Stamp Something Birthday Challenge

Starving Artistamps is the sponsor of this week’s challenge at the Stamp Something challenge blog. This week’s challenge theme is birthdays. I turned to my DoodleFactory stamps to create a fun birthday card for the challenge.

I created this card with a child’s birthday in mind. That led me to choose the bright, primary color scheme, which I usually don't use.

The cutie creature image--his name is Rupert, by the way--is colored with Copic markers. I added a trio of balloons to his hand from the Simple Birthday set. This fun set includes some yummy-looking cupcakes, too. The balloons are colored with Copic markers, then coated with some Angel Wings Shimmerz to give them a sparkly, festive look.

I "borrowed" a birthday sentiment from one of the country sentiment sets for my card. I inked up about half of the sentiment and stamped it to fit on a circle. Since this was designed to be a card for a child, I kept it pretty simple--just a ribbon and a photo corner for embellishments.

Be sure to stop by the Stamp Something blog and the Starving Artistamps Gallery for more birthday card inspiration.

Materials Used:
DoodleFactory Creature set, Simple Birthday set, Country Sentiments Set #2, striped background stamp (Starving Artistamps); white cardstock (Xerox); Tuxedo Black ink (Memento); markers (Copic Ciao); Real Red Classic ink, Real Red, Brocade Blue, and Bashful Blue cardstock, 1 ¼” and 1 3/8” circle punches, photo corner punch, silver brads, dimensionals (Stampin’ Up!); light blue grosgrain ribbon (Morex); Angel Wings Shimmerz (i {heart} papers)