In love with Otters!

Happy Wednesday crafty friends! Had the chance to spend some quality time in my craft room last weekend and I decided to pull out my MFT Otters.  For those of you that don't know me, I am a huge animal lover and should probably be running an animal refuge! One particular (besides dogs, of course) is otters. I am simply in love with otters and would love to give one a good home (much to my husbands trauma, lol!)

I tend to purchase any otter set on the market but this guy from the My Favorite Things Otterly Love You set is by far my favorite!

This project began after I played with some of my alcohol inks and one of the backgrounds became my waves die cut with the Mama Elephant Ocean Waves Trio dies.  I then used another Mama Elephant die (Madison Avenue) for my frame and background. I used Salty Ocean Distress Oxide for the sky and sprayed it with my Distress Sprayer for texture.

I then used my Copic Sketch in E71, W3, W1 and WO for my Otter. I also colored some of the fish from the same set with simple coloring.

I put the card together and decided on the Mama Elephant Hello Friend Script Creative Cut and used my new obsession Tonic Glitter paper.  I die cut three and stacked them for dimension and then glued them to the background.  

To finish the project I scattered a mix of Studio Katia jewels and Hero Arts Ocean sequins. I have been making many friendship cards, I guess winter has a way of letting you know to send out some happy mail!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

MFT Otters!!!

Happy Monday all! Kim here with you this morning for Butterfly Reflections Ink featuring the wonderful MFT Otters!

I love otters, I keep telling my husband that if we lived in a warmer climate I would want one in the pool all year long! No can do in Montreal...

This one will double as a Valentine's Day card for one of my best friends, who loves otters too :)

This guy below was my inspiration from a Google search:

Look at that dude! Lol

For my card I started with a Neena Solar White card base and embossed it with a Tim Holtz/Sizzix embossing folder. I then die cut my frames (Poppy Scribble Trio Frames) out of Kraft and Neena. The Kraft for the actual frame and the Neena to stamp my otters.  I Copic coloured my otters and tried to get the same colours as my inspiration photo (E42, E43, E44 and E47 for the body, E30, E31 for the nose surround and R22, R46, R37 and R59 for the heart). I made my own waves using B00, B02 and B04) I then used Tumbled Glass Distress Ink for the sky. I put my frames together and then used Stick It adhesive with craft foam and my red shiny card stock then die cut it with the Avery Elle Simply Said Hugs Elle-ments. I then embossed my "Otter" sentiment from the same MFT Otter set with white embossing powder and cut my black card stock to size. 

I put the last elements on the card and added some Neat and Tangled sequins from the Peppermint Stick Sequin Mix and I also die cut the hearts from the same foam/shiny paper with Lawn Fawn hearts.

Hope you all have a wonderful week! 

Kim