Good morning!  Jess here with a sparkly card featuring the adorable unicorn from Mama Elephant!

First I stamped and heat-embossed my unicorn from Mama Elephant’s Unicorns and Rainbows with silver embossing powder and then colored him with zig clean color real brush markers!  I wanted to get a rainbow look so I scribbled a tiny bit of each color along the mane, tail, and hooves and the blended it together with a wink of stella clear glitter brush for a super sparkly look.  I apologize for the darker photo…it was difficult to photograph the embossing powder up-close.

Next I die-cut the unicorn and set him aside while I worked on the rest of the card.

Next I die-cut the rainbow from Rainbow High and then colored each arch with copic markers (R22, R12, Y11, YG11, B00, BV01, V12).  I used lighter shades to create a soft pastel rainbow.  Then I covered the rainbow with my wink of stella clear glitter brush!  Again, not a great photo here but you can see all that shimmery, sparkly goodness! 😉

I die-cut the Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Borders with vellum and white cardstock and then covered the vellum with more wink of stella clear glitter.  I stamped the sentiment from Unicorns and Rainbows onto the top cloud layer and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.  Next I layered all the elements on the bottom half of my card panel using a combination of foam mounting tape and regular adhesive for a little dimension.  Finally to finish the card, I added a few silver sparkly stars from Pretty Pink Posh.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a fabulous day filled with unicorns and rainbows! 🙂

-Jess

Unicorns and Rainbows (Mama Elephant)	Unicorns and Rainbows Coordinating Die Cuts (Mama Elephant)	Mama Elephant Creative Cuts – Rainbow High	Puffy Cloud Borders Die Set (Lawn Fawn)	Pretty Pink Posh Embellies Confetti – 11mm Silver Star
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 084 Deep Violet	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 032 Persian Blue	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 025 Pink	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 202 Peach Pink	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 097 Pale Gray
Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Marker (Zig)	Copic Sketch Marker R22-S Light Prawn	Copic Sketch Marker R12-S Light Tea Rose	Copic Sketch Marker Y11-S Pale Yellow	Copic Sketch Marker YG11-S Mignonette
Copic Sketch Marker B00-S Frost Blue	Copic Sketch Marker V12-S Pale Lilac	Copic Sketch Marker BV01-S Viola	Mini MISTI Laser Etched Stamp Tool Kit	Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock 80#
Inkadinkado Embossing Magic	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)

Good morning!  Jess here and I am so excited to be sharing my first post as a DT member for MarkerPop!  I’ll admit that I couldn’t quite decide what to share first but flowers are always a classic and I dearly love my zig clean color real brush markers so I thought that would be a good place to start! 😉

The florals in the Best Mom stamp set from Altenew are hands-down one of my favorites and they’re so fun to watercolor!  I started by stamping the flowers with versamark and then heat-embossing them with white embossing powder.  I stamped the flowers three times on my card base, rotating the stamp each time to get a different angle which helped fill the space with a more organic looking design.  Then it was time to watercolor!  First I scribbled a tiny bit of color into the petals using my zig clean color real brush markers and then I blended the color out with a waterbrush.  I used a combination of Lilac, Violet, Deep Violet, and Light Violet.

I kept the darker colors towards the middle of the flower and let the color get lighter as I worked towards the end of each petal.

I let the petals dry naturally and then went back and added a little Yellow to the centers.  Before the Yellow dried completely I added a touch of Orange.  After the centers dried I added a second layer of purples to some of the flower petals.  I repeated the same process using Emerald Green and Green Shadow for the leaves.  Finally I added green shading around the entire image with Green Shadow.

Next I die-cut an A2 card base from black cardstock using stitched rectangle dies.  Then I die-cut my watercolor paper with a slightly smaller stitched rectangle die.  I laid the thanks word die over the watercolored panel and ran it through my die-cutting machine.  I made sure to keep all of the pieces of the die intact so I could fit them back into the card later.  I also cut the same thanks word die from 4 pieces of black cardstock.  I adhered the black cardstock word dies together and adhered the watercolored word die on top.  I fit them back into the watercolor paper and adhered them.  I like how the peek of black cardstock on the sides of the word allows the word to pop out!  Finally I stamped the rest of the sentiment from Halftone Thanks on a scrap of black cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, and popped it up on the top of the watercolored panel with foam mounting tape.

And that’s my card!  But I have more exciting news!  We have a fun giveaway all this week in celebration of the new Design Team.  Each day the Design Team will be giving away a $20 Gift Certificate to the MarkerPop Store.  Enter for a chance to win by subscribing to our newsletter and leaving a comment on each post welcoming each Designer and letting us know what type of projects you are looking forward to seeing from them.  The giveaway will be open until Friday, July 15th at 11:59pm EST and we’ll announce the Winners* on Sunday, July 17th. *International Winners will need to pay postage.  Good luck!

Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day! 🙂

Supplies:

Best Mom (Altenew)	Halftone Thanks (Altenew)	Thanks Die (Altenew)	My Favorite Things Die-namic Set – Inside & Out Stitched Rectangle STAX	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 081 Light Violet
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 083 Lilac	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 080 Violet	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 084 Deep Violet	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 050 Yellow	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 070 Orange
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 049 Green Shadow	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 048 Emerald Green	Ranger Inkssentials Water Brush – Fine Detail Nib	Inkadinkado Embossing Magic	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
Ranger Heat It Craft Tool	Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock 80#	Lawn Fawn Cardstock Black Licorice