Vanessa's Birthday Blog Hop

Hello friends and happy BLACK Friday!  Best of luck to you brave souls who dare to venture out on this day because I want no part of it!  Those crowds are not for me!  Today, you will find me shopping local at the Butterfly Reflections, Ink in New Hampshire for my very first time!  Be sure to follow along on Instagram to see all the behind the scenes photos from the store and more.  I'm excited because it is also the shop owner, Vanessa's birthday, so I will get to wish her a happy birthday in person.  To celebrate, a large group of current and past Design Team members, along with some special guests, will be doing a blog hop on Instagram sharing cards that were inspired by some of Vanessa's favorite things:  the color fushia, cute critters (she LOVES Hello Bluebird), coffee and pumpkin spice.  Here is the card I created for her:

Card details:

This slimline card ( 8 1/2" x 3 1/2") was made from Berry Burst cardstock.  The first matted layer is a  8 1/4" x 3 1/4" piece of Neenah Solar White smooth cardstock.  I die cut the mountains in Blushing Bride cardstock using the Hello Sweetums Mountains of Fun dies. I die cut the trees using the Lawn Fawn Stitched Trees dies.  I stamped all of the critters, trees and presents from the Hello Bluebird Frosty Friends stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them using Copic markers.  I added highlights to some of the images with a Uniball White Gel pen.  I also added Lawn Fawn ultrafine glitter to the snowbanks and critters' hats.  I added many of the images to the card using 3M foam adhesive.  I stamped the sentiment at the bottom of the card in Berry Burst ink.  Lastly, I added a coat of clear Wink of Stella to the images for added sparkle.

Here are the Copic colors I used for coloring:

Here is the Frosty Friends stamp set by Hello Bluebird (available through Butterfly Reflections, Ink) that I used to create today's card:

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Be sure to follow along on Instagram to see what everyone else created for Vanessa's birthday!
Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a wonderfully creative weekend!

XO, Crystal