Ever work on a project and every single step is a struggle? That is how it was for me with this card. I picked colors for this sweet Penny Black stamp called “Fluffy Passenger”<\/a><\/span> that I hoped were springy and fun (I think the cold is already getting to my spirit) but somehow the tones seemed to clash with the patterned papers I had chosen. Finally, I landed on this springy plaid that is from the American Crafts Spring paper collection<\/a><\/span>. This is actually my third card front! LOL I stamped out the image with MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink<\/a><\/span> and used the following Copic colors: Hair E97, 99 and 29; Poodle: R81, 83 and 85 with 0 to get white fluffy highlights; Basket: E51, 53 and 55; skin: E51, E 53 and R20; Shirt and scarves: YG25, 07 amd 09; Bicycle: R35, 37 and 39; Pants and sky: B000, 00, 01 and 02; \u00a0and Bicycle tires, handles and seat: N0, 3, and 7.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Then I wanted to alter the image just a smidge so that she would look more warmly dressed so I made the girl’s shoes into boots with a Copic multiliner pen and added pom poms to the dog’s and girl’s scarves.\u00a0But my DecoArt Snow Writer<\/a><\/span> was so clogged I think I strained my hands and I ended up opening up the bottle and applying the pom pom dots with a pin (I still love how the Snow Writer pom poms added texture and dimension). I tried to add a furry collar to the girl’s top, but that turned into a hot mess so I scraped that all off.<\/p>\n

Oh then the background gave me trouble. I thought I wanted to just have a clean white circle behind her and do some partial die cutting to let her scarf hang off the edge, but realized she looked like she was floating without a ground. Out came the Uni-Ball pen and ruler, but I don’t know what happened. The ground came out crooked, and not in a good slopey way. I still wanted to salvage this, so I took an X-Acto blade and cut away the lower third of the circle background. I knew I’d have to draw back in the bicycle spokes, but I was hopeful that I could at least do that. I found a green polka dot patterned paper from the same American Crafts Spring collection<\/a><\/span> that seemed to make a whimsical ground and I die cut a partial circle and patched and seamed that in. Whew!<\/p>\n

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I am glad I didn’t give it up because I do like how it turned out in the end, but I have to admit that I am relieved to have this card behind me. \ud83d\ude00 This card is being entered into the following challenges:
\nAddicted to Stamps and More Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCreatalicious Anything Goes Challenge with Optional Sentiment<\/a><\/span>
\nWord Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nNot Just Cards Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nJust Keep On Creating Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span> –<\/a> WINNER<\/span><\/a>
\nCraft Your Passion Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nMarkerPOP Color Challenge #109<\/a><\/span> – red bicycle, tan basket and hair, and green shirt, scarves and ground<\/p>\n

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MFT Color Challenge #58<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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MFT Sketch Challenge #308<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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