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My entry to Two Pea's, "T is for Tone on Tone" challenge. I used two Lawn Fawn stamp sets: Bannerific and Sophie's Sentiments. The butterfly and flower stamps are from Close to My Heart. The banner has thick foam adhesives behind it and the butterfly has a slightly thinner foam adhesive behind it. I colored everything in with Copic Markers and paper pieced them down. The butterfly and and the daises have Doodlebug gems in the centers. Once everything was in place I took a piece of green vinyl ribbon from BoBunny and cut it up haphazardly with plain ole scissors. However, if anyone has a spare set of the Martha Stewart fringe scissors I will gladly accept them! After I got it just right I drew lines with four different green Copic markers to make faux blades. Since the Copics are alcohol based, they work perfectly on the vinyl. Lastly I drew in a swirl from one of the flowers to the butterfly by making dots with a Sakura Gelly roll black pen and did the faux stitching with a opaque white gel pen.

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Here's the side view, because everyone needs a side view!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

I love Halloween with all the black kitty goodness!

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When I saw last month's Close to My Heart stamp set I just knew I had to have it! The witch is a little on the sultry side and the sentiment is pretty cute. A little homage to 'Wicked', yea? However, there is a black kitty with a curly tail!! <3 I seriously love black cats. Isn't my kitty a beauty?

OK, I'll stop with flaunting my cat's beauty and get back to card making! The card base is Kraft and the background with the purple sky is Doodlebug. I edged the purple sky cardstock with Stamp'n Up's Rich Razzleberry ink. It's a very deep and rich purple and a perfect accent to the paper.

I paper pieced everything and that witch was one pain in the okole to cut out! I used a craft knife where my scissors couldn't go, it was pretty tedious! I didn't cut it perfectly though. A good trick to fix the little bits that you couldn't cut is to run a black Copic marker along the edges to fill in what you missed. I outlined the sentiment with an orange copic (YR07 Cadmium Orange) marker and also colored in bits of the witch's hat and her stockings.

The twine I used is a super cute Halloween baker's twine also from Doodlebug. It has black, orange, and white threads twisted together. I placed a Doodlebug dark purple gem on the center of the bow to draw the purple into the final accent to the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

This project was entered into:
Freshly Brewed Challenges