Nuts About You!

Hi!

I'm popping in today to share a fun Fall themed card. We're celebrating Fall and Halloween over at High Hopes Stamps and "Little Nutty Buddy" fits the bill for sure! I'm at my cottage and this little guy reminds me of the squirrels and chipmunks I am feeding here. They love their peanuts and cram as many as they can in their mouths before running off to hide them. 

I coloured in Little Nutty Buddy with my Copic Sketch markers and then using my Brother Cut N Scan cut him out. My papers today are from the Echo Park My Favourite Fall 6x6 collection. I decided to ink the edges of my papers with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, it helps give the card some added dimension. I thought the High Hopes sentiment called "Nuts About You" was perfect for this image! My image is popped up on a MFT Zig Zag circle die cut with foam tape. Some burlap ribbon, bow, wooden leaf charm and enamel dots finish off my card.

Copics Used:

Squirrel: E30, E31, E33, E34, E35, E37, E49

Acorn: E23, E25, E29, E79, N9

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Nutty Harvest

Hello and Happy Sunday Everyone!

Today's card uses the adorable Little Nutty Buddy. This adorable image is one of my favorites, and his happy harvest of acorns is perfect for your fall greetings.

I have paired Little Nutty Buddy with the Bold Happy Harvest sentiment.

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Nuts About You

We have a ton of squirrels that live in my neighbourhood. Each morning there are about 10 - 15 babies that I watch play in my neighbours back yard racing up and around the tree trunks. 
Later in the day I see these babies and the adults busy collecting and packing their food for winter hibernation. 
Little Nutty Buddy reminds me of these squirrels and I wanted to use him on a card that I can put in my stash for just the right moment when I would like to let someone know in a fun way how important they are to me. 

I coloured up this cutie with alcohol markers, added some shading with Prisma pencils and cut him out using a circle die. The tip of his tail had to be cut a little to slide the die in under it to cut it the size I wanted it. 
Next I grabbed some paper from Carta Bella and cut it to fit my design. All of the paper edges including the leaves have a touch of umber ink on them to make them pop a little. 
Twine from my stash, skeleton leaves and enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp:Little Nutty Buddy- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Nuts About You - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Hello Fall - Carta Bella 

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill digital cover stock, umber ink - Versa Mark, twine, fish tail banner die - YNS, banners #3 die - Sizzix, circle die - Spellbinders, skeleton leaves - Tim Holtz, enamel dots - Gina Marie Designs, wood acorn - stash

Spectrum Noir Markers: CG1 DG2 YG3 EB1 RB1 RB2 RB3

Copics: E31 E34 E37 

Prismacolor pencils: dark brown, burnt ochre, putty beige, moss green, yellowed charteuse, sepia, sienna brown

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Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Little Nutty Buddy

Hello High Hopes Fans!!!

I sure hope everyone is enjoying all the heat these days, but before too long...fall will be here!  For my post this week, I am excited to share a card for the upcoming season.
 Jane

 

This is Little Nutty Buddy (M150) and Special Delivery sentiment (F116).  I think this little buddy is just the cutest!  This card could be used for a variety of different fall occasions - possibly a birthday, thinking of you, or get well soon card.

 

To start, I used a piece of watercolour paper and a Versamark Ink Pad to stamp the image and background (using my Misti Stamping Tool) then applied Black Embossing Powder on the ink and heated it.  To colour the main image, Tombow Markers and water were used.  After the colouring was finished and dry, Glossy Accents were added on Buddy's nose.  Once this had dried, I proceeded to die cut the image using a MFT Stitched Circle Die. 

For the card base, I decided on a piece of SU Chocolate Chip cardstock and the layering piece is SU Kraft cardstock.  The designer paper is from Doodlebug - Friendly Forest 6x6 Paper Pad for both the background and fishtail flag die cuts.  Foam tape was applied to the main image to help make it pop out a bit and add some dimension to this card. A piece of twine was tied in a bow and placed above the image.  The sentiment was stamped with versamark ink, and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  Foam tape was also used to adhere the sentiment to the card.  To complete this card, three small YNS Gumdrops were added around the circle die cut.   Hope this inspires you to start on some fall projects!
 

Supplies Used:

***Note: If you are in need of any products used here, please send Lora at OCS an email and I'm sure she would be happy to get the item(s) you are looking for.

 

Ink - Tombow Markers - 977, N25, N60, 491, 761, 947, 899 and 992; Versamark Ink Pad, White & Black Embossing Powder.

 

Paper - Doodlebug-Friendly Forest 6x6 Paper Pad, SU Chocolate Chip & Kraft Cardstock;  Watercolour paper.

 

Misc. - Misti Stamping Tool, Glossy Accents, MFT-Stitched Circle Die, YNS-Stitched Rectangle Die, MFT-Stitched Fishtail Flag Die, Twine, YNS Gumdrops-Love Me Some Latte, Water Brush, Foam Tape and Glue Dots.
 

Thanks for stopping by!  And I hope you come back to visit soon!!!
 

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