April 28, 2024
Happy Watercolor weekend! This weekend I have 2 cards that would be perfect for a child's birthday. My grandson turned one year old last month and I had him on my mind as I created these 2 cards. I used one stamp set, #5400 Baby Critters and one paper pack, #5873 Mini Birthday for both cards. I challenged myself to use different patterns from the paper pack to layer and add dimension. I had a lot of fun using dies and a paper punch to punch out the circles and add details. For each of the cards I started by stamping all of the images on watercolor paper and then painting the images with the following Tombow markers: 312, 879, N55, N45, N35, 772, 603, 401, 569, 526, 026, 817, 177, 977 and 969. Then the images were die cut using the matching dies from the stamp set and these critters are so cute! When I assembled these cards I used decorative dies from my supplies. On the giraffe card I popped up the bird using dimension dots to give m...