A Monochrome Birthday Card

Hey there and welcome to my blog. Today, I want to share a birthday card, which was quite challenging to make. I rarely make monochrome themed cards, so I was definitely stepping out of my comfort zone. But I am pretty satisfied with the result, so maybe I will make more of them in the future. Okay, enough babbling, let’s get started with the card.

When making it, I followed a sketch provided by My Favorite Things challenge. I started with stenciling the cloud background on my card base. I used Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink, which happens to be one of my favorite colors of Distress inks. It has been a long, long while since I last used rubber or clear stamps, so I kind of had some trouble with stamping the images. It took me some time to get the hang of it again :) Thank goodness there is a stamping tool! After coloring the adorable images with alcohol markers, I hand cut them leaving a thin white edge. Then, I die cut a stitched circle out of vellum. Next, I colored a small piece of vellum with pink alcohol markers and hand cut a cloud shape. Using double-sided tape, I adhered the vellum pieces and the images. After die cutting and adhering the sentiment, I applied Crystal Stickles on the letters and the pink cloud. As a final touch, I added some white highlights here and there, and my card was done.

I hope you like how it turned out and thanks for stopping by.

Have a wonderful day.

 

Hugs,

Jinny

 

Stamp set used: Birthday Buds (My Favorite Things)

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

MFT Sketch Challenge #630

As You Like It Challenge – Favorite (Mostly One) Color

It is a tough choice, but if I could use just one color for the rest of my life, it would be pink. I realized the markers and Distress ink pads I had to refill were all pinks. And my shortest colored pencils are also pinks, so I must choose pink as my favorite color :)

StarStampz Challenge #42 - Animals

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Challenge WK4 – Anything Goes