Cool birthday

 Hello crafty friends

I'm back with some more card making inspiration - penguins having fun in the sun.... 

I wanted to make a more masculine card and thought this as a fun idea using these super cute penguins

Ingredients

• Stamps
• MFT - penguins in paradise
• Anne-Marie - birthday stamp (background)
• Lisa Horton - Everyday tickertape sentiments 
• Coloured with Copics and Spectrum noir triblend brush marker
• Inks
• peacock feathers and squeezed lemonade distress inks 
• Lawn fawn black alcohol friendly ink 
• Die - tattered lace stitched basic circle

I started by stamping the penguins in the jet black ink and colouring them with my alcohol markers.  I then cut them out using my scan and cut.  I've had this stamp set for probably 3 or 4 years and I still love it! 

While that was cutting, I started on my background.  I used the happy birthday background stamp on my fingers, lightly inking and tapping down mainly across the middle section of the card, from top to bottom to add interest.

I then used my distress inks and blending brushes to create coloured patches in the background  and then added to the texture by smooshing the ink pads on my desk, adding water and lightly tapping my paintbrush across the panel.  I also did the same with a bit of lawn fawn sparkle liquid.

I dried this with my heat tool, and die cut a circle, layering everything together using glue and foam pads.  Matted onto a piece of black card stock, the finished card was a top fold 5x7.  Finishing touches with a white gel pen and three sentiments from the Lisa Horton set, and there we have a super male card. 

How I wish I was with those penguins!

I'd like to enter this into:

Crafty sentiment designs - Anything goes

Lemon shortbread - Anything goes

Try stampin' on Tuesday - Use ink splatter

Crafting happiness - Anything goes

Use your stuff - Vacation 

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

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Crafty hugs

Rachael