Birthday Surprise! - Pretty Pink Posh

Hello Crafty Friends! You know what I never have enough of? Birthday cards! I was really excited to have some birthday specific items featured in this months Pretty Pink Posh release.

I wanted to keep this card ready for anyone so I did a darker teal with orange color scheme. The background is some simple ink blending with distress oxides in Spiced Marmalade and Mustard Seed. I used the new Birthday Frame die and die cut some plain white cardstock to overlay the background. I also white heat embossed a small sentiment.

The Koala and sentiment comes from the Party Friends Stamp set. I copic colored the Koala using W5, W3 & W1. The teal part of the cake is with BG78, BG75 & BG72. The Candles are BG49 & BG45. The yellow/orange accents are Y38, Y35 & Y13. I love how the teal pops against the orange background.

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A little Koala Xmas - Pretty Pink Posh

Hello Craft Friends, thanks for joining me today for some Pretty Pink Posh inspiration. Who says Koala can't be for Christmas? I was actually inspired to make this card after following the fires in Australia and learning that the Koala habitat has been  hit hard. I have always loved Koalas, even got to hold one as a baby at a zoo program. (Those claws are no joke!) You can read a bit about Koala and the fires here.

So for my card I used Cracked Pistachio distress oxide to blend from dark to light. I splatted that with Gansai Tambi Starry Colors water color in white gold & light gold. I also splatted some of the same color distress ink. I then layered the Storybook 3 Die over top of the background. I heat embossed the Peace and Joy sentiment from Holiday Greetings in gold. 

Lastly I colored my Koala and Leaves with copic markers. The Koala are done in N4, N2 & N0 with a little R11 for the cheeks and inside of the ears. The hat is R29, R27 & R35. Lastly the leaves are G02, G00, G000 with a light all over coating of YG00 to make it more closely match the background color.

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