Pop-up Unicorn

I've been playing along with Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker for the 30 Day Colouring Challenge and wanted to put some of my pieces together on a card. This is one of my favourite types of card. I love pop-ups, how they change from the flat 2D envelope form to their glorious 3D box shape. I've watercoloured all the stamps, shapes and diecuts with distress markers and heat embossed Elodie and the number two in gold. Acetate strips anchor all the elements in place and provide a little movement to the card.

A special card for a special niece to celebrate her 2nd birthday. Here's hoping her birthday is all rainbows and unicorns! 

Challenges:

Moving Along with the Times #53: Add a Number [2]

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Stamp It

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Stamp It

Tic Tac Toe Challenge TTTC014: Acetate, Dimension, Gold [Column 1]

Unicorn Blog Challenge #25: Birthday

Supplies:
Distress Markers
Gold Embossing Powder

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After; The Greeting Farm Magical Friends; Paper Smooches Spectrum; Concord & 9th Sophisticated Script; Papermania Numbers
Dies: Tim Holtz Handwritten Celebrate; Lawn Fawn Hearts; Spellbinders Stars
Gold Pen, Stickles

Inking Dylusions

Local Craft Clubs are a great way to give yourself the time, opportunity and encouragement to get crafty. One of the girls was in a Dylusions mood, so I tried to put into practice what I had learned from Dyan Reaveley. However as our time was nearly up and the raffle was ongoing I rushed it a bit. Making the best of it, I decided my arrows were meant to be in the foreground and the thicker than required application of distress paint through the stencil was the desired effect. 

I started this background in the same way as my last project, but then hand splattered some water and with a splatter brush straight from the bottle some Dylusions white linen ink. I stamped the Cat and Pigeons in jet black archival ink and watercoloured with distress crayons. In order to get truer colours, I removed some of the background ink with a waterbrush first. 

When I got home I finished by doodling with a white paint pen and a black ink pen and edged the card with distress crayon and distress ink. Never one to know when to stop, I felt the card needed something else so stencilled stars with hickory smoke distress ink.

Another fun inky time was had, but I did have some cleaning up to do. Thankfully the inks and paints were all water based so a quick wipe and the club didn't lose their damage deposit!

Happy Inking! 

Challenges: 

Craft Rocket Challenge #40: Animal Kingdom

Moving Along with the Times Challenge #51:Things That Fly

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Splatter It
The Artistic Stamper Creative Challenge: August Anything Goes

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #tttc009 (diagonal: one layer, distress inks, all things round- lots of dots & spots)

Supplies:
Archival Ink Jet Black

Distress Inks

Distress Crayons
Distress Paint
Dylusions Sprays
Primary Elements Powder
Stamps: Dylusions Cat Among the Pigeons, Lawn Fawn Year Two
Stencils: THMS070; Dylusions Large Arrow Border; Finnabair Stars, Dots&Stripes
Paint Pen, Ink Pen