On Sunday the weather was cold, rainy and grey so I headed to my craft room for some colouring. I wanted to colour something that made me smile and brightened my day. I went through some images I had stamped and keep in a future colouring folder and found "Bluebird" from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. A perfect stamp to colour on a dreary day and make a card to add to my birthday card stash.
I coloured this cute bird with Copic markers after stamping on alcohol marker friendly paper. When the colouring was done, I cut it out with a rectangle die. Then, I took a circle die, put over top of the space I wanted it to surround and traced the inside of the die with a pencil. Next, I grabbed my exacto knife and fussy cut around everything on the inside of the circle. Yes I questioned my sanity after starting but at that point I was committed.
After the cutting was done, I found some patterned paper from Echo Park and my stash that were perfect for my 5.5" x 5.5" card design. The frame around the edge of the stamped image was created by taking two larger rectangle dies, laying them inside each other, taping them down and running them through my die cut machine. The sentiment is from a larger stamp that I masked off to get the part of the sentiment I wanted and ribbon and enamel dots finish off my card.
Card Recipe
Stamp - Bluebird (TLF015) High Hopes Rubber Stamps
Sentiment - Pirates Birthday (F147)
Patterned Paper -Coffee & Friends - Echo Park, stash
Hammermill digital cover stock, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, circle die, rectangle die, ribbon, enamel dots
Copic List
Leaves - YGO YG63 YG67 G99
Flowers - E01 E02 E95 E99 Y00 Y11 Y15
Branch - E34 E35 E29
Bird -B12 B14 B16 B97 Y11 Y15 Y17E40 E41 E42 E43
Thanks for popping by! Have a great day!
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