Magical Friendship Week

Good to see you again! I'm so excited you're joining us for the Kindred Stamps & Witt and Sass Stamp Company "Magical Friendship Week" Collaboration! Our teams have put together some absolutely magical cards for you and today, I get to share mine!

I used the lion from Witt and Sass's Magical Creature stamp set and colored him up with Copics. He is paired with a boy and owl from the Kindred Stamps Student's of Magic stamp set which are also colored with Copics. For the owl, I used very little color, but did chose to dot the wing and a few other small sections to imitate a Snowy Owl. 

Next, I used a retired stencil from Clarity Stamps of a gnarly tree with a square from to create a background. I used Catherine Pooler inks for the grass and sky, from bottom to top, the colors are Eucalyptus, Skyline, Juniper Mist, Black Jack, and finally, Midnight. After lifting the stencil, I did go back and blend some color into the square frame of the stencil to diffuse the bright white that was left behind.

I didn't love the tree being white either, so I took two shades of brown Distress Crayons and colored it in, after coloring it in, I used a dry paint brush to kinda blend the colors together and soften the look. I placed my owl on a tree branch, and the lion and boy in the grass below. To add depth to the card, I glued to owl down with Tombow Mono Glue, but used dimensionals to pop the boy and lion up a touch.

I absolutely love this sentiment from Students of Magic, so I had to use it. I found an off white paper in a Graphic 45 stack to heat emboss the sentiment on to. I used a Lindy's Gang embossing powder (seriously fantastic powder!!) Looking through my die cuts I wasn't finding a shape or style that I loved so I opted to just fussy cut around the sentiment. 

I mounted my card face onto a sheet of patterned vellum that looked like stars, then mounted them both to a purple card base. To finish the card off, I added a few sequins from the Kindred Stamps Galaxy Shaker Pack. 

Hopefully, you've enjoyed my project, and hopefully you go pick up a few magical stamp sets of your own. I feel so lucky to have become friends with Audra of Kindred Stamps, and Amy of Witt and Sass Stamp Company. These are kind, genuine women who work their hind ends off to deliver exceptional products to their customers. I'm proud to have the chance to work with each of them, and truly value having both of them in my life.

I want to invite you to become part of our communities, you can join the Kindred Stamps Fan Club and become a Sassy in the Witt & Sass Stamp Company Facebook group. Make sure you check out all of the products that both Witt and Sass and Kindred Stamps have to offer as well! We can't wait to see what you make!

Thanks for stopping by,

~R. Winn