Wishing Ewe A Happy Birthday by Rosali

HI Everyone,

We are so excited today to bring you the cutest card by Rosali at ilovestamping (instagram). As you know, she has a special talent for fun and creative cards. We just love how she created the happy, romping sheep in the ‘meadow’ using the My Favorite Things Ewe and Me Forever stamp and die set!

After you get done enjoying this cutie, be sure to turn your eyes to her ‘ilovestamping’ instagram account. She has packed it with loads of inspiration!

Hello everyone! I am very happy to be returning to The Foiled Fox’ blog with my first post for 2018 and I brought you cute sheep from My Favorite Things!

The stamp set is called “Ewe and Me Forever” and it’s from their latest release. What I love to do with new release supplies is to combine them with older, previously released items! And I had my eye on the awesome “Snow Drifts Cover-Up” die-namics for quite some time because I think it’s really versatile. It might be called “Snow Drifts” but I have seen it used for water waves, hills or just as a graphical background (I am immediately thinking rainbow colors! Who else is in love with them? ☺). In combination with the sheep images, the background die is perfect for some green hills so that is what I went with for my card.

I used three different shades of Distress Inks (you can find all the exact colors down below the blog post) for the bottom three ‘hills’ of the die-cut background. By doing this I created some visual depth for my little scene.

Hint: I use Neenah Solar White for my ink blending and always tap off my blending tool on my craft mat before letting the ink touch my paper. Then I start from the side of the paper in a circular motion and with very light pressure. That way I avoid getting harsh lines. If you struggle to get even blending you can also use a smooth watercolor paper – it makes it much easier!

For the sky, I used Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to ink blend over a cloud stencil directly on my card base. I did not want to keep the upper horizontal lines from the die over my sky so I cut them away right aside the frame with my craft scissors. I foam mounted my hills and frame onto the Neenah 110 lb card base for some dimension.

I picked two sheep from the stamp set, a smaller one for the back and a larger one for the front – that way the smaller one appears as if it was further away. I colored them with Copics. Here’s the Copic colors that I used:

Sheep’s body: W0, W1, W4

Sheep’s face & feet: E74, E77, E49, and 0, W3 for the highlight on the nose

Inside of sheep’s ears: E27

Bows & hearts: G17, G28 / R37, R39