Creative & Cozy Card Making: Share a Smile Today!

Would you like to experiment with a design like this? Below, you’ll find a supply list, including a link to the stencils I used from A Colorful Life Designs. Follow the link and use discount code ChrisFan10 to save 10% on your entire order! (Master Creator Bundles are excluded as they already have a 20% discount built in.)

Let’s get Started:

Card Base:  5.5 x 8.5, scored and folded at 4.25

Border Layer: 5.25 x 4

Card Face:  5 ⅛ x 3 7/8

Baby it’s cold outside! Stay cozy.

Card Face:

• I stamped the fireplace, chair, and bear + penguin onto masking paper and cut them out.
• Next,  the fireplace and bear + penguin were stamped onto the card face, using Memento Ink.
• I put the mask in place over the bear/penguin image and then stamped the chair.

      This created the effect of the bear sitting in the chair without any portions of the two images interfering with each other.

• I coloured each of the images with alcohol markers.  I used a gold gel pen to colour the andirons in the fireplace; I also used a black fine liner to colour around the flames so they would have more presence.
• I put the masks in place on all three images before putting the stencil in place to create the area rug on the floor.  I added black ink to the exposed areas to create the checkered pattern.
• I used the Sparkles stencil to create the wallpaper, using a soft hand and orange ink.
• I added a shadow under the chair and penguin, as well as towards the junction of the floor and wall.
• I decided on a couple of final touches – I used white gel pen here and there on the scarf as well as on the flames in the fireplace.
• I put the card face into my stamp positioner and stamped the sentiment with Versamark embossing ink before adding gold embossing powder and setting it with my heat gun.

Assembly

• I glued the black border layer to the card base and then added the card face on top of these, centering both carefully.

Final Thoughts:

I was really happy with this whimsical scene when it was completed.   Looking at it now I would make the shadows around the fireplace and where the floor meets the wall a bit darker and more apparent, but overall I’m satisfied.

Supplies: (and links where possible)

   I have listed which products I have used, and where they may be purchased. It’s a huge marketplace; in most instances, there are multiple sources and many alternatives.

Stencils: Floor Perspective,  A Colorful Life Designs

                   Sparkles: A Colorful Life Designs

Waffle Flower Grip Mat, 8.5 x 6.5, Scrapbook.com

Versamark Embossing Ink: Simon Says Stamp

Gold Embossing Powder:  Wow,  Simon Says Stamp

Stamps: Knitting Bear,  Colorado Craft Company

                 Cozy Greetings,  Unity Stamps

Ink: Stampin’ Up!

Blending Brushes: Stampin’ Up! 

White Gel Pens: Arteza,  Amazon

Fine Liners: Amazon 

Memento Ink: Stampin’ Up!

Alcohol Markers:

     Stampin’ Blends: Stampin’ Up!

     Copics:  Wallacks

Adhesive: Tombow Aqua, Michaels

Card Base & Card Face: Accent 100 lb., Amazon