Birthday: Monstrous party

Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on March 21st, although the monsters were coloured at the start of February during the Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge.

When I picked out the monsters stamp to colour, I knew that it would end up on a  birthday card for my younger nephew. Designing cards for adult men is hard enough, but it’s doubly so for almost teenage boys…

How:

The colouring was done with Copic markers and I am really pleased with how the fur texture came out. The trick seems to be to just keep going until it stops being a mess 🙂 The same applies for the background colouring…

I went over the fangs with white marker and gave the one-eyed monster a googly eye.

When I came to adding the image to a card, I wanted to keep it simple. I mounted it flat on a red card base and trimmed the edges with some thin washi tape. The sentiment was stamped on a speech bubble die cut, which was then popped up on some thin foam tape to add a little dimension.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Create A Smile – mini birthday
• digital stamps:
  Tiddly Inks – monstrous party
• dies:
  Jus Cutz – speech bubble
• inks:
  Versafine – onyx black
• pens:
  Sharpie – paint marker – extra fine – white
• Copic markers:
  green monster
  body – YG11, YG13, YG17
  feet – YR04, YR18
  horns – Y38, YR18
  balloon – Y15, Y17, Y38
  blue monster
  body – B02, B04, B06
  eyes/tail tip – YG21, YG23
  red monster
  body – R05, R24, R46
  horns – Y06, Y08, Y19
  eyes – G20, YG03
  scene
  shadow – W00, W1, W3, W5
  background – E70
• embellishments:
  Little B – 3mm tape – silver harlequin
• paper and card:
  Neenah – solar white – 216gsm
  Papermill Direct – plain – Christmas red