Hey everyone, it’s Nina-Marie here again! Welcome back to another Studio Monday post where I will be sharing a festive (and dare I say WILD???) birthday card featuring the Wild Birthday stamp set from Avery Elle!

Avery Elle has some super cute animal stamps in their collection, and this Wild Birthday set is one of my favorites! I love how the set includes so many different images that are perfect for building cute scenes… and who wouldn’t want a party on a card!?! There are also coordinating dies available for this stamp set, but I did not use for on this card.

I did all of the coloring on these critters with Copics, but bear in mind you can use any coloring medium you prefer to replicate this card. For those of you interested in the colors I used, I have them listed below for your convenience:

• lion: E30, E53, E33, YR23, YR27, E77
• hippo: R00, W00, E70, E71, E77
• rhino: W00, W1, W3, W5
• birds: Y02, Y18
• banner: Y02, Y18 (yellow), YG41, G02 (mint green), B02, B05 (blue), R17, R29 (red)
• balloon: R17, R29
• leaves & branch on banner: E30, E33, YG06, YG23, YG21, G07

The background was so much fun to create! I wanted a gradient of color that not only matched the colors on the banner, but also went diagonally across from one corner of the background to the other. You’ll see in the video how easy it was to blend the colors together. Speaking of colors, I used Squeezed Lemonade and Cracked Pistachio for the background. I also used an Echo Park stencil to create a bit of subtle pattern and interest behind my critters.

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Hello! Happy 4th of July Weekend! Yay! Welcome back to the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog. Really happy to have you here as part of your holiday weekend fun. Are you doing something cool for the 4th tomorrow? Do you light off fireworks at your house? Go to a big show? I’d love to know! We keep it pretty low key at our house but sometimes we do this one really fun thing… If we drive about 10 miles East from our house we will get up into the beginning of the mountains. There is this one road where you can park your car and see down into the valley, and I bet you can see 100 miles if it’s clear. So, if you go up there during the fireworks time, you can see about 10 shows all at once lighting off in the distance. We just park my husband’s truck and sit on the back! Other people have discovered our secret spot but everyone is really nice and festive!

Thanks for all the ‘sweet’ comments on my ice cream truck card last week! That was a fun one. Today, I’m continuing the Summer treats theme with an iced coffee card. I loooooove coffee! Today I’m featuring one of our favorite stamp companies – My Favorite Things Stamps! I know you all love their products too. They have a line of stamps and dies that are all coffee related and they are fresh and fabulous. I used the MFT Cool Cup Die-namics along with the MFT Stay Cool Stamp set to create my card today. I paired my stamps and dies with some bright pink gingham paper, also from MFT. Refreshing!

I started by creating a card base out of bright white neenah cardstock. Then I added another layer of white for some interest, and then the Gingham Paper. I stamped the sentiment on the bottom of the gingham paper using Intense Black Ink from Simon Says Stamp.

The circle was die cut using the Radial Stitched Circles Stax dies. I die cut it out of watercolor paper to add texture and to match my focal images.

For the coffee cup, I first die cut all of the pieces out of watercolor paper. You can see here that there is a domed lid piece too that you can use! I wanted to use the whipped cream instead, this time!

To color the coffee part of the image I used, what else, Ground Espresso Distress Ink! I also added a tiny bit of Vintage Photo Distress Ink to make the color more warm. I used lots of water and let the colors just kind of flow on the die cut paper. I set that aside to dry. I die cut a second cup out of watercolor paper and then hand cut the center out of it to make the pink piece – as my coffee cozy. I colored that using the same technique, and Picked Raspberry Distress Ink – which is a perfect match for the paper.

I added some water droplets to take away some of the ink. I also used White Mist to make white droplets in my ‘coffee’! I did this by removing the lid from the mist bottle and tapping the bottom part over my paper. Does anyone else want an iced mocha right now??? MMMM.

I colored the straw using Twisted Citron Distress Ink. I coated the whipped cream with glue and Hero Arts Prisma Glitter.

That’s your treat for today! Thank you for stopping by the Simon Says Stamp Blog! Wishing you a fun, safe, and fabulous 4th of July! Have a great day! Happy Birthday America!

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Hi friends! Thanks for stopping by today! The fabulous Laura Bassen is a back for another feature this week! 2 Laura posts in one week?! How lucky are we!! Doesn’t this card just SCREAM Laura? (in the most polite way :)) Blended RAINBOWS! Yes, as Laura states herself in the video below, (be sure to watch it by the way). Rainbows + Laura = Peanut Butter + Jelly :) Laura is showcasing our brand new sentiment set, Uplifting Thoughts and wafer thin die, Build a Rainbow! Both can be found in our Among the Stars collection!

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