Birthday Surprise

Hi folks! Hope you are all having a lovely Sunday. I'm just stopping by to share a little inspiration I have made using Birthday Surprise. What a great image for a male birthday card! I don't know about you but I always struggle with cards for men, so Karleigh Sue's images fit the bill perfectly! You can find them all here.

She is coloured in Copics and Promarkers using a complete array of colors and teamed on bright funky papers from my stash. The sentiment stamp is by Avery Elle, and the balloons were die cut using a freebie die from a recent magazine. 

I hope I've inpsired you to get creating. We'd love to see your makes over on our Facebook page Coloring Queen'dom. You don't have to just share Karleigh Sue images either so jump in and have fun with us and show us what you are colouring. It's a great community to be a part of with tons of fun stuff going on.

Happy crafting!

xxx

party time!

Hi there everyone! hope you are having a good day! it's been a manic one here in the wilds of Rutland, with my husband recovering from a minor surgery, and the kids squabbling like crazy.. add a mother in law to the mix, and yea... hopefully you will understand why i'm a bit late getting my post out to you!

I have a birthday card for you today, using 'birthday surprise'.. I didn't intentionally set out to make a birthday card to show you, but this image is FANTASTIC for what I was practising on- adding translucency to coloured images!

the image used is 'birthday surprise' and I'm sure the surprise is what clothing she has left after letting all the balloons go!

yup- plenty of shiny balloons, which although still pretty cute coloured without looking at how they relate to each other, and colouring accordingly, look awesome when you show some of the colours behind them, don't they? I'll try to bring you a more in depth tutorial later on this month for the technique.. it looks daunting and scary, but in reality it's not so difficult!

Product list:

copics - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04 (skin) N8,N6,N4,N2 E21 (tights and shoes)

E29,E25,E21 (hair) YG17,YG25,YG23 (green balloons) BG07,BG05,BG02 (blue balloons and eyes) Y17,Y15,Y11 (yellow balloons) R56,R37,R35 (red balloons and lips)

sentiment stamp 

birthday themed papers

balloon die

twine

3D foam tape

bling dots

and buff cardstock

have a good day ya'll! 

Rachel 

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