Hello, friend and happy Saturday!! I hope you have some fun plans for the weekend!!

Perhaps you are hopping along on the Picket Fence Studios & Maker Forte Instagram Hop!! This is a huge hop full of inspiration using the Maker Forte inks and Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blending Brushes!! Let me tell you, they are a match made in heaven!! The inks blend effortlessly with the brushes!!

Here are the details for my card featured on the hop!!

I began by stamping the adorable critter image from An Animal Crackers Christmas Hello Stamp Set onto white cardstock with Black Hybrid Ink. I colored it with Copic markers, added details and highlights with a white gel pen, then cut it out with the Coordinating Die.

For the background, I blended Welsh Dragon ink onto a panel of mint green cardstock using the Christmas Tree Lot Stencil and a Life Changing Blending Brush. I diluted some Snow Flurries ink and splattered it onto the panel with a paint brush, then removed the stencil. Once dry, the panel was trimmed slightly and adhered to an A2 panel of turquoise cardstock, then to a white top-folding card base.

The sentiments, also from An Animal Cracker Christmas Hello, were white heat embossed onto black cardstock and cut out with the Coordinating Dies. The critter die-cut and sentiments were all popped up with foam tape for dimension.

Be sure to head over to IG to join in the fun!! You can get started on my account @mypapercutcreations or at the beginning of the hop @maker.forte!!

Thanks so much for dropping by!! Have a great weekend and I’ll see you soon!!