Harvest Friends - Winslow and Rusty - Julian Charlton for Purple Onion Designs

This is my third card featuring these sweet buddies Winslow and Rusty illustrated by Julian Charlton for Purple Onion Designs.  This stamp image is called Harvest Friends.

To create this card I first used a cloud stencil in my stash to create the soft background sky.    I used a cloud edge die and grass edge die to create clouds and grass.   Clouds were directly attached and the grass was softly ink blended and splattered and the sentiment stamped at an angle before that too was attached.  For dimension the top layer of grass has foam tape behind it.  The panel was attached to a card base.

On Copic friendly paper I stamped my image of Winslow and Rusty pulling their wagon of gourds using Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa.   I used a variety of Copic markers to colour the image but as I have with my previous two Winslow and Rusty cards for this release I used the following colours for the critters.  The fox character was E11, E33 and E35 and I used W3 and W5 to add shadow.   The bear character uses Y26, YR24 and YR27 and again W3 and W5 for shadow.

The image was fussy cut, backed with a double layer of foam tape and applied to the scene.  I then considered finishing touches and decided to add a few blowing leaves from a 4th image in this release from Julian Charlton which you'll find in the link given above and I highlighted a few points with a white gel pen.

Happy crafting!

Halloween Friends - Winslow and Rusty - Julian Charlton for Purple Onion Designs

 Today's card is another for the release of illustrator Julian Charlton's Winslow and Rusty designs for Purple Onion Designs.  This stamp is called Halloween Friends.

This is a simple Halloween/friendship card that started with an ink blended A2 panel of cardstock that I also splattered pretty well with an old toothbrush but I did it with the gradient of the colouring so that where the colouring was the deepest I did more splatter,  decreasing to very little at the top.   This panel was trimmed and was layered over a panel of cardstock which in turn was adhered to a purple panel that I attached to the card base.   I die cut the snowy ground (winter came early!) and stamped the sentiment and attached it to the top panel.

Winslow and Rusty are a lot of fun to colour and for this release I've always used the same colour palette using Copic markers for consistency.  The fox character was E11, E33 and E35 and I used W3 and W5 to add shadow.   The bear character uses Y26, YR24 and YR27 and again W3 and W5 for shadow.  Please see my last card featuring these cuties and I've got another Autumnal one coming in a few days.  Images were stamped with Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa.

I fussy cut the image, it was a pretty easy one to do and backed it with foam tape and applied it.   The final touch was to add white gel pen to highlight certain points and I used a metallic gel pen to dot in a little glimmer around them so that you get a little added interest when the card is handled ... I love movement!

This stamp can be reimagined so many times with so many backgrounds and I absolutely adore it.

Happy crafting! 

Campfire Friends - Winslow and Rusty by Julian Charlton - Purple Onion Designs

Hi!  Today I'm revealing part of a new release by the illustrator Julian Charlton for Purple Onion Designs featuring the adorable Winslow and Rusty.  This is a one layer Copic coloured card and the stamp is called Campfire Friends.

It wasn't necessary to do any masking since the image with the duo huddled around their campfire nicely tucks underneath the separate tree image.   With those two images stamped on to Copic friendly cardstock I was quickly turning my attention to a couple of hours of colouring.

I started my colouring with the campfire and then the halo of blue surrounding it and rising up and up into the deeper BG shades.   I then turned my attention to producing a halo affect under the campfire using increasingly darker YG shades.   The tree trunk is E31, E55 and E27.

The fox (Rusty) was E11, E33 and E35 and I used W3 and W5 to add shadow.   The bear (Winslow) uses Y26, YR24 and YR27 and again W3 and W5 for shadow.  I finished by colouring the other tiny elements which give some nice pop of colour here and there and then I stamped the sentiment.  Finishing touch was to grab my white gel pen and draw in 4 point stars and some more dotted ones and add some highlighting to the characters and ground beneath them.

Finally I just die cut the scene to provide the simple faux stitched edge and with that the card was finished.

I will be back very soon with another card using these cuties in a different setting but the whole release is Fall and Halloween themed.

Happy crafting!