1. Create your card base by scoring a 4 ¼” x 11” piece of white cardstock at 5 ½” and folding it in half using a bone folder to create a crisp crease. Set aside. 2. Die cut the sunbeam from the top of the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white cardstock. Press the Hawaiian Shores ink pad onto an acrylic block and spritz it with water, creating a palette. Using the ink palette and a paint brush, apply color to the “sky” on the cardstock panel.
SUPPLIES:
• Stamps: Three Amigos (Mama Elephant) • Ink: Hawaiian Shores ink (Papertrey Ink); Warm Sunshine, Frayed Leaf, Caramel Toffee and Paper Bag ink (Altenew); Onyx Black VersaFine ink (Tsukineko) • Paper: Stamper’s Select White and Aqua Mist cardstock (Papertrey Ink) • Accessories: clear embossing powder (Stampin’ Up); Scene It dies (Papertrey Ink); Mono Adhesive Dots (Tombow); spritzer, acrylic block, paint brush, die cutting machine, bone folder, heat tool
DIMENSIONS: • Stamper’s Select White cardstock: a 4 ¼” x 11” piece, a 4” x 5 ¼” piece and a scrap piece • Aqua Mist cardstock: a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” piece
3. Press the Warm Sunshine ink pad onto an acrylic block and spritz it with water, creating a palette. Press the sun and rays from the die cut piece into the ink palette. Apply the ink from the palette to any uninked areas using a paint brush. Press the Frayed Leaf ink pad onto an acrylic block and spritz it with water, creating a palette. Press the “grass” from the die cut piece into the ink palette. 4. Stamp the fox onto a scrap piece of white cardstock using Onyx Black VersaFine ink. Stamp the greeting onto the center of the stamped fox using Onyx Black VersaFine ink. Heat embossing the image with clear embossing powder. 5. Press the Caramel Toffee and Paper Bag inks onto an acrylic block and spritz them with water, creating two palettes. Using the ink palettes and a paint brush, apply color to the fox. Fussy cut the fox. 6. Stick the 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white cardstock to the 4 ¼” x 5 ½” piece of Aqua Mist cardstock. Stick this to the card base. Stick the die cut sunbeam to the card. Stick the fox to the card over the sunbeam. You’re done!