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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Love the bear! Darling card!
I love the googly eyes on the bear. So cute
Love that adorable bear, and the sparkly background is so pretty!
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It’s those tiny details that set a card apart, and I often find myself lacking in them, so I really appreciate this tutorial! This has given me some great ideas that I will try on my next cards. Thank you!
Great card! I agree, those extra details add so much!
Very sweet card!
Your card is adorable, Debby. Thanks for sharing it and your helpful video.
I adore this, so sweet and adorable!
Adorable card, I love the fun design!
These picture book creatures are so cute. I need to get my hands on them. Cute card.
Pretty card. Love all the small details you added. That glimmer paste is something I need to look into (but I see it is out of stock at SSS)
Adorable card. Love the bear. Thanks for sharing…
Love this awesome card! The bear is so adorable with his googly eyes!
That’s truly an adorable card ! Thanks the tips and ideas !
Very cute!
Cute card and detailed video. The Folk Dance stencil was my favorite item in the latest release. Will have to try the Glimmer paste—with few exceptions, Nuvo products are the best!
The bear is just adorable and the googlie eyes just add to his character. Such wonderful details to this card.
Love the little heart on the bear
One small addition makes a big impact
on a design. thanks for sharing
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Such a sweet card! All the little touches really do make the difference.
Debby, this is just sweet. I love the bear and the pine needle dies. This is such a great card design, I love it.
How cute is that
bear! Lovely card
full of fun.
Carla from Utah
This card is DARLING!!!
Adorable scene Debby~ I love the ombre background and the googly eyes really make the bear even cuter! TFS
Adorable Bear!! Love the dimension and the googly eyes! :)
So very cute – love me a bear! Nice work
Today’s card is so cute with the little bear and his cute little red heart.
this card is super sweet!
such a sweet card …
Your finishing touches really made the card special. Thanks for the tips. Is the tacky glue matte finish? I read the description and it doesn’t say.
That stenciled, soft glittery background lifts this card! Gorgeous!!
Oh what a cute little bear and I just love that red pattern paper you used
Such a beautiful and very adorable card!!! I really love the story book dies!!
What an adorable card! Love all the extra touches you’ve added to make this card really shine.
Love this card!!! Thanks for sharing you techniques.
Sweet card! The design is darling ♥
Love the ideas for all the details you put into your card. Sometimes I struggle when I think ‘this needs a little something more’ to finish it off. Thanks for sharing!
What a cute card. My grand-daughter would love it!
I haven’t tried glimmer paste yet but you make a very good argument for giving it a whirl. :) Sounds neat!
Love your design. So cute and fun. Hugz
Love all of your extra special details that really added to the depth and beauty of the card!
What a sweet card Debby. Wonderful design and love the little extra touches you added to make your card so delightful. Thanks for sharing.
Awww what a cutie, LOVE that gorgeous stencil. Thanks for the tips too :)
I really like how you created this card and the result is adorable.
A darling card and the details really do make a difference. I quite enjoyed the video as well as I learned of a few products that I’d like to look into!
Adorable little bear!
Wonderful card, love all your detail ideas and beautiful background.
Such a cute card Debby! I love it!
This is a super cute card.
So sweet!