Tuesday With Toni

Happy  Tuesday everyone!  Cathy here for a quick announcement!  Thanks for all the lovely comments welcoming Toni!  We randomly selected a name from the comments on Sunday.  Our winner is Cynthia Cole.  Cynthia, please email your shipping address to hello@doodlebugswa.com. We will send a package of goodies out to you.  Thanks again for all the support and kind words!

Hello, everyone!  I have two very cute cards for you today!  The card on the left was my original and the other my simplified version.

You:  Simplified? But, Toni, the second looks just as complicated.
Me:  Nah. The background paper does away with the stenciling, sponging, glitter and most of the diecuts!

Let's talk about the original card, shall we?  I sponged a panel with Distress Oxide Peacock Feathers and Wilted Violet using a Picket Fence Studio Blender Brush and the MFT Mini Cloud Edges stencil. I then die cut this using the Lawn Fawn Rainy Backdrop Portrait Die. Insert happy dance.

Next I covered the card base with Scor-Tape then lay the Lawn Fawn Rainy Backdrop Portrait panel on top. I sprinkled Doodlebug Design glitter over that and burnished it with my fingers into the raindrops. So sparkly!

Piggy time!  I stamped the MFT Scene Builder hills on Strathmore Bristol Smooth using Versafine Onyx Black. I fussy cut it out then watercolored it with Zig Real Brush Pens. I adhered the hills onto the card using Scor-Tape. 

The MFT Piggy Pebbles umbrella piggy is also stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and colored with Zigs.

Final touches included adding Whimsy Stamps Up in the Clouds diecuts and paper-piecing the umbrella using a snippet from the Doodlebug Design Lots o' Luck 6x6 Paper.

Now reading how I made the original card, you can tell it takes quite some effort and time.  With the second card, I eliminated a chunk of the base layer stuff by using American Crafts 12x12 patterned paper for a similar effect.

Other changes here include adding the grass from the MFT Scene Builder set using Distress Oxide Mowed Lawn. Very simple to do and lots of visual impact.

So I was able to simplify this enough that I brought this along as a Make n Take to a crafty gathering last month. Yay!

Feel free to stop by my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, to see my other creations, or you can follow me on Instagram.  See you soon!

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