After doing lots of very layered and detailed projects, I was really wanting to do a Clean and Simple (CAS) style card. Because I am not a very neat colorer (staying within the lines is not my forte — LOL), I usually fussy cut all of my colored images, so to do a single layer card presented its own challenges for me.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I picked a Saturated Canary stamp called “Little Loves,”<\/a><\/span><\/span> which I received as part of my DT package from\u00a0the Not2ShabbyShop<\/a><\/span><\/span>, and decided to make\u00a0a CAS card that would fit a #10 (business size) envelope, just to mix it up a bit. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I stamped the image\u00a0out on\u00a0a piece of\u00a0Georgia Pacific Card Stock<\/a><\/span><\/span>,\u00a0which is what\u00a0I usually use for Copic coloring. Then I also stamped her out on a scrap of paper to make a quick mask so that I could use the happy birthday stamp from the Simon Says Stamp “Handwritten Borders”<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0on either side of the girl. Because the “happy birthday” was not quite long enough to extend across the length of this longer card, I masked off the stamp with some tape, inked the stamp, removed the tape, and re-stamped more of the swirls from the happy birthday\u00a0stamp to extend the sentiment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I used the following Copic colors to color up the image:
\nSkin: E50, 51, 53 and R20 (blush)
\nHair: C7, C9 and B00
\nEyes and butterfly: B00, 02, 04, and 08
\nLips and hair barrette: R22 and 24
\nI also used a bit of Glossy Accents<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Clear Wink of Stella<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen<\/a><\/span><\/span>, and a 0.3 point black Copic Marker Multiliner<\/a><\/span><\/span>to add some shine, shimmer, highlights and clarifying details (like more eyelashes and eye liner).<\/p>\n

The following is a video of the whole card making process:<\/p>\n