Happy Bearthday, Picket Fence Studios (GIVEAWAY & DISCOUNT CODE)

It's Picket Fence Studios' First Birthday!

All month long they’re celebrating with lots of fabulous guest designers and giveaways!  I'm really excited to be a part of this birthday bash, and at the end of my post I’ll share a discount code and details about how to enter to win a $100 gift certificate to their shop!

I created a fun one-layer birthday card using Bear Family and Cup Cake Love. And this one's just as fun on the inside as it is on the outside!

I started with a 5.5 x 8.5" piece of cardstock (normal A2 card base size) but I didn't score it. 

I stamped a row of cupcakes along the base of the front and back and then created masks for them. 

Then I stamped the bears, creating masks just for the edges so that I could stamp them again and fill the card.

I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from Cup Cake Love and then stamped 'Bear' (from one of the sentiments from Bear Family) in red just below. Then I used a black marker to cross out BIR, so the sentiment is now Happy Bearthday. Perfectly appropriate, I think!

To add a bit of colour, I blended light blue ink at the top of both sides, using a 

large Life-Changing Blender Brush. 

Then came all the colouring! I used Copic markers and even though the cardstock was 110 lb, I used a light hand and fairly light colours, to minimize the bleed-through to the other side. 

Here's the interior of the card:

This card looks like a lot of work, and it did take a bit of time. But here are a couple of things I did to make it easier.

1) I used the same cupcake icing and base instead of using all the cupcakes in the set. This saved time in stamping, and also when I cut masks, because I was able to cut 4 at a time.

2) I used limited colours for the bears and no shading or complicated blending. This saved colouring time, and also minimized any bleed-through to the other side

Here's a video (be sure to leave a comment on my YouTube channel before 11:59 on May 24, 2019 for a chance to win $100 gift certificate to the Picket Fence Studios shop!):

Picket Fence Studios has generously given me a $100 gift certificate to give away!  For a chance to win, head to my YouTube video and leave a comment!  The giveaway will close at 11:59PM on May 24th, 2019, and the winner will be announced here on May 25, 2019.

In the meantime, here's a discount code for 20% off in the Picket Fence Shop! It's good for the next 3 days.

PFS20

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