Hi there! It's Kim from
Katydid Cards with you today!
I'm eager to share the card I made for my design team post, but first I want to remind you to check out the
Freebie of the Day at the Miss Kate Cuttables store.
Okay, so I'll show you my card first and then talk a bit about it:
I did something with this
Cute Octopus
that never occurred to me previously. I turned it into a digital stamp
by converting the cut lines to print lines, making them thicker and
selecting the print lines option. I don't know why I never thought
about this; but I just more than doubled my digital stamp collection by
doing it and will look at cut files I may have passed over before in a
whole new way.
I printed the octopus on water-color paper and cut
it in a stitched circle. I colored him using Copic markers and dotted
the bubbles with Glossy Accents. The mat is an inverted scallop Basic
Black circle from the Silhouette store. Here's a closer look at that:
I
found two patterned papers I purchased l-o-n-g ago and embossed them
with the D-Vine Swirls and Retro Circles embossing folders and placed
them on a mat of Basic Black, punching all the outer corners with the
ticket punch. I wrapped some coordinating fiber across the middle
before attaching the mat to the Whisper White card base and the focal
image with dimensionals. The greeting was typed in black using the CK
Fairytale font; punched with a mat of Basic Black from a retired punch
from Stampin' Up. Two large eyelets to the upper right for a finishing
touch!
Inside, I typed a sentiment which plays off both the octopus and the greeting using the same font.
I encourage you to try doing this with one of your cut file to see if you agree it opens up a whole new world to you.
See you next month with another project! In the meantime, I'd love it if you came for a visit to my
blog and, if you do, please be sure to say, "hello".
