Sweet Birthday Wishes

Hello, again!  ‘Remember I said the other day that I had practiced my Copic coloring during my vacation?  Well, today’s card features some of those very images.  I still need more practice (and colors!), but these are my favorites of those I’ve colored.

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The cupcakes are from CTMH’s Cutie Pie, an old Stamp of the Month.  I stamped them in Versafine, colored them with Copics, and fussy cut them.  I die-cut my scalloped rectangle using Waffle Flowers’ Lacey Layers die.  I found some fabulous adhesive-backed white foam at Joann’s a couple of weeks ago (I wonder if anyone makes double-sided, adhesive-backed foam sheets; that would be awesome!).  I cut a rectangle of foam and mounted my scalloped rectangle on top.  I trimmed a rectangle of Echo Park Paper’s Hello Summer paper, adhered it to my top-folding white cardbase, and then adhered my scalloped rectangle on top.  I attached my cupcakes to my card front, popping the middle one up with foam tape.  I added an enamel dot and heart to two of the cupcakes and Zig Wink of Stella to the middle one.

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The sentiment is from Your Next Stamp’s Phoebe with Wagon.  I stamped it with Versamark onto a scrap of the Hello Summer paper, heat-embossed it in black, and colored in the hearts with a red marker.  I fish-tailed the ends and popped it up with foam tape before adhering it to my card.  At this point I thought the card was a little bland, so I added some baker’s twine under the sentiment.  That helped, but I’m still a little disappointed with how the card turned out.  I wish I had either ink-blended the background before adhering everything down or used watercolor paper so I could have added a watercolor wash to the background.  That is the downside of diving into a project before planning it out, I guess!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a “sweet” day!

I’m submitting this card to Your Next Stamp’s Color Challenge 40.

2 COMMENTS

  1. Sue TH | 9th Jun 16

    Very sweet card and your colouring is great! Thanks for joining us at Your Next Stamp!

  2. Anita | 9th Jun 16

    You’ve done an awesome job with your copics – very pretty coloring! Thank you for joining our challenge at YNS!

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