Hugs- by Candice

Hello my crafty friends! I have to admit that I am in love with the new illustrator over at MFT and I don't even know her name!!! But whenever she comes out with a new stamp set, I just have to have it! So today I am playing with the cute space bunnies from the Blastoff Buddies set and mixing it with some awesome Crafty Meraki Slimline dies I designed for the wonderful Bindu, owner of Crafty Meraki!

I used these products for my slimline design, all found in the Crafty Meraki store:

• Crafty Meraki Crafty Twinkle Slimline die
• Crafty Meraki 3 Room Studio Slimline die
• MFT Blastoff Buddies stamps & coordinating dies
• MFT Sending You Hugs dies
• MFT Outside the Box Clouds dies
• Oxide inks: peacock feathers, cracked pistachio and scattered straw

I began my slimline with an 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 card base.

For the background I first die cut some Bristol Smooth cardstock with the Twinkle slimline die, inked the panel with peacock feathers, cracked pistachio and scattered straw in clusters to create a soft galaxy and then splattered it with gold shimmer spray and white paint using a damp paintbrush. I then die cut the cover stitched panel from the 3 Room Studio slimline die and heat embossed the sentiment in gold. Before adding over the galaxy with foam tape I tucked some vellum clouds behind the windows.

Next, I stamped the images from the Blastoff Buddies stamp set, colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I used glue and foam tape to add the images throughout the windows to give nice depth to the scenes. I finished by adding the large "HUGS" layered with the top layer inked with the peacock feathers, cracked pistachio and scattered straw and a few stars cut from the Twinkle slimline die using gold foil cardstock.

I just adore the softness off this card! I think I may have to use this for a baby card sometime, what do you think?!

Thank you for visiting today!

Candice