This is Polka Dot Pals Gemma which I have drawn with a COVID-19 theme and is now available as a FREEBIE at Whimsy Stamps. This cutie can be used to thank helpers at the grocery store who bring out your purchases to your car. Or for those who go shopping for the elderly or others who are unable to go out.
This is also a great stamp to practice coloring eyes without having to worry about the nose or mouth. For my card here, I colored in her eyes with creative color placement. You could also use the eyes on the face stamps and see how they turn out – just make sure not to ink the mouth and noses.
I wanted to keep the card simple but I ended up laying it several times then adding doodles. It was still quick to put together so that was my main goal.
There is a new coordinating die that was released that goes along with the Atlas Jar clear stamp set and I couldn’t wait to use them both together. It’s called the Mason Atlas Jar die set and includes enough elements to use them in a variety of ways. For my project today, I created a window shaker card. And the theme? Well, it’s a long story…
We all know we’re stuck home due to the COVID-19 and that toilet paper is in high demand so I piggy backed off of that theme. Second, my youngest daughter worked on black-out poetry and I thought it would be interesting to do some too. So I grabbed my scrap dictionary and ripped out the page that defined toilet paper. I was ready to begin!
Once I had my poem complete, I drew some toilet paper to add as shaker elements. I was also lucky enough to have some grape Fimo clay slices which was perfect! The rest of the card came together very quickly and I added the unicorn and sentiment from the Polka Dot Pals Mason set.
My poem says: “Personal toilet paper scented with a magnetic variety of eastern grapes.” Sounds like the kind of toilet paper I want to use! LOL
Here’s the poem that my daughter did. It says: “Sasha blinked and lost letter were all Sasha could see. Strange hero blew in the air danced with trolls.”
This one should look familiar – this is Polka Dot Pals Fern and is what I’m currently using as my avatar. This was one of the first images that I released and colored with Whimsy Stamps. I used Polka Dot Pals Syeda for the face.
I’ve brought out Polka Dot Pals Atlas again with an added a puckered-up face from Polka Dot Pals Mason which was released yesterday. I thought sweet flowers and a kiss would be perfect to send someone. But I didn’t expect the creative juices to take over as I changed that kiss into blowing bubble gum. Now that’s one giant bubble!
Polka Dot Pals Atlas has her arms wide open and can hold a variety of thing or giving a great big hug to someone or something. She’s really a fun character to work with.
I colored the bubble first then the rest of the image. I avoided adding any color behind the bubble thinking that the wall of the bubblegum would be thick enough that one really couldn’t see through it. Did it work? I think so but that’s up to you to decide. For the glossy look, I used Nuvo Crystal Drops over the bubble.
New at Whimsy Stamps – Polka Dot Pals digital scenes! Oh yes, you heard that right … digital scenes! Now you can instantly download and color fabulous Polka Dot Pal scenes, like this one. I used Polka Dot Pals Imogen Garden Fairy Scene today. You’ll find this one plus five others to choose from.
I stared my project by selecting the color I wanted to do for the flowers. I was recently reading about the Texas Bluebonnets so my inspiration came from that. Did you know there are pink and purple bluebonnets too? I didn’t know that so that was a fun fact. Anyway, these aren’t bluebonnets but I was still going to color them blue.
The sky was difficult for me and I wasn’t able to get the colors blended very well. So I gave up on that and went with a dotted method. It wasn’t what I wanted but it works. Another thing I tried to do was bring the foreground to focus with all the flowers in the corner. I did this by adding tall strands of grass from the base of the image in both corners then adding some smaller flowers with a white gel pen and liquid pearls.
If you’ve been following my work then you’ve probably seen this colored image before. When I colored it, I wasn’t in the capacity to make any cards so it hung on my wall until now. I finally brought it down and put it to use. For this project, I used Polka Dot Pals Imogen and had her sitting in the Mason Jar.
The Mason Jar is so fun to use and put things inside especially this larger one which allows for characters and all sorts of things to be included.
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