Happy Birthday from our Guest Designer Deborah Hellman

Hello crafty friends! My name is Deborah Hellman, and today I am excited to be back with you again as a guest designer for The Greeting Farm. For, my second blog card, I decided to create an A2 birthday card using digi stamps. I always need birthday cards, and digi stamps are so easy to use with no physical storage space required. I love that you can layer the images without having to use masking paper…. just print and color. Tip: If you are going to use alcohol markers on your printed images, make sure to use a high quality, smooth, white paper suitable for alcohol ink coloring. Optional, if your printer has a by-pass opening, you can hand feed your paper.

For this sweet card, I used the Happy Birthday to You Digi and Birthday Party Digi Set. I wanted to use a bright rainbow of colors, so I went through my stash and found a nice multi-colored piece of patterned paper and then swatched my Copic markers to find matching color blends.

Copic Ink Colors Used:
E: 000, 00, 01, 11, 13, 50, 51, 53, 55
BV: 01, 02, 04
B: 00, 02, 04, 06
YG: 01, 03
YR: 04, 07, 09
R: 05, 08, 29, 30
RV: 10, 52, 55, 63, 66
V: 01, 12, 15, 17

I know, lots of marker colors 😉.  After coloring, the only thing left to do was to trim down my colored panel to 5 x 3 ¾ inches and mount onto my 5 ½ x 4 ¼ panel of patterned paper. Once I have them lined up the way I want, I attach the panels to my card base.

I want to thank you so much for visiting the blog today and to thank The Greeting Farm for this opportunity to share my card with all of you. Be sure to check back later this month to see my third guest designer card. I would love to see what you create. Feel free to tag/follow me on my Instagram and/or Facebook Account. I am always looking for more crafty friends. Also, please don’t forget to leave a comment below.

Deborah