Clean and Simple | Tropical Birthday ft MFT and Mama Elephant

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Today I wanted to share another card that I created using the smaller stamps in a set. This one is a mashup of My Favorite Things and Mama Elephant. I wanted to create something clean and simple but still fun, and who doesn't like to think of their birthday as a mini vacation? I know I do.

So thinking of a mini vacation makes me think of somewhere warm and tropical and so naturally it just came to this.

To begin, I stamped the parrot from MFT's "Polynesian Paradise" and the branch from Mama Elephant's "Lunar Extras" with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on 110lb Copic-friendly cardstock, coloured them with Copics and fussy cut them out.

I used Tumbled Glass Distress ink to sponge a background directly to the front of my standard A2 sized card base and stamped the birthday greeting with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

Once the background was dry, I adhered the branch flat on the panel, then raised the parrot up on some foam tape and placed him on the branch.

To finish it off, I added a few enamel dots in coordinating colours around the stamped images.

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This card is for:

2 Crafty Critter Crazies

Challenge #7

Seize the Birthday

Time for Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More

Challenge #264