Sending Bug Hugs

Here’s another card using this week’s Color Throwdown color combo (see my previous post for all the details on this week’s challenge). I used the colors along with this week’s SCS sketch challenge to put together this kid-friendly Valentine.

I colored the creepy crawly creature from Our Craft Lounge’s Love Bug set with Copic markers and cut it out. The dots on the back of the bug are coated with Glossy Accents to add a little dimension and shine to the image.

I used a red dotted paper for the pair of strips at the left side of the card and a green plaid for the stripe that runs across the cardfront. Each patterned paper piece was matted on a coordinating solid cardstock panel before I attached it to a kraft panel. I wrapped the panel with green baker's twine before layering it on an olive card base. The "sending bug hugs" sentiment from the Bug Hugs set is stamped on a cream corner rounded panel that I slipped underneath the top edge of the green plaid paper. The creepy crawly creature sits just underneath the sentiment with the help of a few dimensional dots.

Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers: Our Craft Lounge Love Bug and Bug Hugs stamp sets, X-Press white Copic blending cardstock, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic markers (YG21, YG93, YG95, YG97, R21, R24), Jillibean Soup Blossom Soup 6x6 paper pad, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist-Out of the Blue 6x6 paper pad, Ranger Glossy Accents, Divine Twine Green Apple baker's twine, Sticky Thumb dimensional dots

other: Real Red, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla cardstock (Stampin' Up!); corner rounder