Sticky Business with Team Lou at the Southern Girls

It's time for another challenge with us at the Southern Girls.

This fortnight Team Lou have created projects to inspire you for the new challenge

Challenge #162 - Sticky Business with Team Lou

This fortnight we are all about sticky things!

We want to see things stuck on your projects,
things like Washi Tape, Sequins and Enamel Dots and more.

Our generous sponsors for this challenge are

   

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Today I have used the super cute Unicorn Besty digital stamp by Ppinkydolls, one of our generous sponsors this fortnight.

I printed the image on X-Press It blending card, heat set then started colouring with Copic markers.  I spent some time learning more about unicorns before the colouring began, with some fun blending lessons.  Copic markers with the same saturation number (1st number after the colour letter/s) or the same brightness number (the 2nd number after the colour letter/s) blend well together and make for interesting new colours.  My unicorn's mane is a combination of E00-BV00-B00, with a touch of E11 to add a richness to the darkest portions created with E00.

On a side note, I did have a little experiment before I finished colouring and thought I would share another couple of blending combos using some smaller image panels.
BG01-YG01-R01              BG00-YR12-YG13

Back to my birthday card.  After the colouring was completed I trimmed the image panel down and matted with black cardstock, trimming it to a 1/16" border with my Perfect Layers ruler (a very cool tool).  I made a huge square top folding card base (... dare I confess that it's 8x8"?!), matted it with black cardstock in readiness for some sparkle.  I cut two panels of heavy glitter cardstock (it's from Kaisercraft, so much sparkle, a pleasure to cut and no, I repeat NO, loose glitter).  I made a glitter tape rainbow along the side of the darker blue panel, looping the strips around the back to keep them securely in place.  I adhered the glitter panels to the card base, then the image panel.  I cut three clouds from crystal glitter cardstock and covered them with sequins in a variety of sizes.  The clouds were overlapped and popped in place with foam squares of different thicknesses.  I went a bit sequin crazy when I started adding the "sparkling rain" ... warning, sparkling clear sequins are addictive and fun!  The sentiment panel was a combination of fonts, printed on the same cardstock as the image panel (so that the whites matched) with the black matting trimmed down to 1/16".  I popped the sentiment panel with foam squares.

   

Here a pic to show the dimension of the clouds and sentiment panel.

I can't resist another couple of pics, the image and sparkle of this card are so magical and happy together ... 

   

*** INGREDIENTS ***

Ppinkydolls - digital stamp - Unicorn Besty

X-Press It A5 Blending Card

Copic markers - skin - E0000-000-00-11
Copic markers - hair - E31-33-35-37
Copic markers - eyes - YG03-17-67
Copic markers - clothes - G20-21-24 R81-83-85
Copic markers - boots - T0-1-3-5-7-9

Copic markers - unicorn body - R81-83-85
Copic markers - unicorn mane - E11 E00 BV00 B00
Copic markers - horn - C0-1 + clear Wink Of Stella glitter brush
Copic markers - ground -  E40-41-42-43-44
X-Press It - Glitter Deco Tape

 Wink Of Stella Clear Glitter Brush - sparkle added to horn

Kaisercraft - glitter cardstock - Royalty
Kaisercraft - glitter cardstock - Splash
Kaisercraft - glitter cardstock - Crystal (for the clouds)
American Crafts - textured cardstock - black
Martha Stewart scoreboard
X-Press It - Paper Deco Tape (glitter) - 6mm - rainbow
Pretty Pink Posh - Sparkling Clear Sequins - 3 to 10mm - raindrops

Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sequins
foam squares to adhere the clouds and sentiment panel
Perfect Layers Ruler - 1/16" matted layers

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Sending a big Thank You to Ppinkydolls for sponsoring

Challenge #162 - Sticky Business with Team Lou with us at the Southern Girls.

I hope I have inspired you to create a project filled with sticky elements and look forward to seeing your work shared in the challenge gallery.  Remember we are not just a card blog, we love to see scrapbook layouts, artjournal pages and all types of papercraft.

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges (alphabetical order):

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2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Challenge #3 - Anything Goes with Critters
A Perfect Time To Craft - Challenge #6 - Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Challenge - WK 23 - Anything Goes
Colour It! Create It!  Show It Off! - June Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafting With An Attitude - Challenge #28 - Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog - #42 - June is full of Sparkle and Sprinkle
Creative Ladybirds Creations Challenge Blog - Challenge #27 - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Challenge #120 - Anything Goes + optional twist "Flag Day"
Digi Choosday Craft Challenge - Week 23 - Anything Goes
Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Birthdays Challenge
Glitter 'N' Sparkle Challenge Blog - Challenge #243 - Colour - Use Bright Colours

Ike's World Challenges - Challenge #90 - Anything Goes with optional twist
inspiration photo - I'm inspired by the water ... sparkling shades of blue

Incy Wincy Designs - 5th June Challenge - Anything Goes

Morgan's ArtWorld - Challenge #11 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - PIP Challenge 1724 - Anything Goes

Scrapbook Stamp Society - Challenge #118 - Anything Goes option Father's Day

SheepSki Designs Challenges - Challenge #3 - Girlz Rule

The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - Challenge #112 - All Creatures Great And Small

Through The Craft Room Door - TTCRD Anything Goes for June 13-20