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Believe You Can!

15 May

Good morning!  Recently I purchased the Mama Elephant Unicorns and Rainbows stamp set from Ruby’s destash and I couldn’t wait to use it!!

I stamped a large herd of unicorns and used my ScanNCut to cut them all out…and I now have enough unicorns to last me for several months!  As a child I was OBSESSED with unicorns!  I remember the Scholastic Book Fair used to sell posters and there was ALWAYS at least one unicorn poster for sale each year.  For awhile I had quite the unicorn-filled bedroom: stuffed animals, posters, figurines…they were EVERYWHERE!  Playing with these stamps today brought me right back to first grade! 😉

So I started off by watercoloring one of the unicorns with my zig clean color real brush markers and blending them out with my spectrum noir sparkle brush.  I intentionally wanted the unicorn to look a little softer and more dreamlike.

Next I stamped the horse from Lunar Animals onto a piece of cardstock with copic-friendly ink and I stamped a second image on masking paper.  I colored him with copic markers and then masked him off.  I also masked off a hill shape and then blended distress inks onto the top part of the panel to create a colorful sunrise.  Next I masked off the sky and blended distress inks onto the bottom part of the panel to create the ground.  I removed the masks and let the distress ink dry for a few minutes.

While it was drying I die-cut the thought bubbles out of vellum and adhered the unicorn over the largest one.  I used glossy accents to adhere the other vellum bubbles to the card panel.  I made sure to spread glossy accents over the entire bubble so that it wouldn’t show visible glue lines through the vellum when it dried.  Ever since I saw the unicorns I had the idea to show my little horse dreaming of becoming a unicorn and I thought this sentiment was perfect for the card!  My dreams of becoming a unicorn haven’t come true (yet!) but maybe my little horse will get there someday!

Thanks so much for visiting and I apologize in advance if there’s a unicorn overload on the blog in the next few weeks! 😉 Have a wonderful day!

suppliesInterested in the products I used?  To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!)

*The vellum thought bubbles are from the discontinued Simon Says Stamp Talk Bubbles die set but you could easily use a cloud die and circle dies to create a similar look!

Mama Elephant Clear Stamp UNICORNS AND RAINBOWS
Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Unicorns And Rainbows
Mama Elephant Clear Stamp LUNAR ANIMALS Set
Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Lunar Animals
Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, True Friend
Mama Elephant BASIC SET Dies
Canson Arches French Bound Hot Press Watercolor Paper Pad 9×12
Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar White 80# Cover 8.5
COPIC Sketch Marker E74, Cocoa Brown
Copic Sketch Marker E74 COCOA BROWN Chocolate
Copic Sketch Marker E40 BRICK WHITE
COPIC Sketch Marker E40, Brick White
COPIC Sketch Marker E71, Champagne
Copic Sketch Marker E71 CHAMPAGNE Taupe
COPIC Sketch Marker E77, Maroon
Copic Sketch Marker E77 MAROON Dark Red
COPIC Sketch Marker R20, Blush
Copic Sketch Marker R20 BLUSH Pink Flesh Skin
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 091, Light Gray
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker LIGHT GRAY RB6000AT091
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 042, Turquoise Green
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker TURQUOISE GREEN RB6000AT042
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 031, Cobalt Blue
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker COBALT BLUE RB6000AT031
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 030, Blue
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker BLUE RB6000AT030
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Ripe Persimmon
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Picked Raspberry
Ranger Tim Holtz March Distress Ink Pad, Mermaid Lagoon
Ranger DIS-27119 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Chipped Sapphire
Spectrum Noir Sparkle Glitter Brush Pen Clear Overlay, 3 Piece
Kuretake Fude Real Brush Pen, Clean Color, 6 Set (RB-6000AT/6VA)
Kuretake Fude Brush Pen, Clean Color Real, 12 Colors Set (RB-6000AT/12VA)
Kuretake Fude Real Brush Pen, Clean Color, 24 Set (RB-6000AT/24V)
Kuretake Fude Real Brush Pen, Clean Color, 36 Set (RB-6000AT/36V)
Kuretake Fude Real Brush Pen, Clean Color, 48 Set (RB-6000AT/48V)
Kuretake Fude Real Brush Pen, Clean Color, 60 Set (RB-6000AT/60V)
Powder Tool Adhesive Deactivator
VersaMark Ink Pad
Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, White
WAGNER HT 400 650-Degree Heat Gun
Sizzix 660340 Big Shot Plus Cutting/Embossing Machine, White/Gray
Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents Precision Tip, 2-Ounce
Scotch Acid Free Advanced Tape Glider, Pink Applicator with 2 Rolls of 1/4-Inch Tape (085)
Brother ScanNCut2 Home and Hobby Cutting Machine with Rhinestone Trial Kit
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Categories:
card-making, crafting
Tags:
distress ink, mama elephant, simon says stamp, zig clean color real brush

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  1. Celeste Goff says

    May 15, 2016 at 9:13 am

    Such sweet cards!

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  2. Lisaerica says

    May 15, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    Jess, really cute concept, lol. TFSAI

    Reply

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