Warm and Cozy

Some Odd Girl just had their fantastic September release, which includes a whole bunch of new goodies. I grabbed the bundle as soon as it went on sale, and I'm extremely happy and impressed with it. Of course, I had to make a fun card featuring the lovely Sweater Kaylee clear stamp.

I stated by stamping Kaylee onto some Copic marker paper and coloring her in with my Copics. I decided it would be fun to choose colors I would wear myself, so I went with browns, creams and blues. After she was colored in, I added a highlight to her eyes with my white gel pen, and carefully fussy-cut around here, leaving a small white border.

For the background, I knew I wanted to use the new Sunshine Sorbet paper, but it took me a while to settle on which paper to use. Sunshine Sorbet has a lot of really great patterns and colors. Once I finally settled on a rainbow chevron and a pink, I grabbed my BigShot and a few fun new dies I just bought.

I die-cut rainbow chevron using the stitched rectangle from My Favorite Things' Blueprints 15 dies. I then switched to MFT's Pinking Edge Circles STAX dies and cut a brown cardstock circle from the largest die and the pink paper circle from the second largest. I also used MFT's Blueprints 5 to cut out a banner for my sentiment.

I stamped the sentiment in Avery Elle's Truffle pigment ink and set it aside to dry while I worked on the rest of the card.

I created a standard A2 card (4 1/4 by 5 1/2") out of Primitive White cardstock. I adhered the chevron panel straight to the cardstock, using dot adhesive. I adhered toe two circles together, then added them to the card with foam tape. I adhered Kaylee with foam squares, then added the sentiment tucked slightly behind her leg.

As a last touch, I added a small and a large Hexie Dots wood veneers. I added a couple of pearls to the veneer centers and scattered 3 more pearls around them.

Supplies:
Some Odd Girl Sweater Kaylee clear stamp
Some Odd Girl Sunshine Sorbet 6x6 patterned paper
My Favorite Things Hybrid Ink in Black Licorice
Avery Elle Truffle Pigment Ink
My Favorite Things Pinking Edge Circles STAX
My Favorite Things Blueprints 5 dies
My Favorite Things Blueprints 15 dies
My Favorite Things Heavyweight cardstock in Primitive White
Tombow Dot Adhesive (pink)
3M Double-Sided Foam Tape
Some Odd Girl Hexie Dots wood veneer
Melissa Frances Brown Pearls
Sakura Gellyroll White Gel Pen
Copics: Skin (E00, E11, E13, E15, R20), Hair (E33, E57, E59, E79), Eyes/Scarf/Decoration (B32, B34, B37), Leggings (E42, E84, E44), Fur (B00, W2), Sweater/Boots (E35, E37, E29, E53, W2, W4)