Birthday Card ft. Mama Elephant 'Lunar Animals' - #ctd532

Hello and welcome to my blog!  For this post I'm sharing a card I made inspired by the colours in this weeks Color Throwdown Challenge (ctd532).

I've been struggling to get my crafty juices to flow so thought following along with a few colour and sketch challenges might help me to get out of my rut.  I have used these colours in my background of my card on some Daler & Rowney Watercolour card to start the basis of my scene.  I first started with the ground and grass and then moved on to creating some fluffy clouds with my MFT mini cloud stencil.  Once the background was complete I added a few perfect pearl splatters to my background to add a little shimmer and interest.

For my animals I stamped them on to copic friendly cardstock with memento tuxedo black ink.  I coloured all the animals and birds with copic markers.  I've listed all the colours I used down in the list below and also on my colour map visual.

I cut the MFT farm fence from some white cardstock and lighted shaded it with some gray flannel dye in ink for a little extra dimension.  I adhered the farm fence to the card at the top part of the green (grass) section.

I had the 'Happy' seniment already stamped and cut out on my desk and thought I would use it for the sentiment on this card and would work well with the birds.  I used some pink zig markers to colour this.

The word 'birthday' was stamped and heat embossed in Versafine oxyn black ink and coated with clear embossing powder.  I heat set with my heat gun until shiny and glossy.

I trimmed the card panel down to 5.25" x 4", applied adhesive to the back of the panel and secured on to an A2 size card base.  

Finally I adhered all my elements on to the card using a combination of foam tape and liquid adhesive.

I popped a few white dots on to some of the animals cheeks and my card was complete!

Products used:

Mama Elephant - Lunar Animals
Party Pals Stamps - Avery Elle
Farm Fence Die - My Favorite Things
Up in the Air - My Favorite Things
Mini Cloud Stencil - MFT
Daler & Rowney Watercolour Card - https://bit.ly/2Tf2QWv
Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Cracked Pistachio, Picked Raspberry
Oxide Ink - Blueprint Sketch
Dye Ink - Gray Flannel - Tsukineko Memento Dew Drop Ink
Mini Ink Blending Tool
Mini Ink Blending Foam Pads
Perfect Pearls - Perfect Pearl
Copic Friendly cardstock
Tuxedo Black Ink - Memento
3M Scotch Foam Tape - https://amzn.to/2GCIEWQ
**Versafine Ink - Onyx Black - https://bit.ly/2tvJL2H
**Antistatic Powder Tool - https://bit.ly/2WWAyOt
**Clear Embossing Powder - https://bit.ly/2WUh2lU
**Heat Tool - https://bit.ly/2N0DipN
Copic Markers
Pig: R30, R20, R00
Horse: E49, E29, E27, E25, E23,E37, E35, E34, E33, E30
Sheep: C3, C1, C00, YR02, YR01, YR00, 0, E37, E33, R20, R00
Chicken: YR27, YR24, Y38, Y17, Y15, Y13, R20
Cow: C7, C5, C3, C1 R22, R20, R00
Birds: B95, B93, B91, R21, YR02
Copic Multiliner - 0.3 (Black)
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
200 (Peach Pink)
201 (Pink Haze)
026 (Light Pink)
**Big Shot Die Cutting Machine - https://bit.ly/2MKlLBp
**Tonic Guillotine Paper Cutter - https://bit.ly/2FwVLtc
**Glossy Accents - Ranger - https://bit.ly/2MHekuR
Nuvo Liquid Adhesive
Uniball White Gel Pen Size 1.0

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Disclaimer:
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