Hi, crafty friends. I shared the coloring of this cute Kissing Frogs image from Mo Manning last week on Instagram, with promises to share the finished card this week. Today’s the day, because the week is almost over. Time is flying by so quickly right now, it’s crazy.

When I printed my image, I printed Kissing Frogs in full strength, but I also put the Cottage Treehouse behind her at a 10 % opacity. I erased the bottom part of the background before printing it all, and I like the look of the faint background behind the little princess.

Once my coloring was complete, I used the Notebook Edge die from My Favorite Things to cut from the edge of the panel for a little bit of interest. I mounted my little scene using foam tape onto a card base I created from Cornflower cardstock from My Favorite Things.

I stamped a sentiment from the Birthday messages stamp set from Mama Elephant using VersaMark ink onto a scrap of Cornflower cardstock, added super fine detail embossing powder from Ranger and heat embossed. I always heat emboss from the back of the back of the cardstock only, it gives a much better result than heat embossing from the front.

I cut my sentiment down to a strip, added a couple of layers of cardstock behind it for dimension and adhered it near the top left of the card, before finishing off with a few gems and confetti stars from the Starry Night mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards. The stars made me think of “When you wish upon a star”, which goes perfectly with the sentiment and the “Once upon a time” theme for the Coloring Club Challenge.

I used a fairly limited color palette for this one, I feel.