Rick Adkins : Kylie's Demonstrator Training Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my second post today. My second post is for Kylie Bertucci's International Demonstrator Training April Blog Hop. I came up with a super cute card for today's hop. I went back to the 2018 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog for the stamp set that I used today. This was one that I had to have last year when I attended OnStage in Atlanta when I first saw it. But, I haven't used it a lot since getting it so I pulled out this fun stamp set and the coordinating dies my card. Here's a look at my card.

I used the Abstract Impressions Bundle to create my card. I love this multi-step stamp set to build just the right combination of floral images. Not to even mention the dies that cut out the most wonderful Spring images. This butterfly die is to die for.

As you can see on my card the butterfly is a nice size for a card front. The detailed die cut makes for a very impressive impact on any card or project. I die cut this one out of the matching designer series paper in a coordinating color. This helped to give a nice cohesive look to my card.

Thanks for dropping by for my second post today. I hope that you have enjoyed my card and if you need any of the supplies you can find them below in the shopping list. Make sure that you hop along to the next blog in the list. There's a lot of people hopping so you will find tons of inspiration. If you are viewing this post on my wordpress site you will need to click here to see the blog roll.

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Hello and welcome to my blog for the second post today; I am super excited to be hopping with all the wonderful demonstrators in Kylie's Training groups blog hop. All those involved are very talented and working very hard toward their goals. The card that I am using for this month's blog hop was not the card that had originally intended to use. It was quite different in both subject mater and style. But when I came up with this card design for my niece up coming birthday; I thought it was so cute that I just had to share it. My youngest niece will be a tween this year and she isn't the easiest one to come up with something for. She loves art, unicorns, and all things colorful; so when I figured this card out it checked all the boxes. So I created a Unicorn floral card for her. Here's a look at my card.

It took a little figuring out and a couple stamp sets and a few dies to come up with this design. I am betting you are wondering what I used to create this image. I had actually been contemplating how to do this for a few weeks now and finally came up with how yesterday. I figured that I could use the Amazing Life Stamp Set for starts. For the horn I used the cake from this stamp set along with a little masking. After stamping it I had to take a alcohol friendly pen to change the cake into the horn. After that I had to do a little stamp surgery to create the eye lashes. I didn't mind cutting this photopolymer stamp apart since its super easy to place back together on a block. And then when stamped you would never know that I had cut it. For the flowers and leaves that required a couple more stamp sets to do. I got the flowers from the Tropical Chic stamp set and the leaves came from Humming Along Stamp Set.

After stamping the leaves in Tuxedo black ink it was time to do a little coloring. I colored the horn with light & dark Pineapple Punch and dark Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blend Markers. For the leaves I used both dark and light Granny Apple Green Blends. Once I had everything colored it was time to start the die cutting. I used the matching framelits to cut the flowers and the leaves. Then I had to create some ears. I used dies from the Be Mine Framelit Dies to create them. I used the two smaller longer hearts to create the ears.

After I had everything glued and popped up where needed it was time to start putting the card together. I layered my focal image onto a piece of How Sweet It Is Designer Series Paper as my mat. I then added the card front to my Lovely Lipstick card base (4 1/4 x 11). I then added clear wink of stella the the unicorn's horn, flowers and leaves. To add a little more bling to the card for my niece I added 13 rhinestones to represent her birthday. For the out side sentiment I stamped I believe in you in tuxedo black ink. I picked that because I wanted her to know that I would also believe in her. For the inside of the card I added a strip of the same designer series paper along one side, and stamped Happy Birthday in Lovely Lipstick.

I hope that you have enjoyed my super cute card for today's blog hop. You will find all the supplies listed below the blog roll in the Shopping List. If you are viewing this post on my Wordpress sight you will need to click here to view the blog roll. Otherwise you will find it just below.

Happy Stampin'

Rick