Wee and Drum

I made this card for challenge #55 over at the Whiff of Joy Challenge Blog. It's a color challenge this time. You are supposed to use orange, brown and ivory in your card and of course at least one Whiff of Joy stamp!

This adorable gnome image is called Wee and Drum. It was created by Norma Fickel. Have you visited her blog? She has a very cute and inspirational blog with lots of her adorable creations!!

I was exploring the possibility of using this stamp on a non-holiday card (so that I can use this stamp all year round!) while trying to figure out a light brown/beige/ivory-ish color with the Copics that I have. I think this color might work...

This was also my first time making a pull-up pop-up card. Big thanks to the lovely Kelly for the instructions that she gave me on the phone the other day (love ya, girl!)!! I found a video here by the fabulous Jennifer McGuire if you are interested. I covered the image with Glossy Accents and used two small flourishes from PTI's Fancy Flourish to frame the image. This beautiful Hanah hand-dyed silk ribbon was sitting in my stash and I was so happy that it matches the colors for this card! I think I got it at a yarn store a while back when knitting was my "main" hobby... =)

Thanks for tolerating the terrible glare from the Glossy Accents on the photos!! Hope you have a wonderful Monday!!

Thanks for stopping by!

ingredients used:

cardstocks: Papertery Ink, Neenah Solar White

stamps: Whiff of Joy, Papertrey Ink, Hero Arts (sentiment)

patterned paper: BasicGrey

ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distress Ink

ribbon: Hanah Silk Ribbon

circle punch: EK Success

others: Glossy Accents, sewing machine, thread

Copics used:

Wee: E11, E00, E000, E93, E31, E21, E50

drum, cat: E35, E31, E21

ground: E39, E35, E31