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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Beautiful pattern stamping and coloring!
Super fun and adorable card!!
Love the colors and design of this card.
Lovely background pattern!! Fabulous coloring and design!
Great, vibrant colours on this pattern card. Love the sentiment that you choose to go along with the cute, fun birds x
I think the birds are a fun element to this card and the fact that they are only whole once in the centre is a great technique too. Thank you for the photographs above Yana, it is great to see how this particular card design developed. Thank you for sharing this with us crafters. :O)
You are so talented – and so generous in sharing every detail. Fun card today!
Beautiful colors and awesome stamps. Always so creative. I love how you always space images out.
This card is so bright and cheery. Love all the beautiful colors.
Love it!
I like to do this, too. Now that I see your photo tute, I see that I am clustering my main images too close together.
Thanks for sharing!