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HEY FRIENDS! I’m back today with my second project as a guest designer today over at The Hedgehog Hollow. My project features the Geometric Mandala stamp from the June 2020 subscription box. When I first saw it, I immediately thought of a color wheel so I pulled out my Copic markers and got to work.

I selected one of the 6×6 design papers included in the subscription box and stamped the image with Copic friendly ink using my MISTI stamping tool. I’m going to be stamping this image twice — once before coloring and a second time after — so a stamping tool is really a necessity here.

Now I’ll admit up front that I used a lot of markers – after all, there are 13 circles to color. But this is also a great image to practice your Copic blending so just pick marker combinations from your collection and have some fun. New to Copic blending? Never fear! I’ll show you in the video below.

When you finish coloring the image, you could just select a sentiment and assemble the card, but I wanted my stamped lines to be bolder. So I placed the image back in my MISTI, stamped the image with Versafine Ink (Nocturne) and immediately covered the wet ink with clear embossing powder. Once I heat set the image, the lines were more prominent and I was happier with the results.

I was in need of a birthday card so I selected one of the sentiments in the Simple Strips – Birthday stamp from Taylored Expressions. I stamped the image with Versafine ink. Once again, I covered the wet ink with clear embossing powder and heat set the sentiment. I used the coordinating Simple Strips Die to create the banner. I adhered the image to the card base and used the Foam Sticky Strips from Taylored Expressions to add to the sentiment.

Hope you enjoyed today’s project! Thanks for stopping by!

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GOOD MORNING FRIENDS! I’m guest designing this month for The Hedgehog Hollow so today’s project is drawn from the June 2020 Subscription Box. Since so many of my projects begin with coloring an image, I decided to put down my Copics and create a simple monochromatic card.

To begin, trim a piece of the Kind Geo Patterns paper to 4.25″ x 5.5″ and adhere it to your card base. Next, trim a piece of white card stock using one of the dies from the Lawn Fawn Scalloped Rectangle Stackables set. Stamp the sentiments from the Kind Geo Patterns stamp set and the Kind Add-On stamp sets in Versafine Clare and heat set with Nuvo clear embossing powder. On a scrap piece of white card stock, stamp and heat emboss the leaf image from the Geo Animals stamp set. Fussy cut the leaf image and adhere it to the sentiment panel. Use foam adhesive squares or craft foam to adhere the sentiment panel to the card base.