Birthday card for a crafty friend

Hi you!

Last week, a crafty friend celebrated her birthday.  She is a huge Mama Elephant fan (I can totally relate to that) so I decided to make an all ‘Mama Elephant’ card with supplies she hasn’t got (yet) 🙂

I stamped my image ‘ME – the birthday bash’ in Versafine Onyx Black ink on some Bristol smooth paper and watercolored them with my Zigs. The coloring took quite a bit of time. I used the colors:

• pale orange / bright yellow
• english lavender / lilac
• pale yellow / yellow
• haze blue / light blue
• pale green / emerald green
• bunny: oatmeal / beige
• cat light gray / gray
• dog: mid brown

After that, I ink blended my card panel using Distress Oxides in the colors ‘Spun Sugar’, ‘Picked Raspberry’ and ‘Wilted Violet’. I splattered on some water to gain a little bit of interest for my background. I placed my colored image on my panel when it was all dry.

I die cut the Mama Elephant – Hooray script die 3 times out of regular white card stock and one time out of glitter card stock. I stacked those up so the sentiment got quite a bit of dimension.

I stamped 3 other sentiments out of the Mama Elephant – Occasional Labels set and adhered them with foam tape on my card panel.

Love, Jarle x