April 13, 2020

Let’s Go Clubbing, Ladies!

It’s my birthday today!! I made myself a card! This card is probably one of my favorite cards to date! I had such a fun time coloring these ladies’ dresses and adding their accessories! Plus, free-handing a pattern is so much simpler than I thought it would be! Come scroll along with me!!

Quick Links: My Instagram | Prehistoric Pals Stamp Set | Simply Radiant Stencil | Quill You Be Mine? Stamp Set

First, I’m stamping my ladies and their accessories from the Prehistoric Pals Stamp Set and the Quill You Be Mine? Stamp Set. I am using Memento Tuxedo Black ink because I will be coloring with my Copic markers and this ink is alcohol ink friendly (meaning, it won’t smudge when the markers touch it.)

I am going to color each of the ladies differently so they don’t end up looking like duplicates of the same stamped image. (Click on each photo to see them larger.) I also use my White Gelly Roll pen for highlights and pearl jewelry. I am drawing on tattoos and other accessories with my Micron pen.

I die cut my ladies and their accessories with the coordinating dies. I am using a stitched rectangle die to cut out a rectangle in the center of my card front.

On the outer edge, I’m creating my own animal print pattern with my Copic markers. I simply searched “animal print” on my phone and then chose colors I thought matched the image. Then I just attempted to copy the print from my phone. It was really SO much easier than I thought it was going to be! This was my first and only attempt!

I wanted to create a nightclub look, but with colors that matched the animal prints. So I’m using Carved Pumpkin and Mustard Seed distress oxides and the Simply Radiant Stencil to create a disco ball effect for my ladies.

I chose the best sentiment for this scene: “Never too old to go clubbing” and am stamping it with Versamark watermark ink and heat embossing with white embossing powder. I use my anti-static tool to help keep the straggling embossing powder from sticking to my cardstock. I heat emboss from the back of the cardstock first, which helps the heat tool from blowing off my embossing powder before it starts melting.