Tuesday with Tara {take 50}
Happy Tuesday! It’s that time of year again… graduation time! I’m a proud step-mom who got to see her beautiful step-daughter graduate from high school last week, and this is the fun card I made just for her 🙂 I had a chance to play with a few things I don’t personally own (yet!) when I was back in BC last month, and this card features Dylusions Paints (love the thick, creamy texture and bold colors) in the background and Cat Crazy stamps & accessories for the main image. I knew those two parts would go together, but the rest didn’t fall into place until I had time to create in my own home studio space.
I used a giant (size 12?) tag as my card base- these turn out right around 5″ square when you fold them in half. I used a few shades of orange & pink Dylusions Paints brushed together. The cat was colored with a mix of colored pencils and gelatos. Pretty simple coloring, but I added glossy accents on it’s eyes and Stickles glitter glue on the hat 🙂
Though it’s a feminine card, there’s lots of Tim Holtz details on this card- more than I was aware of as I was making it 🙂 The flower die, arrow stencil (I used yellow texture paste and yellow stickles!) and dimensional letters, as well as the ‘dare to dream’ sentiment stamp are all Tim Holtz products! The other sentiments are from a new one by Avery Elle I picked up in the shop- couldn’t resist that font <3 The ‘firefly’ stencils (at least that’s what I’m calling them for this card!) are by The Crafter’s Workshop. Love them in yellow! Lightning Bugs are one of my favourite things about living in the south 🙂
Hope you like my whimsical grad card… it’s an exciting time and the future looks bright, and I think this cat looks like it’s ready to chase after it’s dreams 🙂
Leave me a comment this week and you could win this freakin’ cute stamp set by Lawn Fawn… seriously I may have squealed a little when I saw this (and clued in to how it worked. LOL) in the shop. It’ll be perfect for graduates and other smart cookies you know (how cute would it on a little lunch box note on the first day of school!?)
Inky hugs,
Tara
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