Hi friends, this is Caitlin from Caitlin Annalee Cards and today I am sharing a sweet sneak peek of the new Mush Love Stamp set. I instantly fell in love with this little chunky mushroom image and I knew that I wanted it to be the focus of my card. I started by stamping it out 3 times with the Asphalt Ink and let them dry for a few minutes. While they were drying, I looked through my pattern papers and decided that the watercolor/tie dye blue/teal/purple paper from the Butterfly Kisses Pattern Paper Pack. I used that pattern paper to pick all of my Copic colors and colored each mushroom in one of the background colors. I love creating this almost tone on tone feel with the images coordinating so closely to the paper.
I used the coordinating dies to cut out the images and added some white gel pen highlights to them to bump up the cuteness. I trimmed down my pattern paper to be 5 in x 3.75 in and brought in a woven pattern back ground from the same paper pack for my first layer. I started out by adhering the woven paper to my side folding A2 card base with EZ Squeeze Liquid Glue and then added the watercolor pattern on top with liquid glue as well. I added foam tape to the back of all my mushrooms and before I removed the backing paper, I realized they needed something to stand on. I used a scrap from the woven pattern that I had trimmed off and glued that down flat to act as a little shelf.
I was finally ready to remove the backing paper and attach my mushrooms into place, in the same color order as the paper. Then I realized I wanted a sentiment so I grabbed the Hello stamp from the Mush Love Stamp set and stamped it onto the other scrap piece of the woven pattern with black ink. I adhered that flat underneath the images and I was torn about adding gems or enamel dots but I decided I wanted the mushrooms to be the main focus and decided to skip it this time. I love how this turned out and I hope you are excited to see all the goodness coming on Friday!!!!!
Super cute and love the colors!