Oh I love the spring — all the cheery bright and pastel colors — and how the earth seems to come back to life after being dormant through the winter. My parents’ wedding anniversary is in mid-April so I thought I would get ahead of the curve (that almost never happens!) and make them a card early.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I stamped out\u00a0a prince and princess from The Greeting Farm Ever After collection using My Favorite Things black licorice ink, picking the flirty Leonard to represent my dad and the short wavy-haired Sheena to represent my mom. I used the following Copic colors to put them in aqua, teal, and pink outfits:
\nLeonard: Skin: E50, 51, 11 and R30; Cape and belt: B000, 01 and 02; Shirt and pants: G000, BG10 and BG13; Hair and shoes: C2, C6, C8 and B000
\nSheena: Skin: E50, 51, 11 and R20; Dress and headband: R30, 20, 32<\/p>\n

I fussy cut them out and then worked on creating an interesting and dimensional base for them to pop up from. I used a Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle square die to cut a white base, then designed a “stripe” made from white\u00a0crepe paper streamers that I box pleated, a little pom pom trim and a few mulberry paper flowers. I made sure to position the little boy and girl before adding the flowers, using double layers of foam adhesive to get them level with all the trimmings.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I wanted to keep the card base all white so that the attention would go to the little prince and princess\u00a0so I triple die cut the “happy anniversary” sentiment from\u00a0the Sizzix Celebrate Thinlit dies in white card stock and glued them one on top of the other to\u00a0achieve\u00a0a good thickness. I adhered them at an angle because the words seemed to fit that way better.<\/p>\n

For the inside of the card, I used pale pink card stock for the liner sheet and the “Dreams Do Come True” sentiment from the stamp set. \u00a0Then because I didn’t wait for the ink to fully dry, I got some smudges that I had to cover up. Luckily, I had a scrap of beautiful cherry blossom (my mom’s favorite flower) pattered paper to I was able to fussy cut out a few branches and flowers to add wonderful interest and cover up the smears. I liked the card much more with these flowers, so in a way I’m glad the smudges got me to dig into my scrap box for these last minute additions!<\/p>\n

The following is a\u00a0process video with some skin and hair Copic coloring details:<\/p>\n