Circus Birthday

Here's my card for this week’s Our Craft Lounge challenge. This week's challenge is a sketch with lots of layers and little pieces. I tried to stick to it as best I could, but I don’t think my card’s an exact match to the sketch. I used one of OCL’s new releases, Circus, Circus, to make a fun birthday card.

I stamped the elephant image on white cardstock and colored the image with Copic markers. After I was finished coloring, I set the panel aside and worked on assembling the rest of the card.

I used two different patterned papers from Echo Park’s Little Boy line for the sketch’s larger panels. After attaching them to an orange panel, I filled in the remaining space with a strip of light blue cardstock die cut with a pinking edge border die and layered on a piece of dark blue cardstock for contrast. A strip of light blue ribbon runs across the panel. I added a little bow, made with my Bow Easy, to dress it up. I layered the panel on a light blue mat, then on an orange card base. I went back to my image panel and layered it on a light blue mat, then attached it to the cardfront.

The set’s “happy birthday” sentiment is stamped on a circle and attached to the card with a dimensional dot. For a whimsical touch, I added a few buttons, precariously balanced on the elephant’s trunk.

Materials Used:

from i {heart} papers: Our Craft Lounge Circus, Circus stamp set, X-Press Copic blending cardstock, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic markers (B0000, B000, C00, C-1, C-3, C-5, R000, R21), Echo Park Little Boy Collection Kit, May Arts grosgrain blue/light blue horizontal line ribbon, Bow Easy, Spellbinders circle dies, Zva Creative dimensional dot
other: Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy, and Bashful Blue cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), inside pinking border die (The Cat’s Pajamas); buttons (Papertrey Ink)