A Boy's Best Friend

Hello, Whimsy fans!  It's Andrea with you today sharing a sweet card featuring the new Best Buddies stamp set.  If you are a dog lover or know someoneone who is, you NEED this set!  I tell you, these images and sentiments just make my heart melt.

I stamped that sweet image from Best Buddies with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with my Copics (I will list the colors at the end of this post).  With the Notched Rectangles Die Set, I die-cut my image and a white frame and adhered the two together.  I stamped "Mwah!" with Versafine Onyx Black before working on the rest of my card.

I trimmed down some plaid paper to a 5 1/2" square and adhered it to a 5 3/4" white cardbase.  I attached a strip of polka dot paper to my card and added my matted image with foam tape.

I die-cut the Friend Word and Shadow Die Set from three colors of cardstock and layered the pieces together before attaching the sentiment to my card.  I white heat-embossed a sentiment from Best Buddies onto navy cardstock and, using the partial die-cutting technique, die-cut the strip with the Quick Strips Die Set.  I adhered the strip to my card with foam tape and finished with a scattering of enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping by!

Copics:

Boy - E50, E00, E11, E55, E57, E47, Y38, YR04, YR07, YR09, B34, B37, B39, E43, E44, E47

Dog - E51, E53, E55, E57, W3, W7

Background - B000, YG03, YG17, YG67

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ThermOWeb & Whimsy Stamps Collaboration Day Four

  This week Whimsy Stamps and ThermOWeb are partnering for a fabulous week of inspiration and prizes!  All week long designers from both teams will be sharing ways to add foils and more to your projects using products from ThermOWeb and Whimsy Stamps.  Read to the end of this post to find out how you can win!

For my first card today I used Whimsy's Friend Word and Shadow die set from the February release as well as the Card Builder Windows die set. 

I die cut the large shadow from ThermOWeb's double sided white Foam Adhesive and applied Deco Foil in the color Lime green which has a nice satin sheen. I die cut the word friend from black cardstock and layered it on top of the lime green shadow.
The lime green cardstock panel was die cut using the Card Builder Windows die set. 

My marbled background was created with Alcohol Inks on YUPO paper. Where the ink is pooling together it stays wet a bit longer and gets a bit sticky. This is what I used to apply the silver Deco Foil Transfer Sheets. After I applied the foil to all sticky areas there were still some areas I wanted to have more foil. So I used a brush and the Liquid Adhesive, let it dry and applied more foil.

Here is a close-up where you can see all the beautiful shine from the silver foil in the background and the shimmer from the lime green satin transfer sheet on the words shadow.


For my second card I used Whimsy's Speckled Heart Stencil together with ThermOWeb's Deco Foil Transfer Gel  and Magenta satin Transfer Sheets on light pink cardstock. 

I used the Envelope Edger dies and the heart dies from the Sketched Elephant die set to create a border. On top I added the Smile large word die as my sentiment.

Here you can see the amazing sheen and brilliance the magenta foil gives the heart speckles. I also added a few gemstones and crystal drops from the Sparkletz - Jelly Fish mix to finish off my card.

Would you like to win a $25 gift certificate to Whimsy Stamps?  To enter, leave comments on all of the collaboration posts on the Whimsy blog this week.  One winner will be randomly chosen from all of the blog posts, so the more posts you comment on, the better your chances are of winning!  You have until Monday, February 11th at midnight CST to comment.  The winner will be announced on the Whimsy blog on Tuesday, February 12th.

ThermOWeb is also offering a gift certificate, so be sure to visit their blog each day this week for more inspiration.  Leave comments on their blog for another chance to win!

Thanks for visiting!

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