Good morning! I am so honored to be a stop on the hop celebrating the 4th birthday of SugarPea Designs! There’s lots of inspiration and some fabulous giveaways so make sure you read to the bottom of this post! 🙂 Here’s what I created:
I loved this little otter from Otterly Adorable the moment I saw him! I started by coloring him with copics and then die-cut him with the coordinating dies! I masked the sentiment to remove the ‘hello’ so I could use a die-cut word instead. Then I stamped it onto black cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed it down to a label and then die-cut the ‘hello’ word monthly incentive from black cardstock and set them aside while I worked on the background.
To create my background I blended distress inks onto several pieces of bristol smooth cardstock. My first 2 pieces of cardstock were blended with squeezed lemonade, mustard seed, wild honey, and ripe persimmon distress ink. After I was done blending I spritzed it with shimmer spray and set it aside to dry. Then I die-cut the Starburst Cover Plate from one piece of cardstock and layered it over the second piece. I blended pine needles and lucky clover onto a scrap of bristol, spritzed it with shimmer spray, and die-cut it with the Treescape Sugar Cut. Finally I blended chipped sapphire, mermaid lagoon, and salty ocean onto a piece of bristol, spritzed it with shimmer spray, and die-cut it with the Card Front Element Builder Sugar Cuts twice to create waves. To build my scene I layered the waves over the sunny background and adhered it with ATG adhesive. Then I added the treescape over the waves, adhered my otter with foam mounting tape, and adhered the sentiment to finish the card! I love how the dies create such an effective scene for my cute little otter! 🙂
Big thanks to Wendy for inviting me to be part of the hop and thank you for stopping by today!
SugarPea Designs will be giving away four $40 gift certificates to the SugarPea Designs shop! Winners will be randomly chosen from all the comments left along each stop on the hop. Comments will close at 11:59 PM EST on April 7th and winners will be announced on the SugarPea Designs blog on April 8th. Kelly Lunceford is your next stop but here’s a full list of all the hop stops in case you encounter broken link:
- Amy Kolling
- Amy Rohl
- Amy Tsuruta
- Ardyth Percy-Robb
- Becky Pearce
- Jennifer McGuire
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Kelly Lunceford
- Kelly Latevola
- Kerin Sylvester
- Kristina Werner
- Laura Bassen
- Lea Lawson
- Lydia Fiedler
- Martha Tucker
- Nichol Spohr
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Raluca Vezeteu
- Sandy Allnock
- Simonne Clay
- Stéphanie Beauchemin
- Taheerah Atchia
- Vera Yates
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Beautiful colors and depth!
Awww!!! This card is totally cute!!!
Love your card design and coloring!
Oh, Jessica, I simply love this card!!!! The scene you have created is so wonderful!!! (My mouth was literally hanging open I loved it so much!) Thanks so much for sharing this!!!
Otterly adorable (sorry, couldn’t help myself). So many wonderful ideas on this blog hop.
Super fun card!
Very cute otter and love the littel scene you created.
Beautiful card!! love the colours
Super cute little otter you’ve used, your background build up is great with all those bright happy colours.
Love what you did with this!
Aww-dorable.
What a darling card! Love the scene you created with that cute otter!
I’m amazed at how many different ways the cover dies and elements dies have been used. You have such a good imagination! Cute card.
stunning card love the colors
Loooove the layout and use of the different die cuts, especially the sentiment! Thanks for sharing!
Aww, such a cute otter! He looks like he’s eating a gold fish cracker! Love all the pretty shimmer you added to the card.
What an adorable scene. That otter is so cute.
Cute card, great background.
That’s just otterly cute, Jessica.
Such an adorable card! Fabulous background!
That’s just a super cute card !!
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Love the little otter! You have made such an adorable scene for him.
So stinkin cute! Love the scene and the otter!
Fun card, great card design, thanks for sharing!
This is so adorable!!! I just love this otter (well, otters in general!), and the little scene you create is perfect!