Flora & Fauna | Happy Bird-Day Card. Photo Tutorial

Hello friends! I have a tropical Birthday card to share featuring stamps from Floral & Fauna. This is a fun idea for a Summer Birthday card and is not hard to make. You’ll need some inks, markers and sequins.

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CARD DETAILS

I love to use my stamps to create patterns/backgrounds for my cards. When using small stamps as opposed to using background stamps (I do love to use those too!) I am able to completely customize the pattern and create any kind of look I want. For the card I’m featuring today I decided I wanted to stamp several bird images and add foliage around them to create a tropical Birthday card. All stamps I’m using today come from the Tropical Vibes stamp set by Flora & Fauna.

I started working on this card by stamping 3 bird images from the Tropical Vibes stamp set in Simon’s Intense Black ink. I used my Stamping Platform as I knew I’d want to stamp same bird cluster several times onto my background panel. I stamped it 5 times total, only one of those impressions was a full one, the rest were partial and went outside the edge of my background.

Next, I pulled out my Copic markers and colored each bird using some fun Summer colors. I used C9, C7 and C5 to color toucan body; Y13, Y35, YR04, YR18, R22, R24, R27 to color his beak.

Next, I colored flamingo using R27, R24, R22 and R20 as well as a yellow, pink and a green marker to color flowers. Finally, I used YG67, YG17, YG63, Y35, Y13, RV14, RV13 and RV11 to color my parrots. I am not sure if parrots with these colors exist in nature, but this color combo sure looked pretty!

Next, I used several colors of green ink and stamped foliage filling in the gaps on my background. I used inks by Simon Says Stamp in Jellybean, Willow and Green Apple. To create a sentiment for this card I white heat embossed “Happy Bird-Day” 3 times onto black cardstock and trimmed into skinny strips. I foam mounted them onto my background.

I also used my Nuvo Aqua shimmer pen to add sparkle to the Toucan’s beak and Nuvo Morning Dew drops to coat toucan’s eyes. Finally, I embellished my card using Butterfly Kisses sequins from Simon.

SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

Flora and Fauna Tropical Vibes Clear Stamps 20178 Shop at: SSS	Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Butterfly Kisses Sequins Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Jellybean Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Willow Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Green Apple Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker Y13 Lemon Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker Y35 Maize Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YR04 Chrome Orange Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YR18 Sanguine Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker RV11 Pink Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker RV13 Tender Pink Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker RV14 Begonia Pink Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker R20 Blush Pink Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker R22 Light Prawn Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker R24 Prawn Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker R27 Cadmium Red Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG17 Grass Green Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker YG63 Pea Green Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG67 Moss Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker C5 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker C7 Cool Gray Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker C9 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS	Tonic Morning Dew Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS	Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS
Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS	Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo Shop at: SSS	Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS	Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS

STEP BY STEP

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