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Balloons and Cake Birthday Card (Heffy Doodle DT Popping By)

Monday 2nd August, 2021Thursday 10th March, 2022 Post a comment
Balloons and Cake Birthday Card (Heffy Doodle DT Popping By)

It’s a birthday celebration on the Heffy Doodle blog today as I have this balloons and cake birthday card! I’ve used the new Popping By stamp set from the latest release to create this bright and bold one layer card. Of course, I managed to use about fifty Copic markers in the process, but otherwise it is simple to create!

Popping By Handmade Birthday Card (Heffy Doodle)

Balloons and Cake Birthday Card Tutorial

Firstly, I started out by stamping the scene onto some alcohol marker blending cardstock with some Lawn Fawn Jellyfish ink – my favourite combo for no-line colouring! I had to do a bit of masking – Heffy Tape is perfect for this – so I stamped out the fox first, then the cake and then the two balloons. 

As usual, I started off with the background. This is especially important with these bright colours as the lighter blues will bleed if you start the other way around. I chose a very light blue-green just to give some colour to the background and faded it out with my colourless blender.

Popping By Handmade Birthday Card (Heffy Doodle)

And now for the rainbow! I knew the fox was going to be a bright red/orange/brown (E19/YR16/R05), so I chose my colour placing for the balloons accordingly – greens, teals and purples look great in contrast. I used at least three markers to get the depth of colour on each balloon, though I think I could probably do even more behind the fox just to bring him more into the foreground. He’s looking a little lost amongst all that colour!

I chose some E20s for the cake base – it’s got to be a chocolate sponge! – and some E50s for the vanilla icing with some cherry decorations. 

Popping By Handmade Birthday Card (Heffy Doodle)

Once the colouring was completed, the best way to boost your images and add in some of that finer detail is to use coloured pencils. It’s amazing what a black and white pencil will do!

Popping By Handmade Birthday Card (Heffy Doodle)

I wanted to stamp out the ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment from the set underneath the cake, but I felt it needed a little grounding. I used some of the same E20s just to add a touch of ground, before stamping the sentiment in some Versafine Clair ink.

Popping By Handmade Birthday Card (Heffy Doodle)

A bright and happy way to add colour to your scenes for any birthday card!

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 Popping By stamps (Heffy Doodle, Simon Says Stamp*)
  • Heffy Doodle Alcohol Marker Friendly Cardstock (Heffy Doodle, Simon Says Stamp*)
  • Hero Arts Contour Ink (Seven Hills Crafts, Simon Says Stamp*)
  • Tsukineko VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink (Simon Says Stamp*, Seven Hills Crafts, Heffy Doodle)
  • Heffy Memo Tape Dispenser (Simon Says Stamp*, Heffy Doodle)
  • MISTI Stamping Tool (Simon Says Stamp*)
Company: Heffy DoodleMedium: Coloured PencilsTechnique: No-line Colouring
About Tallie

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I'm a colourful and creative card maker and artist from the UK. Follow my creative pursuits on Instagram or share my posts if you learned something today. :)

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