Monday, July 1, 2019

A Zebra in an Unicorn Outfit

What happened to May and June?  It's been busy around here and the blog has been neglected.  It's about time I rectify the situation.  Excuse the not-so-great photos.  I snapped them quickly as I wanted to get the blog updated without further delay.

My latest project is a card for the BFF's daughter.  I originally wanted to create a unicorn card, because the birthday girl loves unicorns, but I don't have any unicorn items.  I did however, have a zebra - close enough right?  I got distracted by a technique I wanted to try which didn't work out - I tried adding coloured glitter and microbeads to embossing mousse (they didn't show through sadly).  I fixed it by sprinkling glitter over the still wet embossing mousse.  Then I got distracted by a mermaid theme as it suited the stencil I used.  I don't have mermaids either so I fussy cut some from some patterned paper.  Those who know me, know I hate fussy cutting #itmustbelove .  The final project is not my best work but it will do:


On the inside I wrote a special birthday message and covered it with a scratch off sticker.  Hopefully I am not encouraging gambling by doing that!


When I saw the birthday girl last week and told her I already bought her present and made her card she wanted to know if there was a unicorn on her card, because she loooooooves unicorns! Sigh. So I had to try and add one in of course.  The only space left was on the back and I still only had the zebra shape:


I hope the birthday girl likes her card with a zebra dressed as a unicorn (or a unicorn in a zebra outfit - whatever works).

Materials:
Tonic Studios - embossing mousse
American Crafts - glitter, sticker, mermaid paper, stencil
Pink & Main - stamp
Ranger - ink
Studio Calico - acrylic pieces, scratch off sticker
Other - card, balloon brad, embroidery thread




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