot to get done today. So many fun crafty things are coming up in the next couple of weeks. I need to hunker down and create later! Yay! Mark and I enjoyed a fun mini getaway the past two days in San Jose. On Friday I attended the ginormous Stitches West Convention! WOW! How amazing! I just posted on my Instagram stories all my haul from the show. It's a yarn/fiber arts convention. Lemme tell ya - it rivaled CHA for sure. The gals were going cray cray! I had a wonderful time. Everyone was so kind and cheery and helpful. It's a very welcoming crowd. Then yesterday we shopped and ate our way through one of my favorite shopping areas - Santana Row. We got home around 8 last night. Just a little bit of a fun getaway!! Sundays are for staying home in sweat pants!

Today's card is HAPPPPPYYYYYY and bright! I made the pieces (rainbows) a couple weeks ago for one of the days of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge. I made them into a cheerful card that will be perfect for one of my friends. I combined products from many different companies. I love doing that. I feel like that is also part of my creative process. Mixing and matching supplies from my stash. I used Copic Markers and some shimmery Wink of Stella on the clouds. 

 

I started with a blue card base in A2 size. I layered a piece of white cardstock - yes just one layer today! LOL. Next I stamped and die cut the rainbows and set them aside. Then I die cut the sunshine from Buttercup Cardstock.

On the sunshine, I used a Y38 Copic Marker to add a bit of color to the rays. This gives the die cut a bit more 'life' I think. Just a bit of something something. I also used a Lawn Fawn stamp set to add the smiley face to the sun. He's definitely happy! 

 

This beautiful sentiment is from an awesome set called Rainbow Script - from Hello Bluebird. I always love the look of mixed fonts. I stamped it in the corner of the white card panel.

 

I colored the rainbows in using Copic Markers in a modified rainbow palette. I swapped out hot pink for red. I used Clear Wink of Stella to cover the clouds. They are VERY shimmery! When I was assembling the card I got a lightbulb idea! How about those cool Swirls dies from Concord & 9th? YES! I used those dies to add the windy swirls in the background. THEN, I put my elements onto the card with foam tape. Lastly I added a few mini hearts. 

 

Here are my Copics used on this card. 

 

 

I'm most definitely sending YOU Sunshine & Rainbows today! I hope you're having a beautiful Sunday. Are you watching all the Oscars buzz? What are you working on? XOXO

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Sending Hedgehugs! Fun card featuring My Favorite Things Stamps!

Hello everyone! Another week has flown by, and here it is Thursday already! Dang! It's been a busy week... Some fun, and some not so fun things going on around here. It has literally rained BUCKETS here in the past month, and very high winds too. Unfortunately, our roof has sprung some leaks in the process of all this storming... It seems like everyone else needs a roofer too. It has been a full time job just trying to get a contractor to come out and do an estimate and repairs. They are so busy. It's not too bad, but it's frustrating making all those phone calls, etc. Usually I love the rain, but right now I wish it would stop for a minute. Anyhooo....I'm way off topic. Hope you are having an amazing week. I am going to do something fun this weekend - I'm going to my first ever Stitches West Convention! It's in Santa Clara, which is a couple of hours from here. Stitches is a YARN CONVENTION! Yes, I'm "hooked" on yarn. LOLZ. Some of the ladies from one of my yarn meetups filled me in on this fun event. Can't wait to get ideas and look at patterns and watch demos. Should be a really great day - that's tomorrow! 

For today, I have a cute and fun card to share with you. I'm sending hedgehugs your way! This Happy Hedgehog stamp set from My Favorite Things is a favorite in my craft room. I've made lots of cards with it already. I colored the little hedgies for one of the days of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge. And straight away made them into a card - using lots of other cool supplies from MFT Stamps. Can'd wait for you to see!

 

I started with a white card base in a horizontal orientation. I used Sunny Studio gingham paper to cover the entire front of the card base. I die cut a scallop border onto white cardstock and layered that over the gingham for my focus layer. 

 

Next I stamped and die cut out the Hedgehogs and flowers and mushrooms (EEK) and colored them with Copic Markers. I added touches of white accents with a gel pen. I set them aside to work on the HUGS and sentiment part of the card. 

 

The HUGS is a big word die from MFT. I used a piece of white cardstock and blended three different shades of brown distress inks (Colors in supply list). Then I splattered white paint and brown ink over the blended part. Then I dried that paper with my heat too. THEN I die cut it out of the already inked paper. MUCH easier than trying to ink the letters separately. Trust me, I've done that too! LOL. 

 

Aren't they the CUTEST??? This could be a great card of encouragement or 'just because' if someone needs a hug. Can't wait to send this one out. 

 

 

 

I added a few Doodlebug Mini Hearts as the last step. I'm not sure why, but this card told me it needed a pop of red! 

Thank you for stopping by today! Sending you big giant squishy HEDGEHUGS! I hope you have a splendid day and a great weekend. XOXO

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