Tuesday 22 August 2017

Monster Hugs

I finally got round to inking up the Misfit Monster set by Hunkydory. It has a variety of mix and match bodies, limbs and monster facial features. I orginally stamped my monsters directly into a card blank, but managed to drop the inky acrylic block on it! Never mind, I rescued my monsters after colouring them in with polychromos pencils by fussy cutting them to save them. I added some extra detailing to them with copic spica pens, a black fineliner and a white gel pen.
On a 6x6 card blank I used a "That Special Touch" mask called "Splats" and inked through it with broken glass, cracked pistachio and wilted violet distress oxides. I moved the mask around a few times to get the coverage I wanted. I spritzed the card with water and blotted it to give more interest. Once dry I drew in a border. I masked off part of one of the sentiments from the monster set and just stamped the word monster in black archival ink. I die cut Lawn Fawn's Scripty Hugs and glued it in place. I used foam tape to adhere the monsters to the card and added some glossy accents to their eyes and a touch of stickles. To finish I added some purple nuvo glitter drops to the corners, they're paler and more sparkly in reality honest! 

11 comments:

  1. Now this has brought a smile to my face. Fun colours, great masking and great rescue on those adorable monsters x

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  2. Fabulous background and some super fun images and a great sentiment.

    Kath x

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  3. Your card brought a smile to my face.....the little monsters are adorable!

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  4. Absolutely fabulous Cara, just such fun images, cute too, love the colour splats, brilliant design, Kate x

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  5. Hi Cara, love the bright monsters and the splatters, remind me of straw painting as a kid, have a wonderful week... Megan

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  6. Hi Cara
    Good save with the dropped stamp.
    One of those cards that just make you smile.
    Best wishes.
    Ang x

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  7. These are brilliant and I love the colours you've used too. Happy crafty week, Angela xXx

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  8. Ha ha ha, I love this, you know I love a monster stamp. Sorry I have been awol. Traveling does that to me!! I am back now and I am having a nice time in the midst of my boring call reading your posts. Love the background here and great save following the dropped block. Cx

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  9. Fab fun card, LOVE that splat stencil effect!

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  10. Love the stamps and love the stencil! Gorgeous look you created here Karen x

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