Leafy Birthday

This is a project for a male birthday--I was to make a 3 x 3 card top and birthday card using Always Artichoke, Black and a splash of other color. I decided to add Marigold Morning to the mix.

I started with an Always Artichoke card base, layering it with the black, Marigold and Stampin' Up's Artichoke designer papers. I used Stampin' Up's retired Autumn for my images. I stamped the long leaf with Memento Tuxedo Black onto PaperTrey Ink's Vintage Cream that I had die cut with Nestabilities Long Rectangles. I colored it with my Copic markers and then stamped a different leaf from the set, colored and cut it out, and mounted it with dimensional tape to the image panel. I layered the panel onto a black layer, then used my SU Photo Corner punch to create the two Marigold photo corners.

The 3 X 3 card top was done in the same manner, using the same supplies. The Copic colors that I used were BG93, YG11, YG03, YR21, Y17, C1, and 0 Blender pen.

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