Happy Birthday

I cant believe its been nearly a week since I posted last. Migraines have had me in their grips for the last four days so that was most of the day time hours gone with drugs and sleep.

Today I am doing double shift babysitting, today and tomorrow so staying at my sons as its silly to travel all the way home to then set off again at 6am the next morning so photos you are seeing are not that great as I have had to improvise.

I made the cards a few days ago and then never got to photograph or post. Hopefully you can see what I have done.

This card is for a couple of challenges the first being the Muse Challenge

Check out this wonderful Inspiration by Natasha Kara, actually go check out her blog as well. The inspiration there is unbelievable: I Dream in Colour. Also you will need to go check out the rest of the cards at the Muse Challenge (link below).

I took inspiration with the balloons, floating elephant (I reckon he looks like he is lifting off!) and soft background.

Here I have used my Elephant from (bugger I'm not home and gone blank will have to fix later) and instead of putting with the big ballon that comes with this cutie I have used a Hero Art Balloons stitched stamp. There are three balloons, the star and two circular ones so I masked twice to add extras. Now I have to admit I have had this set for a loooooooooong time and yes it is NBUS, but not any more.

So I masked, then coloured with copics but fairly solid colouring with only a little extra with the same colour for light and shadow. I then decided the star balloons needed Glossy accents after I had added Wink of Stella to them all.

Copic coloured the elephant rather lightly then decided to do spots instead of colouring the whole skyline.

May have been a little heavy handed with the spots, just kept thinking ohh and this blue and this one (I have found I have twice as many blues as any other colours so I must love blues). This was another technique we were shown in the Online Copic Colouring Classes and I have seen lots of cards with them, maybe not as heavy as mine forgive me if not CAS enough.

Anyhoo added a thin strip of silver to each side on the card for a bit of bling and added the birthday sentiment with the Misti. Had to be a small one (I will learn one day to plan these things better).

So I would like to add this to:

Muse Challenge #155

As I have used a Hero Art stamp set will also add this to:

A Blog Named Hero Challenge: Rainbow Magic

I have managed to cover all the colours of the rainbow here.

Also like to enter this in Darnells' brilliant NBUS challenge where you use up all those things that have been sitting waiting to be inked, die cut, painted etc.

NBUS Challenge #6

Please make the time to go check it out, enter up to three times. This is my second card for this challenge and also to look at all the wonderful talent out there.

Last challenge: 

Seize the Birthday Anything Goes

This is another brilliant challenge as they will always take any card that is made for someones birthday, you don't have to follow the 'topping' if you don't want to. Lots of brilliant cards there too.

Actually its one of those days that you look at the challenges I have linked to and they are regular ones I go to and I always enjoy the inspiration offered by not only the DT's but also everyone entering.

Thanks so much for coming by and I hope you come again soon.