Happy Birthday to my Uncle!

This past weekend was my Uncle's Birthday, and this is the card I made to send him.  At their house in the country, they have lots of bird houses, so that is what I used for inspiration.  The digital image is from The Wax Fruit Company.  I haven't seen any new digital images from her lately, so I hope she hasn't given up adding cool images for us to use! For this one, I got out my watercolors.  Paper is by My Mind's Eye.

Birthday Presents

This was made for my co-worker's birthday.  The background paper has some of her favorite colors, so I went with that as my inspiration to color the packages.  The digi image is from The Wax Fruit Company.  I love the simplicity of the stamp and though it was probably meant to be a Christmas present stamp, I think it works PERFECTLY for an elegant birthday card!!!

Copic Colors Used:
Presents: V12, V15, V17; YUG61, YG63; E40, E41, E42, E43

Adjust your Sails



I needed a maculine birthday card for a relative and was pressed for time, so I decided to go with this sailboat digi from The Wax Fruit Company.  It is simple, but elegant and quick to color!  The sentiment is also by the Wax Fruit Company. I wanted some blue "ocean-y" paper, but all I could find in my stash was this paper from The Little Yellow Bicycle.  It is actually snowflake paper, but I am hoping no one will notice!  The colors were perfect with what I had in mind...so I went with it! Don'tcha love a world where all of the sails are alike?  LOL

Copic Colors Used:

Sails: BG02, BG05, BG07; YG91, YG93, YG95

Boats: E43, E44

Water: BG0000, BG000

Sky: B000

Oldie But Goodie

I needed a birthday card for the brother-in-law of a co-worker.  I decided to use one of the images from a set by Arielle at Wax Fruit Company.  Love this old car! It reminds me of an old family car when I was young...

Copic Colors Used:
Body: BG10, BG11, BG13
Chrome: C0, C1, C2, C3
Tire: C5, C7
Windows: W00
Brake Light: R22, R24, R27

Honeysuckle

Again, another great image from Arielle over at Wax Fruit Company. I sort of copied her layout a bit on this one too...they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...so I will use that as my excuse!

Copic Colors Used:
Flowers: RV21, RV23, RV13
Stamen: YR21
Leves: YG61, YG63, YG67
Sky: BG0000

With Sympathy

I have to give a shout out to Arielle over at Wax Fruit Company...She is the artist who did this amazing Lavender image and I also have to give her kudos for the design...I used her sample as my inspiration.  I love her clean, crisp cards and I even tried to do the "dot thing" she does to fill in the white space.  I didn't quite get it right, but it looks pretty good! 

I thought this would make a great sympathy card, so I went with it... I think it turned out very beautiful.

Copic Colors Used:
Flowers: V01, V09, V12, V15
Stems: YG11, YG13, YG25
Dots: YG00, YG11, YG25

Birthday Flower

 

A co-worker recently had a birthday and this was the card I made for her.  I used a digital stamp from a new company I ran across recently.  The Wax Fruit Company has some nice images and I especially loved this gerber daisy one.  It is part of a trio of stamps.  I used the small one and then put them together to form a full flower.  I had a blast coloring this one.    I used two of my new Copic colors and LOVE the result!  The paper is from a new collection by My Mind's Eye and the ribbons were from my stash. 

Copic Colors Used:

Flower Petals: RV000, RV63, RV66

Center: YG21, YG23; Y35

Background: BF0000