Hedgehog birthday 2

As I mentioned in my previous post, Art Impressions is celebrating its 32nd birthday and is hosting a birthday card challenge on the Art Impressions blog. Here is the second birthday card I made with my new hedgehogs stamp set.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Hedgehogs Set 5112 (Art Impressions)
Paper: Thick Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Blushing Bride card stock
Ink: Crumb Cake; colored pencils - 935, 905, 992, 941, 1084, 928 (Prismacolor)
Accessories: Princess sequins (Craft Medley), Bitty Banner punch, Blushing Bride twine, Gamsol and blending sticks (Taylored Expressions), Dimensionals

Since my first hedgehog card had a slightly masculine color scheme, I decided to go a little more feminine for this card. I chose this cute little hedgehog who has popped her own birthday balloon. (At least she doesn't seem sad about it!)

Using Crumb Cake ink I stamped the image repeatedly over a heavy white card base. I stamped the image again on a separate piece of white card stock, colored that image with colored pencils, and then  blended it with Gamsol. I wasn't trying to do a no-line coloring technique, but with the lighter ink color, that's sort of what it looks like.

I cut out the colored image by hand and used Dimensionals to attach it over one of the images stamped on the card base. To add a little more color I adhered two punched banners to the upper left corner, tied pink and white twine around the bottom portion of the card, and added a few pink sequins.

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