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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Adorable scene with the otter. Love the sunburst die.
Such a fun card–love the colors you used and the scene you created .Great idea to use the top half of the burst die for the sun!
SQUEAL!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this!! Such a SWEET Card!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
This is amazing! I love the otter and the sun beaming out from behind the trees is gorgeous!
LOL. Oh Jessica, this is simply adorable and that sentiment made me laugh out loud…I love your card.
Otters are my favorite and this card is just darling! ,<3
Great card!
Love how you used that cut to make the sunrise. Seems so easy, but until I saw your card, I probably would not have thought of used that die in that manner. Makes me want to add that to my stash! Good job!
What a lovely card! That otter is too cute; I just want to cuddle him! And I love all the dimension of the die cut background scene. Thanks for sharing with us!
Your card is so sweet. Beautiful coloring.
Your card is adorable.
Fantastic scene! I love the otter holding the fish!
Cute card! Love that adorable otter!
Squeeeeee, I LOVE these otters! I don’t much like puns on cards, but for these guys, I’ll make an exception, they’re otterly adorable!!! I love the gorgeous scene you’ve created with this cutie and the clever way you’ve incorporated the sunburst die. So cool! Love it to bits. Hugs, Wends xoxo
Love the blended background colors and the cute little otter!
Your shading of the water is perfection!
Awwww! Cute scene! Love that sweet otter ♥
Gorgeous colors in this darling scene! Congrats to SugarPea on their 4th anniversary!
So super cute!!