Nuts about You...

     Hello, hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!  Today's card features another adorable stamp set "("cute critters") from MFT's among other goodies including their "woodgrain" background stamp.  To begin, I applied various distress inks (peeled paint, mustard seed, rusty hinge) to background stamp then spritzed a healthy coating of Perfect Pearls (really hard to photograph but beautiful in real life), then stamped onto a piece of Tim Holtz distress water color paper.  I set that aside to dry then stamped image and Copic colored.  Highlighted the squirrels tail with a white gel pen and added a coat glossy accents to flower.  To ground the squirrel, I wanted him to sit on a log of some sort but didn't want to add to much, I wanted the background to stand out as much as possible so I drew a log for him to sit on, then Copic colored that as well.  I then die cut stitched rounded rectangle (MFT's die-namics), stamped sentiment.  I chose to heat emboss "nuts" to help add a little more interest as well as adding glitter to the die cut heart.  To finish the card, I adhered everything to card base using liquid adhesive except the squirrel which I chose to use foam tape for a little dimension.  Thanks so much for stopping by...take care!

*side note: this card has been submitted to MFT's "you could be a card design Superstar" blog challenge.