My Favorite Things | Colorful Child’s Birthday Card. Video

In this post & video I’m showing how to create a Colorful Birthday Card for a child or an adult. I hope you like this simple card idea.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

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CARD DETAILS

I started to work on my card just like I always do – by stamping image in alcohol marker friendly ink on white cardstock. In my previous MFT video I shared how you can color with your Copics on colored cardstock and if you’d like you can use that method here as well. I’m using a fun image of stacked animals from the Birth-Yay stamp set from MFT and I am stamping it using my mini MISTI stamping tool and black copic marker friendly ink.

I also stamped another image off camera and used it as a test. I colored images using various markers and noted down the colors on that sheet. I’m glad I did that as:

a) I can save this color reference with my stamp set and use it again in the future without having to rethink various marker colors

b) I didn’t like some of the color choices I made and seeing them on paper on my test sheet I was able to change them and use different colors on my actual coloring.

I wanted this card to be filled with color, joy and laughter so I opted to use warm soft colors for my project. I used the following Copic marker colors: RV13, RV11, RV10,  RV00, G21 YG63, C7, C5, C3, W5, W3,  W1, E00, E02, E33, E11, YR14, Y17, Y08. Next, I used a coordinating die and cut this image out and in my die cutting machine.

I like to use my white pens to add various details to the colored and regular stamped images. I used size 0.8 Sakura pen and added a few fun dot details on the back of rhino, white horizontal lines the the parry hats and white dots to the cupcake wrapper. Since it’s a party card I felt it was appropriate to add some shimmer details to the balloon and toucan.

I wanted to do some simple yet colorful ink-blending for the background to support the colors used for my coloring. I picked several Distress ink colors, it’s been forever since I used them last, you can use Distress oxide inks for this or other inks, as well, you can even do a background like this using your markers or watercolors – whatever medium you like to use. Ink-blending seemed the easiest here.

I used just 4 colors – picked raspberry, wild honey, tumbled glass and peacock feathers. I feel like these are staple colors and will always give you beautiful results. I overlapped each color with the next one to create a section of orange in between the pink and yellow, a bit of green between the yellow and blue.

With my ink blended background dry I moved to heat embossing. My idea was to white heat emboss additional messages going across the ink blending to add pops of white in the background.

Finally, I foam mounted the background onto A2 white card base and foam mounted my focal point on top.  One last step – I added a number of clear drops using Nuvo Drops from Tonic Studios in Clear.

I hope you’ll give this idea a try!

SUPPLIES

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