...nerdiness the reverse

Sharing a card featuring the now retired Anya Nerds Out from The Greeting Farm.

This card is going to one of my staff for her birthday and the stamp was bought especially for it.  As soon as I saw it, I thought of my staff member, Anya looks just like her, well, OK, no, she doesn’t wear leg warmers but the rest is spot on!

The layout of my card follows the sketch over at TGIF.  I did shift the placement of the sentiment off to the left though, just so I didn’t cover up Anya’s feet as it looked a bit weird when I paced the sentiment box over them.  The sentiment is from the Uniquely Creative All Occasions set.  I also thought the sentiments on the Kaisercraft paper really worked for my staff member, she reads widely and likes to take inspiration from what she reads.

The sketch was perfect for adding a border or two so I could also play along at Creative Knockouts.  I’ve created mine on the cardstock I stamped my image on using all three of the dies in the Mama Elephant Fine Trimmings set.

Over at CraftyFriends they want to see projects for ladies or girls, which my card certainly is.  So, I am also linking it up there.

Ingredients:

Copics & Prismacolor Pencils

Skin B60, E21, E50 | PC1026, PC1092

Hair 100, C9, C7

Bow & Leggings, Shirt R02, BV04, BV02, BV11 |PC1007

Jacket Y28, B97, B95, B93 | PC1027

Chalks & Powders etc

Jacquard PearlEx ~ Grey Lavender

Dies, Stencils & Templates

Mama Elephant Dies ~ CC-F05 Fine Trimmings

My Favorite Things Die-Namics ~ MFT-1500 Fishtail Tag Trio

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Zig Mangaka Pen ~ Black

Ranger Ink ~ Perfect Medium

Sharpie Paint Pen ~ White

Staedtler Triplus Fineliner Pens ~ No. 89 Light Brown & No. 40 Red

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Classic Cardstock ~ Purple

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Hyacinth

Curious Metallics Cardstock ~ Cryogen White

Kaisercraft Violet Crush ~ Inspirational Words

Stamps

The Greeting Farm ~ Anya Nerds Out

Uniquely Creative ~ All Occasions

Challenges

Crafty Friends #131

Creative Knockouts #341 ~ Border Time

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…that take time to count up past mercies

Sharing another card featuring a new stamp, Pretty Peonies Background, from Simon Says Stamp!.

Over at C.R.A.F.T. Challenge they want to see thank you cards.  Luckily I needed a few so I could play along with this pretty floral one.  The thank you sentiment on it is from Uniquely Creative and their All Occasions stamp set.

My colour palette comes from Color Throwdown.  I picked up the orange in my flowers, including the resin embellie one.  The blue is in the background to my watercolour panel and one layer of my mats.  Finally, the grey comes in my mats and also in my embossing powder.

The layout is from the current sketch at The Paper Players.  I decided to set the middle panel into the background and added the plain mats over the top, popping them up on foam tape.  Love the depth and way it frames the pretty flowers.  I was going to keep this super CAS but ended up adding the resin flower embellie as the sentiment panel looked a bit bare.  I’ve had these resin flowers in my stash since the dawn of crafting so it was good to finally use one.  A touch of alcohol ink ensured it was the perfect colour for my card and I think it matches the stamped peonies beautifully.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Silver

Embellishments

Resin flower from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Peach Bellini

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Chipped Sapphire, Dried Marigold, & Twisted Citron

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark

Papers

Arches Watercolour Paper

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Stormy Medium

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Night of Navy

Stamps

Simon Says Stamp! ~ SSS101961 Pretty Peonies Background

Uniquely Creative ~ All Occasions

Challenges

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