Morning all!
Sadly, I’m having to go light on the crafting at the moment, as I’ve trapped a nerve in my left arm and can’t do much with that hand for long due to the numbness and discomfort.
It’s very hard to rest it (who knew your non-dominant arm got used for so much?), but it could be several weeks or months until it resolves itself. So keeping my fingers crossed, at least on my other hand, that it recovers sooner rather than later.
But there’s a very special birthday around here, and that’s my niece’s much awaited 7th birthday – so a handmade card was still on my list.
As I can’t do much die-cutting right now, I needed a clean and simple project, and thankfully I remembered the Magical Unicorn set from Pinkfresh Studio would still fit the bill. Tigers are “out”, but unicorns are still “in” – according to my niece.
I also needed inspiration, and well this beautiful card by Caly Pearson looked totally doable on the hottest day of the year and with limited mobility. So I shamelessly lifted it!
Here’s my take:
Stamps: Pinkfresh Studio – Magical Unicorn (r)
Dies: Pinkfresh Studio – Magical Unicorn (r), Hero Arts – Infinity Nesting Rectangles
I started out by blending Lawn Fawn Grape Jelly ink around the edges of an A2 panel of Neenah. Thankfully the last time I’d used this set I’d stamped and embossed a few of the unicorn horns with Liquid Platinum embossing powder, so could skip that step this time, and I just needed to cut the ears from white glitter cardstock, then 2 large flowers from aqua cardstock, 5 small flowers from pink cardstock, and 7 leaves.
I used darker shades of ink to stamp the details, then took coordinating lighter shades to add some blending with mini blending brushes.
I added crystals to the pink flower centres, and droplets to the large flowers.
Before I stuck anything down, I trimmed the panel with an Infinity Rectangle die.
Then it was time to stick all the elements down.
I stamped the eyelashes and sentiment and, as a final touch, added some blush pink ink for the unicorn cheeks and the stamped stars at the top.
Then I adhered the panel to an A2 card base and ta-da! Card complete. 🙂
Until next time, happy crafting!
 Pinkfresh Studio – Magical Unicorn stamps (r) Shop at: MISC |
 Pinkfresh Studio – Magical Unicorn dies (r) Shop at: MISC |
 Hero Arts – Infinity Nesting Rectangles dies Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Altenew – Blush dye ink Shop at: MISC |
 Lawn Fawn – Bubblegum ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn – Freshly Cut Grass ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn – Grape Jelly ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn – Jalapeño ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn – Merman ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn – Peacock ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn – Plastic flamingo ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 Versafine – Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Versamark ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | SHC (UK) |
 Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: AZ (UK) | MISC |
 Memory Box – Festive glitter pad Shop at: MISC |
 Ranger – Liquid Platinum embossing powder Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Bearly Art – Precision Craft Glue Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: SBC |
 Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Detail blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Waffle Flower – Mini Media Mat Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
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