happy birthday critters ft. Evelin T Designs...

 Hello my fabulous friends!

I am so excited to be guest designing for Evelin T Designs this month!  

If you are familiar with my work, you may have noticed that I love watercoloring animals and flowers using the no line technique.  That love made this image absolutely perfect for me... 

Paper: Strathmore Bristol Smooth; Polkadoodles Soft and Scrumptious

Stamps: Evelin T Designs Sending Joy (digital stamp)

Ink: Uniball Signo White

Coloring: Zig Clean Color Real Brush

Banner- 900, 901

Bunny- 903, 069

Bear- 068, 075, 069, 902

Cat- 066, 069, 902

Flowers- 069, 230, 063

Leaves- 046, 043

Berries- 063

Dies: Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Rectangles

Other: Heidi Swapp Gold foil

I knew I wanted to  do some no line coloring with this image, and I also wanted to do some foiling... to do this, I created two layers of the image in photoshop.  The first layer I set the opacity to about 12% (this creates the very light lines that seem to disappear once colored. For the second layer, I selected just the words, and left that layer at 100% opacity so the ink would nice and dark there.

I printed onto some Bristol Smooth cardstock using a laser printer, and colored the whole piece using Zig Clean Color markers. I love these adorable animals and wanted to keep them super soft and sweet... 

You can obviously stop here, and it looks fabulous, but I wanted to add just a little extra pop...

I ran the image through my laminator with a little gold foil... Where the toner from the printer is full strength, the foil sticks beautifully, and where the toner is only at 12%, it is too weak to foil.  This makes selective foiling like this a breeze! 

Be sure to check out all the other fabulous clear and digi stamps over at Evelin T Designs! I'll be back later this month with another Evelin T. card!

See you soon!
~Kassi

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