Paper Nest Dolls - Safari Owen

Hi Everyone :-)

Today is video editing day for me, I'm falling so behind as always, it's so hard to get time to do voice overs at the moment, our house always seems to be full of noise lately :-)

I created this card using a Digital Image from Paper Nest Dolls called Safari Owen, he is currently (at the time of this post and video going live) being offered for free which is awesome.

Why is he for free? He is free to raise awareness for Australia and the horrible weather we have had lately, since November we have had drought, fires, hail and flooding.. the only thing we haven't had where I live is snow.. and we won't as where I am in NSW it doesn't get cold enough for snow. The weather is just miserable and we cannot wait to go back to normality.

I had so much fun colouring this image up and putting the card together, when I first seen the image I envisioned the guys/girls who work at Australia Zoo and how they wear Khaki, so those are the kids of colours I went for when colouring. I also used my Copic Multiliner to write Zoo on his pocket :-)

  

The paper pad I used is from Kaisercraft and is called Australiana, this is one of my all time favourite paper pads at the moment, I love all the patterns in it and all the awesome sentiments.

I used my EK Success Cutterbee Scissors to fussy cut the image out leaving a nice white border around the outside.

I cut down the "I made it to Sydney" logo using my Ek Success Scissors and worked my card around that.

I used American Crafts Cardstock to mat my patterned papers and also added a doily in. You can get away with using a doily on a male card if you use it in the right way, I love the way it worked on my card today.

The leaves are from Kaisercraft's Gum Leaves dies, I ran them through my Big Shot just using some green papers, I then ran them through a second time in a darker green.\

  

I used some of the leftover white blending card from the image in my EK Success Star Confetti Punch, it's a great way to use up leftover papers.

At this stage I hadn't stuck anything down yet, I pulled out my good old Tim Holtz Ranger Mini Distress Inks and grabbed the Vintage Photo, I used a mini ink blending tool to carefully add some ink to the outside of everything except the doily and the image. I love the way it finished everything off.

I adhered everything to a Couture Creations Card Base using Helmar Acid Free Adhesive - this is my go to for Liquid Adhesive.

I used all the same patterned papers etc and decorated the inside of the card to match.

Finally once I had my card complete, I pulled out some of my Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops in Dirty Bronze and Woodland Green and added a few drops around the card and on the leaves.

  

I hope you have enjoyed my post today, if you have any questions feel free to send me a message or contact me via facebook (all links can be found below).

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Copic Markers Used

N6, N8, N1, 0 Colorless Blender
N0, N1, N3, N5
E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30
E51, E53, E55
W2, W3
E74, E77, E79
E35, E37
E59, E79
YG03, YG17
E84, E87
YG91, YG95, YG99

Thanks for stopping by, Deni

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Sony Handycam HDR CX4-05
Tripod – Manfrotto MKCompactaCN-BK

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