Celebrating You

January 9, 2020

Hello and welcome!

Tatiana is here with you and I’m super excited to be featured on SugarPea Designs blog!!! Today I came up with a clean and simple birthday card featuring some super adorable critters from Strike Up The Band stamp set.

To start, I die cut all the critters I needed for this project using the coordinating Strike Up The Band SugarCut along with a few birthday accessories from Elephant Parade SugarCut I worked on Neenah Solar White paper since it’s copic friendly and made the stamping with a copic friendly dye black ink using the open images from Strike Up The Band and Elephant Parade stamp sets. Next I colored all the elements with copic markers.

In case you’re interested, here’re all the exact colors of copic markers used on the card: E30-E31-E35-E37; Y11-Y17-Y18; RV0000-RV00-RV02-RV10; YG00-YG01-YG17-YG25; V01-V05; YR00-YR02-YR04-YR07-YR09; B21-B24; R000-R11-R12; YR30-YR31; T0-T1-T3-T5.

The background was framed using a stitched rectangle from Card Front Element Builder SugarCut and then divided into a sky and a ground portions using a curved die from the same Card Front Element Builder set. I gently inked both die cut parts of the background using Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide inks. I also flicked a few tiny water drops on top for more interest. The sentiment from Strike Up The Band set was simply stamped on a piece of Neenah Solar White paper that was colored with YR02 copic marker for a perfect match. I shaped into a fish-taled banner using a pair of small sharp scissors. Last but not least I added a bit more of green to the scene by adhering some tiny leaves and branches die cut from Envelope Liner SugarCut.