Love You Lots Sloth

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here today, and I’m sharing a card created with a limited colour palette featuring rich blues and soft neutrals. I love how restricting the colours can really make the design feel cohesive and polished. For this card, I used stamps, dies, and stencils from Time For Tea Designs to bring everything together.

The background was created using the Flirty Flowers Stencil, Distress Watercolour Cardstock by Ranger, and Distress Watercolour Pencils. I soaked the Prize Ribbon, Iced Spruce, and Uncharted Mariner Distress Watercolour Pencils in water to soften the pigment. Then, I scribbled the colours onto the back of the Flirty Flowers Stencil and spritzed it lightly with water. I pressed the stencil onto the watercolour cardstock and let it sit for a while before carefully removing it. Once removed, I heat-set the panel to speed up the drying process. To finish the background, I added a few sprays of Snow Flurries Distress Mica Stain for extra shine and sparkle.

After the panel was completely dry, I die-cut it using the Rounded Corner Stitched Rectangle Dies and adhered it to a card base with liquid glue.

Next, I spritzed navy blue cardstock with Snow Flurries Distress Mica Stain and die-cut it using the  Love You Lots Large Sentiment Die. I also die-cut the sentiment from silver and white cardstock. I layered all three die-cuts together with liquid glue, slightly offsetting the silver layer to create a shadow effect. The finished sentiment was then adhered to the card front.

To complete the card, I stamped and coloured the sloth in a coffee cup from the Warm Hugs stamp set and cut it out using the coordinating die. I used Copic Markers to colour the image and added white gel pen accents for highlights. Finally, I attached the image to the card with 1 mm double-sided foam tape for added dimension.

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