Friday, March 14, 2014

Color Me Pretty

Hello and happy Friday!  Woot!  I hope you had a good week and have an even better weekend planned. :)

Speaking of weekends, my daughter and I are going to a birthday party for a 6 year old.  This is a dance party complete with tutus.  Should be fun.  So, I made today's card for that birthday girl. Seriously, what girl doesn't love to dream about unicorns and rainbows?!

I plan to make another just like it for Emma's card drive.  Just a reminder...we have a blog hop and card drive going on for her right now, you can check my link here or start at the beginning of the hop at Amy's blog. There are prizes up for grabs for hoppers AND for those that participate in the card drive.  So won't you come join us?  You have until March 24th.

Meanwhile, I wanted to tell you just a little bit about this card.  Remember my faux watercolor tutorial using tissue paper?  Well this is my second card using tissue.  I simply crumpled it up a bit, sort of accordion style but it doesn't have to be perfect and applied it from the bottom layer up.  The washi from MME is the perfect accent on top.  I stamped the sweet, sweet unicorn from the new Paper Smooches Spectrum set.  I then used colored pencils, which translated better than I thought they would onto the kraft paper.  I am super happy with the result.

Today's Question of the Day is- Besides using it for gift wrap, when was the last time you used tissue paper and what for?

Entering this into:
CAS on Sunday- Color Me Pretty
Addicted to Stamps- Anything Goes

14 comments:

Deepti said...

OH my goodness!!!! I am in awe... cuteness , colors everything is perfect :) love it. Thank you for sharing with ATSM!!

~amy~ said...

how SWEET...you're rockin' the tissue and the card drive!!!

Chunyuan said...

such a fun card. Have fun at the party.

wendipooh13 said...

ohhhh love the layers and cute image!!! totally fun1!

Migdalia said...

Really SWEET!
Have a wonderful day,
Migdalia
*Crafting With Creative M*

Tenia Nelson said...

Super cuteness!!! ;)

Lisa Elton said...

PERFECT for a 6 years old girl!! Your ruffly tissue paper echos those tutus they'll be wearing ;)

Karin Åkesdotter said...

WOW!! You make the coolest tissue technique cards! This is AWESOME too! Love it! Hugs, Karin

Colleen Dietrich said...

squeal! How CUTE is this?! I love it! Emma will love it. :) Thank you so much for linking this up to the card drive for her.

stressfreestamping said...

I LOVE the coloring on the Kraft cardstock. It looks amazingly bright! The tissue paper is a beautiful touch too. Love it all! Thanks for sharing with us at ATSM. :)

Rose said...

Katie this is too cute and i love the bright tissue paper!!! Emma is sure to love it :)

Unknown said...

SO cute! Loving the krafty background with the unicorn!! :)

lauren bergold said...

oh *WOW* i love every single thing about this, ESPECIALLY the gorgeous "crepe paper" streamers... which are... ruffled tissue paper strips?! holy wow, that is BRILLIANT!!!!! (as is the washi tape "anchor" on top!) and again i say, "WOW!" <3

Kelly said...

just darling! thanks for promoting the drive!!