The Greeting Farm ~ Lovable Anya ~ HB2U

Hello there! Today, I'm sharing a card I made for my niece's birthday. The whole design and paper choices for this card are because of a challenge my friend, Bobbie Sue, shared and that was a challenge to use up those papers you have sitting around. Well, at first, I didn't like the idea! I am a paper hoarder! I love me some pretty papers! But after packing some of my papers for our move, I realized just how much paper I have and oh my goodness... it's time to let some go! So, I have been working this month, while I still have most of my craft space available, to use up papers in at least two different paper pads. It's really just a tiny bit in the whole scope of my paper hoard, but it's a start! So, I'm feeling pretty good about it!

With all that being said, the papers on my card base are from the Echo Park Everyday Eclectic paper pad. I also used the same cute papers to paper piece Lovable Anya from The Greeting Farm. Isn't she just too cute!?! She reminded me of my niece so I just had to ink her up! I had fun paper piecing all the cute papers to put her outfit together. For the focal image, I started by stamping Lovable Anya on a piece of white card stock and then masked her and stamped the HB2U sentiment from the HB2U Anya stamp set using Berry Sorbet ink from Papertrey Ink. I removed the mask and sadly discovered that the ink seeped through the mask... so plan B... I stamped Lovable Anya again on a scrap piece of white card stock and colored her (and the slice of cake) with the following Copic markers:

Skin ~ E000, E00, R20

Hair ~ E49, E57, E59

Cake ~ W00, W1, W2, R00, R05, R32

Cake Plate ~ G82, Colorless Blender

Once I had Lovable Anya colored and adhered all the paper pieces for her outfit, I fussy cut her out and adhered her to the background piece, along with the cake that I had also fussy cut. I wanted to frame the image so I die cut it twice. First, I had die cut the HB2U background piece before adhering Anya using the Pleated Lace Rectangle die by Gina Marie Designs. I then die cut another one from white card stock and die cut a rectangle out of the middle using a stitched rectangle die. Setting that piece aside for another future project. I adhered the framed piece onto the HB2U background piece using a liquid glue. I popped up the focal image onto the prepared card base. I was going to add an additional sentiment to the front of the card but decided against it since I didn't want to cover the focal image, so I left it as is. I love how this sweet card turned out! What do you think? Let me know below in the comments... I'd love to hear from you.

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Inky Hugs!

Crystal