Good morning! I am so honored to be a stop on the hop celebrating the 4th birthday of SugarPea Designs! There’s lots of inspiration and some fabulous giveaways so make sure you read to the bottom of this post! 🙂 Here’s what I created:
I loved this little otter from Otterly Adorable the moment I saw him! I started by coloring him with copics and then die-cut him with the coordinating dies! I masked the sentiment to remove the ‘hello’ so I could use a die-cut word instead. Then I stamped it onto black cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed it down to a label and then die-cut the ‘hello’ word monthly incentive from black cardstock and set them aside while I worked on the background.
To create my background I blended distress inks onto several pieces of bristol smooth cardstock. My first 2 pieces of cardstock were blended with squeezed lemonade, mustard seed, wild honey, and ripe persimmon distress ink. After I was done blending I spritzed it with shimmer spray and set it aside to dry. Then I die-cut the Starburst Cover Plate from one piece of cardstock and layered it over the second piece. I blended pine needles and lucky clover onto a scrap of bristol, spritzed it with shimmer spray, and die-cut it with the Treescape Sugar Cut. Finally I blended chipped sapphire, mermaid lagoon, and salty ocean onto a piece of bristol, spritzed it with shimmer spray, and die-cut it with the Card Front Element Builder Sugar Cuts twice to create waves. To build my scene I layered the waves over the sunny background and adhered it with ATG adhesive. Then I added the treescape over the waves, adhered my otter with foam mounting tape, and adhered the sentiment to finish the card! I love how the dies create such an effective scene for my cute little otter! 🙂
Big thanks to Wendy for inviting me to be part of the hop and thank you for stopping by today!
SugarPea Designs will be giving away four $40 gift certificates to the SugarPea Designs shop! Winners will be randomly chosen from all the comments left along each stop on the hop. Comments will close at 11:59 PM EST on April 7th and winners will be announced on the SugarPea Designs blog on April 8th. Kelly Lunceford is your next stop but here’s a full list of all the hop stops in case you encounter broken link:
- Amy Kolling
- Amy Rohl
- Amy Tsuruta
- Ardyth Percy-Robb
- Becky Pearce
- Jennifer McGuire
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Kelly Lunceford
- Kelly Latevola
- Kerin Sylvester
- Kristina Werner
- Laura Bassen
- Lea Lawson
- Lydia Fiedler
- Martha Tucker
- Nichol Spohr
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Raluca Vezeteu
- Sandy Allnock
- Simonne Clay
- Stéphanie Beauchemin
- Taheerah Atchia
- Vera Yates
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Fabulous card!! I’m in love with those colors and the gorgeous background 🙂
What an adorable scene! That otter is the star!
That sentiment just slays me ahaha…I love word pun sentiments, this card is so cute!
Oh my, love this fun, colorful scene!
Such a sweet card. Love your layout. Thanks for sharing.
Great colors. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
The colors caught my eye right away! Thanks for sharing with us.
Very cute scene! The otters are so precious.
This card is adorable!! Thanks for sharing!
Your sun rays background looks great. I like the colors showing through, too.
so fun, cute and great colors. Thanks for sharing.
Sweet card!
Love the card front element builder die set—so many possibilities.
such a sweet card – love this little scene:)
Adorable! That says it all!
Really cute otter and I love those sunshine rays… come on Spring!!!
Adorable card! Thanks for the inspiration!
That card is Otterly Cute! Love that adorable otter stamp set. TFS!!!
So bright and cheery!
Nice color and technique! Thank you, Jess!
Beautiful card Jess, love the colors!
Cute card! Thanks for sharing!
I love your card! It’s really adorable and I love how you created the sun rays 🙂
Adorable! I love the blended background and fantastic layers. What a sweet critter.
So so cute. I love the darling scene
Adorable card. I love the brilliant colors.