Hello Friends, How is your weekend going so far? I am a happy camper because yesterday I was able to complete a card from start to finish in one sitting. Ahhhh so happy!
Sometimes you just need to give a little kindness and some wings to soar….that was the theme for my card today.
Believe it or not this was a quick card. The adorable panda is from a Simon stamp set called, “Cuddly Critters“. He-she requires very little shading if any at all. (Real pandas are kinda dirty looking so I added a little coloring.)
To finish off my card I added some dots with a perfectly sized dot stencil with some Scattered Straw distress ink. I wanted the dots to fade off of the top of the card.
Black foam was die cut and put behind the sentiment to make the word “Kindness” pop.
The butterfly stamp set is aptly called, “Butterflies” and I can’t wait to ink up these babies again. I had fun adding some lines and white accents with my trusty gel pen.
The wings were cut apart and I added some scrap paper to attach them together so I could figure out where exactly I wanted to place the wings on the pandas body.
Some double stick foam was added on the back of the panda and then the wings were glued down and added to the card.
There is a group on Instagram that have become really good friends through my 30 day coloring challenge. They have a challenge on Instagram called #IGcraftycrew. The challenge this month is “things with wings” and anyone is welcome to join in the fun. I wanted to play along and create a panda with butterfly wings.
SPEAKING OF The 30 Day Coloring Challenge…. I have a date for the next one….please mark your calendars for JULY 5TH.
YUP IT’S OFFICIAL THE NEXT CHALLENGE WILL BE JULY 5th. More info coming so please stay tuned.
Thanks for your visit today. Hugs, Kathy
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Saw your post yesterday with the wings and so glad it all made it onto a card, because your colouring as always is absolutely gorgeous. So excited about the challenge. I’ve marked my planner and am in preparation for it. Fun fun fun! Xx
too cute Kathy. Can’t wait till the colouring challenge.
Such a fun card! Your coloring always amazes me. Looking forward to July 5!
HA!! Adorable and beautifully done – great idea giving the panda wings 🙂
OH YIPPEEE!! I look forward to the challenge! Now since it’s summer I will TRY to play along the best I can but it is a busy time for me with the family being home together but I WILL try! 😀
Yes! I enjoyed participating in the last 30 day challenge and look forward to another challenge. I like your panda, the “dirty” look is great.
Your coloring always stands out on your cards ! Loved the cute panda with wings 🙂
Can’t wait for the 5th to get here!!
This card is absolutely darling! LOVE the brilliantly colored wings!! TFS!
You are so creative and I love your card!
I love this card!! Your coloring is awesome! I am so glad I had a chance to play at your house and “test” the coloring waters last year! Thank you for all your inspiration.
Randi
This is AWESOME Kathy! You are so creative. Love it <3
What a cute idea, love it
The panda is beautifully colored but I’m flipping out over those incredible butterfly wings. They’re drop-dead gorgeous.
Awesome card and love the dirty panda with wings especially super cute! Thanks for the IG Crafty Crew shout out!
Absolutely adorable card, Kathy!! Love the butterfly wings on the panda!!
OMG you r so creative. Love love those beautiful butterfly wings on that adorable panda…:) Hugs
Really cute way to personalize the panda! Sweet card Kathy.
Incredibly creative
Such a sweet card.
Kathy, so stink’in adorable! Your wings are GORGEOUS, love the colors. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!!! I am 84 yrs. old and am trying my hand at making cards. I want to copy your FABULOUS card using a hedge hog stamp and hopefully it will resemble yours. You really inspired me to keep trying to make beautiful cards. Thank you for sharing your God given talent with the crafting world.
wow! I love your idea for the flying panda. the wings are so gorgeous and the whole card is so whimsical! How cute is that? and what a wonderful card for someone to receive to just brighten their day. I’m so excited about the 30 day coloring challenge. I love love love those! I have no clue how you get all the work done behind the scenes, but i dearly love to see all of the fabulous creations that come out of it! thanks for being such a giving sharing woman! hugs, treen
Can’t stop watching your adorable panda with wings is the cutest pa da ever. Yay for the challenge hope I can participate some days
Kathy, I totally love this card!! Its so cute and cleaver. Your coloring is always memorizing. I want to give this a try.
This is so cute Kathy. I am going to check out the Instagram group and I’m excited for the next 30 day Challenge. Cx
So adorably sweet!
Enchanting card, Kathy!!
So I see your like me, in your world Pandas have wings! Love it! Also love your coloring. The colors are so pretty! I also love how you did that with the wings. I should think about doing that with butterfly wings and putting them on animal or even people that don’t have wings. I’ve been doing a lot of coloring lately as mom & dad have lots of doctors appointments. A friend of mine or I’d like to call her a friend of mine runs Di’s Digi Downloads made a graduation bear for my nephew who is graduating from high school. It’s almost all colored in and when it’s done, I will send a photo so you can see how it came out. My nephew will love it and knowing that Di made it for me because she didn’t have a graduation bear that I could buy makes it even more special.
I can’t wait for your next coloring challenge but July? I can’t wait that long! LOL Hope you having a great summer!
Awwwwwwww… I’m melting…. What a fabulous sweet card. Panda with wings: BRILLIANT idea!!! Love it so much!! :o)
Thank you for sharing the idea and inspiration. You are amazing. :o)
Have a wonderful day.
hugs
Hey Kathy, I love this! Such a cute idea to make the panda soar, and I love the way you cut up your butterfly to make it work. Such a great idea. Goes without saying that your colouring is drop dead gorgeous and I can’t wait for the colouring challenge to start. Thank you as always for everything you do for us. Hugs, Lisa xx
OMG Kathy, THAT IS CUTE! I am new to IG but I’ll have to try and look up this group. (I am not very familiar yet with how to use IG so THAT will be a challenge in itself! LOL)
Can’t wait for the next 30 day color challenge. I got a few more Copics AND I have the Zigs now so I can hardly wait. I can use all the practice (AND tutorials) I can get!
Such a cute and fun card! A oanda with wings! Get out!
So creative and beautifully colored!
So clever and so cute – thanks for giving us a photo play by play so we could see how you did it!! Fun idea!!
Thank you for the idea to use the stencil as a background – so cute!!
You’ve really out-done yourself with this design! So adorable! I love it!
I know the drill — I sent out an email and posted the challenge on my Google page! grin! Your wings got me to thinking — I just bought me a pair of wing dies Sunday when I went to my atc club meeting. Do I have any bear stamps in my collection? hum!
OOMGosh!! This is beyond cute. Who doesn’t like Pandas and with butterfly wings WHOA! Thanks for sharing Everyone I know would like to have this card, including me.
You come up with such clever ideas.
So creative. Love the vibrant colors on the butterfly