Today’s card was all about fandom fun and bringing a little bit of the magical world into my craft room! I pulled out the older Sasstastic Beasts stamp set from The Sassy Club and colored all of the adorable critters and wizard images with my Ohuhu alcohol markers. I wanted the coloring to feel soft and cartoony, so I leaned into visible marker strokes for the fur and hair instead of blending everything completely smooth. After coloring, I restamped the images with darker ink to sharpen the outlines, but things shifted a little in my MISTI and I was honestly devastated for a minute. Thankfully, I was able to recover the images with a white gel pen and some thicker highlights, and in the end I actually think it added even more personality to the finished card. Sometimes crafty accidents turn into happy little style choices! At least that's why I'm telling myself...
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For the card design, I created a magical newspaper layout using The Sassy Club News Print die set and several coordinating sentiments and stamps. I embossed the main sentiment in gold because I loved the idea of the shiny gold lettering attracting all of the little gold stealing critters around the card. To give the newspaper background more texture and age, I blended distress inks around the edges and added watercolor splatter for an old magical paper look. Once everything was stamped and assembled, I layered the critters around the sentiment with thin foam adhesive so they looked like they were all reaching toward the shiny gold words. I finished the card by layering the newspaper onto patterned paper from the Wizard House paper pad and attached everything to a trimmed down 5x7 card base. I kept the embellishing pretty simple because I really wanted the cute characters and embossed sentiment to be the stars of the show, and I had so much fun putting this magical little scene together!
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