Harvest Moon Affections Card

 

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[Image ID] Portrait greetings card made of brown card. The design on the card is a series of terracotta coloured frames of different shapes and sizes connected together in a gallery wall style block. On the left hand side of the block there is a lozenge shaped frame top and bottom. Both of these contain heart based patterns rather than critters. All the other frames contain different critters with accessories all of which have a glittery effect. The critters are as follows:

an elephant holding a yellow flower with its trunk, a tortoise with an envelope in its mouth, a bear holding a yellow heart, a penguin holding a yellow heart shaped balloon, a bear wearing a hat and holding a yellow teacup with a flower on it, an alpaca wearing a yellow bow, a koala holding a book, and a rabbit wearing a yellow bow tie [description end]

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I loved the ‘gallery wall’ effect of the main die from this Tonic Craft Kit and was inspired to fill the frames with critters after seeing this card by Vicky Papaioannou (youtube) / @vickyp_gr (Instagram).

I used my favourite set of critter stamps, which came from an issue of Papercraft Inspirations magazine a couple of years ago. I flat coloured them with a layer of ink blended Tea Dye distress ink, and went over the top with two brown Pitt Artist pens to pick out further details. Each critter has at least one section (usually the accessory) coloured with the Golden Honey glitter marker from the kit, as this added a nice sparkly effect. The card is 5” by 7”, which is bigger than most of my cards, as the frame die was too big for a regular A6 card base.

 

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300 GSM Kraft Card

Classic Card (ginger pie) – Tonic Studios

Nuvo Crystal Drop (Malted Milk) – Tonic Studios

Glitter Marker (Golden Honey) – Tonic Studios

Pitt Artist pens (two browns) – Faber Castell

Distress Ink (tea Dye)

Critter stamps – 2+ year old issue of Papercraft Inspirations

Frame die - Tonic Craft Kit (Harvest Moon Affections)

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