Birthday Sunshine

Today I'm giving a big shout out to my friend Lisa Jones on her special birthday and sharing the card that I made for her. 

Knowing that Lisa's favorite colors are yellow and orange really helped with my decisions throughout this card as I kept getting pulled more to the aquas and purples.  

I had decided I wanted to use the Floral Seahorse from Technique Junkies and to emboss with white, then Copic color the image.  Little did I realize how hard that was going to be to see the lines and tiny spaces on this very detailed image.

But here's the finished card and just a few details following ~  

This is a very unique image with flowers wrapped around a seahorse.  But it's one that I'm personally drawn to and adore.  I purchased it while at my first Stamp Camp in 2023 (where I met Lisa) and now it reminds me of the friendships that have crossed paths over the last two years.  How beautiful some of those have become!  

After embossing the image with white,  I colored her with Copic markers and carefully fussy cut as close to the image as I could.  For the under the water elements and the gold netting I used dies from several different sets and also used metallic papers.  I stamped the sentiment on a coordinating piece from my stash and added foam to the back of it along with foam to the back of the seahorse.             

The yellow background paper is from Crafter's Consortium and is mounted on a navy blue card base.  I secured each piece as shown in the photo and added the tiny bling dots as the final touch.  A little later I'll share the second one that I did at the same time ~ in shades of purples.  

Happy Birthday Lisa! 

I hope you have a Fabulous Day!

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been coloring.  Come back soon! 

Pam's Pearls

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:  

Creative Fingers ~ Challenge 306   

Just Us Girls ~ Challenge 788 ~ Word Week ~ Birthday  

I Love Promarkers ~ Challenge 588  

Pearly Sparkles ~ Challenge 110 ~ Under the Sea  

Four Seasons ~ August Challenge ~ Summer

Copics:

Seahorse: Y11, Y15, Y12, Y18, Flowers: BG01, BG05, BG07, BG09, Leaves: G20, G24, G82

Products:  

Technique Junkies, Floral Seahorse (discontinued)