Birthday Party Girl!!

It’s Wednesday, and this week, I made a birthday card using High Hopes Rubber Stamps Party Girl - TDG034 for the image and Open Happy Birthday - G039 for the sentiment. This little girl loves to dance and celebrate! She is ready for a really nice party to share her birthday with all of her friends.

To make my card this week, I began with a card base of Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb. cut and scored to be 5.5" x 4.25". I cut out the background to the same size using Bubbly Girls - Party - Yvonne Creations cardstock. This was applied directly to base card with double-sided tape. Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Salvaged Patina was used to ink around all of the edges of the card.

The image and sentiment were both stamped onto Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card and coloured in with Copic Markers. Using my scissors, I fussy cut around both the image and sentiment. For the sentiment, I used a black marker to go around the edges to hide the white. Using Copic markers, I tried to match the background as best as I could for the coloured image to blend in. I applied U-Line double-sided tape to all of the pieces and popped them up onto the base card. Lastly, to finish it off, I added in 3 gumdrops from YNS Gumdrops - Pretty Peacock Matte Gumdrops.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Party Girl - TDG034 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Sentiment: Open Happy Birthday - G039 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Salvaged Patina

Paper: Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card, Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb., Bubbly Girls - Party - Yvonne Creations (6" x 6")

Tools: MISTI - Most Incredible Stamping Tool, U-Line double-sided tape, YNS Gumdrops - Pretty Peacock Matte Gumdrops

Image coloured with Copic Markers:

Skin: E21, E11, E04, E00, E000, R30, R22, R21, R20

Hair: E47, E44, E43, E41

Dress, Bows, Socks and Lettering: BG72, BG57, BG32, BG11, RV17, RV14, RV11

Shoes: T10, T9, T7, T5, T3

Balloons: BV13, BV11, BV01, BV0000, G17, G14, G00, YG41

Background: YG0000, RV000, RV0000, G14, BG32, RV17, RV14, YG41

Hope you like it and have a fantastic week!

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Tire Swing Fun

We are finally enjoying some Spring temperatures! After a brief blast of winter by mother nature last week, this week is temperatures in the teens and pretty sunny for the most part. It just makes me want to be outside! 

My card this week features "Swinging Shannon (front and back), Blossom Tree Branch, Sign Post and the Get Your Happy On" sentiment. Shannon is attached with some thread so when the card is open she swings a little from side to side. She could also be wound up before closing the card and she was spin when the card is opened - fun right?

The Back Side

The Inside 

All stamps are coloured with alcohol markers and fussy cut. Her bows, shirt and patch on her knee are paper pieced with patterned paper from Carta Bella. A puffy cloud die gave me some fun clouds to add. Two different sentiments and some glittery enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamps: Swinging Shannon Front (S124), Swinging Shannon Back (S125), Blossom Tree Branch (UU003) - High Hopes 

Sentiments: Sign Post (T204), Get Your Happy On (HH018) - High Hopes 

Patterned Paper:  It's A Girl - Carta Bella

Cloud Paper - stash 

 Tuxedo Black ink - Memento, Misti, Classic Circles die - Spellbinders, Puffy Cloud border die - YNS, Tuxedo Black marker - Memento, Ice Ice Baby gumdrops - YNS

Spectrum Noir: FS5 FS2 TN2 TB8 BT9 TB9 BG4 BG7 BG10 CT1 CT2 CT4 GB11 FS8 EB6 EB3 EB5 PP1 PP3 PP5 

Copics: E31 E34 E37 B00 C0

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Have a fantastic day!