Birthday Card Making – Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine & Paper Smooches Spectrum Card Idea

Another March birthday card made for a friend. I wanted to use the Paper Smooches Spectrum unicorn stamp for this one and I knew I wanted to remake the unicorn from a February birthday card I made as I had a lot of fun making that one. I wanted the card to be bright and cheery so I chose the ‘Hello Sunshine’ yellow pattern paper from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine 6 x 6 paper pack.

I made the unicorn in the same way as the February birthday card by stamping the unicorn multiple times on different coloured cardstock and then cutting out a different pattern paper for each section of the unicorn’s mane and tail. When the unicorn was complete I played with the layout and decided the card looked a bit empty with just the unicorn and the yellow background. So I stamped a cloud from the Paper Smooches Spectrum stamp set onto scrap piece of white cardstock. I fussy cut the cloud out and then shaded it with my trusty Gunmetal Grey Derwent Studio pencil.

I used a strip of scrap pattern paper in the same Lawn Fawn paper collection and I used embossing ink to stamp the sentiment ‘wishing you sunshine and rainbows’ from the same Paper Smooches Spectrum stamp set. I used WOW Embossing powder and then heat set it with the Ranger Heat It Craft Tool.

Playing with the layout again, I decided to change the side the yellow pattern paper was on to the other side. I then adhered the pink strip of pattern paper in the middle of the yellow pattern paper (eyeballing it). And I cut a slit behind the unicorn’s front leg to be able to position the unicorn on the cloud. The card still appeared a little empty or didn’t seem to flow well together so I used a white gel pen to create a stitched border pattern around the yellow and pink pattern papers. I also drew a swirly line in the dashed pattern from the cloud to the sentiment to try and tie the card together more and was pleased with the results.

When all that was done, I went absolutely nuts with the wink of stella clear glitter pen. I went all over the unicorn and the yellow background with the glitter pen.