A super sweet crafty friend recently lost her husband and she is facing her first birthday alone this month. I wanted to create an extra special card to let her know she is loved, thought of, and not alone. To do that I created a 3 panel scene card featuring the 3 main characters from Harry Potter using The Greeting Farm “Honor Student”<\/a><\/span> and “Magic Class” stamp sets<\/a><\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I stamped and Copic colored the three main characters: Harry, Hermoine and Ron. I gave Harry his signature round glasses (coated with Ranger Glossy Accents<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for shine), a flying broom, and doodled in his lightning bolt scar. Hermoine is holding potions bottles that are topped with Ranger Glossy Accents<\/a><\/span> for a glass-like shine. Ron is holding his wand and is summoning his patronis, which is a Jack Russell Terrier (you knew I’d try to squeeze in a dog if I could, right?! LOL ). I doodled in the Jack Russell patronis using a Cool Gray Copic Multiliner Pen<\/a><\/span>, a Uniball Signo White Gel Pen<\/a><\/span>, and Copic Markers in B00 and B24. I also coated it with Clear Wink of Stella<\/a><\/span> to add a magical shimmer.\u00a0 I fussy cut out all three characters as well as the patronis with my trusty Fiskars spring loaded scissors<\/a><\/span>, and I inked the edges with a Momento Tuxedo Black Marker<\/a><\/span> for a finished look.<\/p>\n

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Now to make this extra special … hmmm. I didn’t have all the stamps I would need to replicate the Gryffindor common room so I decided to take a shot at drawing all the scenes with a Black Uniball Ink Roller Pen<\/a><\/span>. I looked at lots of pictures on the Internet and just went for it. I drew the big couch they often sat in first. Then I drew in the staircase that led up to the boys’ quarters in the background. I also drew in a side club chair, portrait paintings, a cabinet, tabletop accessories, etc. I kept the drawing style loose and sketchy, which I think helped me get down the general look and feel without getting too caught up in the details.<\/p>\n

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Then for the card front, I thought about creating a scene of the Fat Lady painting who guarded the entrance to the Gryffindor common room. After a lot of Googling, I found a great picture of Dawn French as the Fat Lady, that I thought I could download from the Internet and manipulate to look like a sketch. I used the free paint.net software program to take the color image, make it black and white, alter it to look like a pen drawing, and have it fit into a frame that I stamped out from the Santoro Gorgeous Girl Toadstools Stamp Set<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(which I sized down to fit on an A2 card (5.5″ x 4.25″)).<\/p>\n

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I printed out the Fat Lady portrait, doodled over top to make the image look more sketchy to better match the interior scene sketching I did, and fussy cut out the intricate frame. I popped up the portrait on double sided foam adhesive to give her a little dimension from the background stone wall that I doodled in along the edges of the card front base.<\/p>\n

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As I positioned Harry, Hermoine and Ron on each panel of the card, I made sure I left room to add sentiments that I printed from my computer using a free Harry Potter font<\/a><\/span>. I printed out “Password?” for the Fat Lady; “Felix Natalis!” (happy birthday in Latin) for Harry; “Felix Felicis!” (the liquid luck potion from “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”) for Hermoine; and “Expecto Patronum” for Ron and his Jack Russell Terrier patronis. As all the sentiments say, I want to wish my friend, Sue, a happy birthday, a day filled with all good luck, and protection from bad things.<\/p>\n

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

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Disclosure<\/span>: Many of the supplies I\u2019ve used for today\u2019s project are linked.\u00a0Some may be affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. I truly appreciate your support toward the costs of running this blog!<\/em><\/p>\n

This card is being entered into the following challenges:
\nCrafter’s Castle Anything Goes with Optional Dimensional Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nSimon Says Stamp Monday A Trio of Something Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nSimon Says Stamp Wednesday Happy Birthday Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nWord Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCreatalicious Anything Goes Challenge with Optional Friends\/Friendship Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nLil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nThrough the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCrafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\n613 Avenue Create Anything Goes with Optional Use Vellum Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCrafty Gals Corner Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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