Frogs on a Birthday card

Hello again, I’m sorry I haven’t posted in such a loooong time!  I found that with this pandemic we’ve all been going through, I just lost my attention span and all my creative mojo. I’m not normally an anxious person, but I just found myself worrying about what was going to happen, and about family and friends scattered around the world. I know I’m not alone in that but I want to apologize for not posting before this.

Anyway, I have some new stamp sets to jump start my mojo and the first one I want to share is this fun set from Gerda Steiner Designs called “Frogs”. I especially love the leaping frog on the inside of this card. So many possibilities for him to leap out of cards!

I started by colouring in my images with copic markers.  I also coloured in the bullrushes, dragonfly and lotus flower from the “Lucky Ducks” stamp set to help round out my background scene.  I’ve listed below, the markers I used. I used glossy accents to fill in the frogs’ eyes and give them a shiny look. I also added some sparkle to the dragonfly with a Gelly Roll sparkle pen.

Next, I watercoloured a quick background for the inside of my frame on some watercolour cardstock. I wanted it to look like my frogs were in a pond so I added in a few grassy strokes on the green background.

I stamped the “Hi There” sentiment on the front in Distress Oxide Faded Jeans and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I die cut 4 or 5 frames using a set from Power Poppy called Double Stitched Square Frame. I also cut out my watercolour background using the frame so it would fit inside. I adhered my frame and images to the card front. I wanted to make the foreground frog look like he was trying to climb out of the frame so I fussy cut his “hands” off and then glued them to the frame bottom edge. I had to trim just a little off his body to make him fit against the frame inside edge.

On the inside, I used an older die from Stampendous to die cut a pop up frame for the leaping frog.  I also cut a small oval and coloured it in with copic markers to make it look like a lily pad. I created the sentiment from the “Moose Love” stamp set from Gerda Steiner Designs, and heat set it with clear embossing powder. I adhered the frog and lily pad to the pop up and finally added a lotus flower.
I think this is a unisex birthday card and love how the frogs add some fun, humour and dimension to the card.

Hope you’re having a great day!

Copic markers used
Frogs - YG11, YG03, YG17, spots G94, YG17
Lily pad - G99, G94, G82
Lotus flower - RV04, RV02, RV00
Bullrushes - E57, E59, YG17