It’s funny how your opinions of stamp sets change – I was on the fence about getting Hey Chick, but I’ve been having so much fun with it and the new watercolor pencils. I’m so glad that I got it. Especially as it was free – and can be for you too. It’s one of the Sale-a-bration products which means that it’s one of the items you can select every time you spend $50 (before tax and shipping) during Sale-a-bration which started earlier this week and goes on until the end of March.

I again used the watercolor pencils and a blender pen after stamping the image with the archival basic black. One tip that I have for you is that you must give it time to dry before using the blender pen or you get a chicken tinged with grey. No need to discuss how I know that! You could use the heat gun but I actually left mine overnight – not on purpose, it just happened that way. I used the daffodil delight, pumpkin pie and bermuda bay pencils, first laying down some colour and then using the blender pen to move the colour around to erase the pencil lines (I love watching that happen) and then blending where the colours change. I added more colour where I felt I needed it and repeated until I was happy. There’s something very therapeutic about this process.

The rest of the card is also easy (luckily since it’s my third make and take at my launch parties) – cut out the image with the wonderful stitched shapes dies, dry emboss a piece of bermuda bay with the Seaside TIEF, stamp a sentiment from the same set on daffodil delight and make it into a banner using the triple banner punch and then construct. I like to use snail or fuse (or a mixture) to adhere dry embossed pieces. And I used dimensionals to pop up the chick – I think she deserves it.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. Don’t forget that buying a prepaid 3 month subscription not only saves you money, it gets you a free Sale-a-bration item!

See you tomorrow,

Liz