Blue Iguana Love

Happy Monday, Ya'll! Whew, Honey and I had a fun and very full weekend, going out both nights, and at our age that's pushing it, lol. We were so happy just to be able to do nothing but home life yesterday and recuperate. I did manage to create my first Valentine card for 2020, which I'm sharing with you today.

 

I finally got to use a Mojo sketch again! This sketch was made for my Knock Knock stamps with those two sentiment strips. And since one of those stamps involves an Iguana, I went searching for one to color and found it at Ike's Art. Her current challenge is B for Blue, so I made it a Blue Iguana and when I went google-image searching for iguanas, I learned that blue iguanas are actually a real thang. So, my unusual but Karma-infused Valentine card was born!

Supplies Used:
Office Depot white index card stock
SU light blue card stock
MFT 6x6 Sweet Stack patterned paper
Stamps: Ike's Art, WPlus9
Ink: Versafine Clair Warm Breeze
Dies: Spellbinders Circle Nesties
Promarkers for colouring image and card stock
PrismaColour white wax pencil
Stash items: pink confetti heart, white foam lace

I resized my iguana image in PSE to fit inside a 2-1/4" circle and printed out on my card stock, then die cut it and a circle the next size bigger for a mat. I colored the mat with a Promarker, and then got down to coloring my image. Using the white wax pencil, I made little dots all over the iguana (which you can barely see in the photos) and then I colored the rim of the image circle. I thought about trying to make him more scaly, but since he is printed out pretty tiny as it is, I left him as is. I'm thinking now I should have flipped him horizontally in PSE so that he is facing the rest of the card, but oh well. I'll just pretend he's eccentric like that. Heehee

The rest of the card was pretty simple to construct, but only after wrestling with getting a good print from those Knock Knock stamps. Sigh! I may have to give up on them and trash them. This time I used the VersaFine Clair ink and made several different prints and wasted card stock. Finally took my best prints and used the white wax pencil to trace over the letters on each sentiment. It gave them a hazy look, but a look you can at least read! Cut them all out with a thin white border and then cut strips of the light blue and more white card stock for matting. Colored the card stock again with my Promarkers so they matched the image mat. I also distressed the edge of the hearts paper for a little texture and interest.

  

Here is the inside and back of my card. I did the same stack-matting with the inside sentiments as on the front, then I used more coordinating paper and leftover scraps for the back.

And here is a photo from up top - love to see the coordinating look when I used matching papers!

Linking to these Challenges:
1. Mojo Monday Sketch #509
2. Ike'sWorld Challenge #117: AG with B is for Blue
3. Crafting from the Heart #237: Always AG (1st entry of 3 max)
4. Moo Mania #184: Love is in the Air
5. A Bit More Time to Craft #86: Always AG
6. HLS Anything Goes with Dies: February

7. CHNPPC: Anything Goes with Patterned Papers
8. Colour Crazy Week 6: AG with Colouring - I used my Promarkers on the iguana and the darker blue card stock
9. Sparkles Monthly #113: Include an Animal - my animal is a Blue Iguana
10. Through the Craft Room Door Wk of Feb 12: AG (2nd entry of 2 max)
11. Passion for Promarkers Wk 480: Something Beginning with L (my Valentine card is a LOVE card and an Iguana is a large docile species of LIZARD)
12. Jo's Scrap Shack: Always AG  (1st entry of 3 max)
13. Crafts Galore Encore #60: AG   (1st entry of 3 max)
14. Card Mania #113: Love is in the Air
15. 613 Avenue Create #218: AG + Optional Twist Use a Critter - My Optional Twist Critter is a Blue Iguana
16. Creative Crafters #13: AG
17. Double Trouble Challenge #22: Thing 1 Troublemaker - Tic*Tac*Toe -  I'm playing only Thing 1 and I chose the Blues Hues/Image Stamp Digital/Die or punch diagonal. I used blues, a digital iguana stamp and 2 circle nestie dies.

18. 2 Crafty Critter Crazies #23: AG with a Critter - My Critter is a Blue Iguana

That's it for me tonight. Thanks for coming by to see me! Hope your week goes well, xoxo