An friend of mine and her family are dealing with some incredibly scary and worrisome events. Two of her children were in a terrible car accident, and they are both in critical condition. Just to let her know that I am thinking of them and praying for them, I wanted to send her what I hope is an uplifting card.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I followed a sketch from The Greeting Farm, Farm Fresh Challenge and used the sweet, Up Up Bean stamp<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(retired) from their Bean Collection. To color up various parts of this card, I used the following Copic markers:<\/p>\n

Striped background layer made from plain white cardstock: BG10 and BG11
\nHat and skirt: BG10, BG23 and BG49
\nHat bow and top: G40, G43 and YG 07
\nEyes: G94
\nHair: YR14, E23, E25 and E29
\nSkin: E50, E51, E21, E53 and R20
\nYellow balloon: Y00, Y13 and Y19
\nOrange balloon: YR000, YR14, YR16 and YR07
\nI also added some highlight lines on Bean’s skirt, hat bow, and balloons with a Uniball Signo White Gel Pen<\/a><\/span>. I fussy cut her out and popped her up at an angle (like she’s floating on by with the balloons) with double sided foam adhesive to add a little bit of dimension.<\/p>\n

For the base background, I used a scrap from my scrap box. It’s retired but I believe it’s from the American Crafts Dear Lizzy Neopolitan paper stack. For the half circle shape in the sketch, I used part of the Simon Says Stamp Cloud Bank Die (also retired). To create a soft textured look, I also used a 0 colorless blender to push away some of the background striped background color just inside the clouds. To add sparkle, I used Nuvo Glitter Drops in White Blizzard over top of the thin die cut clouds.<\/p>\n

Lastly, for a little more texture and dimension, I wrapped the top background layer 3 times with orange and white baker’s twine, finishing it off with a hand-tied bow. I futzed with that bow for so long that I ultimately glued down bits of it so that it would retain it’s perfect shape. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The following is a video share of this card:<\/p>\n