Friday, January 20, 2017

MFT Happy Hedgehogs and a Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone!! I hope you all had a FABULOUS week. Mine went by fast. Having a day off and then mid term exams will do that to time.

I had a bit of time in my craft room, something that I am "scheduling" into my days so that I MAKE time to do what I love. I have to do this with working out, reading and crafting these days or I won't do it. I have the working out routine down pat and the reading before I go to bed BUT my crafting is always set aside for other things. Making cards and scrapbooking is what makes me happy so if I don't have time, I get cranky!! If I am not crafting, I am coloring in stamped images in when I watch television with my family.

It is so hard to fit in everything you want, isn't it? I plan to add a refresher class in Illustrator soon too. There needs to be more hours in the day or I need to learn to live with limited sleep!

Today I am posting a card I created using My Favorite Things "Happy Hedgehog" stamps/dies. They have been sitting in my box of my stuff to use so I decided to play. Who wouldn't want a cute hedgehog card?


My inspiration for this card is sketch #316 from the MFT Card Challenge Blog. It came together so easily too, which almost never happens!!


I started off by stamping and die cutting the hedgehog, stump and mushroom from the MFT "Happy Hedgehog" set. I then colored the images in with Copic markers.


I attempted to do lines in different colors for a fur effect, as well as make bark on the tree. I think it looks kind of neat. I used a colorless blender for the the effect on top of the acorn. I added some Glossy Accents over certain areas and then set the critter aside to dry.


In the meantime, I covered a white, A2 top folding card with patterned paper from the MFT "Painted Prints Citrus" pad that I had die cut using the "Blueprints # 25" die. I added a white, stitched circle in between the two pattern papers that I had die cut using the MFT "Stitched Circle Frame."


The images were dry by then and I layered the them over my circle, along with the sentiment banner. I then made a HUGE mistake, which just kills me. I should have known better!! I went to darken up the eyes and nose on the hedgehog with a black gel pen and made a large smudge. I didn't want to throw the image away as I had spent a lot of time coloring it in. I added some google eyes to cover it up. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do, right?

My last step was to add a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins around the stamped images.

I am also entering this into Darnell's NBUS Challenge #8. The "Happy Hedgehogs" were new to me AND I used the new technique of doing the bark and the fur.


I thank you for taking the time to stop by today. I hope you have a great day!!

Supplies:
Stamps-MFT "Happy Hedgehogs"
Paper-Neenah Solar White, MFT "Painted Prints Citrus," and Bazzill "Daisy"
Ink-Memento "Tuxedo Black" and PaperTrey Ink "Smokey Shadow"
Other-Copic Markers, Glossy Accents, Pretty Pink Posh Sequins, Foam Adhesive, Ranger Multi-Matte

3 comments:

JennyH said...

So cute Nora, love the google eyes : )

Lisa Elton said...

How fun is this little fella! Delightful card Nora!

Darnell said...

Oh, Nora, I could feel your heart stopping when the smudge happened! Did you have to sit back in your chair for a second and wait for it to start up and the brain to think of the genius googly-eyes? That's what happens to me. Mostly with adding the sediment as the last thing. It's not so bad when it happens nowadays because we have all the die-cut banners and we can cover it up like-we-meant-to-do-that, ha! And that's how your googly-eyes look, like they were meant to be there all along!

I think you have a winner here with that sketch challenge! You rocked it! And I'm so pleased you colored on kraft; your fur and that stump look amazing and way to go adding those perfect wood lines! Thank you so much for playing in my NBUS Challenge #8! Hugs, Darnell