I started this card with a warm-toned beige cardstock from the Simon Says Stamp March 2015 Card Kit which I cut to size and then used the Martha Stewart Scoring Board to score a line in the middle and fold the cardstock in half to create my card base.
Next I chose the pattern papers I would use on the card. I wanted to do something different from the norm and I had a bit more time to waste on this card having the night off work and no one was at home, so I took my time with it and had a lot of fun.
The papers are from a Teresa Collins 6×6 paper pad called ‘He Said She Said’ and I chose two coordinating pattern papers with orange. I was making this card as a birthday present for a friend who happens to be red-headed and happens to also really like the colour orange, so I tried to make the card as ‘ginger’ as possible.
I wanted to try a few new things with this card and I hadn’t used the new die cuts I had purchased from Simon Says Stamp that I really wanted. I purchased the Simon Says Dies and Stamps From Me To You Set FMY175 Better Together a while ago as the set has many elements that I think are very versatile.
If you like haul posts, you can check out the post I made for when I got Better Together Simon Says Stamp Die & Stamp set by clicking here. Unfortunately my Big Shot didn’t cut it out properly and I had already packed the Big Shot back away and didn’t want to get up again to run it back through…
…So I decided to just try and fussy cut the rest out to touch it up a bit. I think it has a nice, ‘hand-made’ look to it. Haha!
I have always loved this happy anime-style cat from the Paper Smooches Nine Lives stamp set. I stamped him out onto white card stock then I decided to colour him in using some orange Faber-Castell Gelatos.
I drew some gelatos around the edges in the lighter orange and rubbed it in using my finger and then added some value by repeating the process with the dark orange. I was really excited by how the cat was looking.
Next I used a darker orange Faber Castell Connector-Pen to make some darker values and to give the ginger cat some little tiger stripes. So cute!
After that I fussy cut him out and went around the edges using the Memento Tuxedo Black ink pen. I cut out a ribbon from some plain white cardstock and then coloured it using the same two Faber Castell Gelatos that I had used to colour in the cat.
I cut the pattern papers in two halves and aligned them on the card disjointed. I arranged the cat on the bottom to cover the bottom joint. I really liked this effect. I arranged the ‘wishing’ die cut on top of the ribbon and adhered it using a glue pen. Then I stamped ‘you happy birthday’ from the same stamp set underneath using Versafine black ink – it’s very crisp!
Because the pattern paper was a little bit dull in comparison to the orange of the gelatos on the cat and the ribbon, I decided to rub some gelatos down the thicker stripes of the right-hand side pattern paper and added a scratched line in the dark orange of the Faber Castell Connector Pen. I think this really finished the card off nicely and brought everything together.
I really love how this card turned out and I can’t wait to try this gelatos colouring idea again in the future. I would also like to make more cards using the Simon Says Stamp Better Together set.
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