Scrappy Sweet Creations: You're Awesome

Happy Friday!
Stopping in quick to share a fun little card with you using an image from the Sami Stamps release we had last week.

For this card, I used the All Caught Up image and colored it in with my pencils. It's colored very similarly to last weeks card because I just loved the color combo...but this time I colored the kitty to represent my little princess, Cloud.

I wanted to have this sweet image sort of suspended in the center of the card but still attached to the frame so I used my trimmer and made about a quarter inch border around the outside of the card, leaving the string and the kite still attached. Then took my scissors and fussy cut around the rest of the image.

To create the background, I cut a bunch of yellow and orange strips of paper into rays and arranged them around the focal point of the kite. When it was all put together, it was a bit brighter than I wanted so I added a piece of vellum over top, but then it looked too flat. So I took a couple of blue pencils and added some sky shading in between each of the rays and that helped to give the whole background a little more depth and detail while still being soft and muted behind the vellum.

I stamped my sentiment on a thin strip of paper (I had meant to keep this attached to the image and frame but forgot while I was cutting everything out..), then slid that underneath the kite and attached it to the frame.

The whole kitty frame is mounted up on foam tape to give it some fun dimension away from the sun ray background. I did zero embellishing on this card. I didn't even add shimmer pen! As I looked at it, I liked the flat cleanness of it and I felt if I added any shimmer, it would be too much. So I left it off, and I love it!

You still have a little time to enter our challenge at Sami Stamps - Add Pearls or Beads. Just remember to use a Sami Stamps image!

I'd like to enter this card into the Cas(e) This Sketch challenge #169.