Confirmation blast {Mo’s Digital Pencil}

Hi, crafty friends! I’m back today with a confirmation card I made on commission. I was told that the recipient does kickboxing, likes car races, swimming (lake or beach doesn’t matter as long as it’s water) and is a bit of a prankster. Lots of interests that I tried to incorporate into my card. They’re all very different interests, so I had a tough time figuring out what to do, but the card was a huge hit with the recipient, and that’s never a bad thing.

I looked for a kickboixng image I could color up, as I wanted that to be the main focus on the card – it was his main hobby. I didn’t have one, nor could I find one, but I found this greyscale sketched image with boxing gloves that was perfect.

The gloves cover the entire front of the card. I still needed something to color, because a black and white image isn’t very interesting on its own. I settled on Blast from Mo Manning, which was the perfect image for a prankster who loves water. I colored it up in very vibrant colors, making sure to include some red, which I thought would work great with the boxing theme AND the car racing theme. I fussy cut him and placed him on top of one of the gloves. He blended in with the background a little too much, so I decided to print the gloves again, this time with a very low opacity. I fussy cut the glove, scored it on one side and made it into a flap that opens. Put the colored image on top of this one, and now it didn’t get lost in the background. I also added a bit of Glossy Accents to the goggles for a bit of shine.

I mounted the colored image on pieces of foam tape, making sure to add a magnet in a strategic spot to keep the flap from opening on its own. I put another magnet behind the image of the gloves to keep both magnets hidden. They’re still plenty strong enough to work through a couple of layers of cardstock.

Once you open the glove fully, there’s a sentiment from an old confirmation stamp set from Stempelglede, stamped in Wild Cherry ink from My Favorite Things. I used one of the dies in the Essential Stitched Sentiment Strips die set from My Favorite Things to create a flag end to pull the glove open when the card is closed. The magnets are so strong, it won’t open on its own, and by adding the little flag end, it gives the recipient a little clue to look behind the glove.

Back to the front of the card when it’s closed. I stamped an white heat embossed the word KONFIRMANT from the A05 stamp set from Norsk Stempelblad AS onto a piece of Red Hot cardstock from My Favorite Things, and then die cut it using a banner die from MFT – they have lots! I popped it up and made sure the end crossed into the image, to tie the two together. I did the same thing with my letters, die cut using the In Stitches Alphabet die set from My Favorite Things, also from Red Hot cardstock. I stacked a few layers for dimension and stability, the L and the U are only barely attached to the glove and the back of his left leg, so they needed a little bit of strength.

I finished off the front with a few red enamel dots from Papirdesign.

On the inside, I printed and cut out a checkerboard pattern, which I thought worked well with the car racing theme. There’s still plenty of room to write a personal message. I also used the Wax Seals die set from Waffle Flower to create a rosette badge with a Norsk Stempelblad AS confirmation sentiment heat embossed in the center. I used the Itty Bitty Strips dies from My Favorite Things to create the ribbon ends hanging down from the actual rosette.

On the back of the card, I used more of that checkerboard pattern, stamped another confirmation sentiment (it’s actually an Emerson quote) and used the Splash die set from Papirdesign to create some water splashes from Summer Splash cardstock from My Favorite Things. I thought they tied in well with the super soakers in the colored image on the front of the card.