Cupcake dragon

There’s nothing like a young girl’s birthday to give you an excuse to break out the cute images and pink Copics 🙂 Okay, so a pink dragon might be a bit cliched, but it was fun to colour!

I decided to combine making this birthday card with the February IG Crafty Crew hard challenge, which also conveniently gave me some direction for the card design. It was a tic-tac-toe challenge: I’d already picked my dragon image, which fitted the “fantasy” option, so I chose the line that included “stencil” and “die-cut”.

I chose a piece of lightly patterned paper for the background and stencilled over it with pink Distress ink (I love this rocks stencil). I used die-cuts for the sentiments and then coloured them with Copic marker and gave them a coat of Wink of Stella.

After layering everything together, I finished it off with some little stars. Oh, and made a custom envelope for it.

Challenges:

• IG Crafty Crew – hard challenge – February

Copic markers:

dragon, pink – R81, RV34, R56, R59
dragon, brown – E70, E71, E74, E77
cupcake case – YR24, YR27, E99
cupcake – RV11, RV13, RV14, RV17
strawberry – R24, R27, YG17
ground – YG03, YG25, YG17
die-cuts – RV69

Supplies:

• digital stamps:
  Conie Fong – Tori the Dragon birthday girl
• dies:
  All Occasion Dies – happy birthday
  Concord & 9th – double-cut numbers
• stencils:
  Echo Park – rocks
• inks:
  Distress ink pad – picked raspberry
• embellishments:
  Papermania – sparkling stars – assorted brights
  Papermania – sparkling stars – iridescent silver & clear
  Wink of Stella – clear
• paper and card:
  Neenah solar white 216gsm
  Papermill Direct – pearlised – ultra white
  First Edition – paper pad – gilded winter
  scraps of pink paper and card
• miscellaneous:
  Claritystamp stencil brush