Hearts Warm!!!

 It’s Wednesday, and this week, I made a card using Toasting Marshmallows - T026 by High Hopes Rubber Stamps for the main image and Hearts Warm - G063 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps) for the sentiment. This image brings back so many memories of going camping and sitting around the campfire roasting marshmallows. I gave my image coloured marshmallows, because growing up they were always my favourite! LOL!

To make my card this week, I started with a base of 6" x 6" using Recollections - Black cardstock. I taped Echo Park - Star Stencil on top of the cardstock and applied several Cosmic Shimmer - Opal Blaze Polishes using a spatula to create the nice starry background. I wanted my scene to look like the friends were in the woods, so I die cut some trees of various sizes using Nellie's Choice - Nature Scene Dies - NSD001 - Mountains and Momenta - Cardstock. Once I die cut the trees, I added some Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Forest Moss and Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Peeled Paint to add some more colour to them. Then, I ran the trees through my Xyron Create a Sticker to make it easier to apply them later. I felt the scene also needed a moon, so I die cut one using Nellie's Choice - Nature Scene Dies - NSD002 - Sky and then coloured it in and added 3M VHB - 2 sided tape to the back of it and set everything aside.

I stamped my image and sentiment using my MISTI and Memento - Tuxedo Black ink onto Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Cardstock. I fussy cut around the top part of the image and then used a ruler to know where to cut the remainder of the bottom piece with my cutter. I coloured in the image using Copic markers and then used a black marker to go around all of the fussy cut part of the image and Copic marker - YG67 was used to go around the edges of the grassy area. For the sentiment, I used My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Dies and My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Layers to cut out the sentiment and background layer. I ran the sentiment through my Xyron Create a Sticker and applied it directly to the outer frame.

My card was now ready to assemble. I first adhered my starry background to a card base of AC - White cardstock sized at 6" x 6" using double-sided tape. Then, I used my coloured image to help me with the placement of where the trees would go. Since, I had already made stickers out of my trees, this was a fairly easy process. Once I was satisfied with their positioning, I applied 3M VHB - 2 sided tape, to the back of the coloured image and sentiment frame and attached them directly to the base card. Lastly, I attached the moon to complete the scene.

Card Recipe:

Stamp: Toasting Marshmallows - T026 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Sentiment: Hearts Warm - G063 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Peeled Paint, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Forest Moss

Paper: Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card, Recollections - Black Cardstock, AC Cardstock - White, Momenta - Cardstock

Die Cuts: Nellie's Choice - Nature Scene Dies - NSD001 - Mountains, Nellie's Choice - Nature Scene Dies - NSD002 - Sky, My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Dies, My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Layers

Stencil: Echo Park - Star Stencil (6" x 6")

Cosmic Shimmer: Opal Blaze Polish - Sapphire Grape, Sunset Orange, Pink Blueberry, Turquoise Peach

Tools Miscellaneous: MISTI - Most Incredible Stamping Tool, Xyron Create a Sticker, Cuttlebug, Spatula

Image coloured with Copic Markers:

Beaver: E99, E97, E11, E07, (Eyes - Sakura Glaze - Black)

Moose: E53, E51, E50, E35, E34, E33, E31, R30, R20, Colorless Blender, (Eyes - Sakura Glaze - Black)

Bear: E53, E51, E50, E47, E44, E43, E42, (Eyes and Nose - Sakura Glaze - Black)

Skunk: C10, T6, T4, C1, C00, R30, R20, Colorless Blender, (Eyes and Nose - Sakura Glaze - Black)

Logs: E29, E27, E25, E23, E21

Marshmallows: YR00, R30, G20, Y11

Fire and Glow: YR09, YR04, Y08, Y02, Y00

Grass: YG67, YG63, YG45, YG17, YG13, YG03, YG01

Moon: BV20, C1, C00, Y000, Colorless Blender

Hope you like it and have a fantastic week!

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