Crow About It

     Here is a fun fall card using Close to My Heart paper and one of Darice's tin pins. Fall colors are my absolute fave to work with.

Card Sketch #152 by Lisa Hidy

     I began by stamping the image and coloring it - matching the colors to those on the tin pin. A tin pin is essentially a metal shank button with a flat back. Once you color the image the tin pin is added and it fits perfectly giving a 3-D effect to the image.

An extra tin pin to show you what they look like.

     A fun little note for this tin pin is that the crow had a green headband. I wanted the headband to match the red in the patterned paper, so I used an alcohol marker to change the headband to the perfect shade of red.

     On the inside of the card, there is a little boo boo. When I started coloring the sunflowers, I checked the Copic markers that I used on the front of the card. I should have double checked, because I accidentally colored these sunflowers the same colors as the crow's beak. OOPS!

Inside of Card

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Close to my Heart - Grateful Heart

     Cardstock: Gina K - White

                                  Charcoal Brown

                                  Prickly Pear

     Dies: Stamps of Life - Scarecrow to Stamp

             Spellbinders - Petite Scalloped Circles

             Our Daily Bread - Double Stitched Circles

     Stamp - Darice's Heart & Home (Crow & Scarecrow)

     Ink - Momento - Tuxedo Black

     Copics - Crow - C3 5, 7, R20

                      Beak - Y08, YR12, YR16

                      Headband - R56, 59

                 Leaves - YG61, 63, 67, E93

                 Sunflowers - YR20, 21, 23, 24

                                    E23, 27

                 Sky - BG000

     Embellies - Darice's Heart & Home - Tin Pin

                      1/2 canvas ribbon - red