Magenta Super Saturday: Happy Birthday Dear Friends!

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I wanted to make a couple of birthday cards for some dear friends, and my plan was to make them with a stamp I designed for Magenta. I wanted to make them look really nice, so I decided on my favorite color pencil technique using Prismacolors. You can find other cards I made with this technique here, here, here, and here.

The Floral stamp was designed by me and the beautiful Happy Birthday stamp is by Sally Penley. This is the technique where I stamp in the corner and leave the stamp in the stamp positioner. Once I finish coloring, I come back and stamp again with Versamark and emboss. I stamp and emboss the sentiment in this step also. I know it looks white in the above picture, but this embossing was done with silver embossing powder.

For this second one, I embossed around the flowers in silver, but the sentiment is stamped and embossed in Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide.

I'm super happy with how the colors turned out, and I hope the recipients like them! Believe it or not, I used the same pencil colors for both cards!

Magenta Products Used:

(The links below will take you directly to the Magenta online shop)

44.024.Q Zen Bouquet

07.975.I Happy Birthday Large

Other Products Used:

Prismacolor Pencils: 

PC992 Light Aqua; PC905 Aquamarine; PC105 Cobalt Turquoise; 

PC956 Lilac; PC1008 Parma Violet PC931 Dark Purple; 

PC911 Olive Green; PC912 Apple Green; PC1005 Limepeel; 

PC1004 Yellow Chartreuse; PC1011 Deco Yellow; 

PC921 Pale Vermillion; PC1001 Salmon Pink

JudiKins Silver Detail Embossing Powder

JudiKins Clear Detail Embossing Powder

Hero Arts Unicorn White ink

Versafine Smokey Gray ink

Versamark ink

Ranger Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide ink

Die-namics MFT-463 Blueprints 13 Die set

Deep Blue cardstock from The Paper Cut

Strathmore Mixed Media Gray Tone paper

So Silk Passion Purple cardstock

So Silk Glamour Green cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock