Doodling with Debby: Adding Finishing Touches
Hi friends! TGIF! Welcome to the latest edition of “Doodling with Debby” with the always fabulous Debby Hughes! She’s giving some helpful tips and tricks on how to add finishing touches to a card. Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
Hi, it’s Debby here today with my monthly video feature for Simon Says Stamp, Doodling With Debby. For this month’s card, I wanted to look at adding all those little finishing touches which together give a polished result and add extra interest too. My card uses the new, oh so cute, Picture Book Love Bear and the beautiful Folk Dance Stencil.
Firstly, to create the bear I cut the Picture Book Love Bear from Neenah Desert Storm, Ivory, Cotton Candy, twice from Lipstick Red and finally from Black card. You could start compiling the pieces together straight away, but I want to add those extra details, and so I gently sponged Simon Says Stamp Khaki ink around the edges of the bear’s body. This gives the impression of dimension and also deepens the color of the card slightly to a more bear-like shade! Using Craft Tacky Glue, I jigsawed the pieces together on a piece of white card and then trimmed out. You could add the bear directly to your background. But I wanted to foam mount him for extra dimension.
Moving on and I wanted to add more of those finishing touches to the bear to add interest. I used a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen to add a glittery finish to the red heart and pink heart ears. I used a Sakura glossy black pen to add a realistic gloss to his nose. Then to create more dimension and draw your eye to the red heart, I added the second red heart I’d die cut, with foam adhesive, again coated with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen and then a coat of Nuvo Crystal Glaze. Finally, for his eyes, I added a pair of wiggle eyes.
I blended Lake Shores and Scuba inks into a panel of the white card. You could mount the bear straight on to this background, but with a view to adding more interest I wanted to take the background up a notch by adding a subtle sparkly pattern using the new Folk Dance stencil and Nuvo Glimmer paste in the Moonstone colorway. Using a Ranger spatula, I spread the paste from one side to another as if spreading butter. This glimmer paste is my new love, and I’m going to need to buy a new pot soon as all I want to do is add sparkle to everything!
Although I like white space both regarding space and the color, for today I broke out the patterned paper from a recent card kit – Pebbles Inc. from their Forever My Always 6×6 paper pad. I trimmed the paper to be just slightly smaller than an A2 card base and then ran it through the die cutter with a Nested Circle die offset to the lower right corner. While I had my die cutter out, I also ran the Pine Needle Trio though with some Green Leaf card.
I trimmed the ink blended piece so that it was just slightly smaller than my patterned paper panel. Then I added foam adhesive to the back of the patterned paper and added the ink blended piece behind the open circle. I added foam adhesive to the back of the bear and then mounted him slightly to one side at the base of the open circle. I trimmed the pine needle trio pieces to fit around the bear as if they were trees and the bear was standing in a forest. I then adhered each of the pine needles with Craft Tacky Glue to keep them in place. I only added glue to the base of the trunk so that the branches could be loose from the background and add extra dimension.
I added Craft Tacky Glue to the back of the panel and adhered it to the Ivory card base. I stamped the Happy Valentine’s Day sentiment from the Breakfast Buddies stamp set in clear embossing ink on the Black card and white heat embossed. I then trimmed the sentiment to a skinny banner and added it with foam adhesive along the base of the circle opening. One final touch was to add a pair of Little Things From Lucy’s Card sequins, again held in place with Craft Tacky Glue.
Thanks for joining me today. I hope you enjoyed this look at how to add more details and interest to a card to take it up a notch. I’ll see you next month for Doodling With Debby!
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Debby, this card is adorable! I love sparkle on anything and the pine pieces are a darling touch! :-)
LOVE THE LITTLE HEART!
Love the bear’s pink ears and googley eyes! Perfect layering with the forrest you made. The patterned paper and offset design is very nice.
So adorable! Always enjoy your beautiful cards.
Too cute!!!
Cute Valentine’s Day card! ♥
love this cute card – the sparkle from the paste is so yummy:)
Lovely card…thanks for sharing what you did to finish it off and make it sparkle. Love the folk dance stencil and glittery paste background!
Hi Debby,
Such a cute card. Thanks for the inspiration, I haven’t tried the Glimmer Paste before, but your background was so beautiful, I’m going to have to place an order.
Take care
Tracy
Hi Debby, what a cute and sweet card. Love how you used so many techniques on this card. Thanks for sharing your great ideas with us.
Funny and sweet!
Such a cute card. The glimmer paste is quite a find. Thanks for the inspiration.
The card is fantastic, Debby. I’m always interested to see how these dies are used. I agree that finishing touches with added details will take a design to another level – thank you for sharing some great ideas that make this sweet Storybook die even cuter.
I love googly eyes on every thing, makes things cute cute cute…as is this lovely bear in his forest
Soooo cute! I love that shimmer in the background
Adorable!
Cute card!
Great tips and adorable card!!
Love tbe googly eyes and the stenciled background!
So cute. A honey of a bear. Like the critters.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Adorable card! I love the googlie eyes!
Awesome card, Thanks for the viedo, I love the sparkle blue background!
What a sweet Valentine–beautifully crafted!
So super cute!!
Adorable card, I do sometimes struggle with the finishing touches.
SUPER adorable! Love the cute googly eyes!!
This is such an adorable card! I love that the bear has hearts in its ears :)
Cute card! Love all the lovely embellishments. Happy weekend!
A darling card!
I love how the circle is off to the side and those sprigs of greenery.
So cute! I need a Bear Hug!
Super cute card Debby! All of the extra touches make the card. I love the addition of the glimmer paste.
Such a cute card! That bear is adorable!
This Valentine’s card is great–love the cute bear!
This is so very cute. It’s always fun to watch you create and I usually see something I want…..today, the glimmer paste :). My craft mat has been well-used and looks much worse than yours. Perhaps I should replace it, too! Thanks for another great video!
Love all the tips Debby shares add some small finishing touches for added interest, and her adorable card!
Very cute bear! I love how the heart pops! Even his ears are tiny hearts – so precious! Adorable card!
Very cute card.
Super cute card! I love it!
All your finishing touches are great, especially the eyes!
So cute with this bear and the googly eyes.
Great video, Debby with lots of useful tips. It’s amazing how something as simple as sponging a little ink on the edge of the bear makes it look so much more “done.”
That’s really cute. The stencil is so pretty.
Adorable card, love the color combo!
Cute card! Thanks for sharing all the special finishing touches.
Love all the texture and detail on the card – big fan of googly eyes here! ;-)
How cute is this?!
Super FUN and Adorable card!!!
This is an adorable card ! Thank you for sharing all the useful tips and giving us the inspiration.
This is soooo adorable <3 Thanks for sharing your ideas with us :)