Hello crafty friends, Marine here,
I'm super happy to be back with this extra busy slimline card that combines two
of my favorite things: a stenciled background and alcohol marker coloring. I've
had this idea of pairing the pandas from Panda Party with
the panda umbrellas from Spring
Showers for quite some time, and I'm thrilled to finally be
able to share it with you!
I started off by stamping all my images
on 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black
ink, I cut them all using the matching dies, and colored everything using my
Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and my Graph'it brush markers. Obviously I
used my black and light gray markers a lot to color my cute pandas and
umbrellas, as well as greens, yellows and aquas for the leaves and flowers.
Here is a detailed list of the products I
used: • Panda Party + Bighearted Bears -
pandas • Seasonal
Trees - log • Spring
Showers - umbrellas • Fabulous
Flamingos - leaves • Tiki
Time - toucans • Bunnyville -
butterflies • Tropical
Birds - leaves, ivy, flowers • Silly
Sloths - flowers, leaves.
To fit all my images in one single scene,
I cut an 8.5 x 3.5 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and colored it using
stencils from my stash. On the lower part, I created a grass border using a
slimline hillside stencil along with mowed lawn and rustic wilderness oxide
inks. I then mixed some rustic wilderness oxide ink with water and used a small
brush to make splatters on my grass border.
Next I covered the whole upper part with
salvaged patina oxide ink, and used a bamboo stencil along with peacock
feathers oxide ink to create a bamboo forest. I also applied a little bit of
peacock feathers oxide ink on the edges of my panel, and added texture,
starting with water droplets that I dried using a paper towel. Next I mixed
some peacock feathers oxide ink with water, added splatters on my bamboo
background using my small brush, and then did the same with copic opaque white
ink. And finally, I used a rainy background stencil along with sparkling clear
paste to make rain.
Once my panel was dry, I attached all my
images on the panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, and then worked on my
greeting. I started off by white heat embossing the banner from Little
Birdie on vellum, next I embossed "You're pandastic"
from Panda
Party inside the banner, cut that banner using the matching
die, and attached it to my panel using clear foam squares. And as always I
finished my card by adding highlights and details to the images using a white
gel pen.
And that's it! I had so much fun making
this card, it turned out so stinking cute, don't you think? Thanks so much for
stopping by, and see you next time!
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