This is a super cute and flashy birthday card I made using the Newtons Nook Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set and a whole bunch of elements with sparkle for my partner’s younger brother.
I started with a gold background pattern paper which made me think of wallpaper. This is from the Basic Grey Plumeria collection and I trimmed it down to size from 6 x 6 paper pad. I adhered it directly to a creamy gold card stock that was in the Simon Says Stamp March 2015 Card Kit.
I really wanted to use brown with this as I was going to use some brown ribbon that I had spare. I found a nice chocolate brown in the Basic Grey Mint Julep collection. I trimmed a rectangle from a 12 x 12 inch pattern paper and adhered it over the gold using advanced tape glider.
I have a roll of gold striped washi tape and I tore strip off and just slapped that onto the right-hand side edge. This would be where I would place the kittens/cats when they were done.
The kittens/cats I stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink – this time I waited for it to dry instead of rushing in and smudging it everywhere with my fingers. I used Derwent Studio coloured pencils in gun metal grey and vandyke brown to add some colour and shading to each kitty. I used pink madder lake for the ears and nose. After fussy cutting the kittens out I went over the edges using the Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pen. And then I had the brilliant (in my humble opinion) idea of using the wink of stella glitter pens in gold and silver to add a bit more sparkle to the card and characters. I used the gold to colour in the hat scarf and two stripes of the shirt and then the silver to go over the gun metal grey portions of the grey/white kitty and also the middle stripe of the shift on the right-hand side cat. So cute! I really like how this pair turned out.
Once the kittens were complete I adhered them to the card on top of the washi tape using foam tape for a bit more dimension. Lastly, I used the Simon Says Stamp Better Together ‘wishing’ and ‘you happy birthday’ stamps with embossing ink and some glittery gold embossing powder. On some angles you can’t actually see the sentiments and on others it lights up so brilliantly. It wasn’t the effect I was originally looking for but I think it works well. I had some gold and silver sequins which I adhered here and there on the background for some extra sparkle and interest. And that’s it! Let me know what you think by leaving me a comment.