birthday tweetings...

Hey!!  Stopping in with a card for the current CTS challenge.  Also posting this to the anything goes challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  I'm not a huge fan of critter stamp sets, but when I saw the super cute Reverse Confetti Toucan of Friendship set I just had to get it.  I had been wanting to make something with it since it arrived in my mailbox and the CTS layout finally provided me with the opportunity.  I started with some woodgrain cardstock and inked one corner with some Broken China distress ink.  I then stamped my little toucan and the leaves on some watercolor paper with VersaFine Onyx Black ink.   I wanted my toucan to look like a real one so I googled toucans and got to coloring with my ZIG markers.  Most toucans have black feathers, but some also have red feathers on their chest.  So I colored my toucan's body black and then layered in some dark red.   Their beaks can be many different colors.  I chose to go with a beak that is a combination of yellow, green, blue and orange.   The little leaves were colored with two shades of green.  Once everything was dry I die cut the images and then layered them up on the panel.  A banner was die cut from green cardstock using an MFT fishtail flag stax die and then stamped with the sentiment in the Onyx Black.  Finished with a few little sequins.  I really like how my little toucan turned out!!

 I generally don't talk about stamping products because there are a ton of people out there who review stuff all the time, but I just have to say that I recently got the Lawn Fawn stamp shammy and it is absolutely AMAZING!!  No more stamp cleaning solution and stamp scrubbers for me or baby wipes for that matter!!

Wishing you a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Carstock:  white; Ranger woodgrain and watercolor papers; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti; Dies:  Reverse Confetti and MFT; Inks:  VersaFine Onyx Black, Ranger Broken China distress ink; Watercolor Medium:  ZIG clean color markers; sequins