Happy bird-day!

Hello!

Today, you guessed it, is another birthday card!  This time for my friend who's favourite colour is orange.  So here is the card:

To make this card, you will need:

1. A piece of orange patterned paper and white card
2. A piece of black polka-dot ribbon
3. Orange, brown, blue and yellow ink pads
4. The 'happy bird-day' stamp (I found it at the warehouse, but I'm sure you could create something similar from several small stamps)
5. A corner rounding punch

First cut the orange piece to the same width but half the height of the card base.  Adhere it on the bottom half and cover up the seam with the ribbon.

Cut a circle from the white card large enough to fit the stamp.

Very carefully ink up the stamp with the different colours, (the ink pads I used to do this were a triangular shape and it certainly helped) use a baby wipe to wipe off any colour that ends up where you don't want it.  If you fear that it has taken you too long to do this and you think the ink has dried a little then just huff on to it as if you were cleaning a pair of glasses and stamp.

Outline the circle with the black gel pen and then adhere it onto the card offset from the middle to the right.

Create a border along the edge of the blank space with the gel pen.

There you have it! I really enjoy this stamp so I couldn't bear to just stamp it in one colour hence the tricky inking.  Another way you could do this, is to mask off the section you don't want to colour with tape while inking, remove the tape then stamp, clean it off and mask off the area you just stamped, ink with a different colour and line it up to stamp.  If you don't happen to have this stamp or anything similar, you could get the same effect by using several small stamps, say two little birds, a small present and a sentiment stamp.  Using several stamps will make the process easier when it comes to inking them up because you can do them individually, but you may have issues lining it up so I suggest you practice it first.

Till next time,

Rorystar