I was coloring along with Kathy Racoosin<\/a><\/span>‘s latest 30 day coloring challenge (trying to take a little time every day to at least color for 10 minutes), and there were a few days when I had just that — 10 minutes. So I colored up some stamps that I have had in my stash but hadn’t yet had a chance to color. I didn’t know what I’d make with them when I started, but I knew these cuties would not go to waste, especially if I kept a consistent color palette so they could be used together.<\/p>\n

I colored up the boy and girl (styled after Elvis and Priscilla Presley but could also be Donny and Marie Osmond, no?) from the Sweet Stamp Shop’s “Burnin Love”<\/a><\/span> stamp set, all the pups from the Mama Elephant “Rock and Paws”<\/a><\/span> set, and the sweet birds from the Lawn Fawn “Winter Sparrows”<\/a><\/span> set with the following Copic colors and then hand fussy cut them (in excruciating detail–I mean look at those bird legs and the drum set!):<\/p>\n

<\/a>All the blues in the outfits and accessories: B000, 01, 02 and 04
\nAll the golds in the birds, outfits and accessories: Y13, 35 and 38
\nHair: B01, C6 and C9
\nSkin: E000, 00, 21 with R20 for blush on girl and R30 for blush on boy
\nDogs listed from upper left clockwise:
\nDrummer spotted dog: N1, 3, 5, 7, 9 with Sakura white gelly roll pen for highlights in fur
\nKeyboard terrier: E55, 57 and 59 with tortoise shell glasses in E53 and 25
\nTambourine poodle: E000, 01, 11 and 97
\nGuitarist star eyed dog: W0 and W3
\nDancing foxy dog: E21, 11, 13 and 07
\nSinging spitz dog: E30, 31, 33, 35 and 37
\nI added Glossy accents to all the gold “hardware” of the instruments and the beaks of the birds, and I\u00a0used a Black Sakura Glaze Pen<\/a><\/span> to add a gloss and sheen to all the eyes and noses. You may also notice that I made a few changes to some of the characters — like doodling on\u00a0headphones to the birds, eliminating the trumpet\u00a0from the now dancing foxy dog, and adding microphones to the boy and girl. These changes were all done by simply\u00a0wiping off of ink from strategic areas before stamping and\/or using a 0.1 Copic multiliner pen to draw in the\u00a0changes.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Once I had a bit of time to mull over what to do, I decided all of these characters could be used on a dimensional panorama card for my parents, celebrating their lives together and thanking them for the tight-knit loving family we have. The boy and girl represent my parents; the six pups in the band represent my siblings, me and our spouses; and the little back up singing birds represent the three grandchildren. What a happy coincidence that I had just the right number of characters–this card seemed meant to be!<\/p>\n

The following are the dimensions for the card stock\u00a0pieces that make up the panorama card (the video below has a step by step tutorial on the construction):
\n1 – Background piece: 6″ x 4.5″ with a 2 1\/8″ slit cut at the 3″ point\u00a0along the 6″ side
\n4 – Accordion pieces: “2” x 4″, scored at 1″ and 3″ points along the 4″ side
\n2 – Wing pieces (which I cut down later by hand to simply hold out the side stars): 2.5″ x 3″
\n1 – Front piece (which I cut around the heart die cut with a 0.25″ margin at the top): 4″ x 4.25″<\/p>\n

<\/a>Then to create\u00a0a family variety show kind of scene\u00a0(a la the Brady Bunch talent show episodes or the Partridge Family–am I showing my age?! LOL), I used gold foil card stock with the Lawn Fawn Puffy Star Stackables die set<\/a><\/span> to cut out some background stars. For the couple, I used a heart die from the Diemond Dies Nesting Heart Die Set<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(remember, my readers can get 10% off and free worldwide shipping at Diemond Dies<\/a><\/span> on all orders of $35 or more by using the code thankskristina<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at checkout) with some red foil card stock. Then I used the hearts from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Card Lawn Cuts Die Set<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and glued them to music note bases that I fussy cut from a CC Designs Music Border die (sorry, this is retired). Sprinkling these heart music notes all over\u00a0the panorama card created a\u00a0feeling that the characters were surrounded by music and also gave the card a cohesive look by repeating the shimmery red\u00a0heart motif.<\/p>\n

Lastly, for a little added fun, I put the two front pups on DIY action wobbles (made with some wire, tape and some scrap card stock circles–very MacGyver if I do say so myself–LOL). When moving, these pups look like they are dancing!<\/p>\n

The following is a card share video with a panorama card construction tutorial:<\/p>\n