Posts Tagged ‘Birthday’

I am having a lot of fun with my Copic Markers! This is my eldest daughter’s birthday card. I used the brand new card sized paper pack, “Urban Prairie” from Basic Grey as my inspiration for color choices.

The “doorway” is a Cricut cut from the Happily Ever After cartridge. I cut it on a heavy white cardstock and colored it with markers. Then I accented the jeweled areas with Icicle Stickles.

The stamp is by Hampton Art, I picked it up at Michaels. It actually says “Birthday Princess” at the bottom but I didn’t want to cut off the ornamental bottom on the doorway so I did not ink that part of the stamp. After I colored the princess I applied Icicle Stickles to the apron part of the dress. It worked perfectly, not bleeding my inks at all! The star on the magic wand and center of the butterfly are yellow stickles. The ribbon on the wand, the crown and the bird are all Liquid Pearls. I smeared Liquid Pearls around the edges on the background for the perfect magical finishing touch.

The ”6? is cut at 2.75 inches from Alphalicious. First I colored it a light pink, going over different areas to achieve a mottled look. Then I did the edges in a darker pink and blended it in with the light pink, working my way around alternating colors. Next I tried a trick I learned from Marianne in the Copic class. I colored a (just out) Inkadinkado stamp with a dark pink Copic Marker, going over it several times so it had a lot of color applied. Then I spritzed it with my Ranger mister, filled with water and stamped in on the six. Next I shaded a few select areas with a very light blue and warm grey. I finished the “6? off by applying the rasberry Liquid Pearl, more heavily on the edges.

The butterfly was cut and embossed with Spellbinders Shapabilities. After coloring it in yellows and pinks I applied the gold Liquid pearls to the ouside edges and the yellow Stickles to the middle. The accents on the wings have a little bit of Icicle Stickles too.

This card was a lot of fun to do, I’m loving using the Cricut with the Copics! We bought Danielle a huge wooden briefcase with crayons, pastels, watercolors, pencils, and tons of MARKERS. You’ll never believe what she is doing…she is putting them in order, “you know like your markers Mommy, I’m organizing them in special places with the colors together.” She has been coveting Mommy’s markers, so I thought if I got her a spectacular set of her own that she’d leave mine alone!

When my nephew saw the camo ribbon sticking out of the envelope he said, “I’m going to open this one first because the ribbon is cool.” My dd was so proud to help make his card, I’ve shared before where you can get these coloring book images.

He got a new (funky twisty?) skateboard for his birthday from his uncles and we are going skiing this Christmas, he is jumping at the bit to try snow boarding so I thought he’d like this image.

I used yellow DCWV glitter stack paper for the embossed greeting. These small Cuttlebug sentiments are very nice to have on hand! The striped cardstock is from the DCWV Grade School Stack and has some nice sporty glossy stripes. The camouflage ribbon complimented it perfectly. Of course dd could not have chosen better colors and no, I did not coach her on color theory!