Hello Crafters,
Sharing a card I made using the KaDoodle Bug Designs Cutie KaToodles Koala bear, sentiment from Jaded Blossom and other items from my craft stash.
I alway felt that a koala's ears were a little bit bigger on it's head than other bears so I had to enlarge the ears on this Koala file a wee bit to make them fit with how I think a Koala's ears should be. I also think that koala's need to be fuzzy so I decided to use gray and cream flocking powder on the pieces I cut out using my Silhouette Cameo machine.
If you never used or heard of flocking powder before, the best way I can describe it is if you took felt and ground it up into a fine powder you would get something similar to flocking powder. In order for the flocking powder to stick to my paper pieces I ran them through my Xyron to get adhesive on one side. NOTE: be sure to turn your pieces upside down before running them through the Xyron because the side faced down is the side that gets the adhesive. After I ran all the pieces through my Xyron 250 Sticker Maker I started to add the flocking powder. Below are some pictures showing you the process I use when adding flocking powder to my paper pieces.
From top to bottom of this pic you can see my koala paper pieces on the Xyron strip after I put them through the 250 Sticker Machine. Next you see the bottle of Martha Stewart Flocking Powder and then the flocking powder I poured onto a coffee filter and added one of my paper pieces to the pile of flocking powder.
Here it is slightly buried by the flocking powder.
Here it is fully buried by the flocking powder.
After I get it covered in flocking powder I rub it into the adhesive
and then tap it to get the loose flocking powder off the piece.
Here it is after I have worked the flocking powder into the adhesive.
Here is a close up of my finished koala bear. I just love him.
And finally my finished card.
I took the branch he's holding and increased their size in my Silhouette Design Studio software to make them into trees. I ran the branches/trunks through a woodgrain embossing folder after i inked it with Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Used my eBrush and copic markers to add details to the leaves.
Card Recipe:
- KaDoodle Bug Designs Cutie KaToodles Koala
- I used a technique I learned from the Kit and Clowder's Coloring Eyes tutorial to accent the brown part of his eyes.
- Click here to go to Kit and Clowder. If you sign up to take their tutorials I would greatly appreciate it if you would let them know you heard about them from me.
- Martha Stewart Gray flocking powder and cream flocking powder I bought in the dollar bin at Michael's years ago that I had in my craft stash.
- Darice Woodgrain embossing folder
- Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
- Copic Marker E79-Cashew to edge the sticks.
- Copic Marker G09-Veronese to add lines to leaves.
- Nuvo Crystal Drops ~ Ebony Black on his nose.
- Eyelashes are fake eyelashes from the Dollar Tree that I cut in half and added to the back of his eyes.
- Background paper is from a 6"x6" paper pack I bought from Michael's called Tropical Life. Thoughts the lines would make cool clouds or give it some dimension when I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks to make it look like a dusk sky.
- The paper I used for my grass is from my stash and I used Lawn Fawn Meadow Borders to cut them out.
- Ribbon on the side is from a company that is no longer aground called 3 Girl Jams. This green was from their Spooky Bundle and they called it goblin green. I love their ribbon so I bought a bunch when I found out they weren't going to be in business anymore.
- Sentiment is from Jaded Blossom's G'Day Mate stamp set.
Thanks for stopping by.
Hope I inspired you with some different medias to use in making your cards.
Happy Crafting!
TTFN,
Debby
