As many of you know, I recently took a girls’ summer vacation trip to Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland. I have a lot of photo sorting, editing and cropping to do before I get to work on the commemorative mini albums, but I couldn’t wait to dig in to memorializing the trip so I created this card.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The three girls, representing my sister, niece and me, are all from The Greeting Farm’s “Mini-Remix Happy” stamp set<\/a><\/span>. I stamped all three girls out in My Favorite Things Black Licorice Hybrid Ink<\/a><\/span> (which is both alcohol marker and watercolor safe) and also created masks so that I could overlap them a bit as well as stamp in the backgrounds.<\/p>\n

I stamped the buildings from Crafty Individuals (a British stamp company) “Town House Rows”<\/a><\/span>\u00a0using more My Favorite Things Black Licorice Hybrid Ink<\/a><\/span> and Katzelkraft’s “Clouds”,<\/a><\/span>\u00a0using Lawn Fawn’s Premium Dye Ink in Manatee (if you know anything about Scottish summers, you know that cloudy skies are par for the course). I thought these background stamps were perfect to create a scene similar to Edinburgh, Scotland, and I was so happy I had picked up both of these stamps before my trip from the U.S. online shop,\u00a0Top Flight Stamps<\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n

I used the following Copic colors to color in the girls and sky:
\nSky: B000
\nSkin for all three girls: E51, E21, R20
\nGirl on left: Clothes: RV52, RV55, RV17, B01; and Hair: C7, C9, B01
\nCenter Girl: Clothes: B01, B02, B06, Y08, YR15; and Hair: N7, N9, RV55
\nGirl on right: Clothes: B01, B02, B06 and RV17; and Hair and boots:\u00a0C7, C9, B01.
\nI also added highlights stripes and polka dots to the girls using a Uniball Stabilo White Gel Pen and a Copic Multiliner Pen in 0.03 pt.<\/p>\n

I was going to put them on a cobblestone street, and started drawing it out but ended up smearing it with the side of my hand (you can still see a bit of one smear in the sky in the center cloud, but I decided to pretend those little dots were a flock of birds flying in the sky in the distance — LOL) so I fussy cut the girls and background out and popped them up using craft foam to add a little dimension to a green polka dotted card base (just a scrap from my scrap box). I thought it was a good save. Plus, now when I add this card to a scrapbook layout (which is my current plan), I can add some private journaling notes inside the card that describes the silly summer fun we had on this once in a lifetime trip!<\/p>\n

The following is a video sharing the card:<\/p>\n