Today I have a few projects using the Birthday Banners stamp set as my main focus but I pulled in a few more sets for supporting rolls 🙂 Best Unicorn Buddies and Scalloped Borders Birthday. I wanted to show that these sets can be stretched by looking beyond the main images to the little “extras” often included in a set.
First I grabbed my stamps and a piece of Xpress-it card stock so I could color my images with Copics I grabbed the party hats and a present from the Birthday Banners set and a heart from Best Unicorn Buddies.
I cut a piece off the cardstock 4.25″x8.5″ to use as my base. I stamped the present and hats randomly all over the cardstock then I went in with the hear to fill in blank spots.
I grabbed my Copic colors and started coloring while sitting in front of a movie – this is one of my favorite things to do!
Once I had a completed “sheet”, I essentially had my own designer paper. I cut my card panel to fit onto an A2 card then realized there was a lot of fun paper left so I grabbed a tag day, then just used the scraps the best wat I could….
Here is my initially planned card. I wanted the background to shine so I just added a sentiment – I used the Let’s Celebrate sentiment embossed in white on black cardstock.
I cut out my tag and there was an extra hat let over right beside it so I created 2 tags. For this one, I pulled a sentiment from Scalloped Borders Birthday.
Finally, there was a little strip left and I thought why not! So I created another clean and simple card with the same sentiment I used with the tags.
Whew! That is not how I planned it!! I planned one card and came away with 2 cards and 2 tags with just a little more effort so I am super happy with my color session. What do you think? Do you have some filler stamps that you could use in the same way? I hope you look and see and have a great time creating!!
Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,
Lyn