I’m over on the Heffy Doodle blog today with a ray of sunshine birthday card featuring the Oceans of Love stamp set. I think rays are fascinating creatures and I love going through the glass tunnels in aquariums. This was the feel I was going with for this card.
Ray of Sunshine Birthday Card Tutorial
I started out by repeatedly stamping the ray from the Oceans of Love set in some Lawn Fawn Jet Black Copic-friendly ink across an alcohol marker friendly cardstock panel, concentrating the majority of the rays towards the bottom. Once dry, I chose some BG Copic markers (BG0000, BG000, BG10, BG01, BG23, BG72) and coloured in the background in a gradient. I chose some cool greys to colour in the rays (C7, C6, C5, C4, C2) to coordinate the blue background.
The background looked a little flat so I took my colourless blender (0) and used it to create spots in the background. For some I held the marker to the paper longer to wick away more of the ink. This gives the background some wonderful texture and movement, as if they are bubbles from the rays swimming around. This is also a useful technique if your blending isn’t perfect in places. 🙂
I used the MFT Big Thanks die to cut a sentiment from the background. I also cut this once from white card and three times from black card. After adhering the panel to a top-folding card base, I then layered up the die cuts to give some dimension.
For the smaller sentiment strip, I white heat embossed the ‘YOU ARE A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE’ sentiment from the Oceans of Love set, cutting this into a strip and using foam tape to adhere it underneath the larger sentiment.
Some Glossy Accents helped to make the THANKS stand out more. I also added some dots across the background to look like bubbles.
A cute Ray of Sunshine Birthday Card to give to any ray of sunshine!
Supplies
Please see below for information on the supplies used in this post. Please note, affiliate links* are used at no cost to you!
- Heffy Doodle Ocean’s of Love stamp (Heffy Doodle, Simon Says Stamp*)
- Heffy Doodle Alcohol Marker Friendly Cardstock (Heffy Doodle, Simon Says Stamp*)
- Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink (Simon Says Stamp*, Seven Hills Crafts)